Aliases can be assigned for WebSphere MQ Everyplace queues to provide a level of indirection between the application and the real queues. Hence the attributes of a queue that an alias relates to can be changed without the application needing to change. For instance, a queue can be given a number of aliases and messages sent to any of these names will be accepted by the queue.
The following examples illustrate some of the ways that aliasing can be used with queues.