Re: Message rate

2004-08-18 Thread David Awerbuch
Gunilla, SupportPac MS03 uses PCF to extract all the information for the MQ objects. The SP contains the source. I used it as the model a few years ago for an application that extracted data on a regular basis. There are routines to help you create the PCF command streams and parse the PCF

Re: MQ issues with dead letter queue

2004-07-02 Thread David Awerbuch
Frank, Prasath, I did a search on www.ibm.com for the phrase MQFB_APPL_CANNOT_BE_STARTED. The first result returned is for the APAR reporting this problem. There are a number of PTF cover letters that include the fix for this APAR, depending on the platform you are on. If you have a PMR open

can a message multi-hop using remote queues?

2004-06-17 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I am looking at a queue configuration that requires remote queue RQA on QMA to point to remote queue RQB on QMB that in turn points to local queue LQC on QMC. Has anyone done this sort of thing before, does it work as I expect it would? Will the message automatically hop from QMA to QMC?

Re: can a message multi-hop using remote queues?

2004-06-17 Thread David Awerbuch
using remote queues? Sounds like the DTC interface with a DMZ inbetween!! From: David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: MQSeries List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can a message multi-hop using remote queues? Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:08:48 -0700 Hello, I am looking

Gateway systems and the DMZ

2004-06-17 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello everyone, I am rearchitecting the WMQ infrastructure here at Calyon (nee Credit Lyonnais). The plan is to setup individual WMQ clusters for each major business unit within the Bank. Each cluster would have a designated gateway system that would connect to the gateway systems in the other

Re: Using runmqsc under cron control

2004-05-21 Thread David Awerbuch
Mike, Or, you might even be getting a 2035 (NOT_AUTHORIZED) if the cron execution is not being run as a user who has the proper MQ authorizations. Dave A. - original message - Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:19:39 -0400 From: Robert Broderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Listeners

2004-05-19 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello Gunilla, Based on my experience at one client, the difference between choosing to use inetd vs. listener is hwo has what level of control. In order to make any changes to the inetd configuration, you must enroll the assistance of a Unix administrator with root priveleges, to change the

Re: How to be sure that a message is received

2004-05-14 Thread David Awerbuch
You're looking at using Confirmation of Delivery (COD) reporting option. Refer to the Application Programmers Guide and Reference for complete information. Dave A. -Original Message- From: Nguyen DT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tracking question

2004-05-03 Thread David Awerbuch
Hi Hossam, Well, I hate to say it, but it sounds like you are going to need to write some custom code. Possibilities: 1) Modify the requesting appliction to MQGET WaitInterval=30; if ReasonCode == NO_MSG_AVAILABLE, then popup a window for the user, and wait again; don't forget to handle these

Re: Message Tracking

2004-04-29 Thread David Awerbuch
Roger, Perhaps as the Messaging Architect you can request that they first develop a messaging API that must be used by all developers. This API, based on the values of environment variables, would be able to log anything and/or everything you might want it to at a particular time. Not only

Re: can not connect to queue manager

2004-04-26 Thread David Awerbuch
Roger Lacroix wrote: Did you issue the 'refresh security' from runmqsc (or whatever it is called for OpenVMS). Note: For earlier releases of MQ for Unix, you had to bounce to queue manager to pick up new security setting. (Strange but true.) Roger, there were no security setting changes made

Fwd: Re: can not connect to queue manager

2004-04-26 Thread David Awerbuch
An update. I disabled the OAM as Ken suggested, and that has solved the problem, so I now know it is security related. So this still begs the question: how on VMS do I find out what the security violation is? Thanks, Dave A. --- David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004

can not connect to queue manager

2004-04-22 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, I am running MQS 5.10 (ECO02) on OpenVMS V7.3-2 for Alpha. I have a userid that should be able to connect to the queue manager: 1. userid (UAF) is granted privelege MQM 2. the command 'dspmqaut -m qm -p userid -t qmgr' returns: inq set connect altusr

mqseries pick-up lines

2004-04-19 Thread David Awerbuch
Hey all, I remember reading or receiving a collection of MQSeries pickup lines or ice breakers. Does anyone have a reference to it? Thanks, Dave A. = David A. Awerbuch, IBM Certified MQSeries Specialist APC Consulting Services, Inc. Providing Automated Solutions to Business Challenges

Fwd: re: MQ down on OpenVms

2004-03-25 Thread David Awerbuch
Gunilla, Check the disk quotas you have for the MQ directories you are using. Ensure the quotas are large enough. Also check the sysgen parameters that are changed during the MQ install. The recommended values from IBM are not to be used as specified, but must be added to already existing

Re: Locking down MQ files/registry on Windows

2004-03-10 Thread David Awerbuch
Gary, There is an article at http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/190/ that describes how to restrict access to the entire registry for a user. Another article at http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/113/ tells you how to restrict a user from running particular programs; the

controlling queue manager - OpenVMS command file

2004-02-20 Thread David Awerbuch
This is the OpenVMS version MQ_CONTROL.COM I have left behind 2 sample channels (from.to.chl1 and from.to.chl2) which use 2 transmission queue2 (from.to.xmit1 and from.to.xmit2) See the usage section for the correct usage syntax. Please note that this command does not assume any default queue

controlling queue manager - Solaris/unix shell script

2004-02-20 Thread David Awerbuch
This is the Solaris/Unix version mq_control.sh I have left behind 2 sample channels (from.to.chl1 and from.to.chl2) which use 2 transmission queue2 (from.to.xmit1 and from.to.xmit2) See the usage section for the correct usage syntax. Please note that this command does not assume any default

controlling queue manager - Windows batch file

2004-02-20 Thread David Awerbuch
This is the Windows batch file mq_control.bat I have left behind 2 sample channels (from.to.chl1 and from.to.chl2) which use 2 transmission queue2 (from.to.xmit1 and from.to.xmit2) This version is a little lite compared to the other two, but can easily be brought up to snuff by adding the

Re: messages jumps from localq to dlq

2004-02-13 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, Philip, No, I am not using MQSI. The receiving application is Swift Alliance. Peter, regarding another appl, this is the tool I am using on a regular basis, and just gave up last night and went home after reporting the secondary results. HOWEVER . this is what I've learned in

Re: mesage jumps from localq to dlq

2004-02-13 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, ((( I sent this message this morning, yet it looks like it never got around to anyone, so here it is again best as I remember what I wrote ))) I got in early this morning and attacked the problem again. Here's is what I discovered. The Swift Alliance application grabbed the message

Re: Process /sys$system/runmqchl terminated with status 20

2004-02-05 Thread David Awerbuch
terminated with status 20 Error 20 on a VMS system is BADPARM, bad parameter value. -Original Message- From: David Awerbuch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Process /sys$system/runmqchl terminated with status 20 Hello, I am

Process /sys$system/runmqchl terminated with status 20

2004-02-04 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I am logged on as user MQADMIN, with MQM rights, on an Alpha/OpenVMS 7.3 system running WMQ 5.1.0, ECO02. I am receiving the following operator message about every minute, with occasionally gaps of from 5 to 25 minutes. Reply received on ATP023 from user MQADMIN at ATP023 Batch

Re: Enabling large queues

2004-01-29 Thread David Awerbuch
Mark, It has been a true educational experience reading and learning from your contributions to the listserv (all 1 of them, including this last one, according to the archives I searched). I am sure some of us will be saddened by your departure, others relieved, most of us will probably just say

Re: Any change management tools out their for WMQ objects

2004-01-21 Thread David Awerbuch
Rao, I think I mentioned this already. You should look at both MQSoftware's QPasa, and Nastel's Autopilot/MQ. I believe both of these packages offer the ability to clone a WMQ configuration, then make changes separately. Dave A. -Original Message- From: Adiraju, Rao [mailto:[EMAIL

Win2K Server, WMQ 5.2 CSD01 - can't trigger xmitq

2004-01-20 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I am at a client site, trying to get a production system working. If anyone can help me, please feel free to call me at NY (516)-770-6993. I am trying to get a channel started via trigger. I have tried both of the following two configs, neither of which is working. The channel

channel does not start - problem solved

2004-01-20 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, Thanks to one of you - please identify yourself, I did not get your name properly - I have my problem solved. It seems the channel must manualy started, and then allowed to timeout, before it can be trigger started. I had started my channel manually to test the connection, then

Re: Channel exits

2004-01-15 Thread David Awerbuch
!! bobbee From: David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: MQSeries List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Channel Exits Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:44:08 -0800 Roger, Wow, you are really prescient. I didn't know that about the double

MQ Integrator on z/OS - monitoring tools

2004-01-15 Thread David Awerbuch
Pete, Along with bobbee's recommendation of QPasa, I would also look at Nastel's Autopilot with MQControl (I can hook you up with one of their reps as well). One of my clients has narrowed the selection down to these two vendors (Nastel and MQSoftware) for their MQ monitoring and administration,

Re: Channel Exits

2004-01-14 Thread David Awerbuch
Roger, Wow, you are really prescient. I didn't know that about the double-asterisk. Thank you answering the question I haven't gotten around to asking yet and solving the problem that has been bugging me for a few days. Regards, Dave A. -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- David Awerbuch IBM

display / remove all authorizations

2004-01-06 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, I have a Solaris userid that should have belonged to the mqm group, but wasn't added that way. In order to at least begin testing, I used setmqaut tro authorize the userid with [[-t qmgr +all +alladm +allmqi]] as well as a number of [[-t q +allmqi -n queue.name]] for those queues it

Re: visio templates

2003-12-17 Thread David Awerbuch
Thanks to all who sent me their templates or MD04 itself. = David A. Awerbuch, IBM Certified MQSeries Specialist APC Consulting Services, Inc. Providing Automated Solutions to Business Challenges West Hempstead, NY(516) 481-6440 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do

Re: Sender Channel can not re establish connection after an abnormal

2003-11-13 Thread David Awerbuch
Bill, How to you know what the '73' error code means? I have been after my VMS support team for months to get me the list of TCP return codes for our UCX implementation, and they have come up with nothing. Are these codes standard across implementations, or are they implementation or platform

MQSeries 5.3 for NT with Win2K

2003-11-12 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, A client is upgrading its WinNT servers to Win2K. We plan to install MQS 5.3 for NT on these servers. 1. Is there a special version of MQS 5.3 for Win2K, or is the NY version sufficient? 2. Has anyone encountered any difficulties or concerns with 5.3 NT under Win2K? Thanks, Dave A.

Re: mqseries support

2003-10-20 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello Francis, Yes, MQS V2.2 is still supported under HP OPENVMS 6.2, and will be until 31-Dec-2004 (as listed on http://www-3.ibm.com/software/integration/mqfamily/support/summary/dig.html) Regards, David Awerbuch IBM Certified MQSeries Specialist PS. Remember me? I was working with Henry

Re: MQSERIES Digest - 11 Sep 2003 to 12 Sep 2003 (#2003-259)

2003-09-15 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I am a registered member of mqseries.net, and peruse that site on a reasonably regular basis, for the reasons T. Rob cited: searchable, and a large audience. While the site provides the ability to view all new messages, the relatively slow response time makes it difficult to view these

Re: MQSERIES Digest - 10 Sep 2003 to 11 Sep 2003 (#2003-258)

2003-09-11 Thread David Awerbuch
An update. Please correct me if anyone has a different experience. 1. www.infochain.be This site is still there, and so is the archive, but it appears that the archive ended during March or April 1999; I can not find any messages beyond that point. 2.

Re: archives of the listserver

2003-09-11 Thread David Awerbuch
An update. Please correct me if anyone has a different experience. 1. www.infochain.be This site is still there, and so is the archive, but it appears that the archive ended during March or April 1999; I can not find any messages beyond that point. 2.

Re: Hostnames or IP addresses for channel connection names

2003-09-10 Thread David Awerbuch
Hey all, I use DNS names for a number of what I feel are great reasons. 1. IP addresses change, but DNS names tend not to. I don't use the host name (VAXX), though, I always use a DNS name like APPL.domain.com. Reason? See #4 below. 2. Every host has a DNS entry setup that points to it, in

I can get more information after TCP/IP error is logged?

2003-08-10 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello all, We have a DEC - no, that's a Compaq - no, that's an HP - VAX/VMS system, with DEC's - I mean Compaq's - I mean HP's - UCX IP stack. IBM's MQSeries is reporting: 08/04/03 03:10:05 AMQ9208: Error on receive from host '170.132.235.68'. EXPLANATION: An error occurred receiving data

Re: MQ Process List - New Version 1.3

2003-07-30 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, Does anyone know what the program AMQMSRVN.EXE does on Webspehere MQ for Windows 5.3 CSD01? There is one of them running on my system right now. Thanks, Dave A. = David A. Awerbuch, IBM Certified MQSeries Specialist APC Consulting Services, Inc. Providing Automated Solutions to

Re: Setting up message descriptor

2003-07-23 Thread David Awerbuch
Rommel, Sounds to me like you want to allocate and setup an MD that contains all the options you need. This can be done uses staticly defined constants in your code, or by mallocing storage and fillng it in. Then, when you are ready to MQPUT a message, you can simply make a copy of the MD and

Re: Problem with very very long messages in Production!!!

2003-07-17 Thread David Awerbuch
Ruzi, I ran into this at one client also. Here's what I convinced the client to do: 1. Vendor1's application was to supply end-of-day summary data (very large summary, about 5MB of data) to another application. The vendor was told that such large messages were unacceptable, especially since

Re: Where are security violations logged on VAX/VMS?

2003-07-08 Thread David Awerbuch
All, I need to correct a mistatement in a previous message on this thread. I indicated there was a problem with Paul Clarke's MQMONNTP program (supportpac mo71) not being able to connect to a VAX or Alpha system. Through further discussion with him, and some assist from other list members, we

Where are security violations logged on VAX/VMS?

2003-07-03 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, IBM in its infinite wisdom has removed the references to the VMS documentation for MQSeries in the support section, even though the product is still supported, but I still need to know ... I am attempting a client connection to a VAX/VMS MQS QM (Rel 2.2.1). I have already changed the

Re: Where are security violations logged on VAX/VMS?

2003-07-03 Thread David Awerbuch
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: MQSeries List [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/2003 11:58 AM Please respond to MQSeries List To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Where are security violations logged on VAX/VMS? Hello

Re: message appears stuck on queue

2003-06-25 Thread David Awerbuch
. Contacting the OFAC people they said they processed the messages on the queue through the OFAC control center. Simular other messages came and went Like I said. it has been a while. Just a thought... bobbee From: David

message appears stuck on queue

2003-06-24 Thread David Awerbuch
We have implemented the MQSeries interface for Montran/GPS on our Alpha/VMS system (VMS 6.2-1H3) to facilitate OFAC processing. There is a message on the response queue that, according to the GPS application log, has been processed and should not be there, yet it still is (since 8AM today). In

Re: NetUserGetLocalGroups rc=1722 on NT4 SP3

2003-04-03 Thread David Awerbuch
Message - From: David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: NetUserGetLocalGroups rc=1722 on NT4 SP3 Hello all, Curious thing here. Every 10 seconds, I am getting this set of messages in my amqerr01.log file. I just

Re: Puttime

2003-03-27 Thread David Awerbuch
Please remember that the time is stored as a GMT value. So the time value displayed by different utilities (such MQExplorer) may change as the message is moved around from node to node, or fetched by different nodes. Dave Awerbuch Date:Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:01:09 -0500 From:[EMAIL

Re: Segmentation on OpenVMS

2003-01-20 Thread David Awerbuch
to implement, but you must be sure to properly account for message recoverability and application restartability in your design. Good luck, let us know what you wind up doing. David Awerbuch __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable

Re: HELP : Getting particular messages

2003-01-16 Thread David Awerbuch
Murugesan, Just from the code snippet you included, I can tell you immediately what the problem is. Your memcpy() operation memcpy(md.CorrelId, COR1, sizeof(md.CorrelId)); is copying more data than the 4 bytes of the correlation ID you specified. The sizeof() operator is telling

Re: Segmentation on OpenVMS

2003-01-15 Thread David Awerbuch
that includes the segment number and type in the ID. Best, David Awerbuch IBM Certified MQSeries Specialist Date:Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:01:23 -0500 From:Joshi, A (Anant) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Segmentation on OpenVMS Hi, Can anyone please tell me MQSeries Client on OpenVMS

Re: MQexam questions

2002-11-15 Thread David Awerbuch
I have to concur with bobbee about the affect of the certificates on my finding work. I landed my first MQSeries consulting assignment without having any MQS experience; the hiring manager looked at my 20 years of cross-platform experience with messaging and store-and-forward development, and

Re: How long did my MQGEt wait?

2002-08-30 Thread David Awerbuch
Peter, The easiest way that I see would be to construct a small MQ message containg: - program name - task id - mqget start time - mqget completion time - message id / correl id (whatever) and put this to a queue, let's call it mqget_stats (non-persistent messages, little impact to performance).

Re: Using MQ in synchronous way.

2002-08-29 Thread David Awerbuch
on the RESPONSE_QUEUE. David Awerbuch Date:Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:59:39 -0300 From:Pablo Javier Carreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using MQ in synchronous way. Hi all, Whe are testing an application on CICS TS for OS/390 that uses MQSeries in a synchrnous way and I'd like to know the following

Re: PCF commands FROM OS/390 to Win2K

2002-07-12 Thread David Awerbuch
response. Keep that in mind as your parse responses. I don't recall the exact situation, but I believe the code in MS02 handles it properly. That's all I can do for you. Hope this helps. David Awerbuch APC Consulting Services, Inc. West Hempstead, NY (516) 481-6440 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: QMGR names when using MQSI

2002-06-25 Thread David Awerbuch
My two cents worth in this discussion, If I may. I am a string proponent of using different queue manager names for production and test systems. This provides you with absolute protection from inadvertently sending test data into your production system. Case in point: A client once brought in

Re: vms process for amqzlaa0.exe over-paging

2002-06-14 Thread David Awerbuch
then the agent will read the message directly into shared memory from where it can be copied to the application process. Andy. David Awerbuch [EMAIL PROTECTED]@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT on 06/13/2002 10:05:26 PM Please respond to MQSeries List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:MQSeries List [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A listener per a Qmgr?

2002-06-14 Thread David Awerbuch
Ingi, You need to allocate a different port for each queue manager you wish to connect to from another queue manager. Each individual port requires its own listener be defined. this is generally done by defining an IP service for the port. Each service must listen to a different port than any

vms process for amqzlaa0.exe over-paging

2002-06-13 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I have a simple MQ installation here, on a VAX 7000-650. I have an application that is submitting 1000 byte messages, one at a tine, persistent, CMIT after each one. I noticed that while my application is running, an agent process running AMQZLAA0.EXE is regularly soft-paging about 450

mqexplorer documentation

2002-06-10 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, I hope I am not asking this question redundantly; I could not locate a previous reference in the archives. Is there any printable documentation for MQExplorer? I need to supply printed docs to the operations group, that they can add to their binder. I looked on my installation dirs

Re: Retrieve Channel Status on AS/400

2002-06-03 Thread David Awerbuch
Giuseppe, I don't know anything about AS/400, but I do have Solaris experience. In any event, regardless of platform, I would not recommend looking at the MQSeries controlled files, since these files are subject to change at IBM's whim, either at a new release, version, or even PTF. For

sample RPG code for MQ

2002-05-30 Thread David Awerbuch
Hello, My client is looking at enhancements to a vendor package that will use MQSeries on the AS/400. The vendors package allow calls to C, COBOL, and RPG, which happen to be the three languages supported by MQ on that platform. There are RPG programmers in house, and while they are able to