MQ Messages

2004-10-28 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: MQ Messages We're receiving an inordinate amount of console messages from MQ regarding a server connection we have - 09.47.52 STC04052 +CSQX500I _ CSQXRESP Channel CLIENT.TO.MQPX started 09.47.52 STC04052 +CSQX501I _ CSQXRESP Channel CLIENT.TO.MQPX is no longer active These

Re: MQ Messages

2004-10-28 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
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LPAR Failover?

2004-09-28 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
A question, please... A CICS region connects to a QMGR via the INITPARM data - how does the process of fail-over work in the event an LPAR is lost? Say RegionA points to QMGRA on LPAR1, If an LPAR fails I can (in a PLEX environment) simply workload balance to another region(s) on

Cluster Question

2004-09-14 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
I asked this the other day, but saw no response - Thought I'd try again. thanks. We have a CICS region connected to Queue Manager QM1. We decided to add QM1 to a cluster. Do we have to change anything in MQ API statements in application code running in our CICS region? And although I don't

Cluster Question

2004-09-10 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
We have a CICS region connected to Queue Manager QM1. We decided to add QM1 to a cluster. Do we have to change anything in MQ API statements in application code running in our CICS region? Thank you. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General

Cluster Question - and another thing....

2004-09-10 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Also... Is there a limit for the number of Queue Managers running on the same NT server? If the answer is Yes, what is it? -Original Message- From: Williams, Dave (Systems Management) Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 3:06 PM To: 'MQSeries List' Subject: Cluster Question We have a CICS

Expryint

2004-07-07 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: Expryint The queue manager can periodically scan individual queues, or all queues belonging to a particular queue manager, for expired messages, which are then deleted. You can choose how often this scanning should take place, if at all, or you can define it so that the queue manager

Authority

2004-06-25 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
In what way can I get the userid in a triggered message to be the userid under which the triggered transaction, in CICS, is to run? Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive:

Re: Authority

2004-06-25 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
-Original Message- From: Williams, Dave (Systems Management) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Authority In what way can I get the userid in a triggered message to be the userid under which the triggered transaction, in CICS, is to run

MQ Log

2004-06-01 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
In what log, for NT, would a deleted queue be documented? Thanks, Dave W. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive

MQ/MicroFocus Cobol and UDB Question

2004-05-27 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
An application person asked that I put this question to the List - any feedback will be appreciated - Thanks, Dave W. We have a Microfocus Cobol program that reads MQ and updates a UDB database(v8). The UDB database is remote to the program and the MQserver version 5.3.1 is on the

Forcing Logs

2004-04-30 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Anyone know how to force the logs to archive? I don't know where to look. Thanks, Dave W. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive

Terminal Services and MQ Explorer

2004-04-21 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
We have set up remote access to our various QMGRs via terminal services. In most cases we can see the objects on those QMGRs w/the exception of a few. Any ideas why? - All are Windows Advanced Server 2000. Thanks, Dave W. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are

Re: Terminal Services and MQ Explorer

2004-04-21 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Yes... 5.3 (however, I'll double check). -Original Message- From: Joe H. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Terminal Services and MQ Explorer Are all queue managers 5.3. I remember that 5.2 had a problem with

Re: News: IBM buys Candle

2004-04-01 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Wild, huh? -Original Message- From: Roger Lacroix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: News: IBM buys Candle All, Now here's an interesting news item this morning:

DEFSOPT

2004-02-26 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Can anyone fully explain fro me how DEFSOPT and Share interact - the doc was a bit vague. Thanks, Dave Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive

Looking for your thoughts, please

2004-02-05 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: Looking for your thoughts, please Presently, one of our more active QMGRs is set up w/four primary and secondary logs each 1000 cyls. We then archive to tape. The size of the logs and the all over process is performing well. However, management has raised the issue of when we have

Billing Question

2004-01-07 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Other than an applications use of the MQ API and the CKTI trigger, is the CPU usage and its costs for MQ charged back totally to the CHIN and MSTR? In revisiting our chargeback procedure, we want to be certain that were accurately passing the correct charges to our users. Anyone out there

TCP/IP situation

2004-01-06 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
The other day I had a channel in BIND status. I decided that I'd STOP the channel, then RESOLVE it w/backout. The STOP was successful but the RESOLVE gave yielded a CSQX514E (channel is active) message. Using NETSTAT we saw that there were four TCPIP connections on that IP!! We forced those and

Triggering query

2003-11-10 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
We have an application that runs on an NT box. Incoming messages sequentially trigger instance of an .EXE to run the app. We periodically see where triggering services just seems to stop (starting the service corrects the problem) and the messages obviously build up in the queue. The application

Process-Start Channels

2003-10-13 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: Process-Start Channels Hello. Were running MQS 5.3 for OS/390. We received the impression, from a class, that its no longer necessary to have process defined to start channels in XMIT queue definitions. What parameters have to be defined in XMIT queue for triggering then? More

SSL and 531 Install

2003-10-13 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: SSL and 531 Install Has anyone installed MQ531 (OS390)? Im having a small issue w/the statement regarding SSL path. Thanks, Dave

Re: MQ v5.3 OS/390 Trigger Problem

2003-09-26 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
No I have to bring up new zata on c just been too busy -Original Message- From: Jeff Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MQ v5.3 OS/390 Trigger Problem Rick, The transaction is not disabled.

Initiating a batch process from MQ

2003-09-05 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
We need to define process to start a job in MVS. The MQ manuals don't seem to have any examples of this (we realize that APPL TYPE should be MVS). We also believe that APPL ID should be CSQX START. How do we define what BATCH JOB should be started (PROC name, JCL member name to be submitted...).

Re: Accounting

2003-09-04 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
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Re: Outsourcing - my observations after my trip to India

2003-09-03 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: Message I disagree with well said. Its more like tough darts. -Original Message- From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Outsourcing - my observations after my trip to India

Accounting

2003-09-03 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
I want to capture queue-level SMF records (subtype2) and from what I gather to this point I have to specify class 3 when while doing a start on the accounting trace (using the START TRACE command), but I can't put my finger on the doc. Does anyone know where it's located or has anyone done this?

Fixed vs. Variable

2003-07-28 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
A quick question as a rule, is it significantly more efficient to specify variable messages as opposed to fixed in one app, even though we are moving variable length messages, were specifying fixed. Just looking for some quick opinions. Thanks in advance, DW

Trigger question

2003-07-11 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
We're experiencing an issue where we have 2 new queues (on an NT QMGR, V5.2) defined as triggered, but it's not triggering - * There ARE queues on this box that ARE triggering. * The path and executable are correct - we can manually drive this and the process works. * These are new, but I think

Re: Trigger question

2003-07-11 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trigger question How do you know it's not triggering? -Original Message- From: Williams, Dave (Systems Management) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Remote Server... any ideas?

2003-07-02 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: Remote Server... any ideas? Listers.. Occasionally a customer's QMGR will go down and we won't know about it for a while. Obviously, we get the remote server unavailable messages to our CHIN, but if this were during off hours and we hadn't been sending and receiving msgs we wouldn't

Spiraling (even further) downhill

2003-06-18 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
This may be one of the more important threads on this list - I'm even more concerned as to the risk at which companies are put (especially financial industries) by this shift to off-shore workers. Is anyone, at the top, paying attention? Dave W. -Original Message- From: Robert

Re: Spiraling downhill

2003-06-17 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Good point on the off-shore point. Check out the following - http://www.washtech.org and http://www.techsunite.org . Comment on the IT offshoring issue in the TechsUnite.org forums at: http://www.techsunite.org/community/forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=listfor um=18cid=6 Instructions for managing

Re: Regarding new log et al

2003-03-19 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Jan This is what I thought, but I like to hear confirmation from others - Thanks! Dave W. -Original Message- From: Jan van Kemenade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Regarding new log et al Hi, Do we have to

Regarding new log et al

2003-03-17 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Presently, we have three active logs for a QMRG (using Dual logging mode). We're planning to 1) add a 4th log and 2) increase the size of our current logs so they'll all be the same allocation. Do we have to REPRO the contents of all the logs when we do the add (during an upcoming weekend IPL)

SMF Data

2003-02-19 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Is anyone familiar w/SMF data for MQ or could they direct me to the manual that explains it. Im interested in 1) what is subtype 6 used for and 2) a subtype type1 is used for CICS and MQ (I think) these have field that point to transids Im assuming that these are processes w/trigger

Logload value

2003-01-02 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
What value are people coding for their LOGLOAD= value? Ive read the 5.3 SETUP information and although the default is 500,000 (a suggested production value) it does suggest that this value may be high. Were currently specifying 10,000 I suspect that this is causing too frequent writes.

Re: Archives - try again

2002-12-23 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: RE: Archives - try again I submitted this on Friday, but didn't receive any daily digests over the weekend. So... I'll put it out again - thanks for your cooperation. Management wants us to find out what's involved in moving our MQ (OS/390) 5.3 archiving to DASD - The change

CSQ0REXX Question

2002-12-20 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Title: RE: MQ Wrapper - who has built one vs AMI? Im not certain if any of you have experienced this (or is it just a problem w/my CSQ0REXX exec?), but w/our upgrade to 5.3 our PF4 prompt key doesnt give a complete list of objects. It DOES indicate that there are more, but PF8 just

Archives

2002-12-20 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Management wants us to find out what's involved in moving our MQ (OS/390) 5.3 archiving to DASD - The change looks relatively easy, but I'm wondering what pitfalls are possible. Does anyone out there have any thoughts on this or have done it at your shops? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

MQ53 - PF4 prompt

2002-12-16 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
A couple of months ago we installed 5.3 (MQ OS/390), but just recently noticed that PF4 (used to give a full list of objects from the CSQ0REXX menu) is presenting only the first seven object types. The screen indicates that a PF8 would give you More, yet it just takes you back to the

persistent thanks

2002-11-27 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Thanks to all who responded. Dave

Persistent

2002-11-25 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
If I change a queue to persistent, does that change take effect immediately or do I have to restart the QMGR (NT5.2). Thanks

A Quick Question

2002-11-04 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
any thoughts on this... Thanks again. Is it possible for an MQ Client to send messages to 2 different OS/390 QMGRs? This will be at release 5.3. Thanks, Dave Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at

A Quick Question

2002-10-28 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Is it possible for an MQ Client to send messages to 2 different OS/390 QMGRs? This will be at release 5.3. Thanks, Dave Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: