Dave, unless you have a need for transaction response time, i'd suggest leaving it a batch job. MVS does a fine job of managing the workload, and if it is truely batch type work, WLM & MVS will keep it from getting in the way of your mission critical cics tasks.
Since your accessing db2 there shouldn't be any problems with database accesses unless it locks up the database with a lot of updates glen Larson Zurich North America Dave Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@AKH-Wien.AC.AT> on 09/23/2002 01:33:01 PM Please respond to MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: CICS vs batch mq we have a started task running on ZOS 1.3 and it is up 24x7 that pulls messages off a queue and places the data into DB2 we are in the process of overhaul on this application and a question came up about going through CICS instead there is no trigger queue associated to this message queue, the job just wakes up and reads all that is available are there any benefits to changing this to run under CICS Dave Adam Supervalu Home Office Project Specialist (952) 828-4736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Success is a Journey, not a Destination ******************* PLEASE NOTE ******************* This E-Mail/telefax message and any documents accompanying this transmission may contain privileged and/or confidential information and is intended solely for the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended addressee/recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on the contents of this E-Mail/telefax information is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action against you. Please reply to the sender advising of the error in transmission and immediately delete/destroy the message and any accompanying documents. Thank you. 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
