The IBM JMS Performance Harness scripts have take the following additional parameters -tx : Enable transactions -pp : Enable persistent messaging -ms 1000 : Set message size (default 1000 bytes) -cc 1 : Number of messages to per commit (default 1) Only applies to Sender/Subscriber The IBM JMS Performance Harness will need to be downloaded and the library added to client/test/lib. The Library can be found here: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/perfharness Before running the required test the IBM JNDI Setup script should be run. This will create a filesystem based JNDI Context located at: System.properties{java.io.tmpdir}/IBMPerfTestsJNDI/