One of my customers was writing a script to detect when the last message was got from an MQ QUEUE.

DISPLAY DISPLAY QSTATUS(<queue name>)  TYPE(QUEUE)  LGETTIME LGETDATE LPUTTIME LPUTDATE

The above runmqsc command returns something similar to

DISPLAY QSTATUS(SOURCE.Q) TYPE(QUEUE)  
AMQ8450I: Display queue status details.
   QUEUE(SOURCE.Q)                         TYPE(QUEUE)
   CURDEPTH(0)                             LGETDATE(2025-10-10)
   LGETTIME(14.57.31)                      LPUTDATE(2025-10-10)
   LPUTTIME(14.57.01)

In order for the LGETTIME LGETDATE LPUTTIME LPUTDATE you must have MONQ enabled for the QUEUE.

The above shows you the date and time of the last GET and PUT. Some times, last put and get times alone might not help, in these scenarios we recommend monitoring LSTMSGTI as well.

To get LSTMSGTI first we need to extract the CONNAME with the following command.

DISPLAY DISPLAY QSTATUS(<queue name>)  TYPE(HANDLE)  CONNAME

The above runmqsc command returns something similar to

DISPLAY QSTATUS(SOURCE.Q) TYPE(HANDLE) CONNAME
AMQ8450I: Display queue status details.
   QUEUE(SOURCE.Q)                         TYPE(HANDLE)
   CONNAME(10.131.1.20)                
AMQ8450I: Display queue status details.
   QUEUE(SOURCE.Q)                         TYPE(HANDLE)
   CONNAME(10.129.3.151)

The CONNAME and channel name can be put into the following runmqsc command. Please note that in the example above the CONNAME is an IP Address this is determined on how the QMGR is configured.

DISPLAY CHSTATUS(<channel name>) CONNAME(<conname>) LSTMSGDA LSTMSGTI

This returns the following.

DISPLAY CHSTATUS(TEST.CHAN) CONNAME(10.131.1.23) LSTMSGDA LSTMSGTI
AMQ8417I: Display Channel Status details.
   CHANNEL(TEST.CHAN)                      CHLTYPE(SVRCONN)
   CONNAME(10.131.1.23)                    CURRENT
   LSTMSGDA(2025-10-10)                    LSTMSGTI(14.57.01)
   STATUS(RUNNING)                         SUBSTATE(RECEIVE)

In order for the LSTMSGDA and LSTMSGTI to be available MONCHL must be enabled

The LSTMSGDA and LSTMSGTI provide the date and time when the last MQI call was handled.

To identify if messages are not retrieved from the queue, if there is difference between LGETTIME and LPUTTIME and if LPUTTIME is recent and LGETTIME is very older, this indicates there are no getters.

However if two client applications are serving a single queue, if one of the application is able to get the message, then LGETTIME and LPUTTIME could be latest. In such cases LSTMSGTI will help to determine which one of the application is not able to pick the message.