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RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been held in Uncommitted Candidate status. Whilst this idea has not received a large number of votes, we still see value in the suggestion and think the product's usability would be enhanced with an option in the administrative Web UI to show a list of MQ queues which a message flow interacts with. Whilst the product's existing APIs provide a way of gathering this information, providing it in a user-friendly manner as part of the UI would definitely be good for ACE. Status of the RFE is maintained as Uncommitted Candidate and we will continue to monitor this functional area for signs of popularity.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Connectivity and Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
Thanks for raising this requirement. This information you're after is already reported through the IIB administration API, and for a Java programmer would be relatively trivial to write a custom class to iterate through the deployed objects and display this information. The key methods are MessageFlowProxy.getQueues() for the queues, and MessageFlowProxy.Node.getProperties() for node properties such as configured URLs.
The advantage of using the administration API directly is that it allows you develop a custom solution that can do all the relevant comparisons you need; though do be warned that these methods only return endpoints that have been explicitly defined in the message flow.
I think it would be useful to provide additional ways of displaying this information (and displaying more information besides); a command, like you say but also through resource statistics and graphical administration tools such as the product's web UI. We'll look at improving these tools with the information you suggest in a follow-on release.