Preface

Oracle Procedural Gateway and Tools for WebSphere MQ provides access to WebSphere MQ services. This gateway requires a system that is capable of running 64-bit applications.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone responsible for installing, configuring, or administering the Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ. It is also for developers writing applications that access message queuing systems, particularly those developers who need to access queues owned by both WebSphere MQ and other non-Oracle message queuing systems as well as queues owned by Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ).

Read this guide if you are responsible for tasks such as:

Administering the gateway
Setting up gateway security
Using the gateway
Diagnosing gateway errors

Before using this guide, you must understand the fundamentals of your operating system, the procedural gateways, PL/SQL, the Oracle server, and WebSphere MQ software before using this guide to install, configure, or administer the gateway.

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Product Name

The complete name for this product is Oracle Procedural Gateway and Tools for WebSphere MQ, also called PG4MQ.

Typographic Conventions

The following typographic conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Description
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates UNIX commands, directory names, user names, path names, and file names.
italics	Italic type indicates variables, including variable portions of file names. It is also used for emphasis and for book titles.
UPPERCASE	Uppercase letters indicate Structured Query Language (SQL) reserved words, initialization parameters, and environment variables.
Bold	Bold type indicates screen names and fields.
SQL*Plus prompts	The SQLPlus prompt, SQL>, appears in SQL statement and SQLPlus command examples. Enter your response at the prompt. Do not enter the text of the prompt, "SQL>", in your response.

Command Syntax

UNIX command syntax appears in monospace font. The dollar character ($), number sign (#), or percent character (%) are UNIX command prompts. Do not enter them as part of the command. The following command syntax conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Description
backslash \	A backslash is the UNIX command continuation character. It is used in command examples that are too long to fit on a single line. Enter the command as displayed (with a backslash) or enter it on a single line without a backslash: dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6 of=/dev/rst0 bs=10b \ count=10000
braces { }	Braces indicate required items: .DEFINE {macro1}
brackets [ ]	Brackets indicate optional items: cvtcrt termname [outfile]
ellipses ...	Ellipses indicate an arbitrary number of similar items: CHKVAL fieldname value1 value2 ... valueN
italics	Italic type indicates a variable. Substitute a value for the variable: library_name
vertical line \|	A vertical line indicates a choice within braces or brackets: FILE filesize [K\|M]

Related Publications

See the Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for information common to all procedural gateways, including important information about functions, parameters, and error messages.