Since no one took up the gauntlet for MQSI or MQ Workflow, I'll have a shot at MQSI...
(I dug into my memory, some old presentations and some redbooks I have around, but this gives a reasonable history)
Beginning of 1998 IBM saw an opportunity for an addition to the MQ Family (this is also the timeframe in which the 'triangle' was invented :-) ), which does routing and transformation of messages i.e. the entry of IBM to a high value market of Message Brokers (start of the (n-1)**2 versus n connections pitch, unfortunately they didn't have a product...
So let's build one and put Hursley to work. Plans were made and MQSI V2 as we know it today was born (on paper).
Plans got a little bigger and it turned out that a delivery date would end up somewhere in 2000 (2 years from beginning 1998...) So waddah-y-a do??? there is this huge opportunity and nothing to sell...
Bam... There is a company called NEON (New Era of Networks, not to be confused with NEON Systems (NESY on NASDAQ...), which has a product called NEONET and it has some interesting patented technology... So first steps were taken and the first IBM Sales of NEONET 4.0 as MQIntegrator 1.0 were done as PRPQ's (IBM name for special products that are not in the catalog...) and support was done through NEON. This turned out a huge success but...
The PRPQ process is not so easy (internal IBM stuff) and support came from NEON, which most IBM customers did not really like (they are used to one point of contact...) so...
IBM announces (and immediately delivers, after doing all the paperwork with IBM lawyers and NEON) in
- April 1999 MQSeries Integrator V1.0 (Shortname MQI), which is the OEM version of NEONET V4.01
(notice the subtle difference between MQIntegrator and MQSeries Integrator...) soon followed in
- June 1999 by MQSeries Integrator V1.1, which is the OEM version of NEONET V4.1.1
- December 1999 MQSeries Integrator on AS/400 sees the light (still kicking around and supported until 31 JUL 2004!)
- December 1999 MQSeries Integrator V1.1.1 on OS/390 (not sure about this one..., but is still supported and no end date is
known yet...)
time goes by and Hursley is working their b*tts off and MQSeries development almost halts... in
- March 2000 MQSeries Integrator V2.0 (Shortname MQSI), with MQSeries Integrator V1.1 stuck underneath as is, debuts on
the Windows platform
(remember this V2 is the product IBM had in mind beginning of 1998..., so this was meant as the V1 product, also
deducted by simple rule of thumb, because all V2 IBM products have to be multi-language and MQSI V2 was not...),
followed by
- June 2000 MQSeries Integrator V2.0.1 on Sun Solaris (because there was a customer willing to pay for early delivery,
but the product is delayed until August...) and
- August 2000 MQSeries Integrator V2.0.1 on AIX and an update of the Windows code
- April 2001 MQSeries Integrator V2.0.2 on NT
- June 2001 MQSeries Integrator V2.0.2 on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and iSeries (wasn't this the thing running on the Windows
NT emulation card?), V2.0.2 included the move to NEONET V5.2, which was renamed to e-Biz Integrator by NEON...
- Fall 2001 announcement of WebSphere MQ Integrator V2.1 (Shortname WMQI), to include the first V2 version on 390 AND one
of the first 390 products to come as OTC (one time charge) whereas most 390 software is billed month after month, year
after year...
- December 2001 WebSphere MQ Integrator V2.1 (with non-working new MRM2, but fixed in CSD3...) available on NT/2000, AIX,
Sun, HP-UX and iSeries (still on the Windows Emulation Card?)
- December 2001 WebSphere MQ Integrator for z/OS V2.1
BTW: V2.1 includes NEONET or e-Biz Integrator V5.6 Rules and Formatter
Meanwhile IBM went on the eclipse plan and so had WebSphere MQ Integrator... a lot of time was spend on this and a lot of
new function was halted in development... then someone thought hey... we refresh code completely using CSDs so why not put
the changes in the CSD's... and so it happened that a CSD (which is a Corrective Service Disk/Distribution) contained new
functionality... this notorious CSD was number 3 :-)...
and time went on.... eclipsifying things in Hursley...
- in the meantime something like WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker V2.1 saw the light, which was WS MQI without NEON (so it was
cheaper...)
- WebSphere MQ Event Broker V2.1 (Shortname WMQEB) turned up... basically WS MQI V2.1 without NEON AND without Compute
nodes... but with
High-Speed Pub/Sub based on TCP/IP Multicast technology.
- May 2003 IBM announces WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5 (Shortname WBI MB, or as I already heard somewhere
WebSphere BIMBo :-)... ), which is the follow on for WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker V2.1...
So what to do with NEON name wise...??? you get it... we call it: ... with Rules & Formatter Extensions...
which makes: WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5 with Rules & Formatter Extensions
the longest product name I have seen...
and there is also a WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker V5 (Shortname WBI EB or WebSphere BIEB...)
and to make working with products easy... if you install WBI MB, WBI EB gets installed underneath automatically and you see
references to WBIMB and WBIEB all over the place, especially when you hit the new... 'search for updates' button...
pfff... If anyone has something to add... :-) please do...
Michael Dag
(yes.. I used to work for IBM)
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MQ software evolution - fill in the gaps?
I'm pretty sure this is the order... I've been working with MQ since
the beta in 1992. I kept the listing focused on the "big"
platforms...
MQM MVS/ESA V1.1 GA (MVS)- December 31, 1993
ezBridge Transact for MQSeries - March, Sept, Nov, Dec 1993
(different platforms)
MQM/400 V2.3 - Feb/April 1994
MQSeries for MVS 1.1.2 - June 1994
ezBridge Transact for MQSeries 3.0 - July 1994
MQM/400 V3 - 4Q 1994
MQSeries 2.0 (OS/2, AIX) - Feb 1995 (the beginning of the end of
ezBridge)
MQSeries for MVS 1.1.3 - May 1995
MQSeries 2.2 (HP, SCO) - 4Q 1995
MQSeries 2.0 Windows NT - 2Q 1996
MQSeries 2.2 (Sun OS/Solaris, DC/OSx) - June, July 1996
MQSeries for MVS 1.1.4, - June 1996
MQSeries for MVS/ESA 1.2 - August 1997
MQSeries 5.0 - October 1997 (on my birthday no less!)
MQSeries for AS/400 V4.2 - Feb 1998
MQSeries 5.1 - April (NT), June 1999
MQSeries for OS/390 V2.1 - Feb 1999
MQSeries for AS/400 V5.1 - July/Aug 2000
MQSeries for OS/390 V5.2 - Nov 2000
MQSeries 5.2 (Distributed) - Dec 2000
WebSphere MQ 5.3 (Distributed, iSeries) - June, July, Oct, Nov 2002
WebSphere MQ 5.3 z/OS - June 2002
MQSI and Workflow also made their debut in 1998 (Flowmark was
discontinued in 1999). MQSI V2 came out 2000.... WHEW someone can
finish MQSI and MQWF if they wish...
Any former employees of SSI can argue the ezBridges dates... but I
think they're accurate.
For those techies who attend the SHARE technical conference, we will
be having MQ's 10th birthday party at the February 2004 meeting!
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Gary J. Ward
Senior Consulting Engineer
Information Design, Inc.
A Premier IBM Business Partner
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