Obviously fixed wins out on processing time vs variable when the equiptment is substandard. Variable wins out in the bandwidth arena when you client is cheap and doesn't pour money into the network infrastructure. BUT if you are sending the, ALMOST, same message in variable with very little change. Think Fixed. A true ariable message example would be a SWIFT message. Where fields (TAGS) appear depending on the content of a field. But if you are sending variable data because the last element in a message is variable by +/- 100 characters you might want to consider fixed with a length modifier preceeding the last field. Again as everyone has been either implying or specifically pointing out. IT is yoou choise because you are the one behind the wheel and the oncoming turck is geting closer!!!
bobbee
From: "Williams, Dave (Systems Management)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fixed vs. Variable Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:35:28 -0400
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, we're specifying fixed. Just looking for some quick opinions.
Thanks in advance,
DW
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