<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h1 id="zOS-RunningActiveMQonz/OS">Running ActiveMQ on z/OS</h1>

<p>It is relatively straightforward to run the ActiveMQ broker on z/OS.</p>

<p>There are a couple of steps:</p>

<p>   1. Copy ActiveMQ to z/OS<br clear="none">
   2. Modify the configuration<br clear="none">
   3. Run using JZOS<br clear="none">
   4. Test</p>

<h3 id="zOS-CopyActiveMQtoz/OS">Copy ActiveMQ to z/OS</h3>

<ul><li>Ensure that the 1.5 JVM is available on z/OS, together with the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://www.dovetail.com/docs/jzos/index.html" rel="nofollow">JZOS</a> component.</li><li>Download the .zip version of ActiveMQ from Apache.</li><li>FTP the broker to a suitable directory in USS.</li><li>Log into USS using rlogin or whatever has been configured at your site to do a login into USS.</li><li>Extract the zip file using the command: jar -xvf apache-activemq-5.0.0.zip</li><li>This will extract the whole package in ASCII, so do not except any of the files to be viewable on z/OS, except using special editors suitable for ASCII.</li><li>Maybe rename the directory to which the files were extracted to something shorter or create a softlink for more convenient access.</li></ul>


<h3 id="zOS-Modifytheconfiguration">Modify the configuration</h3>

<p>Currently, the Jetty plugin does not work on z/OS, so need to be disabled in the activemq.xml file.</p>

<ul><li>FTP the activemq.xml file from the conf directory in the ActiveMQ installation to your PC in binary mode.</li><li>Edit the XML file using your XML editor or a text editor like Wordpad.</li><li>Search for "jetty" in the XML.</li><li>Change the comment block so that jetty is completely commented out.</li><li>Save the file.</li><li>FTP the file back into the location on z/OS it came from, again in binary mode, so that it is preserved as an ASCII file.</li></ul>


<h3 id="zOS-RunusingJZOS">Run using JZOS</h3>

<p>I have renamed the lib/optional directory in USS and shortened some of the lib/optional jar names to make the JCL easier to handle. The JCL to run the ActiveMQ broker is then:</p>

<div class="code panel pdl" style="border-style: solid;border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-style: solid;"><b>ACTIVEMQ.JCL</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
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//ACTIVEMQ JOB   (),
//         CLASS=A,                                                    
//         MSGCLASS=X,                                                 
//         MSGLEVEL=(1,1),                                             
//         NOTIFY=&amp;SYSUID,                                             
//         REGION=0M,                                                  
//         TIME=1440                                                   
//PROCLIB JCLLIB ORDER=&lt;JZOS.SYS1.PROCLIB&gt;
//*                                                                    
//*********************************************************************
//*                                                                    
//* Batch job to run Tomcat under JZOS                                 
//*                                                                    
//* Tailor the proc and job for your installation:                     
//* 1.) Modify the Job card per your installation&#39;s requirements       
//* 2.) Modify the PROCLIB card to point to JZOS proclib               
//* 3.) Set VERSION=&#39;14&#39; for Java 1.4 or VERSION=&#39;50&#39; for Java 5       
//* 4.) Set JAVA_HOME to point the location of the Java SDK            
//* 5.) Set CATALINA_HOME to point to the shared Tomcat install dir    
//* 6.) (Optional) set CATALINA_BASE to point to instance specific     
//*     Tomcat base dir                                                
//*                                                                    
//*********************************************************************
//*                                                                    
//JAVA EXEC PROC=JVMPRC50,                                             
// LOGLVL=&#39;+D&#39;,
// JAVACLS=&#39;org.apache.activemq.console.Main&#39;,
// ARGS=&#39;start&#39;
//STDENV DD *
# This is a shell script which configures
# any environment variables for the Java JVM.
# Variables must be exported to be seen by the launcher.
. /etc/profile
export JAVA_HOME=/space/javaV5_31/J5.0 
AMQ_HOME=/home/user/activemq/amq
ACTIVEMQ_BASE=&quot;$AMQ_HOME&quot;

export PATH=/bin:&quot;${JAVA_HOME}&quot;/bin:

LIBPATH=/lib:/usr/lib:&quot;${JAVA_HOME}&quot;/bin
LIBPATH=&quot;$LIBPATH&quot;:&quot;${JAVA_HOME}&quot;/bin/classic
export LIBPATH=&quot;$LIBPATH&quot;:

CLASSPATH=&quot;${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/conf&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/activemq-all-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/bin/run.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/bin/wrapper.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activation-1.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-console-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-core-5.0.0-tests.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-core-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-jaas-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-web-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-core-1.2.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-jms-1.2.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-spring-1.2.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-j2ee-management_1.0_spec-1.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-jms_1.1_spec-1.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec-1.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/jaxb-api-2.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/jaxb-impl-2.0.3.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/stax-1.2.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/stax-api-1.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/spring-2.0.6.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xbean.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jetty-6.1.4.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jetty-util-6.1.4.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activeio-core-3.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/geronimo-j2ee-connector.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activeio-core-tests.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/geronimo-j2ee-jacc.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activemq-optional-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activemq-xmpp-5.0.0.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jmdns-1.0-RC2.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-beanutils-1.6.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/log4j-1.2.14.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-collections-3.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/servlet-api-2.5-6.1.4.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-dbcp-1.2.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-httpclient-2.0.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-pool-1.2.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xmlpull-1.1.3.4d_b4_min.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/derby-10.1.3.1.jar&quot;
CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:&quot;$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xstream-1.1.2.jar&quot;
export CLASSPATH=&quot;$CLASSPATH&quot;:

# Set JZOS specific options
# Use this variable to specify encoding for DD STDOUT and STDERR
#export JZOS_OUTPUT_ENCODING=IBM-1047
# Use this variable to prevent JZOS from handling MVS operator commands
#export JZOS_ENABLE_MVS_COMMANDS=false
# Use this variable to supply additional arguments to main
#export JZOS_MAIN_ARGS=&quot;&quot;

# Configure JVM options
# Note that ActiveMQ requires default ASCII file.encoding
IJO=&quot;-Xms64m -Xmx512m&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dorg.apache.activemq.UseDedicatedTaskRunner=true&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dderby.system.home=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/data&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dderby.storage.fileSyncTransactionLog=true&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/broker.ks&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/broker.ts&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dactivemq.classpath=${CLASSPATH}&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dactivemq.base=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Dactivemq.home=${AMQ_HOME}&quot;
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Djava.io.tmpdir=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/temp&quot;

# Configure SDK5.0 to use shared classes (at group level)
# You must comment this out if you are not running SDK 5
groupname=`id -gn`
IJO=&quot;$IJO -Xshareclasses:name=$groupname,groupAccess&quot;
export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=&quot;$IJO &quot;

export JAVA_DUMP_HEAP=false
export JAVA_PROPAGATE=NO
export IBM_JAVA_ZOS_TDUMP=NO
//
]]></script>
</div></div>

<h3 id="zOS-Test">Test</h3>

<p>Once the broker has been started on z/OS, modify one of the example application to have the hostname of the z/OS system and run it to confirm that the broker is functioning correctly.</p>

<p>You can also gather information about the broker as usual using <a shape="rect" href="jmx.xml">jmx</a>.</p></div>