The queue manager runs in an environment established by MQe, before the queue manager is loaded. The queue manager stores its configuration information in its registry. The registry provides more information on this. The queues themselves (containing messages) are stored in queue stores.
You can configure the MQe environment using the API, utilities shipped with MQe, or management tools such as MQe_Explorer. These methods can capture the environment parameters in an initialization file, but this is optional. See Queue manager operations for more information on queue managers. See Configuring MQe objects for more information on configuration.
You can configure a queue manager with MQ bridge capabilities. This is called a gateway and, in Java, it exchanges messages with MQ host and distributed products. The C codebase uses a device queue manager only.
Parent topic: Queue managers