MQServer V5.2.1 with Windows2000 SP3?
Hello, Our security folks want us to upgrade from SP2 to SP3 on our Windows 2000 Server Edition boxes.All are running MQSeries Server V5.2.1 with CSD04. Has anyone had any issues with applying SP3 on W2K operating system? The IBM websites mentions that V5.3 (I assume V5.2.1 would be the same) is supported with: Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 (Professional or Server Edition) Thanks in advance for any help, Larry LaChanse / The MONY Group / Information Technology / office 315-477-3701 / cell 315-263-3904 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
Windows XP - Version 5.3 - are we there yet?
I've searched all the list servers and message boards, IBM platform page, etc and can't find a recent thread that discusses this. Does anyone know if I can install MQ V5.3 on Windows XP Pro or XP Home Edition? If not, does anyone know if/when IBM plans to make this a supported platform? TIA, Larry LaChanse The MONY Group 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
MSMQ and MQSeries
Are there products which allow these to competitiors to communicate with each other?Something like a bridge?If so, does anyone have any experiences running both - success, failure, admin challenges, etc? TIA, Larry LaChanse The MONY Group 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
Re: MQ and Win2K load balancing w/ COM+
We are implementing an architecture which uses an MQ cluster (8 W2K boxes) to load balance. Four unique servers perform specific functions (2 presentation tier, 1 mqsi and 1 com+). Each of the 4 servers has a twin so that we have no single points of failure. When we chose the Q's to define to the cluster, we defined each one on the pair of twin boxes, and we just use the round-robin algorithm to load balance between the two. Where we need affinity to support request-reply scenarios, we just use a Q which is not defined to the cluster and specify RTQM in the header. In addition, we use AppCenter2000 to load balance our 2 pairs of presentation tier servers. The whole thing is working beautifully so far. Larry LaChanse The MONY Group Sreenivas.Check a To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Checkas@BCBSMO. cc: COM Subject: Re: MQ and Win2K load balancing w/ COM+ Sent by: MQSeries List MQSERIES@AKH-WI EN.AC.AT 07/12/02 02:50 PM Please respond to MQSeries List We have done extensive testing of Application Center Component Load Balancing (CLB) and Network Load Balancing in our Proof Of Concept environment. CLB works exactly as Peter Larson described. We have not tested the JIT concept. As for the behavior of MQ, you are right in that your application has to hold a reference to the COM+ object to ensure that you wait on a reply from the node that put the message on initially. If you lose the reference and try to do a get later, you will end up possibly getting directed to another node. Can anyone share their experience with pure MQ load balancing on Windows 2000 servers. Regards Checka Software Architect 314 923 6708 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Peter Larsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MQ and Win2K load balancing w/ COM+ Hi Peter, Don't know if this will be to any help for you or if it's just noise..anyway here are my thoughts. I haven't been involved in any dev regarding App Center, but.. My understanding of Component Load Balancing, which is the feature that does load-balancing of COM+ apps in App Center, is that it load-balances COM+ object creation. Which should mean that as long as you're holding on to a object reference, it should be bound to the same server hosting that object-instance. This should be true even if your COM-classes use Just-In-Time activation , however as I mentioned I haven't used it ! So it COULD be that i.e. JIT-activated objects not are bound to the same server for the object reference life-time, then you'll be stuck with using objects that don't deactivate between method call's and thereby kills scalability (at least as MS says). After reading your posting I looked around on the MS Site and there weren't any docs that clearly (deep tech) showed how it really works, but the text I found stated that subsequent request for an already created object should be routed to the same server. Regards, Peter Larsson Peter Heggie Peter.Heggie@US.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NGRID.COM cc: Sent by: MQSeriesSubject: MQ and Win2K load balancing w/ COM+ List MQSERIES@AKH-WIE N.AC.AT 2002-07-11 21:04 Please respond to MQSeries List Has anyone gotten application load-balancing to work in a Windows COM+/Application Center world? I'm thinking of a request/reply scenario, where the replytoqueuemanager name is filled in dynamically, but the application could be swapped between two machines.. Its hard for me to get a handle on the concepts - once an application calls a COM+ component which performs MQ calls, will the application stay connected to the same component (which is waiting for a reply)? Or is there a chance that load balancing will move the application to a different machine? It seems to me that an application that performs a Put (request), then a Get (reply) w/Wait, will be fine.. but an application that performs the Gets at a later time (disconnects and then later connects) runs the risk of being load balanced to a different machine than the one where the reply may be waiting. If this is true, then application design will make or break the request/reply process.. Peter 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 Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided
PCF commands FROM OS/390 to Win2K
I'm running MQ V2.1 on OS/390 and V5.2 on Win2K.I want to periodically alter the GET attribute of a Q which lives on a Win2K box. I want to control the attribute from events that occur in my OS/390 environment.I could write to a triggered Q on the target box, launching an MQSC command file to alter the attribute and send a success message back to the mainframe, but I was wondering if I could instead do the same thing with a PCF command. I've never worked with PCF commands before. I believe PCF commands aren't supported inbound to OS/390, but can I create a PCF command originating on my OS/390 box headed out to the queue manager running on a Windows 2000 server? If so, has anyone done this who would be willing to share tips/techniques, or actual code? Thanks in advance! Larry LaChanse The MONY Group 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
Re: MQExplorer queue attribut layout changable?
I have a dozen views of the Explorer layout saved. I just launch the appropriate shortcut to get the view of columns or queue managers or snap-ins or whatever I want.In Explorer, just use File-Save As, and give your current view a meaningful name.By default, the view will be saved as a .msc file in the root folder where you insalled MQ. I'm running V1.1 of the MMC and V5.2 of MQ on Windows NT, but assume other OS's probably behave similarly. Cheers, Larry LaChanse The MONY Group Benjamin Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: MQSeries ListSubject: MQExplorer queue attribut layout changable? MQSERIES@AKH-WI EN.AC.AT 07/09/02 09:31 AM Please respond to MQSeries List Hi, has anyone made it to save the attribute layout of his choice? it's annoying having to rearrange the list sequence every time when I restart MQExplorer to see the most important attributes. Hope someone has figured it out. thanks, bfz 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
Re: WMQI - A simple solution sought
Marc, I like this idea - one question - do you know what behavior a WMQI flow might exhibit if the subject of it's MQInput Node queue was set to GET disabled - would it flood the event log with errors? Thanks! Larry LaChanse The MONY Group Marc Verhiel Marc_Verhiel@CA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NDLE.COMcc: Sent by: Subject: Re: WMQI - A simple solution sought MQSeries List MQSERIES@AKH-WI EN.AC.AT 07/08/02 02:52 PM Please respond to MQSeries List I have a need to do something that sounds simple, but a WMQI (V2.1 on Windows 2000) solution is eluding us.I have QueueHolding, which, during the evening hours will be accumulating messages from a web app, as our mainframe batch processes run. In the morning, I need to move the messages from QueueHolding into QueueActive, so that the various backend processes (IMS and CICS) can process them. I had hoped to kick off a flow (I know they aren't designed to be triggered like this) which would have an MQInput Node pointing to some other queue, say QueueTrigger, which I would populate from the mainframe at the appropriate time. Then, once QueueTrigger kicks off the flow, I was hoping to use the MQGet Node (support pack) to GET the messages from QueueHolding, plumb it to an MQOutput Node to PUT the message into QueueActive.Obviously, I'd need a loopback mechanism in the flow to get from the Holding queue until empty. The developer is having trouble with the messge content of the messages going to QueueActive - we use XML and the flow is insisting on wrapping my XML data within an external folder, effectively changing the content. I'm not strong in either WMQI or XML, but the developer is and he's scratching his head. Does anyone have an elegant way to tackle this in WMQI? This is headed for a productional financially oriented app, so we don't want to use too many chunks of unsupported utility software (except the MQGet Node - which may be supported?) Of course, we could just write a little triggered Java app to do the GET/PUT scenario, however we were trying to contain this overnight control mechanism into WMQI if possible - support issues as well as politics involved. Is there a reason why you need QueueHolding and QueueActive?...perhaps having only a single queue which is get(disabled) when you don't want to process the messages and get(enabled) when you do...then all you need is a process which alters the queue at the appropriate times to allow the dataflowengine to start/end consuming the messages... This requires no additional plugin and if you have certain monitoring products (like ours and I'm sure our competitors) you can schedule the alter queue commands based on time of day or whatever you wish...so you wouldn't need to code any new programs thereby reducing some of the support issues you mention... Marc Verhiel Candle Corp. 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 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
Re: Windows installer rolls back install of 5.2.1
Mike, I'm probably wrong, but I thought V5.2.1 was intended for Windows 2000 boxes and V5.2 was intended for Windows NT boxes.That's the pattern I've followed and I've never seen the behavior you describe. Larry Michael F Murphy/AZ/US/MQTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solutions cc: mmurphy@MQSOLUSubject: Windows installer rolls back install of 5.2.1 TIONS.COM Sent by: MQSeries List MQSERIES@AKH-W IEN.AC.AT 05/21/02 01:55 AM Please respond to MQSeries List I have run into an interesting problem installing MQSeries 5.2.1 on Windows NT 4.0 / SP6a. When installing the software, the installation progress gets just past Installing Services and the status bar is just about to the end, then the blue bar moves backwards and the status changes to Rolling Back Action. After this horrible event concludes, I get a dialog box that states Installation Wizard Interrupted! The wizard was interrupted before the operation could be completed. To complete the operation at another time, please run the wizard again The funny thing is I am getting the same thing on two of four machines which all have the same configuration. I found articles describing this behavior in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and the recommended fix is to re-register the windows installer or upgrade. The installer was installed off the MQSeries CD and was at version 1.1. It was upgraded to 2.0 but I still have the same results. If anyone has seen this before, please give me a hint at what I need to investigate to find the cause of this problem. Thanks for your assistance, Mike Murphy Sr. Middleware Consultant MQ Solutions, LLC http://www.mqsolutions.com 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
Re: Sample pgm to stop/start channel on os390 v1.2
JoE, You don't need a program to run commands like this, you can use CSQUTIL. For example: //CSQUTIL EXEC PGM=CSQUTIL,PARM='CSQ3' //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MQSERIES.SB.SCSQANLE // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MQSERIES.SB.SCSQAUTH //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //CSQUCMD DD * START CHANNEL(CSQ3.MOSY1N02.01) /* //SYSIN DD * COMMAND DDNAME(CSQUCMD) I'm running V2.1, but I'm pretty sure this worked under V1.2 as well, Larry LaChanse The MONY Group JoE JK pasirputeh@YAHTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OO.COMcc: Sent by: Subject: Sample pgm to stop/start channel on os390 v1.2 MQSeries List MQSERIES@AKH-W IEN.AC.AT 05/21/02 12:26 AM Please respond to MQSeries List Hi, Does anyone know where can i get the sample pgm to stop and start channel on os390 v1.2 environment? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com 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 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
Re: query on feature compaison,
Art, Would you be willing to share the title of that whitepaper? None of the 12 titles that appear on the website seem to deal with the questions Vinodh raised? Thanks, Larry Brady, Art R. Art.Brady@COMMERCETo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] QUEST.COM cc: Sent by: MQSeries Subject: Re: query on feature compaison, List MQSERIES@AKH-WIEN. AC.AT 05/14/02 08:26 AM Please respond to MQSeries List We have a new white paper discussing this topic on our website. Art Brady CommerceQuest 813.639.6401 Office 813.334.5339 Cell 813.639.6900 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.commercequest.com ** Change Nothing Integrate Everything ** -Original Message- From: N Vinodh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: query on feature compaison, hi all I need consolidation of comparison of MQseries with FTP DDE ( dynamic data exchange) in terms of attributes assured delivery, asynchronous porcessing, fast file transfer feature, security, cross platform communication, data size, timing(real time, batch, near real time) and application development effort. It would be of great help if any one cane give the link for the consolidated report like this. Thanks in advance. regards vinodh 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 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 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
