Re: WMQ V5.3 stability?

[Darren Douch]

Title: Message

Thanks to Rick for the APAR description... but Steve's symptoms sound more general to my mind.  Sounds like something to look into next week.   re: WMQ 5.3 on W2K - the MQ Explorer GUI seems to give a lot of timeouts or 'unexpected errors', but other than that I've not had any problems with it.   Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: GIES, STEVE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: WMQ V5.3 stability? We got hit by this.  We never got hit in dev either (and still haven't) but we've had three incidents in the past 6 weeks were a queue was damaged.  Both of the queues involved (1 has been damaged twice) have a high number of abandoned reply messages on them that get cleaned out nightly.  Not by CLEARQ, but by a custom job that removes messages over N hours old.  The damage always occurred sometime after this nightly job.  We just got the fix and are applying it to dev this weekend.   If you have any queues that might be susceptible to this, then I would recommend getting the fix.    - Steve   P.S.  Other than this problem WMQ V5.3 CSD01 on W2K servers has been very, very stable and trouble free for us.   -----Original Message----- From: Darren Douch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WMQ V5.3 stability? Has anyone else hit this problem?  We're putting 5.3 onto production in a few weeks and haven't seen this on the various dev and test environments we've got it on.  If there is something particular that causes the symptoms then that would be useful information.   Thanks Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kulbir S. Thind To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: Re: WMQ V5.3 stability? Hi, We've just installed it recently and you need to ensure you get the latest media.  There was a big problem with the distribution of this release and the numbering used.  For example 5.3 went out in June 02 and Oct 02, both releases being different although both being called 5.3.  Make sure you get the latest media and then the latest CSD (there may be one on the web site). In addition to this we found a bug where MQSeries objects kept becoming damaged.  IBM provided us with an e-fix, this fix is not included in the latest CSD and must be applied.  APAR IC35711 is the reference IBM are using for this. Other than the above we've had no problems. Cheers, Kulbir. "Rick Tsujimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "MQSeries List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06-Mar-2003 14:58 Please respond to "MQSeries List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                                         To:        MQSERIES         cc:                 Subject:        WMQ V5.3 stability? I'm probably going to install V5.3 on Windows soon and am interested to hear the experiences of others who have already implemented it in production.  Any bloody, gory tales? 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