Add channel status discovery

Author: ibmmqmet

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## October 2018 - v3.0.0
+* Added functions to the mqmetric package to assist with collecting channel status
+* Better handle truncated messages when listing the queues that match a pattern
+
 ## October 2018
 * Corrected heuristic for generating metric names
 
 ## August 2018
 * Added V9.1 constant definitions
 * Updated build comments
 
-## May 2018
+## July 2018 - v2.0.0
 
 * Corrected package imports
 * Formatted go code with `go fmt`

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This repository demonstrates how you can call IBM MQ from applications written in the Go language.
 
-> **NOTICE**: Please ensure that you use a dependency management tool such as [dep](https://github.com/golang/dep) or [Glide](http://glide.sh/), and add a specific version dependency.  The current content has been marked as version 1.0.0, and a new version with breaking changes will be released soon.  By using a dependency manager, you can continue to use the old version if you want to.
+> **NOTICE**: Please ensure that you use a dependency management tool such as [dep](https://github.com/golang/dep) or [Glide](http://glide.sh/), and add a specific version dependency.
 
 This repository previously contained sample programs that exported MQ statistics to some monitoring packages. These have now been moved to a new [GitHub repository called mq-metric-samples](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples).
 
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ The intention is to give an API that is more natural for Go programmers than the
 
 A short program in the samples/mqitest directory gives an example of using this interface, to put and get messages and to subscribe to a topic.
 
+The mqmetric directory contains functions to help monitoring programs access MQ status and
+statistics. This package is not needed for general application programs.
+
 Feedback on the utility of this package, thoughts about whether it should be changed or extended are welcomed.
 
 ## Using the package
@@ -41,28 +44,31 @@ If you are unfamiliar with Go, the following steps can help create a working env
 
 * Set environment variables. Based on the previous lines,
 
-  ```export GOROOT=/usr/lib/golang```
-
-  ```export GOPATH=$HOME/gowork```
+```
+  export GOROOT=/usr/lib/golang
+  export GOPATH=$HOME/gowork
+```
 
 * If using a version of Go from after 2017, you must set environment variables to permit some compile/link flags. This is due to a security fix in the compiler.
 
-  ```export CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-Wl,-rpath.*"```
+```
+export CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-Wl,-rpath.*"
+```
 
 * Install the git client
 
 ### Windows
 
 * Install the Go runtime and compiler. On Windows, the common directory is `c:\Go`
 * Ensure you have a gcc-based compiler, for example from the Cygwin distribution. I use the mingw variation, to ensure compiled code can be used on systems without Cygwin installed
-* Create a working directory. For example, ```mkdir c:\Gowork```
+* Create a working directory. For example, `mkdir c:\Gowork`
 * Set environment variables. Based on the previous lines,
 
-  ```set GOROOT=c:\Go```
-
-  ```set GOPATH=c:\Gowork```
-
-  ```set CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe```
+```
+set GOROOT=c:\Go
+set GOPATH=c:\Gowork
+set CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
+```
 
 * The `CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW` variable is not needed on Windows
 * Install the git client
@@ -73,15 +79,15 @@ If you are unfamiliar with Go, the following steps can help create a working env
 * Change directory to the workspace you created earlier. (`cd $GOPATH`)
 * Use git to get a copy of the MQ components into a new directory in the workspace.
 
-  ```git clone https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang.git src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang```
+  `git clone https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang.git src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang`
 
 * Compile the `ibmmq` component:
 
-  ```go install ./src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/ibmmq```
+  `go install ./src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/ibmmq`
 
-* Compile the `mqmetric` component:
+* If you plan to use monitoring functions, then compile the `mqmetric` component:
 
-  ```go install ./src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/mqmetric```
+  `go install ./src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/mqmetric`
 
 * Follow the instructions in the [mq-metric-samples repository](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples) to compile the sample programs you are interested in.
 

ibmmq/mqistr.go

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ func MQItoString(class string, value int) string {
 
 	case "CC":
 		s = C.GoString(C.MQCC_STR(v))
+	case "CHT":
+		s = C.GoString(C.MQCHT_STR(v))
 	case "CMD":
 		s = C.GoString(C.MQCMD_STR(v))