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The IBM MQ Q Utility (Q for short) is a veritable pocket knife of features, allowing many of the common tasks when interacting with messages on queues or topics, to be done from this single tool.
Q is a simple pipe line program which takes messages from one source and outputs to a target. The operation of the 'pipe' is controlled by switches to the program. The source and target can either be the console, a file, or an IBM MQ Queue. In addition, since input/output can be taken from stdin/stdout these can also be simple files. Two instances of Q can therefore be used to implement a primitive file transfer program.