Re: architecture consultation needed

2004-05-11 Thread Adiraju, Rao
I suggest to look at the following issues before making a decision: 1) Availability, maintenance windows etc.. 2) downtime effects (single point of failure etc..) 3) Disaster Recovery processes (from my experiences, we have applications that do Disaster Recovery simulations at different interval

Re: CSD06 problems onWin2K server

2004-05-10 Thread Adiraju, Rao
ED] Sent: 11 May 2004 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CSD06 problems onWin2K server Thanks for the advice... Will v5.3 install recognize the existing v5.1 data directory structure and convert correctly if I uninstall v5.1 first ??? Sid -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [m

Re: CSD06 problems onWin2K server

2004-05-10 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Sid Recently I have upgraded two of our production WIN2K servers to V5.3 - CSD06 along with few development queue managers. And I haven't come across any such problems. However, I always adopt the approach of uninstalling previous versions (we had 5.2 then) and reinstalling V5.3. Only problem

Re: Tracking question

2004-05-03 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hossam I am not able to visualise your complete situation and the reason for building intermediate layer. Option-1) Build that logic in the first layer of MQ program which is doing PUTs and GETs. PUT a message and issue a GET with wait-interval. If no message arrives with in that interval, repeat

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Roger What you are trying to do is "perception" management. For "perception" management, from my experience, the things that you are going develop will not help. It will take lot of your time in developing and explaining these reports to your newbie developers. If you think by showing all traci

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-28 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Roger Looks like a "wild goose chase" to me. Might as well dump the entire message - given that it is in development, performance shouldn't matter much and nor the volumes. That way you can correlate the logical unit of work across multiple calls. Just a curious question about capturing at API-e

Re: Msg put problem

2004-04-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi - are you missing something in your mail. Such as COMP or COMP-3 etc.. And what is your target platform. I am assuming the source as IBM (because now-a-days no body writes COBOL programes on any other platforms). If it's "normal" 9(7)V9(2) then it is all ready in display format each byte takin

Re: Qmanager Alias Definition?

2004-04-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Khedr You have multiple options to put around: 1) In QM-2, define a xmitq with the same name as QM-1 and off course all associated channels. This is the best option if your DQM is limited to QM-1 and QM-2. 2) In QM-2, define a QREOMTE with name same as "QM-1" with RQMNAME as "QM-1" and RMNam

Timings to go through HUB

2004-04-20 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Timings to go through HUB Fellows Any of you (preferably I am looking on SOLARIS but other platforms also will do the job) have quantified the overhead of routing the message through intermediary queue manager (HUB) compare to point-to-point.  Or if you have come across any such figur

Re: FW: Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-19 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Paul - no worries - "horror" is used in more of a colloquial sense. I am trying to understand the rational behind it. According to the logic I have learnt, anything that started should be able to stopped. But I guess IBM must have there own logic for giving it on only one platform and don't even me

Re: Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
u need to set the TTL for that name to a small value (say 5 minutes). Regards, Neil Casey National Australia Bank Southern Star Technology WebSphere MQ Support 1/122 Lewis Rd Wantirna South office. +61 3 9886 2375 (x82375) mobile. +61 414 615 334 "Adiraju, Rao&

FW: Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
TECTED] Subject: Re: Channel Connection name resolution WE had the same problem some time back and found that MQ was caching the IP address. If I remember correctly, we recycled the channel initiator and the address was resolved correctly. Cheers... Jim Nuckolls Adiraju, Rao wrote: >

Re: Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
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Re: Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
be an adoptmca issue? Why not have a "failover" script cycle the channel when it fails? It could interogate the primary ip and secondary ip when the channel has a retry event trigger it. Then make a failover or alert you to a bad channel. Do you have any monitoring on your system? Just

Channel Connection name resolution

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Channel Connection name resolution Fellows Last night I was testing our Disaster Recovery strategy for MQ and stuck with a problem and need (as well as appreciate) some help from the forum: Situation: I have a MQ hub running on Solaris with MQ version 5.3 CSD04. It is talking to a

Re: Queue Alias usage

2004-04-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
TED] Behalf Of Adiraju, Rao Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Queue Alias usage In all three platforms - Windows, Solaris and Os/390. Thanks for OS/390 suggestions. Cheers Rao -Original Message- From: Christopher Warneke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Queue Alias usage

2004-04-15 Thread Adiraju, Rao
determine this on? The m/f logs will tell you what was accessed and when, as will racf if you audit security. Maybe the smf type126 records will have info that you can use. look at support pack mo12 to review the logs. Chris --- "Adiraju, Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellas >

Queue Alias usage

2004-04-15 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Queue Alias usage Fellas Is there any way to see whether a Queue Alias is being  used by the applications and when it has been LAST accessed.  I am not talking about "Qstatus type(handle)". I am embarking on cleaning up our MQ resources and there are few dangling Queue Aliases which

Re: Highest MQ volumes

2004-04-14 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Greg I can't boast that volumes but I can throw my experiences in similar exercise which may be of help to you: 1) If you are using EVERY, you have to have SHARED initiation queue (no choice there). System Administration guide clearly say otherwise it might loose the trigger messages. You have a

Re: Microsoft MQ

2004-04-13 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Message If your CIO (Chief Information Officer) recently came back from a trip to Redmond, then forget about all the unnecessary paper work. Either praise how great the MSMQ is (you will be assured with a promotion) or look for a job somewhere else.   In IT industry the "reality starts wh

Re: Highest MQ volumes

2004-04-13 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Greg Have you considered using "Clustering" rather than "shared queuing" for load distribution. Even in shared concept, there are no guarantees that messages are processed in sequence and you have to move the shared queue, associated logs to Coupling facility and also mandates DB2. Even it puts so

Re: Upgrading MQ 5.2 to 5.3 and persistent msgs

2004-04-13 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Depends on where the data is and the upgrade process. But in general it will retain all the data and objects. Even if you opt for uninstalling 5.2 and re-installing 5.3 (which is a preferred process that we have adopted so far) the data and definitions will remain intact. Cheers Rao -Origin

Clearing expiry messages

2004-04-07 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Clearing expiry messages The following is the extracts from System Administration manual (V5.3): "In the current implementations, the message is discarded when a browse or nonbrowse MQGET call occurs that would have returned the message had it not already expired". my interpretation

Re: Linear Logging

2004-04-06 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Ruzi It needs all the files starting FROM and NOT JUST THAT file. So if your current log number S003652.log, MQ needs all the log files starting from to 3652 log files. That's why one need to run "rcdmqimg", which takes the dump of MQ objects and accordingly the entry in the error file wi

Re: Linear Logging

2004-04-06 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Ruzi We are using Linear Logging on Windows for sometime. Personally, I don't see any major overheads of the Linear. Please note that one of our such queue manager generates large volume of logs because of traffic. On all our Windows servers, we have scheduled a "batch" job which runs once a d

Re: MQ Security data in SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

2004-04-05 Thread Adiraju, Rao
f the other lines to be '-remove' instead. Then run the file. You'll have a clean queue manager and you can start setting the proper permissions. "Adiraju, Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Transaction without user

2004-04-05 Thread Adiraju, Rao
There was a thread on this topic a month or two back - check the archives to get a full picture. Unfortunately there is no easy solution. Bottom-line is you have to write a program/transaction which handles this. I wish to see a facility from WebSphere MQ, where trigger monitor triggers the appli

Re: Formatting production logs

2004-04-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Morag This is creating a peculiar situation in our case and wondering what other people / sites have done (similar to us with BMC Patrol MQ monitoring and this broker service in place). 1) All our production QMGR have been customised to raise an (Instrumentation) event when such inhibits happ

MQ Security data in SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

2004-04-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ Security data in SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE I am trying to analyse the entries in the above queue on SOLARIS platform with MQ V5.3 CSD6. What I am noticing is when I create an object such as local queue,  MQ by default, is generating two authorisation entries - one for "mqm" group and

Re: Puzzled - remote MQSC commands land in DeadQ

2004-04-01 Thread Adiraju, Rao
What about PUTAUT parameter on the channel definitons. This plays a big role on what user-id to be used for authentication. Try setting it to DEF if it isn't all ready. Let us know how it goes. Rao -Original Message- From: Benjamin F. Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2 April 2004 7:

Re: Formatting production logs

2004-03-28 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Morag Thanks for the clarification. My investigations also led to a process called "amqfcba" which is a broker service. I think the problem is with the customisation of our queue manager events versus BMC patrol. BMC Patrol collects data in two modes - 1) by polling base queues 2) by reading inst

Re: Formatting production logs

2004-03-25 Thread Adiraju, Rao
logs. It will record their treachory without alerting them that the Event Queue was updated, so you can blindside them the next day with evidence in hand!       -Original Message-From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:49 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Formatting production logs

2004-03-25 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Formatting production logs Fellows I have two areas, where I appreciate some help:  1) Formatting the logs -    In one of our production queue managers, something fishy is going on and I need to format the log to see who is exactly doing the changes. I know roughly what time the

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-23 Thread Adiraju, Rao
ort Pac. The author's contact information is usually in the Support Pac page and/or the download but if it's not IBM may be able to contact the author if you submit a query using the "Contact Us About A Support Pac" link. -- T.Rob -Original Message- From: Adiraju, R

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Ken - thanks and it's very much appreciated. Most of my whinging was aimed at the work that was put in on IBM pages. If an upcoming software company does this sort of thing, I can understand and would have gone along with it. But I haven't expected it from IBM. If it instructions says download .z

Re: Linear Log cleanup - on WINDOWS platforms

2004-03-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
a "rcdmqimg" followed by this VB script. No more hassles of manual cleaning of log files.   Cheers Rao Ps: As usual, I have renamed the file as "txt" rather than "vbs" and do other way round to execute it. <> ______________

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2004 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows Hursley is the location of the IBM Labs that develop MQ. -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 7:45 AM To: [EMA

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
, Sounds like this would be a good addition to the current Support Pac or even a stand-alone Support Pac. Why not submit it? -- T.Rob -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Managing linear logs

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Ken With due to respect, I am not sure what is this "Hursley" you are talking and how to get there. I usually logon to IBM WMQ Support pack homepage to download any support pack and here is the address: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/support/supportpacs/individual/m s62.html On thi

Linear Log cleanup

2004-03-21 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Linear Log cleanup Fellows So far my understanding and as well as observation is that, in the logs MQ writes two entries every time one with AMQ7467 for MQ manger restart followed by another one with AMQ7468 for Media recovery. And all most all the time, AMQ7467 log number will be HIG

Re: Dead Letter Queue messages not appearing?

2004-03-21 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Have you checked the dead-letter queue on KEWILL queue manager. Cheers Rao -Original Message- From: Michelle Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 March 2004 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dead Letter Queue messages not appearing? Hi all, I have a situation whereby an ext

Re: Managing linear logs with MQ5.3 on Windows

2004-03-21 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi all I have experienced the same problem for the past few weeks in my current client site. PERL and JAVA have their own problems and I can't locate MS62 zip file for Windows version so on.. So on.. I don't understand why IBM doesn't provide a support pack that is native to windows platform ??

Re: Locking down MQ files/registry on Windows

2004-03-15 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Rob I can see from your mail that you are not from Bill's camp (Microsoft). You your self admitting that there are more people supporting Windows servers than Unix servers in your organisation - which means either managing the windows are more complex than managing Unix boxes (don't get stress

Re: RCVR versus RQSTR channels

2004-03-15 Thread Adiraju, Rao
It's good to see the healthy debate, kicked off by my recent question and I hence taken the liberty of summarising it (for future references): "RQSTRs are exactly like RCVRs, except that RQSTRs give you the added benefit of starting the SNDR( or SVR) from the RQSTR side." RQSTR is useful: 1) whe

Re: Copying MQ binaries

2004-03-15 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Even though we have copied the data, we never done the software. We always installed it on the new boxes. One of the reasons for these messages to pop are security related - ie: when MQ is not authorised to write either the "errors" directory and/or logs directory. So make sure that all newly crea

For WMQ V5.3 & SWIFT users only

2004-03-11 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: For WMQ V5.3 & SWIFT users only To SWIFT site users We are currently using Swift MQSA 2.2 with patch 2210 and WMQ V5.2.1 in W2K server and are planning to upgrade to WMQ V5.3.6 (CSD6). Is this version of MQSA is qualified against WMQ 5.3 if not what level of MQSA / patches are you

Re: RCVR versus RQSTR channels

2004-03-11 Thread Adiraju, Rao
I tried it and Yes - it confirms with what Rob saying. Even though SVR channel is defined with fully qualified connname, still it will reply to any requester. Cheers Rao -Original Message- From: Wyatt, T. Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2004 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: RCVR versus RQSTR channels

2004-03-11 Thread Adiraju, Rao
To all Thanks fellas for your input. Yes - sometime back through this forum I picked up the subtle difference between the SDR and SVR and hence I have opted to stay with SDR but all RCVR channels will be changed to RQSTR. And so far I haven't heard anything negative for RQSTR so I am going full st

RCVR versus RQSTR channels

2004-03-10 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: RCVR versus RQSTR channels Fellows We are in the process moving in to hub & spoke architecture from the existing point-to-point architecture.  Currently all receiving channels are defined as RCVR. Given that RQSTR has got a hand-shaking ability with SENDR partner, I am thinking of

Re: DLQ rules table on Windows platform

2004-03-10 Thread Adiraju, Rao
rs to the file you specify.   Robert Biedinger (O) 972 963-1311 (C) 972 365-6386 -Original Message-From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 5:34 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: DLQ rules table on Windows platform Rob - thanks very much

Re: Locking down MQ files/registry on Windows

2004-03-10 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Rob Even I was looking for a silver-bullet solution earlier in this regard. But your response raised a curious question - if you are NOT hosting QMgrs on Windows for the fear of "maverick" (I call them as Cow-boys) administrators where do you host your QMGrs then. It will be the same case in UNI

Re: Question about q.exe

2004-03-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
ecialist - IBM WebSphere MQSeries, IBM WebSphere MQSeries Integrator |---------+> | | "Adiraju, Rao" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | .CO.NZ> | | | Sent by:

Re: setmqaut and wildcarding

2004-03-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Try with ABC.** which should cover all but the second one. Either enforce a naming standard or create a different profile for the second one. Cheers Rao -Original Message- From: Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2004 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Question about q.exe

2004-03-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
later as the log files are getting full because > > of very long messages (tens of megabytes)and making the messages > > smaller is a > very > > big issue for the Putting end of the people who > are > > reluctant to do so. > > > > Again, my original question is,

Re: Linear Log VS Circular Log

2004-03-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Some more information is in IBM Support pack - MP7E, which gives performance comparison studies. In our site we always use "Linear" logging on production with appropriate, automatic,log cleanup mechanisms. So our log growth is all most nothing and as stable as "circular". Even though in principle

Re: How do I restore queues after increasing log file size????

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
changed 'folders' though? Another thing is that currently our log drive is "c" which has more free space than "d" that I am thinking of changing to? When the drive is changed to "d" will the the log files automatically be copied from c to d? Thanks. jan

Re: DLQ rules table on Windows platform

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
on Windows platform Do you have a rule WAIT(NO), the default is YES, which will cause the DLQ handler to wait indefinitely. NO will end the handler when the DLQ is empty.   Robert Biedinger -----Original Message-From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 200

Re: How do I restore queues after increasing log file size????

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Jan Please ignore my previous suggestion. I gave a quick test myself and NO it didn't change the log file size. Rao -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao Sent: 9 March 2004 11:33 AM To: 'MQSeries List' Subject: RE: How do I restore queues after increasing log file size

Re: How do I restore queues after increasing log file size????

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Ian Last weekend we did some upgrade to move the logs to a different drive. Even though we didn't change log file sizes but did change the drives and folders. Give a shot on the following (try first on a test queue manager, before you play with your production one). We did it on the test first an

DLQ rules table on Windows platform

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: DLQ rules table on Windows platform Fellas Do you know what's command to exit the DLQ processing when we are running the rules through input file: We are trying to execute     runmqdlq qname  qmgrname rulesout.txt In rulesin.txt we have put the necessary control record and

Support pack MS62 for windows

2004-03-08 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Support pack MS62 for windows Fellas Support pack description on IBM support pages talks about ms62.zip for Windows platform but I can't see any ms62.zip file (only file I can see is ms62.tar.gz, which looks like unix version) for downloading.  Any ideas where to get his ms62.zip. T

Re: MQ Triggering in CICS

2004-03-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
of security and is not suitable for all occasions. But sometimes the show fits.    regards, Dennis       -Original Message-From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:53 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: MQ Triggering in CICS Yes agreed

Re: MQ Triggering in CICS

2004-03-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
want to provide a contingency for that. (Remember, a SIL is supposed to process the queue until EMPTY).  But even in the worst case scenario, if the SIL quits prematurely, it would just re-trigger again and eventually find the stranded message.   -Original Message-From: Adiraju, Rao [

Re: A novice question--THE SAGA CONTINUES

2004-03-03 Thread Adiraju, Rao
ile with partial data - a zero-length file All depends on OS, ftp implementation, etc. This is based on actual experiences with FTPing large files from slow systems, with much faster recipient systems. Dave A. -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesda

Re: A novice question--THE SAGA CONTINUES

2004-03-03 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Ray & Rick Even I haven't heard FTP loosing the data. As I said earlier, we opted for a PULL rather than PUSH. Because for a PUSH every client (or server for that matter) have to have a main-frame user-id and passwords, which was a BIG NO NO at my previous client for security reasons. They were m

Re: MQ Triggering in CICS

2004-03-03 Thread Adiraju, Rao
n the program.    Also, most of the times CKTI starts with a default user-id (or CICS userid) and hence your transaction also runs under the same user-id. So watch out for your security rules.      Cheers   Rao    From: Adiraju, Rao Sent: 3 March 2004 8:59 AMTo: 'MQSeries List'Subject: RE: M

Re: A novice question--THE SAGA CONTINUES

2004-03-02 Thread Adiraju, Rao
We had the similar problem with one of my previous client sites. I am not sure what is your average size of the row / record in the text file. But in my experience our row was 80 bytes and to put 80 bytes message, MQ adds 3 to 4 fours times of this size as Message headers and others. So what we hav

Re: A novice question--THE SAGA CONTINUES

2004-03-02 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Ls with all error handling get back to me directly (because I guess that doesn't fit to MQ forum domain). Cheers Rao -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao Sent: 3 March 2004 11:42 AM To: 'MQSeries List' Subject: RE: A novice question--THE SAGA CONTINUES We had the similar pr

Re: MQ Message statistics

2004-03-02 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ Message statistics One simple option I can think off, is gathering the statistics from "Channel Status".   Channel status will give you the number of messages and number of bytes transmitted.    In absence of monitoring tools, I suggest to run a query every night to take a snap shot o

Re: MQ Triggering in CICS

2004-03-02 Thread Adiraju, Rao
watch out for your security rules.      Cheers   Rao  From: Adiraju, Rao Sent: 3 March 2004 8:59 AMTo: 'MQSeries List'Subject: RE: MQ Triggering in CICS John   Additional point to what Joe mentioned - yes, the default you look for is "CKTI" in Rtransid field. But check with yo

Re: MQ Triggering in CICS

2004-03-02 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: RE: MQ Triggering in CICS John   Additional point to what Joe mentioned - yes, the default you look for is "CKTI" in Rtransid field. But check with your CICS guys as well - because it is possible one CICS region to have multiple initiators and/or different transaction codes (for various

Re: Migrating MQSeries to another server

2004-03-01 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Migrating MQSeries to another server The easiest way I can think off is - save the data and log folders in the network somewhere. And when the new box is built copy them back to the new server and install the software - everything will come back to normal.    If you want only the definiti

MQ V5.2.1 on WIN2000 Server

2004-02-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ V5.2.1 on WIN2000 Server I have come across an unexplained scenario on two win2K servers running MQ V5.2.1 and appreciate if some one can throw some light on it: The MQ version is V5.2.1 with CMVC level 0521-L010508 I have a queue manager QM1 on a server SVR1.   The QM1 queue m

FW: Duplicate Messages

2004-02-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
I agree with Lynn - even though I won't use the word "blame", potentially either the program is reading the message twice or at least reading the buffer twice. You have given the COBOL code but not given the subsequent return & reason code checking. As you can't identify the pattern, it's very di

Re: test tool allowing us to specify a msg id

2004-02-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
There is a support pack - MA01 - that is available from IBM site. It has got a program/utility "q" with copies messages from one source to another. So you can input a file and messages will be written to Queue. I am not sure about specifiying your own message-id through. Give a go and see whethe

Re: NPMCLASS

2004-02-26 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Did anybody get back to you on this. The doco which comes along with CSD06 give the full explanation of this field and here is the extract: New Queue Attribute This WebSphere MQ V5.3 update introduces a new queue attribute NPMCLASS which applies to local and model queues. NPMCLASS can t

Re: SAVEQMGR PCF ERROR

2004-02-25 Thread Adiraju, Rao
land Tel: +64-4-494 4299 Fax: +64-4-802 8509 Mbl: +64-211-216-116 -Original Message----- From: Adiraju, Rao Sent: 26 February 2004 4:41 PM To: 'MQSeries List' Cc: Keenan, Nigel Subject: RE: SAVEQMGR PCF ERROR Henry - thanks for the quick confirmation. That means if some one has NPM

Re: SAVEQMGR PCF ERROR

2004-02-25 Thread Adiraju, Rao
ueue definitions. Cheers Henry -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adiraju, Rao Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2004 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SAVEQMGR PCF ERROR What does it mean - the Saveqmgr won't work with MQ V5.3 - CSD06, if so

Re: SAVEQMGR PCF ERROR

2004-02-25 Thread Adiraju, Rao
What does it mean - the Saveqmgr won't work with MQ V5.3 - CSD06, if so what are the alterantives. We are planning to upgrade to CSD06 within couple of weeks and we use Saveqmgr quite heavily. Cheers Rao Adiraju WebSphere MQ Specialist The National Bank of NZ Ltd. Wellington - New Zealand Tel: +

Re: VB pgm getting 2059 after install of MQ V5.3 and CSD5

2004-02-24 Thread Adiraju, Rao
My hunch is the program may be working earlier connecting to a "default" queue manager and after your uninstall and install, the "default" settings must have been changed (program may not be hard/soft coding the queue manager name). Cheers Rao Adiraju WebSphere MQ Specialist The National Bank of

Re: "Trigger-looping" CICS transaction

2004-02-23 Thread Adiraju, Rao
a message that can't be gotten rears its head. "Adiraju, Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .CO.NZ> cc: Sent by: MQSeriesSubject: Re: "Trigger-looping&quo

Feedback on Disaster recovery

2004-02-23 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: Feedback on Disaster recovery As part our disaster recovery, we have dedicated one additional box for every production box (on Sun-Solaris) as a Diaster Recovery machine.  The current practice is to define two distinct queue managers on these two machines and when things go wrong on

Re: "Trigger-looping" CICS transaction

2004-02-23 Thread Adiraju, Rao
almost never happens in production, but in development it's more frequent. I'm thinking about enhancing our wrapper, but I don't exactly know what to do about it. "Adiraju, Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: "Trigger-looping" CICS transaction

2004-02-23 Thread Adiraju, Rao
As a design principle, we set the following standard to our developers: Every GET should check the back-out count and if it is greater than BOTHRESH (threshold counter) or hardcoded no.of tries (some cases), application should check for BOQNAME and put the message in that queue if specifie

Re: MQ 5.2.1 to 5.3 -- Removal of MA88

2004-02-22 Thread Adiraju, Rao
.Rob -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MQ 5.2.1 to 5.3 -- Removal of MA88 Jan Luckily we don't have this issue, but I am curios to know more about it: 1) First of

Re: MQ 5.2.1 to 5.3 -- Removal of MA88

2004-02-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
PROTECTED]> Eaton Website: www.EatonElectrical.com <http://www.EatonElectrical.com>   -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MQ 5.2.1 to 5.3 Recently we went through this exercise and s

Re: MQ 5.2.1 to 5.3

2004-02-18 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Recently we went through this exercise and some more servers are in process: The steps we have adopted are: 1) Take a backup of data & log folders. 2) Uninstall V5.2.1 (which will still retain your data and log folders) 3) Reboot the box (preferable) 4) Install V5.3 5) Install latest CSD - a

Re: MQ audit tracking / reporting

2004-02-17 Thread Adiraju, Rao
fied Specialist - MQSeries Argos Ltd -Original Message-----From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 04:38To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MQ audit tracking / reporting Fellows We have a request to audit the changes to MQ objects - ie basically to report on periodical basis

MQ audit tracking / reporting

2004-02-16 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ audit tracking / reporting Fellows We have a request to audit the changes to MQ objects - ie basically to report on periodical basis who created the objects and who deleted the objects and when (date & time).  Our primary focus is on Windows & SUN Solaris platforms. As you all k

Re: A novice question

2004-02-12 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi Raymond Few more options to toy with: 1) As Dennis suggested, you could design one polling transaction(program) on the transaction queue - read one message, issue EXEC CICS START read another message and so on... However, be careful about the disadvantages of this scenario -ie: once you fired

Re: Customized authentication Scheme

2004-02-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Usha I am currently working on defining and implementing security policies for our middleware (covering Windows, UNIX and z/OS) and felt curious to know your solution further and the reasons for disabling the OAM process and building such exits. If you think it's a lengthy mail and may not be of

Re: Trigger

2004-02-09 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Hi John The trigger type "FIRST" activates the trigger when queue depth moves from 0 to 1. If I understand correctly, your triggered transaction once started, immediately disables the "PUT" and starts reading the messages. Once the messages are exhausted (2033) then it enables the PUT again and h

Question to MQForum ADMINISTRATORS

2004-02-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Fellas The "OUT OF OFFICE" replies are killing us and wouldn't it be nice for FORUM to filter and stop these messages from transmitting to every subscriber. Cheers Rao Adiraju WebSphere MQ Specialist The National Bank of NZ Ltd. Tel: +64-4-494 4299 Fax: +64-4-802 8509 Mbl: +64-211-216-116 Ps:

MQ Usergroup(s) in the Land of Middle Earth

2004-02-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ Usergroup(s) in the Land of Middle Earth For those who are NOT in the "Middle Earth" please ignore this message: Is there any MQ Usergroup(s) in New Zealand -  I recently moved from "Down under"  to "Middle Earth" and is looking forward to catch up with fellow WMQers. Cheers R

Re: CICS and MQ Question

2004-02-04 Thread Adiraju, Rao
It's complaining about MQQUEUE Resource and also showing MQSB.INITQ.** profile is the culprit. Which means, your RACF people has put in this profile and either forgot grant PERMIT to the cics user-id and/or REFRESH hasn't been done. Talk to your RACF support and they will be able to fix it in no ti

WMQ on z/OS platform

2004-02-01 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: WMQ on z/OS platform Hello to z/OS WMQ community I am looking for a "optimal" re-cycling period of MQ Manager started tasks on the z/OS platform (we haven't gone to Clusters and Queue sharing groups) and currently our Queue managers are running non-stop for more than 2 months.  Fir

A WMQ Security question

2004-01-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: A WMQ Security question We have a Weblogic server which  talks to WMQ Manager through Server connections. And also according WMQ V5.3 documentation, PUTAUT(CTX) isn't allowed for SVRCONN channels. How do I enforce the user level security then. Any ideas - Interested to know what o

Re: T-Rex distributed systems

2004-01-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Luckily on z/OS only batch jobs/applications  need to establish the connections to the Queue Managers (in CICS it's done at the CICS region level) and hence the need to know the QMGR name.    This as suggested earlier, can be driven by a Dataset / Loadmodule or DB2 table.   The sites that I hav

How do I see/list current users of a MQ manager

2004-01-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: How do I see/list current users of a MQ manager I have a requirement to list the current users (user-id or group-id) that are connected to a MQ Manager at any given time.   How do I list this information on WINDOWS and UNIX platforms. Thanks in advance Rao Adiraju WebSphere MQ Spec

MQ Series upgrade on WINDOWS

2004-01-29 Thread Adiraju, Rao
Title: MQ Series upgrade on WINDOWS To all We are in the process of upgrading our MQ 521 to MQ53 on WINDOWS 2000 platform.  During the conversion process, we have to preserve (and migrate) the messages from the application queues. Luckily the number of queues we are talking are 3 to 4 at

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