Before deleting a queue, use the display queue command to determine if the queue is a local queue, remote queue, or queue alias.

TYPE(QLOCAL)
TYPE(QREMOTE)
TYPE(QALIAS)

The delete qlocal command is used to delete a local queue. The delete qremote command is used to delete a remote queue. The delete qalias command is used to delete a queue alias. In this example, the local queue QUEUE01 is deleted.

echo "delete qlocal (QUEUE01)" | runmqsc MANAGER01

If the queue does not exist, the following will be displayed.

AMQ8147E: IBM MQ object QUEUE01 not found.

If the queue contains 1 or more messages, the following will be displayed, and the queue will not be deleted.

AMQ8143E: IBM MQ queue not empty.

If the queue contains 0 messages, the following should be displayed.

AMQ8007I: IBM MQ queue deleted.