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Starting FixEdge version 6.10.0 it is recommended to use IBM MQ Client library version 8.x. The older and newer versions may lead to MQ adapters failures |
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Installation MQ Adaptor to FixEdge
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Normally IBM MQ adaptor is distributed as a zip-archive with the name MQAdaptor-xx.zip, where xx stands for MQ adaptor version. The distribution package consists of:
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BIN\MQTAAddin-xx.dll or
BIN\MQTAAddin.so
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To install MQ adaptor:
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Transport adaptor is present on FIXEdge package on bin directory.
MQ adaptor requires IBM MQ client libraries installed in the host with FIXEdge, the libraries can be found on the official IBM MQ site.
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Make sure that path to IBM MQ client libraries is added to the path environment variable. |
Configuration
IBM MQ Transport Adaptor can be configured using FIXICC or directly by editing the FIXEdge.properties file of the correspondent FIX Edge instance. All properties to be set up are described in the table below. You can also use FIXEdge.properties file from the package as an example.
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| Property Name | Default Value | Description |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Description | MQ Transport Adaptor DLL | Description of the transport adaptor |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.DllName | bin/MQTAAddin.dll | Path to the transport adaptor module |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.TimeIntervalBeforeReconnect | 1000 | Time interval in milliseconds between reconnect attempts |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.StorageDirectory | FixEdge1/log | Logging directory for storage of outgoing messages. Required. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.BufferSizeForMessage | 65536 | Message buffer size. Max value is 4194304. 0 means a default value 64 * 1024 |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.MQ_HOSTNAME | localhost | MS Series Server host name |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.MQ_PORT | 1414 | MS Series Server port |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.MQ_MANAGER_NAME | TestMQ | MS Series manager name |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.MQ_CHANNEL_NAME | TestConnection | MS Series Channel name |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.MQ_CCSID | 437 | MS Series Server CCSID. The coded character set identifier to use with the WebSphere MQ queue |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.SslKeyRepository | /var/mqm/ssl/key | Path to SSL certificate storage file without extension (SCKR,MQSSLKEYR) e.g. /var/mqm/ssl/key or C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere MQ\\ssl\\key |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.SslCipherSpecification | TRIPLE_DES_SHA_US | SSL CipherSpec name (SSLCIPH), required to use SSL, e.g. TRIPLE_DES_SHA_US |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.SslClientAuthentication | false | Remote peer authentication (SSLCAUTH) |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.SslPeerName | CN=QMGR.*, OU=IBM, OU=WEBSPHERE | Remote peer DN filter(SSLPEER) |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.WaitIntervalForGet | 1000 | Time interval in milliseconds to wait between polling message on MQ Series Server |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.NumAttemptReconnect | 10 | Number of reconnect attempts to MQ Series Server |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.SessionNumber | 1 | Number of sessions with MQ Series. Each session is a set of MQ Series queues. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.ClientID | MQClient | MQ session ID. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.SmartXMLProcessor | true | Enables mode of processing XML/FIXML messages:
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| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.ToClientQueue | MQClient_to | The name for Queue, dedicated for message coming from client to MQ via FIX Edge |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.FromClientQueue | MQClient_from | The name for Queue, dedicated for message coming from MQ to client via FIX Edge |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.ErrorQueue | MQClient_error | The name for Queue dedicated for message, which cannot be handled because of error. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.SenderID | - | Not required. SenderCompID (Tag = 49) in the received message is set to the property value. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.TargetID | - | Not required. TargetCompID (Tag = 56) in the received message is set to the property value. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.FromClientDropMessageFilter | - | Not required. Defines a regular expression (perl syntax) to drop matched messages coming from MQ. |
| TransportLayer.MQAdaptor.Session.1.SmartXMLProcessorFromClientMessageFilter | - | Not required. Defines a regular expression (perl syntax) to apply SmartXMLProcessor to matched messages coming from MQ. Overrides default filter: case insensitive "<\?xml version.*|<FIXML.*" |
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MQ TA has not supported the authentication in IBM MQ Server.
It can lead to failure in MQ TA initialization with the error records in the log:
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Login to the remote server where MQ Instance is running
Open cmd
Run 'runmqsc'. Check if connected to correct QM:
Execute 'ALTER QMGR CHLAUTH(DISABLED)':
Try to reestablish connection by clicking 'No' in the dialog:
And Finish in the dialog:
- If the error is still here, look at Channel authentication records and make sure that your account is not in the Block User List:
- Try again steps 5-6.
Also you can find how to disable IBM MQ authentication on the official site.