Using WebSphere MQ Explorer as a read-only viewer - Middleware News The WebSphere MQ Explorer GUI provides a user-friendly way to administer your queue managers. With a little work, you can use it as a read-only ‘viewer’ instead. If you have some staff who don’t have authority to make changes to the WMQ network, but need them to be able to monitor what is happening, this would let them use WMQ Explorer to do it. If your staff without authority to make changes are the ones with less WebSphere MQ experience, then this might be a useful approach. In this post I’ll walk through the steps required to set this up for a single queue manager, and highlight a couple of potential problems to watch out for. Steps to carry out on the machine hosting the queue manager Create a user – making sure that the user is not a member of the mqm group Start a channel listener for the queue manager Create a server-connection (SVRCONN) channel on the queue manager – setting the MCAUSER attribute t