IBM provides a queue utility that manages the transfer of UMF data from a process or a file to a queue.
Although its main job is to move data to one or more queues, you can also use the queue utility, to:
The queue utility expects data in a certain format:
You must use one of the following queue managers to use the queue utility.
When a pipeline runs in queue mode, the queue manager is always required and must be installed and running. When a pipeline runs in file mode, the queue manager must be installed, but it does not have to be running for Windows and AIX platforms. It does not need to be installed or running on Solaris or Linux.