When MQ is down, WebSphere Commerce fails to start

Most of you would have noticed that during WCS instance startup if MQ connectivity is down or your MQ server is down the WCS server won't start up, I have noticed this with WCS 7 which was uses WAS 7.

The exception could be as follows

com.ibm.mq.MQException: JMSCMQ0001: WebSphere MQ call
failed with compcode

Recently a fix was released by IBM to address this issue,this will be a WAS level fix, further details are available from IBM technote.

IBM Technote Details
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21469793

Fix Details
http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ76343