MQMonitor agent shows "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.mq.pcf.activity.ActivityData" exception on startup after enabling handshake properties for MQ Tracing.

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE

Issue/Introduction

After enabling the MQ Monitor agent for MQ Tracing on agent startup this exception occurs:

Exception in thread "MQDLQReader-DEVGPP01|NABNPDGMQDEVM1" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.mq.pcf.activity.ActivityData 

at com.wily.powerpack.websphereMQ.agent.MQMonitor.trace.ActivityReportParser.parseActivityMessage(ActivityReportParser.java:162) 

Cause

MQ Tracing with APM requires the MQ Activity recording/reporting feature to track message routing.

The corresponding class "com.ibm.mq.pcf.activity.ActivityData" is contained in 3rd party WebSphere MQ Broker library com.ibm.mq.pcf-6.1.jar which needs to be in the agent Java CLASSPATH

Environment

CA APM 9.x, 10.x MQMonitor agent

Resolution

Per the APM documentation for the extension for IBM WebSphere MQ the startMQMonitor.sh(.bat) file needs to have the PCF_JAR variable set to the location of com.ibm.mq.pcf-6.1.jar file. PCF_JAR is then included in the Java CLASSPATH for the agent startup

Extending > IBM WebSphere MQ > Configure MQ Agent > Configure WebSphere MQ for Trace

The IBM 3rd party library file ms0b.zip containing com.ibm.mq.pcf-6.1.jar may no longer be available for download but can be accessed from here:

ms0b.zip

Additional Information

Extending > IBM WebSphere MQ > WebSphere MQ Troubleshooting

See "[ERROR] TraceManager.startUp ClassNotFoundException ..."