Re: MQ v5.3

Don't apply CSD03 unless you're prepared to load fixes bugs that appear to have been introduced in the CSD. The one's I've got are: IY43097: USERS GETTING 2102 0X0836 MQRC_RESOURCE_PROBLEM AND THEY CANT TELL WHAT RESOURCE IS EXPERIENCING PROB. IY43610: WEBSPHERE MQ V5.3 SNA AND C++ INTERFACE

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

Thanks to everyone for your answers. Bill C. -Original Message- From: Nick Dilauro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPProcs and OPProcs William, For the Windows & Solaris version 5.3 there is a new DISPLAY QSTATUS comman

MQ v5.3

Hi everyone, Are there any known issues with MQSeries v5.3? Would like your inputs on this ... Thanks. Sony 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.archi

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

>Paul, >That is effectively what I meant by coordinate, ie. Thread1 and Thread2 >share a connection handle Thread1 does a get under syncpoint and Thread2 >does a put under syncpoint and then issues the commit which also commits >Thread1's get. Hope I've got this right. >Regards >Tim A Tim, Yes,

Re: Client and server configuration

Just curious. What is the difference between 'client' in the server CD and the client from the support pack? Thanks, Ian -Original Message- From: Francois Van der Merwe1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2003 7:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Client and server conf

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Elena - You would set the default buffer size on the Get method, not the Put method. As to what size to use, that really depends on your application that is putting messages to your queue. - Steve -Original Message- From: Elena Nanos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Re: How a MQSeries Hub does its thing with persistent / non-persi stent messages

Again my apologies havent been expressing my ideas too well of late. With regard to selecting candidates the example below is not entirely clear in that I only mention one set of channels to one queue manager it would have been better as follows. " nothing to stop you from having TO.QM1.FAST an

Re: How a MQSeries Hub does its thing with persistent / non-persi stent messages

Hi Peter, thanks for the update and the information about your test results. We handle this issue by running multiple overlapping clusters, and having separate channels for each cluster. Eg: QM1 and QM2 are in clusters CL1 and CL2. Rather than- DEFINE NAMELIST(ClusList) names('CL1,CL2') a

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

Paul, That is effectively what I meant by coordinate, ie. Thread1 and Thread2 share a connection handle Thread1 does a get under syncpoint and Thread2 does a put under syncpoint and then issues the commit which also commits Thread1's get. Hope I've got this right. Regards Tim A

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

As of V5.3 for z/OS you can do a DISPLAY QSTATUS if you want to know what processes are using a queue, this command is also available in Windows and the main flavours of UNIX. Regards Tim A Nick Dilauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: WMQ 5.3 & SupportPac MC74

Title: WMQ 5.3 & SupportPac MC74 MQ 5.3 has MSCS support within the base. MC74 is not required (and probably won't work). -Original Message-From: Antony Boggis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2003 4:57 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: WMQ 5.3 & SupportPac MC

Re: How a MQSeries Hub does its thing with persistent / non-persi stent messages

For your cluster channels you could write your own exit, nothing to stop you from having a TO.QM1.FAST and a TO.QM1.NORMAL set of channels. As Neil said in another thread rather than try to maintain state information about what channel is next just use a random number to select an appropriate candi

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

Before we get too far into exotic combinations for thread pooling etc. could you please tell us how many messages a second you are expecting to process what other major resources are involved eg. databases and what platform you are intending to run your application on. Regards Tim A

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Hello Steve, thank you very much for your reply, it is nice to know that we are not alone ... The queues using this support pack are set to 4 Meg max message size. Our developer will test setting larger buffer size on a PUT. What size do you recommend? Thanks again. Elena. "GIES, STEVE" <[EM

Re: MQseries installation

Sony, You are sure giving us all a good workout! If we collect all your questions, we would have a pretty good MQSeries FAQ. ;-) Current and prior releases of MQ, at least as far back as v2 anyway, all look for executables in /opt/mqm/bin. Therefore it would be impossible to have two versions

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

The Event Monitoring Manual is also a good reference for understanding events. -Original Message- From: Conklin, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPProcs and OPProcs Hi All, Is there a way to determine which MQSeries o

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

Bill, I know that for v5.3 on the mainframe from the Queue Status ISPF panel you can hit F11 to show which application(s) have the queue(s) open. Mike Davidson TSYS WebSphere MQ Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Conklin, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

William, For the Windows & Solaris version 5.3 there is a new DISPLAY QSTATUS command which can display the IPs using a queue. For a full description see the Sript (MQSC) Command Reference Manual. This manual might also be useful for determining which attributes of the qmgr are causing the SYSTE

Re: Triggering an Transaction in a CICS region - RESOLVED

Group, This problem was finally resolved by altering the application. It was in fact coded to OPEN, GET, CLOSE for every message. When this was changed to a do/while loop things started behaving much better. Thanks for all of your feedback. Don Thomas EDS - PASC * Phone: +01-412-893-1659

Re: IPProcs and OPProcs

If your are not consuming these event messages (no event monitoring, or third party monitoring tools), make sure that queue manager events are turned off(Authority/Inhibit/Local/Remote/Start-Stop/Performance/ChannelAutoDef ). Also check for queue events (MaxDepth/High/Low/SvcInt). tonyB. -Ori

IPProcs and OPProcs

Hi All, Is there a way to determine which MQSeries object has a queue/channel open for input (IPPROCS) or output (OPPROCS)? These attributes changes of course as the Qmgr operates. I'm using MQSeries 5.3 on 390, Windows and Solaris. Second question, our SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT is filling up very

MQSeries 5.3 for Windows NT thread safe?

I have a question. Is MQSeries 5.3 thread safe now? In the past, you couldn't use the same queue manager connection handle for across multiple threads. Has this changed ever? -- Robert Martin Design Engineer SISCO Inc, Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Lis

WMQ 5.3 & SupportPac MC74

Title: WMQ 5.3 & SupportPac MC74 Does anyone have any knowledge regarding the two items? Does WMQ 5.3 (CSD03) on Win2000 Server work with Microsoft Cluster Server & the latest incantation of MC74? Appreciate any feedback, tonyB.

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Elena - This is a known bug in the current .NET support pac. What is happening is that by default the MQQueue class attempts to get the message with a 1 byte buffer. This of course fails (unless you just happen to be passing a 1 or 0 byte message!!) with a truncation failure. The class then res

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Dan, MQ convertion works fine when done by the application, plus we have some blobs to traverse the network. Channel convertion is not an option. As far as messing with the CCSID, we're using standard NT, AIX , and MVS queue managers. The application group is converting to the .NET and we have

Re: SMF Data

At 09:29 2003-06-03, you wrote: A question - How do you use SMF data to bill your users? On what criteria do you base chargeback. Coming from a CICS perspective, I'm not really sure where to start. TIA for your input, Dave W. Dave, SbbWorks had interesting info at

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Hi Glen I can't say whether this is a bug or not (or as I like to refer to them, "undocumented enhancements") although I haven't encountered this issue in the past with VB and ActiveX apps that do pretty much the same as is being done in this .Net app. What lead me to putting the CCSID parm

Re: MQSeries msgid length not 24 bytes

I would guess that you are treating the messageid as a string and losing the last couple of bytes if they are binary 0's. The message id is binary and needs to be treated that way. Ron --- Teresa Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought MQSeries generated msgid is 24 bytes long. > We have a

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

In my code, I create a connection-and-a-working-thread pair per transaction and dispatch any MQ-touching task to the relevant thread. It does not seems to me as if I could save anything here by not using multiple connections: I would speculate that the most of the connection's "heavy weight" is

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Dan, the problem is this is a shared channel. we do not want to use channel conversion. So is this a bug in the .NET, or is there some parm the application needs to use. glen larson zurich north america "Capodicci, Dan (COMFIN, ITSS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@AKH-Wien.AC.AT> on 06/03/2003 11:18:4

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Hello Dan, thank you very much for that useful tip. Elena. "Capodicci, Dan (COMFIN, ITSS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@AKH-Wien.AC.AT> on 06/03/2003 11:18:40 AM Please respond to MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: Production MQ abends - 2019 / 2195 / 2079 and more.

I will look into this by reading up on the RACF CLASSES AND PROFILES Chapter in the System Management Guide. Thanks Morag Hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@AKH-Wien.AC.AT> on 03/06/2003 16:51:26 Please respond to MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

Title: Re: MQClient thread-safe? AFAIK what you want in A) cannot be done, as the commit on the worker thread will apply to all threads (in 5.3) and you can't do this before 5.3.   If you want to have lots of worker threads as in B), then each thread should make its own connection (new MQQueu

MQSeries msgid length not 24 bytes

I thought MQSeries generated msgid is 24 bytes long. We have a process that save the value of msgid generated into Sybase database. When I ran the following sql statement to check the length of msgid and found out that they are not 24 bytes long. ??   Sybase SQL statement select distinct(datalengt

Re: Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Hi Elena We are using it and ran into the same problems. We are setting the channels to convert the data for us and my guess is that may be where the problem is. The data coming out of our front end, .Net app seemed to be causing an error which related to it not getting correctly converted.

MQseries installation

Hi everyone, Is it possible to have MQ v5.2 and MQ v5.3 on the same AIX box? Is there a way of doing this? Thanks, VJ 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/MQSe

Re: Production MQ abends - 2019 / 2195 / 2079 and more.

I have checked all production applications that use MQSeries and searched on MQGET and MQPUT and MQPUT1 to the Initiation queue. Nothing is displayed. I have spoken with the developers and checked the implementation records and nothing has been implemented in the last three days. The RACF msg is

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

Title: Re: MQClient thread-safe? Under Windows 2000 - A.)  We would like to have reader thread 1 open the connection under synchpoint, get a message, start worker thread 1 and give worker thread 1 the cxn handle, have worker thread 1 process the msg and issue the commit on the handle. Is th

Re: Production MQ abends - 2019 / 2195 / 2079 and more.

In the z/OS System Setup Guide in the chapter "MQSeries Security Management", under "Security Problem Determination", it talks about "Violation messages". In there is states, "If the ICH408I violation message shows the queue manager jobname rather than a user ID, this is normally as a result of a

Data conversion with MA7P using .NET application

Hello, we are using Support pack MA7P - WebSphere MQ classes for Microsoft .NET, which allows MQ to be invoked from Microsoft .NET applications. We ran into a problem with data conversion. The data coming from mainframe going to distributed, is not being converted to ASCII. Is any one else usin

Re: How a MQSeries Hub does its thing with persistent / non-persi stent messages

Well, I think I have proved what everyone was saying. A channel speed of Normal is what is getting me here. Neil Casey and Brian McCarty provided the exact explanation as to why: non persistent messages sent over a normal speed channel cause persistent message to be written to the channel sync queu

Re: Client and server configuration

Just to make this a little bit more clear. You MUST install the client that is on the SERVER CD. When you start installation from the server CD, one of the options is to also install the client code - use that. Francois van der Merwe Senior IT Specialist: IBM MQSeries Certified Specialist, Sol

Re: mqsi version

VJ, >>>How do you find the mqsi version on an aix box? including the CSDs? >>>i've tried lslpp -l | grep wmqi >>>but is there any standard command like mqver for mqseries? You can use mqsiservice to see the product version. It also can be used to report on details of components installed on a giv

Re: mqsi version

There sould be a file call MEMO.ptf in the install directory. From: Sony Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mqsi version Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:51:05 +0100 Hi all, How do you find the mqsi version on an aix box? including the

Re: Production MQ abends - 2019 / 2195 / 2079 and more.

has someone deleted the STARTED profile for this region ? or perhaps changed the jcl that would cause it to select what looks like a default STARTED profile. Stephen Price Advisory IT Specialist; Database and Middleware UK SSO North Region Strategic Outsourcing, IBM Global Services Manchester, Ma

Re: Production MQ abends - 2019 / 2195 / 2079 and more.

Michelle, is it possible that a new application went into production three days ago that (by accident) writes directly to the initiation queue MQPB.INITQ.PB.PCCIC? Also, the RACF message shows a queue name of MVB1.MQPB.INITQ.PB.PCCIC, which is a different name, but that might be OK. Did any RACF de

SMF Data

A question - How do you use SMF data to bill your users? On what criteria do you base chargeback. Coming from a CICS perspective, I'm not really sure where to start. TIA for your input, Dave W. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users

Re: Client and server configuration

YUP From: Teresa Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client and server configuration Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:56:21 -0700 Can both have MQSeries client and sever software installed on the same operating system? I am running Windows

Re: Client and server configuration

Yes.   But if you install the MQServer onto your machine, then you must install the MQClient from the CD. You cannot use the MQClient that you download as a Support Pack.   If you install ONLY MQClient on a PC, then you can use either the client from the CD or the client from the support pack do

Re: MQClient thread-safe?

>To all, >My apologies I had read about shared connections in V5.3 and promptly >forgot them again so yes you now can coordinate units of work across >multiple threads. Tim, I don't wish to be picky here but I didn't mention coordination. A shared connection can be used across multiple threads bu

mqsi version

Hi all, How do you find the mqsi version on an aix box? including the CSDs? i've tried lslpp -l | grep wmqi but is there any standard command like mqver for mqseries? Thanks VJ. Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available