Deciding whether to use the IBM MQ Explorer

When deciding whether to use the IBM MQ Explorer at your installation, consider the information listed in this topic.

You need to be aware of the following points:

Object names

If we use lowercase names for queue managers and other objects with the IBM MQ Explorer, when you work with the objects using MQSC commands, you must enclose the object names in single quotation marks, or IBM MQ does not recognize them.

Large queue managers

The IBM MQ Explorer works best with small queue managers. If we have a large number of objects on a single queue manager, you might experience delays while the IBM MQ Explorer extracts the required information to present in a view.

Clusters

IBM MQ clusters can potentially contain hundreds or thousands of queue managers. The IBM MQ Explorer presents the queue managers in a cluster using a tree structure. The physical size of a cluster does not affect the speed of the IBM MQ Explorer dramatically because the IBM MQ Explorer does not connect to the queue managers in the cluster until you select them.