Re: Backout of failed a C++ Application

2004-04-30 Thread Pavel Tolkachev
Hello Neil, If this is a TCP client, this is possible (that connection on a server outlives the client app). Try to play with keepalive (I am not sure what is the default timeout on Windows though; on Solaris, it is set machine-wide and the default is sometimes 2 hours). You can try to set HBIN

Re: Extended Transactional Client & WLS

2004-04-30 Thread Pavel Tolkachev
Thanks, Peter! Will know whom to ask if I have problems. If anyone has it working with just basic MQ, please share you experience. Sincerely, Pavel "Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Bubba Sparxx
Actually, Bristol does offer a development only version which we've considered so I guess number 3 wins   Bubba  Michael Dag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve, I don't think we are full circle yet... maybe it's not a circle but a 8 (don't know how to draw it otherwise)   The ball started w

Re: Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
Sid, are you trying these commands on a 5.1 system, or a 5.3 system? At 5.1, the wild cards will not work. Only at 5.3. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setmqaut on v5.1 Yep..trie

Re: Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread Sid . Young
Yep..tried that one!...no luck Sid -Original Message- From: Nick Dilauro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2004 3:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setmqaut on v5.1 Did you try TST.** ? I believe TST.* will only work for TST.XXX and not for TST.XXX.YYY. Nick -

Re: SSL on z/OS and RACF

2004-04-30 Thread philip . distefano
All, Does anyone know if it's necessary to have a unique key ring for each queue manager on z/OS ? On the distributed side, it is necessary. From my reading in WMQ Security (z/OS), I think you use the same key ring for all queue managers, but I'm not 100% sure about this. Any help is apprecia

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Dag
Title: Message Steve, I don't think we are full circle yet... maybe it's not a circle but a 8 (don't know how to draw it otherwise)   The ball started with Roger's post which started with Developers saying "where's my message - MQ lost it". Roger knows very well tools like TransactionVision

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Kelly, Steve
Title: Message John,   I think this discussion has gone around in a circle. If your developer asks "where's my message - MQ lost it" then you do have a way to prove otherwise - some message tracking software e.g. Bristol's TransactionVision amongst others.   Isn't that where we started.  The

Email problems for Roger Lacroix and Capitalware

2004-04-30 Thread Roger Lacroix
All, The hosting company where Capitalware Inc. has its web site ( www.capitalware.biz ) had one of its main computer compromised late Thursday (April 29 Eastern time). It is now back online. If anyone sent me or Capitalware Inc. email within the last 24 hours, could you please resend it. Sorry

Re: Forcing Logs

2004-04-30 Thread Gina McCarthy
Sounds like your platform is MVS?? It's in the Sys Admin Guide. ARCHIVE LOG MODE(QUIESCE) There is also a TIME parameter. Hope that helped. Gina -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Williams, Dave (Systems Management) Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004

DB2 installation hangs when using Terminal Services

2004-04-30 Thread Kumar, Sudheer
Hello MQ'ers, I am trying to install DB2 7.1 using Terminal Services on a remote Windows2000 Terminal. The installation goes to a certain extent, and halts without any error. The latest entries in the DB2.log are like this: - Administration Server: Log On Username:db2admin

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Kelly, Steve
I'm afraid they will argue.   It's the old "real money" issue. That is, spend outside an already agreed software budget versus spend against an agreed development budget. ie. they have to pay you anyway so you're paid to find a solution to the problem.    They don't care that your costs are

Forcing Logs

2004-04-30 Thread Williams, Dave (Systems Management)
Anyone know how to force the logs to archive? I don't know where to look. Thanks, Dave W. 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: IMS Adapter

2004-04-30 Thread Dick Killian
Bridge / Adapter. I don't know the difference -- yet. I am reading and reading and reading. Fortunately this is occurring in development and not production. I am trying some stuff. "Beinert, William" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tracking question

2004-04-30 Thread Khedr, Hossam (GEI, MORT)
Hi, I have a scenario where I need to send a response message within 30 seconds; however, if the application didn't put the response back by then, I still need to send a message saying something like " In process" or other user defined messages. I'm looking for a solutions or SupportPack to mee

Re: IMS Adapter

2004-04-30 Thread Beinert, William
Peter is right on about the bridge (a real PITA to track down errors in this environment, IMHO) but Dick says he has a problem with the Adapter - and these are Bridge problems. I can't imagine the Adapter generating these kinds of errors. Bill -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mai

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Dag
Del, this whole discussion started with "we have no money... " maybe you as a designer can talk to the sales guys to come up with "development" license fees in addition to "production" license fees? you could also see this as a stepping stone as people get used to functionality, no one will ar

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread John Scott
Title: Message To put this as a problems and not a suggestion or solution as James requested, I think a fundamental problem is that it is difficult to track messages once they have been removed from a queue. Thus if an application puts a message on a local queue and another one has been left rea

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Del
yes, but what about non-persistent messages?...    I know that companies such as Cressida offer log recovery products, but I still like our solution best (as the designer, of course I am totally biased...)   -- I also agree very much with education of the LOB developers suggested by Bobbee and oth

Re: Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread Nick Dilauro
Did you try TST.** ? I believe TST.* will only work for TST.XXX and not for TST.XXX.YYY. Nick -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setmqaut on v5.1 Howdy all (a

Re: Server Farm Specs

2004-04-30 Thread Thomas, Don
An old IBM saying goes: It's better to have one queue manager with 100 queues than 10 queue managers with 10 queues each... -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W Samuel Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server Far

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Glen Shubert
I fully agree with Frank.  As a matter of fact, I had a conversation with IBM about that about 3 weeks ago.  I told them that we needed a tool to be able to track messages from the time we received it to the point it left my queue manager.  This would include CICS gets/puts, Database time, etc.

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Bright, Frank
I am going to offer another opinion about message tracking. IBM logs message activity within its own logs for recovery purposes. I just think the exit you propose is a duplication of the internal MQ logging. IBM made use of the MQ logs in the creation of the MO12 (MQSeries for OS/390 - Log extra

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Kelly, Steve
Unfortunately, the biggest thing that continually trips up most developers is their belief in their own ability; there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with their code, could there ? But seriously, as Bobbee said, its about education; most developers don't understand the implications of what th

Server Farm Specs

2004-04-30 Thread W Samuel
Hi everyone, What are parameters that we would consider for deciding on the specifications for a Server that'll host initially 10 queue managers and that can grow in future ... has to be 24 x 7 Looking at AIX as the operating system .. but not clear on how to arrive at the specs for such a host s

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Thomas, Don
James, In my experience the most common problem has been programmer ignorance. I do not mean to disparage programmers by this, some simply do not understand MQ. For instance I get phone calls where a user wants to know why their 'queue isn't running'. You don't know what you don't know. In

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
I think there is a lot of good stuff already in the product to insure that the program knows what happened to its message(syncpoints, report messages, etc). IF the programmers only take time to learn it, understand it, implement it, and act upon it. An MQAdmins job seems to be to prove MQ works an

Re: IMS Adapter

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
When the IMS bridge receives a nonzero IMS-OTMA sense code, the IMS bridge converts the sense code from hexadecimal to decimal, adds the value MQFB_IMS_ERROR (300), and places the result in the Feedback field of the reply message. This results in the feedback code having a value in the range MQFB_I

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread James Kingdon
I'd be interested to hear what the most common scenarios are that lead to developers believing that MQ lost their message, particularly when using the JMS API. As has been mentioned in this thread, this isn't the sort of complaint that you hear raised against ftp or databases, but does seem to occu

IMS Adapter

2004-04-30 Thread Dick Killian
I have inherited MQSeries Adapter for IMS. I am somewhat familiar with MQ but not IMS. A programmer is getting a feedback code of 335. Does anyone know where to look up these codes? It doesn't seem to be in MQ Messages and Codes? MQSeries v5.2, IMS v7, OS/390 v2.10 _ Rega

Re: Extended Transactional Client & WLS

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
Pavel, we have done this with WL 6.1 and JMS. Been in production for about 3 months. -Original Message- From: Pavel Tolkachev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Extended Transactional Client & WLS Hello, Has anyone gotten

Re: Removing a dead server from an MQ cluster

2004-04-30 Thread Mike Davidson
Just remember (from the Clusters manual): "You can issue the RESET CLUSTER command only from full repository queue managers." Mike Davidson TSYS MQ Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/29/2004 10:32 PM Please respond to MQSeries

Re: MQ clustering experience

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
Don't even consider this unless you are 5.3. Clustering is much improved at this level. Check out this doc, which is "MD05: MQSeries - Design considerations for large Clusters": http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&q1=mA1J&uid=swg24006367&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en And this one, whic

Re: Backout of failed a C++ Application

2004-04-30 Thread David C. Partridge
IIRC on MVS the default is COMMIT, not BACKOUT when the application fails   Dave

Re: Removing a dead server from an MQ cluster

2004-04-30 Thread Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)
As long as MQ1 is a Full Repository, yes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Removing a dead server from an MQ cluster Howdy all, I have a server (MQ2) that has been disconnected (f

Backout of failed a C++ Application

2004-04-30 Thread Taylor, Neil
Can anyone explain what should happen if the above application has got a message under syncpoint and then crashes.  Logically I know that the message should re-appear on the queue, especially if a disconnect is issued, but I'm wondering how the qmanager knows that the application has died a

OpenVMS Cluster

2004-04-30 Thread Kelly, Steve
Anybody implemented MQ in an OpenVMS cluster? Any guidelines / best practices etc?   Steve. 

Re: MQ clustering experience

2004-04-30 Thread Mike Davidson
Your concerns that the "workload balancing" benefits of clustering might not apply to your situation are valid. However, another (rather valuable) benefit to implementing MQ clustering in such an environment as yours with many qmgrs is the reduction in object definitions to maintain. There are

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Robert Broderick
"Give them a Fish and they eat for the day. Teach them to fish and they eat forever". Maybe and education of MQ Architecture would be helpful. I know "MOST" (?" developers can sit still for a few minutes to have explained WHY the message cannot be lost. Works at my current site. AND THAT'S GOVERNME

Re: ESQL SELECT to fetch non-null tags

2004-04-30 Thread Tibor
Sorry, but I don't understand your problem correctly - perhaps because I don't know your input. Can you send me the input XML structure? Tibor > Tibor, > Sorry I forgot to mention that I can have others tags under Books. > But I need to fill the array with Book1 , 2 or 3 which ever exists.

Re: Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread David C. Partridge
And while you are at it - go straight to CSD06 or higher. Dave 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: ESQL : CASE WHEN

2004-04-30 Thread Tibor
Won't work because syntax definition of 'CASE' #1 SET myVar = CASE UPPER(var) WHEN 'AB' THEN '12' WHEN 'CD' THEN '00' WHEN 'EF' THEN '00' WHEN 'GH' THEN '00' END; #2 SET myVar = CASE WHEN UPPER(var) = 'AB' THEN '12' WHEN UPPER(var) IN ('CD' , 'EF' , 'GH') THEN '

Re: Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread Harshal_bhave
Hi Sid, If you are using setmqaut on V5.1 Then you must not use a generic name for the profile. Please refer the document for Version V5.1 System Admin (SC34-6068-00) is for Version 5.3 If it is failing on Version 5.3, I think you need to apply the fix for it. https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/w

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread David C. Partridge
Actually I mis-spoke myself. The API exit can be called *three times* for an MQGET, depending on exactly which entry point(s) you activate. 1) Before MQGET - typically use to log things like options pointer values and MQMD (did the developer remember to reset message id, correl id, ccsid etc.). T

Setmqaut on v5.1

2004-04-30 Thread Sid . Young
Howdy all (again), I am in the process of migrating an old v5.1 server to v5.3 on a new platform. As part of the process I have moved a copy of the queue managers over to the new Win2K machine and they work ok, but I am having security nightmares prior to upgrading the MQ to v5.3 When I try: Set

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-30 Thread Gunter Jeschawitz
Am Do, den 29.04.2004 schrieb Adiraju, Rao um 23:31: > If you think by showing all tracing > reports to every tom, , and Harry and convince them that there messages > aren't lost - you will have a huge battle ahead. By all this, newbie's will > confuse and will scare more of the MQ product and