3.1. Overview
The Message Queue Interface or MQI is a programming interface that gives the programmer access to all the facilities of the MQSeries messaging platform and gives full and detailed control over the messages and the way they flow.
The MQI calls allow you to:
Connect programs to, and disconnect programs from, a queue manager
Open and close objects (such as queues, queue managers, namelists, and processes)
Put messages on queues
Retrieve messages from a queue, or browse them (leaving them on the queue)
Inquire about the attributes of MQSeries objects, and set some of the attributes of the queues
Commit and back out changes made within a unit of work, in environments where there is no natural syncpoint support, for example, OS/2 and UNIX ...
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