Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Brian S. Crabtree
Stefan There are 2 aspects to this 1. Design for the correct sequence 2. Expected behaviour of MQSeries If messages have to be processed in a particular sequence then coding has to be done to ensure this. Out of the box MQ will not guarantee this. The previously documented behaviour and restric

Re: Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side usi ng a Bridge Design Question

2002-09-19 Thread Miller, Dennis
The CICS bridge support pack is an excellent implementation of a Service Initiation Layer. Source code isn't provided, but 5 times out of 10 it will do the job right out of the box. If not, the manual is pretty revealing about the SIL design and a good model to get you started. I am a huge advo

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Stefan, The original poster made that claim, not me. As far as what you're position is, I concur. The network is not a factor. The messages will get there as sent. As for MQ, it depends on whether or not the stated conditions are met or not. - Original Message - From: "Stefan Sievert

Re: Correction - MQIAC

2002-09-19 Thread Maika Hoffmann
Are you talking about the MQ adapter kernel - MQAK? Just to put my five cents in on the acronym soup ;) ! Maika --- "Brian S. Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Narayan > > MQIAC is MQSeries Integrator Agent for CICS > http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/integrator/mqiac/ > > Even IBM

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Stefan Sievert
Rick, I don't know if I have put together all the pieces of this thread correctly, but my idea after that (and before that) is still that the physical network is no constraint at all. I look at it from the MCA perspective: the sending MCA doesn't even send message 2 if the receiver has received me

Re: Correction - MQIAC

2002-09-19 Thread Tony Devitt
** Note: This e-mail is subject to the disclaimer contained at the bottom of this message. ** : GC34-6076-00 Product Overview?rather sparse on deta

Re: Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side usi ng a Bridge Design Question

2002-09-19 Thread Keith A. Hessong
Title: RE: Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side using a Bridge Design Question Glen: Thank you very much for the information. I would like to ask you a few follow-up questions: 1) Do you know if there has ever been any sample code posted on this    site regarding wha

Re: Drawbacks to Requestor channel vs Receiver channel

2002-09-19 Thread Wyatt, T. Rob
Peter, Functionally, rcvr channels are a subset of rqstr channels. If you are on the inbound side, rqstrs give you the ability to start sdr/svr channels on the remote node, which you cannot do with a rcvr. If you are on the outbound side and start your sdr/svr channel you cannot distinguish bet

Re: Correction - MQIAC

2002-09-19 Thread Brian S. Crabtree
Narayan MQIAC is MQSeries Integrator Agent for CICS http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/integrator/mqiac/ Even IBM doesnt seem to have documentation for this Brian S. Crabtree EAI Consultant - Original Message - From: "Narayan K Vemuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Unable to obtain account details for channel MCA user ID.

2002-09-19 Thread Wyatt, T. Rob
When last I installed MQ on a Windows platform, there were several warnings about the MQ id needing to query the domain account details for UserIDs. This sounds like what you are describing. The MQ explorer had the following information that may be relevant. -- T.Rob Windows 2000 domain with no

Re: Correction - MQIAC

2002-09-19 Thread Narayan K Vemuri
I think it is MQIAC - MQ Series Integrator. I was looking for some links or documentation on this. Regards Narayan From: "Brian S. Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@AKH-Wien.AC.AT> on 09/19/2002 02:29 PM AST Please respond to "MQSeries List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "MQSeries List" <[

Re: Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side using a Bridge Design Question

2002-09-19 Thread Glen Larson
Keith, in short you have described the shortcommings of trigger type every. if you change to trigger first, and run your current transaction, what you would get is a single transaction for each message. but the transactions would be effectively single threaded, and you have the possiblily of a

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Paul Clarke
>Paul, I think this subject would be a good one for a seminar at the next >Tech Conference. Peter, Judging by the interest it gets I think you might be right. However, I can't see a session just on message ordering makling it through the selection criteria. We could have a devoted session but on

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
jokes on me finally found out that MSMQ has a sub title ---  Bill Gates maybe I won't spend all my time in the CICS sessions at the next Tech Conference Dave Adam Supervalu Home Office Project Specialist (952) 828-4736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Success is a Journey, not a Destination

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Paul Clarke
>Hello All, >My understanding is that TCP guarantees the order of bytes. For all and every message and between messsages. As soon as a single >channel does not open more than one simultaneous connections between same nodes -- which it cannot do, if I am not mistaken. >My understanding is that th

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
I agree with bobbee's thinking. One of the first things I tell the customer is that MQ doesn't guarantee order out of the box in all cases, so lets design this app to not rely on message order. If it turns out we do need message order, there are programming ways to accomplish it. And if still we n

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Miller, Dennis
Teriffic thread... The two-queue approach is a good way to assure you don't start processing a group of messages until all the messages in the group have been SENT. But it does not assure that all have arrived. It assures that headers can be processed before data. But it does not assure that head

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Kasischke, Bob
Title: RE: retrieve order Peter; Bobbee is right in his response to your post.  This is an issue that has been discussed many times.  Even though it is not explicitly stated in any IBM documentation, if you ask the people who really know the internals of MQSeries, they will say: " ... the or

Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side using a Bridge Design Question

2002-09-19 Thread Keith A. Hessong
Title: Running MSMQ on Server Side to MQSeries on Mainframe Side using a Bridge Design Question I am currently trying to design a new application for MQ running MSMQ on the Server Side and MQSeries on the Mainframe Side using a Bridge to communicate in between. Let's say that I am writing qu

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Randy J Clark
I must say we send 100's of 1000's of messages each day from an os/390 qmgr to an RS6000 AIX qmgr and we have never experienced a message not arriving in the 'sent sequence'. We have only have a single apps active and sending to a queue. We never have multiple apps active and sending to the same

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
Paul Clarke, since you are less than 100 miles away, how would you like to drop by when you have some spare time, there are great eating places at the Mall of America, and if you can bring Chris Frank and Bob Tilton with you this thread has been right on, even with the excerpts from the manuals

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Randy J Clark
Sorry I am wrong on all accounts... Bad memory Nastel not Reconda and Reconda has agent to pull email addresses BUT I still think this would be a clever way to innocently get your marketing information published - All marketing types feel free to utilize this method but please send a small mone

Re: MQUAC

2002-09-19 Thread Brian S. Crabtree
Narayan You need to give more detail but I suspect that you are asking about the wrong product for this listserver. MQAC is the name of the NT service for the Virtual MSMQ Server Brian S. Crabtree EAI Consultant - Original Message - From: "Narayan K Vemuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EM

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
I think it was Nastel, not Reconda, that recently released the free demo that caused "discussions" here. Peter Potkay IBM MQSeries Certified Specialist, Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] X 77906 -Original Message- From: Randy J Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Anderson, Lizette T. (RyTull)
I get that one too.  Maybe once a month. -Original Message-From: Dave Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: spamI just signed up for this list yesterday since our MQ guy is no longer here when I returned to my

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Broderick
I don't know.but as long as I have been in MQ, there was always the spoken rule that no matter what you did, don't rely on the order. If you start with that premis, then you can architect/code effectively AND with the notion that some day some genious will come along and change your network co

DC Area NON-SALES WebSphere-Business Integration Event - Oct. 8th , 2002

2002-09-19 Thread Wright, Christopher
The presentations in Arlington, VA on Oct. 8 have been postponed. The new date will be posted when set and confirmed. The Presentations scheduled for Exton, PA are confirmed for Oct. 10. Please see the post titled 'Delaware Valley Area NON-SALES WebSphere-Business Integration Event - Oct. 10th,

New England Area NON-SALES WebSphere-Business Integration Event - Oct. 2nd, 2002

2002-09-19 Thread Wright, Christopher
The presentations in Waltham, MA on Oct. 2 have been postponed. The new date will be posted when set and confirmed. 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/MQSeri

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Broderick
I was informed, by an person there who will remain nameless UNLESS HE SENDS ME GOBS OF MONEY, that Reconda has an agent that runs against the digest pulling EMAIL addresses for blanket advertisement. You got hit with it. bobbee >From: Dave Adam <[EMAIL P

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Randy J Clark
I hate to say it but the devil in me and my nature makes me believe this could be VERY clever way to get your companies marketing information out while looking somewhat innocent and sparing yourself the wrath of this list. This particular company has already felt the wrath of this list as it rela

MQUAC

2002-09-19 Thread Narayan K Vemuri
Hi All, I am not sure if the above is spelled right but am sure that it is pronounced M - Quack. How is it different from the existing MQ workflows and if there is any documentation for the same. Thanks alot in anticipation. Regards Narayan Instructions for managing your mailing list subscript

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread DeBlassio, Joe
Is Message Grouping available on MQSeries Version 5.3 platform z/OS? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Paul Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retrieve order > If what you say is true, then IBM has to update it

Re: spam

2002-09-19 Thread Christopher Fryett
Dave, I personally don't think I have received that type of email, but there are occasions when vendors including IBM becomes a little unethical and sends product information to people on the List Server. Most individuals on the List Server frown upon this type of marketing. The List Server

spam

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
I just signed up for this list yesterday since our MQ guy is no longer here when I returned to my cubical world today I had the following message and was wondering if it is normal to get this stuff from this list Dave,   I wanted to send you a personal invitation to our upcoming Webinar and in

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Pavel Tolkachev
Hello Peter, I agree with your interpretation of "paths". wrt your question, I think you can easily get 1,2,A,3,B,C,4 but it can be still considered "in right order" from my point of view. Because the put order between messages 2 and A is not strictly defined so the one can always claim the ge

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Pavel Tolkachev
Hello All, My understanding is that TCP guarantees the order of bytes. For all and every message and between messsages. As soon as a single channel does not open more than one simultaneous connections between same nodes -- which it cannot do, if I am not mistaken. My understanding is that the

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
Jack, Your rant is not misdirected. I certainly can appreciate it. But, I think it's well understood that when data traverses a network, such as the internet, the packets can take a variable number of routes. But, I also believe that the MCA's ensure each other, e.g. syncpoints, that what was

Re: MQSeries and Linux

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Olsen
There was no 3.x. You might be able to get the 2.x version from Willow working under iBSC. === Bruce Olsen System Integration Strategy and Architecture Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (727) 898-8851 Mobile: (727) 421-0865 Fax: (507) 262-1567 -Original Message- From: MQSeries

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
I think it boils down to how you interpret the following line: > For remote queuing, the configuration is such that there can only be one > path from the application making the put request, through its queue > manager, through intercommunication, to the destination queue manager and > the target q

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread RIBEIRO Paulo Jorge
I think that the point " For remote queuing, the configuration is such that there can only be one path from the application making the put request, through its queue manager, through intercommunication, to the destination queue manager and the target queue." explains the proble. With TCP/IP netwo

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
Paul, Thanks. I was wondering when IBM would speak up. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy with my understanding of the stated requirements for sequential retrieval. Paul Clarke cc: Sent by:

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Stefan Sievert
Here's what the MQ Intercommunication Guide has to say: [quote] If an application puts a sequence of messages to the same destination queue, those messages can be retrieved in sequence by a single application with a sequence of MQGET operations, if the following conditions are met: (1) All of the

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Jack Armstrong
We're hung up on the horns of semantics again IBM claims (and delivers) sequential retrieval of messages "from the queue, in the order in which they arrived...". (My words, not IBM legalese technical writing). In other words, by default it's a FIFO (first-in-first-out) queue. There are NO qua

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
The issue is does IBM need to update their doc? It makes no mention of the physical network as a constraint in order to retrieve messages sequentially. RIBEIRO Paulo JorgeTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Paul Clarke
> If what you say is true, then IBM has to update its claim about sequential > retrieval. No where in that claims does it make exceptions due to the > physical network. I would have thought that TCP/IP would reassemble the > packets in their proper order regardless how they traversed the network

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Bullock, Rebecca (CSC)
Rick, I think that the part below says that if they end up taking different paths then the order can't be guaranteed: > For remote queuing, the configuration is such that there can only be one > path from the application making the put request, through its queue > manager, through intercommunicat

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
Rebecca, The assumption is that the requirements set by IBM are met. See extract from IBM doc below. "Bullock, Rebecca (CSC)" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: G>

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread RIBEIRO Paulo Jorge
Please don't forget that TCP/IP networks are based on dynamic paths. If you send msg-1,2,3, the message 1 and 3 can arrive in 10 seconds, and message 2 can take 10 hours to arrive. It is obvious that if MQ receives the message 3 before message 2, it will make it available. For the specific problem

MQSeries and Linux

2002-09-19 Thread Conklin, William
Hi There, Will MQSeries 2.x or 3.x work with Linux? Thanks Bill C. 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: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Bullock, Rebecca (CSC)
Not if they don't take the same path -- Rebecca -Original Message- From: Rick Tsujimoto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retrieve order Brian, If the user sends msg-1, 2, 3 and gets 1, 3, 2 doesn't that conflict w

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
Brian, If the user sends msg-1, 2, 3 and gets 1, 3, 2 doesn't that conflict with the IBM doc's claim for sequential retrieval? "Brian S. Crabtree"To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retriev

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Brian S. Crabtree
Rick What you quoted doesnt conflict with what Dave said - Original Message - From: "Rick Tsujimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Re: retrieve order > Dave, > > If what you say is true, then IBM has to update its claim

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Broderick
Doesn't this say something about the physical path: For remote queuing, the configuration is such that there can only be one path from the application making the put request, through its queue manager, through intercommunication, to the destination queue manager and the target queue. >From: Ri

Re: Return Code 2018

2002-09-19 Thread Ruzi R
Hi Stacey, >> If I program this as a non-CICS program it works >>fine. Check to see if you are linking the correct stubs for CICS. Regards, Ruzi --- Patrick Scheffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am on an older versions of TXSeries/MQSeries and > using c instead of > COBOL. Have you connecti

Return Code 2018

2002-09-19 Thread Stacy Rodwell
This is apparently a problem with TX 5.0. You are supposed to be able to allow a 2018 and processing will continue as normal. We are going to try that this afternoon. Thank you for all you help. Stacy Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv Genera

Neil Postlethwaite/UK/IBM is out of the office.

2002-09-19 Thread Neil Postlethwaite
I will be out of the office starting September 19, 2002 and will not return until September 20, 2002. I'm out of the office this afternoon. I'll get back to you first thing tomorrow. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide availa

Re: Return Code 2018

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Scheffel
I am on an older versions of TXSeries/MQSeries and using c instead of COBOL. Have you connection TXSeries to MQSeries with earlier version? With C you do need to perform a connect to MQSeries from a TXSeries program. Did you recompile and relink your XA switch file for MQSeries? I past upgrade

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
thanks for the next question to ask I will find out what part MS MSMQ plays in our environment by the way we are ZOS 1.3 and MQ ver 1 on the mainframe we are ver 5 of MQ on the client Dave Adam Supervalu Home Office Project Specialist (952) 828-4736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Success is a Journey, no

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
I like simple approaches and will keep this one in mind not a bad way to approach something if there is not a system controlled piece Dave Adam Supervalu Home Office Project Specialist (952) 828-4736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Success is a Journey, not a Destination "Falatko, Jerry (CAP, PTL)" <[

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Tsujimoto
Dave, If what you say is true, then IBM has to update its claim about sequential retrieval. No where in that claims does it make exceptions due to the physical network. I would have thought that TCP/IP would reassemble the packets in their proper order regardless how they traversed the network.

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread RIBEIRO Paulo Jorge
Since you cannot use the grouping feature, you can use an alternative solution, based on the Msg Id/Correl ID values of the messages. You can search for some posts in this forum where you have all the solution completely described.   Paulo -Original Message-From: Dave Adam [mailto:

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Falatko, Jerry (CAP, PTL)
Dave,   We had a similar situation. To get around it we used an effective, albeit rather in-elegant solution. We now use two Queues:     a Trigger Queue and     a Data Queue Basically, we send all of our pieces of data as messages to our Data Queue. Then we send a summary message (including cou

Re: WebSphere MQ Release Guide for version 5.3

2002-09-19 Thread Bruce Baxter
I've already spoken with IBM on this, and was told that since MQ5.3 was a major revision, and all the updates to documentation were merged into the appropriate books, there is no separate Release Guide. The reference is an error in the Quick Beginnings Guide. I still have a PMR open with them on

Re: retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Thomas Dunlap
Dave, This is an indication that you are sending across a "dynamically routed" network, like the Internet. Since congestion may cause the messages to take different path through the network, they may arrive in the receiving system in a different order. This is the purpose of Messages Groups

retrieve order

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Adam
we have a system that sent a message header data data trailer and came into the mainframe program as header data trailer data is this a common thing, or should the receiving program be intelligent enough to figure out what should have been oh, by the way, some times they say they get duplic

Re: Checkpoint processor amqzllp0

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Broderick
Stefan, I always thought and was told that that little guy is the one that moves the pointer in the log every 1000 messages, or when it can. I did not read this I was told this. So don't load your gun if I'm wrong!! bee-oh-dubble-bee-dubble-eegghh >From: Stefan Sievert

Re: Return Code 2018

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Broderick
Stacy, Somebody had mentioned this in a prior reply. Under normal OS390 CICS there is no such thing as a HCONN. (CICS handles the connection to the MQSeries manager and you access that through the CIC adapter) If you specify one in the executing program it comes back zero valued as I believe you a

Re: Sender Channel OS390 to HP-UX - TCP Error

2002-09-19 Thread Sridhar Ramasubramonian
hi joe.. Check if your Inet deamon is running fine on the HP box and if there is a normal established TCP/IP connection between these 2 boxes. Also worth noting would be the parameters on the firewall if any with regard to the connection timeout parameters etc. Just a few thoughts from whatev