Re: DefaultQBufferSize and DefaultQFileSize

2004-11-16 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Lawrence. They are valid for 5.3. They are independent. They work. Check the Performance Evaluation Report support pack for details on tuning, get the correct one for your OS. eg MP78 for Windows. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/support/supportpacs/product.html Matt. -Origina

VMS MQClient Channel tab location and name configuration

2004-10-05 Thread Gurney, Matthew
When resolving the location of the mq client channel tab file on a VMS host, which environment variables are relevant? The Clients manual states: MQCHLTAB - This specifies the name of the file containing the client channel definition table. On VM/ESA: GLOBALV SELECT CENV SETLP MQ

Re: Connecting to more than one queue managers on solaris, linux

2004-09-01 Thread Gurney, Matthew
What would the performance difference of using MQClient connections to connect to a local Queue manager on the same Unix host, compared to using a local bindings direct connection to the local Queue manager. I understand that for Pavel's situation, this be be irrelevant, but I am concerned with th

Re: MaxChannels - How high can you go?

2004-08-10 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Peter, I believe the main limiting factor is memory and cpu. There is an example in the MQ5.3 Windows 2000 Performance Report of 11,500 Client channels, see page 30. Be careful to check the fine print though, IBM have a habit of quoting performance figures for trusted connections, which while pr

Re: Resolved: Windows 2000 Server and CSD07 problem

2004-06-23 Thread Gurney, Matthew
I had the same problem, MQPINUSEOK didn't work, using a Sysinternals tool I determined that I need to stop 2 services that had files locked: Windows Management Instrumentation and SNMP Service, this resolved the issue for me. Matt. -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: message file not found on NT

2004-06-16 Thread Gurney, Matthew
I had this problem recently and I found this solution on www.mqseries.net: Check that the registry key At 5.2: "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application\MQSeries" At 5.3: "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application\WebSphere MQ" This key can be found under HKEY_LOCAL_MACH

Re: Problems building MQSeries Perl module on W2K

2004-05-20 Thread Gurney, Matthew
e rest of the stuff seems to work. tonyB. > -Original Message- > From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gurney, Matthew > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 10:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problems building MQSeries Perl module on W2K > >

Problems building MQSeries Perl module on W2K

2004-05-17 Thread Gurney, Matthew
I am having some problems installing the MQSeries Perl Module on W2K. Perl V5.6.0 seems to be working ok, the samples work. I can't build the mqseries perl module. The instructions state: 1) perl Makefile.PL 2) make 3) make test 4) make install When I do step 1, I get, the following, does this me

Limitations of custom cluster work load exits

2004-05-05 Thread Gurney, Matthew
I have a requirement to develop a custom cluster work load exit that utilises some form of feedback mechanism to determine which copy of the cluster queue to distribute messages to. The algorithm could use something as simple as the depth of the individual copies of the cluster queue as in indicat

How many concurrent client channel connections do you run to a si ngle queue manger?

2004-03-25 Thread Gurney, Matthew
We have an application where 100 applications each running on their own W2K server have a client connection to the same single queue manager and all 100 applications are in a get-wait state on the same queue. The queue manager is hosted on W2K and is currently 5.2 we have a requirement to increase

When will 64 bit MQSeries be available?

2004-03-24 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Currently on 64 bit operating systems eg Solaris 8, MQSeries 5.3 runs in 32 bit mode. I am under the impression that the next version of MQSeries for 64 bit operating systems will be a 64 bit application. Does anyone have any idea of when this will be available and what it might be called? Matt.

Re: Copying MQ binaries

2004-03-16 Thread Gurney, Matthew
MQ uses message catalogue files to render internal message codes into human readable format. If you have not copied the message catalogue files and/or your environment profile does not define their location MQ will be "unable to display an error message". The error message could well have been a

Re: create listener service via script

2004-02-18 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Have a look at "amqmdain crtlsr QMgrName LsrParams" : http://middleware.its.state.nc.us/middleware/Documentation/en_US/htm/amqzag03/amqzag033t.htm#IDX4069 -Original Message- From: Fichtner Enrico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2004 09:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT: cre

Re: Performance observations and questions

2004-02-16 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Enrico, IBM provides performance information and tuning recommendations in the support pacs, this information is not in the manuals. I would recommend you review: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/support/supportpacs/product.html MP6J MP78 In regard to your performance test, I think

Re: SSL certificate administration with gsk6cmd - 7th January fix

2004-01-29 Thread Gurney, Matthew
The 7th January problem where 5.3 CDS5, ships with Signer certificates that expired on 7th January this year. This means that when you try to create the key store, and by default it attempts to load the default CA certificates (verisign etc), it notices they have expired and doesn't allow you to c

Should we use large messages (up to 80MB) or segmented messages?

2004-01-12 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Should we use large messages (up to 80MB) or segmented messages? We have a queue manger running on W2K. Messages are put onto the queue's by applications connecting via client connections and read by applications connecting via client connections. Current message volumes are between 1 to 3 milli

Re: Do go looking for FDCs when "nothing" is wrong?

2004-01-09 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Do go looking for FDCs when "nothing" is wrong? Matt, When you say you monitor for the FDC's, do you have an automatic way to this or just take a peek occasionally? Thanks Bill C. -Original Message- From: Gurney, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January

Re: Do go looking for FDCs when "nothing" is wrong?

2004-01-09 Thread Gurney, Matthew
I tend to agree. I take all FDC's very seriously. We monitor for them. The only one's that I tend to ignore without contacting IBM are those where an application connected locally to the queue manager has crashed (due to non mq related problems), these can be determined by the process name in th

Re: HP-UX MQ V53 installation problem ...

2003-11-06 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Normally the reasons why a Queue manager will not start on a new installation are: 1) File Permissions on MQ directories/files 2) Kernel Parameters 3) mqm id / group not defined correctly 4) Mandatory OS patches not installed Turn on early tracing before starting the qmgr again and you should get

Re: Linear Logging Performance Tuning - Unix

2003-11-05 Thread Gurney, Matthew
-Original Message- From: Gurney, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linear Logging Performance Tuning - Unix > MQ 5.2 CSD7 > Solaris 5.8 > > I am trying to understand more about the parameters for linear

Linear Logging Performance Tuning - Unix

2003-11-04 Thread Gurney, Matthew
> MQ 5.2 CSD7 > Solaris 5.8 > > I am trying to understand more about the parameters for linear logging, and what affects they have on Queue Manager performance. > > If you wanted to maximise Queue manager performance, what logging parameters would you choose in a situation where you have the follow

Linear Logging Performance Tuning

2003-10-30 Thread Gurney, Matthew
MQ 5.2 CSD7 Solaris 5.8 I am trying to understand more about the parameters for linear logging, and what affects they have on Queue Manager performance. If you wanted to maximise Queue manager performance, what logging parameters would you choose in a situation where you have the following criter

Monitoring Queue Manager through put

2003-10-23 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Solaris 2.8 MQSeries 5.2 CSD7 Nastel Explorer V3.6 I am interested in monitoring the number of messages that have been processed through our qmgrs. I am not interested in the current depth of the queue's I am after the HighQDepth, MsgEnqCount, MsgDeqCount . I am considering writing a perl progra

IPCS Message Queues on Solaris, Queue manager hangs

2003-10-22 Thread Gurney, Matthew
We are running Solaris 5.8 , MQSeries 5.2 CSD7. We have been having some problems with our Queue managers hanging without generating any FDC's or errors in the MQ logs or unix sys log. A suggestion has been made that we need to increase the Kernel parameters MSGTQL and MSGMNB. We already increas

Solaris Kernel Settings - MSGMNB

2003-10-13 Thread Gurney, Matthew
MQ 5.2 CSD 7 Solaris 5.8 We have been having some performance problems on one of our heavily loaded servers lately, that eventually degrade to the point of being unresponsive. There has been a suggestion to increase the Kernel parameter MSGMNB from our current default value of 4096 to 65535. Has

Re: AMQ7469 Transactions rolled back to release log space

2003-10-02 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Have you looked at the queue manager attribute Max Uncommitted Msgs? -Original Message- From: Fleck, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 08:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AMQ7469 Transactions rolled back to release log space Hi list members, I'm relatively new in

Risks of implementing Single Write Integrity

2003-09-24 Thread Gurney, Matthew
RE: Risks of implementing Single Write Integrity > Solaris 5.8 > MQ 5.2 CSD7 > > We are having some performance issues on our Queue managers lately and I was considering moving from Triple to Single Write Integrity. All disks are on an EMC SAN so I assume this is exactly the sort of situation th

Risks of implementing Single Write Integrity

2003-09-22 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Risks of implementing Single Write Integrity Solaris 5.8 MQ 5.2 CSD7 We are having some performance issues on our Queue managers lately and I was considering moving from Triple to Single Write Integrity. All disks are on an EMC SAN so I assume this is exactly the sort of situation that the Sing

Re: Security with Server Connection channels

2003-09-10 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Just as a matter of interest. Does anyone know of any actual, real world, deliberate, sophisticated, malicious, penetration of an MQSeries installation, and if so, what was the consequence? Matt. -Original Message- From: Pavel Tolkachev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2003 1

Solaris ksh Queue Manager Start-up Script

2003-07-24 Thread Gurney, Matthew
Would anybody like to share their Solaris ksh/sh RC script that automatically start's all Queue managers on a server at system start-up time. If so, please forward to myself or the list. Thanks, Matt Gurney. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and privat