Counting items of each priority level in an IBM MQ Series Queue

Question

I have an IBM MQ series queue (running on Windows) containing many items of varying priority.

I currently get a total depth count using mqQueue.CurrentDepth but I'd like to get a count of the number of items of each priority level within the queue.

Any idea how to achieve this?

Answer 1

You could use a JMS QueueBrowser to browse the messages in the queue and build up totals for each priority levels.

QueueBrowser browser = session.createBrowser(someQueue);
for (Enumeration iter = browser.getEnumeration(); iter.hasMoreElements()) {
  Message message = (Message) iter.nextElement();
  int priority = message.getJMSPriority();
  // update counters...
}