What is RFHUTIL used for?

Question

What is RFHUTIL. What are the uses of it?

Answer 1

From the SupportPac IH03 page:

It allows test messages to be captured and stored in files, and then used to drive WBI Message Broker Version 7 applications. Output messages can also be read and displayed in a variety of formats. The formats include two types of XML as well as matched against a COBOL copybook. The data can be in EBCDIC or ASCII. An RFH2 header can be added to the message before the message is sent.

WebSphere MQ messages can contain a Rules and Formatting Header or RFH for short. The RFHUtil (and it's client-based companion RFHUtilc) allow for a wide variety of message manipulation with and without these headers. Because the headers are used extensively by WebSphere Message Broker and for v6 Pub/Sub the utility provides a convenient way to perform ad-hoc testing of message flows, publications and subscriptions. It also allows the loading and unloading of queues to files or files to queues, for example to perform regression testing against a known workload.

Answer 2

It is used to place or view messages on the MQ remote queue.

The RFHUtil version 3.5.0 utility program will read data from files and/or queues; write data to files and/or queues and display data in a variety of formats. However, it is not an editor. While the user data portion of the message can be displayed in a variety of formats, it cannot be changed.

Take a look at http://sites.google.com/site/ibmmiddleware/rfhutils