Adding or modifying a publish/subscribe broker on the IBM MQ link

A publish/subscribe broker profile, and associated topic mappings, allows publication and subscription with a broker in a IBM MQ network. You can use the administrative console to define a broker profile on a WebSphere® MQ link, forming a publish/subscribe bridge with a IBM MQ network.

Before you begin

You have to know the name of the bus, messaging engine name, and the name of the IBM MQ link on which you intend to create or modify the broker profile. You also have to know the queue manager name for the message broker in the IBM MQ network where the input queues for the required publication message flows are located.

About this task

When you use the foreign bus connection wizard to connect a bus and a IBM MQ queue manager to use publish/subscribe messaging, you can define a publish/subscribe broker profile and associated topic mappings. Alternatively, you can use the foreign bus connection wizard to connect a bus and a IBM MQ queue manager to use point-to-point messaging, then later modify the IBM MQ link for publish/subscribe messaging by adding a publish/subscribe broker profile and associated topic mappings to the link.

After you have created the broker profile you must ensure that the service integration bus has sufficient authority on the message broker instance to send subscription requests.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation pane, click one of the following paths:
    • Service integration -> Buses -> bus_name -> [Topology] Foreign bus connections -> foreign_bus_name -> [Related Items] IBM MQ links -> link_name -> [Additional Properties] Publish/subscribe broker profiles
    • Service integration -> Buses -> bus_name -> [Topology] Messaging engines -> engine_name -> [Additional properties] IBM MQ links -> link_name -> [Additional Properties] Publish/subscribe broker profiles
  2. In the content pane, either click New to add a new broker profile, or click the name of a existing broker profile that you want to modify.
  3. Add or modify the properties of the broker profile.

    For information about the broker profile properties (name, description, broker queue manager name), see Publish/subscribe broker profiles [Settings].

    For an existing broker profile you can only modify the description. Note that, for an existing broker profile created by using the foreign bus connection wizard, the broker profile name was generated automatically by adding "_broker_profile" to the end of the broker queue manager name.

  4. Optional: Under Additional properties, configure the topic mappings for this broker profile. For more information, see Adding or modifying topic mappings on the WebSphere MQ link publish/subscribe broker.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Save your changes to the master configuration.

What to do next

After you have created the broker profile you must ensure that the service integration bus has sufficient authority on the message broker instance to send subscription requests. You can do this either by modifying the message broker configuration on the IBM MQ network, or by modifying the service integration bus configuration. See Defining permissions for an IBM MQ link publish/subscribe broker to work with IBM MQ.

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