MQ consumer ACK (MQFB_COA) - jms

I have a JMS consumer application with IBM MQ and Websphere. in the provider application side, it requires a "ACK (MQFB_COA)" with (JMS_IBM_FEEDBACK=259) for trigger the next process.
Although, I didn't implement any code to handle such ACK, it is still able be received in provider side at one of our testing environments. However, the ACK is missing at the other environment. The most strange is that the consumer application, MQ server and WAS setting are totally identical.
My questions:
Is this ACK sent by MQ server (Query Manager) or WAS automatically?
If Q1 is Yes, is it depended on the header of received Query?
Is the "JMS_IBM_FEEDBACK=259" included in ACK (MQFB_COA)?
Or should I implement a function to handle it with JMS in application?

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Need not be JMS api.
The DefaultJms... in springboot is polling 1000x times more than the actual messages per day. It is not behaving as ' listener waiting for message push'
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Websphere MQ Server-To-Server-Connection with Apache ActiveMQ possible?

Does Apache Active MQ provide Server-To-Server-Connection as IBM Websphere MQ does?
Background:
We currently have Websphere MQ 7.0.1 (CUST) installed to communicate with another remote Websphere MQ Server (GOV), which is not under our control.
The MQs hold a Server-To-Server-Connection via VPN-tunnel. We would like to replace our Websphere MQ with Apache ActiveMQ.
We have one QM-Manager with 4 queues and 3 channels.
Queues:
OUT (type remote): for sending messages to GOV
QOUT (local type transmission) that is used for OUT
IMP (local): used for receiving from GOV
DLQ: (local): dead letter queue
Channels:
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CUST_GOV: sender
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Looks pretty easy with a Camel route, but this is at least a Client-Server setup.
E. G. https://www.shaishavparekh.com/2016/01/wmq-to-amq-bridge/
I need something that hides away the IBM proprietary channel stuff.
Now I found this entry: https://serverfault.com/questions/366743/apache-activemq-server-to-server-connection
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ActiveMQ does not support a server-to-server connection to WebsphereMQ. As you mentioned, Camel would probably be the simplest way to get a connection between the two brokers.
To be clear, even if ActiveMQ did implement a bridge with WebsphereMQ it would almost certainly use the WebsphereMQ client so would fundamentally still be a client-server implementation. It's not really clear from your question why you want to avoid this.

How can I view the JMS message selector a client application is using against a WebSphereMQ Queue Manager

I would like to be able to view the exact JMS message selector SQL that a WebSphere MQ JMS client application is using on its receive call.
If I run the client application against TIBCO EMS as the JMS provider the TIBCO EMS Administration API provides visibility of this information.
When the client application is run against WebSphere MQ as the JMS provider I can use:
display qstatus(MyQUEUE) type(handle) all
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Currently it's not possible to see the selector in use; other open options, message information can be seen via runqmsc or via Explorer. (In Explorer, the Applications Connection view can show you what is connected with associated information).
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I use JMS (Java Message Service API) in my java application to work with queues/topics residing on websphere MQ. I am looking for a tool/support pac which can show me all MQ Messages being called e.g. when I do queueConnectionFactory.createConnection(), it would have resulted into MQCONN/MQCONNX call, so I need to see what excatly is being passed. So basically during my entire JMS based interaction, I want to see all MQ messages which are being passed to. Is it possible?
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Trace tells you what APIs are being called. To a good extent trace helps. But beyond that call IBM help.
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I'm connecting to an IBM Websphere MQ and currently reading one message at a time using the method receive() from the object:
javax.jms.Message;
Is there a way to retrieve multiple messages from the queue in one go?
Many thanks,
G.
Depends on whether you make a distinction between "read" and "retrieve".
From a JMS perspective, no. The API will return one message per method call.
From the WMQ perspective, yes - provided the client and queue manager are both at v7 and the messages are non-persistent or being browsed. In this case you can enable read-ahead in the managed object definition or dynamically at run time. The queue manager will stream several messages off of the queue and deliver them to the application before the first one is acknowledged. For more information on this, see Using read ahead with WebSphere MQ classes for JMS.

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