A channel is used to used to make a connection to an IBM MQ queue manager, thus each connection will be associated with a channel.

The display qmstatus conns command can be used to display the current number of connections to a queue manager.

echo "display qmstatus conns" | runmqsc MANAGER01

Following is an example of what will be displayed. In this example, there are 25 current connections to the queue manager.

  3 : display qmstatus conns
AMQ8705I: Display Queue Manager Status Details.
  QMNAME(MANAGER01)      STATUS(RUNNING)
  CONNS(25)