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.

Before deleting a channel, use the display channel command to ensure the channel exists.

The delete channel command is used to delete a channel. In this example, the channel named CHANNEL01 is deleted.

echo "delete channel ('CHANNEL01')" | runmqsc MANAGER01

The following should be displayed.

AMQ8015I: IBM MQ channel deleted.