WMQ Ext. Tran. Client & WAS V5

[Art Schanz]

Greetings,

  I looking for some clarification on a hot topic here.  Our environment has this (basic) configuration:

Server1:        WAS V5        (Appl Server)
Server2:        Oracle 9i        (Database)
Server3:        WMQ  V5.3        (Messaging)

  Here's my question -

  If I want to perform 2-phase commit (2PC) transactions and have WAS V5 act as the transaction coordinator between the Oracle database resource and the WMQ message queue resource, will the 'XA-capable' client distributed w/ WAS V5 be sufficient, or do I need to install the WMQ Extended Transactional Client (ETC) product offering???  (Note that the WMQ server is NOT co-located w/ WAS)
 
  We've gotten mixed messages from IBM on this and I'd like to hear from IBM and/or others w/ experience with this type of configuration.  The ETC costs as much as a WMQ server, while the WAS V5 client is bundled w/ the base product (essentially, it's the old MA88 support pac).  If the WAS V5 client will provide us w/ what we need, we can save a boatload of $$$.

Anyone have any experience or information on this topic?  I'd be REALLY grateful for ANY info !

Cheers,
  Art

Arthur C. Schanz
Operating Systems Programmer I. - Specialist
Federal Reserve Information Technology
Distributed Systems Engineering
IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere MQ V5.3
IBM Certified Solution Designer - WebSphere MQ V5.3
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