Set the options for the WebSphere MQ queue you are opening and select the row and column filters to be applied to the messages in the queue.
Since queues may contain messages of more than one format, you can specify any number of filters to be applied to the queue. However, only one filter of each type (row data, row header, column data, column header) can be applied to each format.
Note: Since there is only message header format for WebSphere MQ messages (MQMD), you can select only one column or row header filter at any time. You must check the box beside the list box title to enable selection of a header filter.
If you apply any filters, messages that do not belong to any of the formats to which the filters apply are not retrieved. If the Ignore Message Format option is selected, only text or header filters can be applied.
See also: About Message Filters
The context in effect for the queue. The context provides information about the origin of a message. Context information is stored in eight fields of the WebSphere MQ message descriptor.
There are six context options:
You can display some or all of the message descriptor fields. Your choice of a context option in determines your ability to edit information in the eight context fields in the message descriptor. See Editable Fields
WebSphere MQ security may prevent you from editing a particular context. You must have rights to edit a particular context field before you can change information in the field.
Display message header (descriptor) as well as message data fields.
Selecting Ignore Message Formatting suppresses the use of user-defined message formats and XML formatting. Messages are displayed as either text or hexadecimal. (Messages are returned as text unless they contain unprintable characters, in which case they are displayed as strings of hexadecimal digits.)
If this option is selected, no filters can be applied.
Editing under syncpoint control enables the Commit and Rollback commands on the File menu. If you do not select this, you will not be able to roll back any changes you make to a queue or to messages. All changes will take place immediately.
Messages in the queue are displayed in
.Physical order is the order in which messages arrive on a queue. Logical order is the ordering of messages in a message group. (Messages in a group are identified by a shared GroupId and the sequence of messages within the group is determined by their MsgSeqNumber field.) Logical and physical orders may differ because members of a group may arrive at similar times from different applications or be received out of order because of rerouting or delay.
If checked, PathWAI Editor displays segmented messages as one message.
Opens a queue for browsing messages only. This option lets you display a queue even though another user has the queue open for exclusive use. If the other user updates the queue, you see the updates only after you refresh or commit the queue.
For nonformatted messages, allows you to specify the number of bytes displayed per field and the number of fields retrieved per message. By default, the number of bytes per field is 100 bytes and the number of fields is 10. (If messages are truncated because they exceed the specified number of fields, a red * appears to the left of the message in the Message window.)
The maximum number of messages displayed at a time.
For example, if you select 25, only 25 messages are shown at one time.
After you have browsed the first set of 25, you must click the button to retrieve the next 25. The maximum number that can
be retrieved at one time is 200.
Note: The number of messages displayed may also be affected by the Maximum Response Size parameter. When the maximum size is reached, no more messages are retrieved. Messages that exceed the limit may be split.