You can hide from view any queue manager that is displayed in the Navigator view. If you
hide a queue manager that is a member of one or more queue manager Sets, the queue manager is not
displayed in any of those Sets.
About this task
Hiding queue managers enables you to restrict the queue managers that are displayed in the Queue
Managers folder if you have been working with many queue managers in IBM® MQ Explorer.
Procedure
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[OPTION 1] Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 1.
- In the Navigator view, select a queue manager. Hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one queue manager.
- To hide the selected queue managers, right-click then choose Hide.
The selected queue managers are no longer displayed in the Queue Managers
folder. If the queue managers you have hidden are members of one or more queue manager Sets, then
those queue managers are not displayed in those Sets.
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[OPTION 2] Hide queue managers using Navigator: Method 2.
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In the Navigator view, right-click the Queue Managers folder, then click
Show/Hide Queue Managers.
The Show/Hide Queue Managers dialog opens. A list of the visible queue managers is displayed
in the Shown Queue Managers table of the Show/Hide Queue Managers
dialog.
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In the Shown Queue Managers table, select one or more queue managers
then click Hide. The selected queue managers are now listed in the
Hidden Queue Managers table.
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Click Close.
The selected queue managers are no longer displayed in the Queue Managers
folder. If the queue managers you have hidden are members of one or more queue manager Sets, then
those queue managers are not displayed in those Sets.
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[OPTION 3] Hide queue managers using Sets.
You can also hide from view any queue managers that are grouped in a queue manager Set.
This enables you to restrict the queue managers that are displayed in the Set and Queue Managers
folder if you have been working with many queue managers in IBM MQ Explorer.
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In the Navigator view, right-click the Set, then click Hide All
Queue Managers.
The queue managers in the set are no longer displayed in the Set folder.
When you hide the queue managers in a Set, the queue managers are then hidden in every Set
(including the All Set) not just the Set you selected.