Re: Renting / buying Mainframe time (OS/390 or z/OS)

2004-11-01 Thread Scott Gray
www.t3t.com Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Lacroix Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Renting / buying Mainframe time (OS/390 or z/OS) Thanks. Do you have a link or company name? Emulati

Re: Non-responsive qgmr

2004-10-20 Thread Scott Gray
We get something like this fairly regularly on hp when processes are performing operations against local queues with high depth (> 2000 msgs). We get FDC files showing long semaphore lock waits. If we wait long enough, it eventually resolves itself. Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeri

Re: Clustering w/ Message Affinity

2004-10-05 Thread Scott Gray
Title: Message If you combine binary and text data in a single message you may have to write your own data conversion exit if you plan to cross platforms.  Scott -Original Message-From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim ArmstrongSent: Tuesday, Octobe

Re: Disappearing cluster queues

2004-09-21 Thread Scott Gray
- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Gray Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disappearing cluster queues Refer to T Robs note that quotes the manuals as saying this is a requirement. I wouldn't think it would have to

Re: Disappearing cluster queues

2004-09-21 Thread Scott Gray
PL'd we have to issue the refresh command or we begin to get the dreaded 2085 return code. Maybe it is as simple as including the refresh in a command string at startup. I don't know, just a thought. Alan -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: Disappearing cluster queues

2004-09-20 Thread Scott Gray
tonyB. > Original Message > Subject: Re: Disappearing cluster queues > From: "Scott Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, September 20, 2004 6:28 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We had that problem between sun/hp and z/os...we were told to have at >

Re: Disappearing cluster queues

2004-09-20 Thread Scott Gray
We had that problem between sun/hp and z/os...we were told to have at least one static cluster sender between full repository and leaf node. We were relying on dynamic clussdrs from full repos to leaf node. Once we did this, that problem has not reoccured. No explanation for the behavior was prov

Re: AMI and Application Servers

2004-05-04 Thread Scott Gray
Heinz, We had all sorts of problems running AMI under WAS 3.5 ranging from lockups to coredumps...worked with support for weeks but got the run around between the WAS and MQ support teams...we finally gave up and rewrote our app using the base mq java classes. The best answer we got was that the

Re: To many SVRCONN Connections on WebSphere MQ V5.3

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Gray
actually you can...there is a MAXCONN channel exit. Look at: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/integration/support/supportpacs/individual/me7 1.html Source is provided. Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Anderson Sent: Thursday, October 2

Re: Monitoring Queue Manager through put

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Gray
I did exactly as you describe, but in java using the java PCF support pack. It uses client connections, is multithreaded and Ive had it watching as many as 15 queue managers in our performance test environments. It also works with OS/390 using COMMAND messages...The output is comma delimited and

Re: CommerceQuest free tool

2003-10-13 Thread Scott Gray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Randy J Clark Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CommerceQuest free tool When I try to logon to the tool using a shortcut and the run as different user option.

Re: (Fwd) Re: AMQ4757

2003-10-10 Thread Scott Gray
As I recall I had to select "hide" for the MQ icon on the services bar in order to get around this...even after the service was stopped. Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Luc-Michel Demey Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Installing WMQ 5.2 on Solaris 8

2003-10-07 Thread Scott Gray
IC35242 - Error message AMQ5615 occurred when trying to issue CRTMQM commands after installing CSD05. Its fixed in CSD 7. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY33347 Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antony Boggis Sent

Re: MQCIH Data conversion

2003-10-07 Thread Scott Gray
We had the same requirement last year. In our case, our 390 box was running at 100% constantly and we were looking for ways to offload processing. The performance engineer was saying that conversion was a relatively expensive operation. We assumed we could turn conversion on sender off and use M

Re: A program the uses MQSeries Client and Server libraries

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Gray
Jeff, You can find samples that dynamically load the mq libraries at: http://www.developer.ibm.com/tech/sampmq.html It should be fairly simple to modify them to do what you are asking. Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff A Tressler Sent

Re: DLQ reason code = 265

2003-09-24 Thread Scott Gray
cmqc.h: #define MQFB_APPL_CANNOT_BE_STARTED 265L -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Conklin, William Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DLQ reason code = 265 Hi There, I've seen threads discussing the reason

Re: DLQ RC of 281, put there by the Repository Manager

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Gray
cmqc.h: #define MQFB_BIND_OPEN_CLUSRCVR_DEL 281L MQFB_BIND_OPEN_CLUSRCVR_DEL Cluster-receiver channel deleted. The message was on the SYSTEM.CLUSTER.TRANSMIT.QUEUE intended for a cluster queue that had been opened with the MQOO_BIND_ON_OPEN option, but the remote cluster-receiver channel to be use

Re: Sonic MQ Bridge?

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Gray
, September 12, 2003 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sonic MQ Bridge? Thanks, Scott! Had found that one but am doing due diligence to try and find any others that are out there. -Original Message- From: Scott Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:05 AM To

Re: Sonic MQ Bridge?

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Gray
http://www.sonicsoftware.com/sonicmq/documentation/mqseriesbridge.pdf Scott -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wyatt, T. Rob Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sonic MQ Bridge? I just got a call from a client

Re: PBS Show This Friday On Outsourcing

2003-08-29 Thread Scott Gray
This appears in the latest edition of Business 2.0: (its subscription, so Ive included the entire article inline rather than a link): The Coming Job Boom Forget those grim unemployment numbers. Demographic forces are about to put a squeeze on the labor supply that will make it feel like 1999 all o

Re: Questionable MQ infrastructure design

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Gray
We have very similar requirements...We decided on acquiring CommerceQuests DataIntegrator product which gives us single file, full directory level transfer, full PDS transfers, message to file, file to messages, etc...Its also as scalable as your machines will allow and can accomodate as many paral

Re: IBM MQSeries and SonicMQ

2003-07-11 Thread Scott Gray
http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/enterprise_messaging/sonicmq_bridges/i ndex.ssp -Original Message- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sony Varghese Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM MQSeries and SonicMQ RE: MQCONN FAILEDHi,

Re: Interesting Article

2003-07-02 Thread Scott Gray
A colleague passed along what I thought was a pretty funny mini-editorial on the state of IT in the states...Under the heading of "Essential Tools for Survival in the NEW new economy" was: http://www.indianembassy.org/consular/passport.pdf No hate mail please :) Scott -Original Message-

Re: Performance monitoring/matricies

2003-06-17 Thread Scott Gray
We looked at it last year and it was a solid product, but imho unbelievably expensive. MQSoftware now offers a business dashboard capability in their QPasa V3 product that has similar capabilites...We own QPasa now and it's been a struggle since day one, but YMMV. Scott -Original Message-

Re: AMI

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Gray
it isnt on zOS, it is on the others... Scott - Original Message - From: "Stefan Sievert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:59 PM Subject: Re: AMI > Nope > > Stefn > > >From: Robert Broderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: MQSeries

Re: Pos-dup flag

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Gray
what time are we on for?  its convention...   Regards,Scott Gray202 962 0795703 431 1808 - cellsjgray8 - AIM - Original Message - From: Janet Elliot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: Pos-dup flag I recall having used a p

Re: CICS DPL BRIDGE BACK OUT QUESTION?

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Gray
Bob, Now that youve outed yourself as a Hursley DPL bridge expert: Can you explain why an IBM supplied component doesn't implement proper poison message handling? Putting a message to the DLQ when backoutcount < backoutthreshold seems to contradict standard poison message processing. Scott --

Re: CICS Bridge(CKBR) - how to stop CKBR?

2003-01-22 Thread Scott Gray
get(disable) the bridge queue. Scott - Original Message - From: "JoE JK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:38 PM Subject: CICS Bridge(CKBR) - how to stop CKBR? > Hi, > > How to stop the CKBR transaction? Other than issue > 'purge' or 'disable

Re: MAI reason Code

2003-01-09 Thread Scott Gray
Completion code 2 (AMRC_ERROR) together with reason code 110 (AMRC_TRANSPORT_NOT_AVAILABLE) returned by amInitialize or amSesOpen (or the equivalent in COBOL, C++ and Java) normally indicates that the underlying MQSeries queue manager the AMI is attempting to use is not started (or does not exist).

Re: Demultiplexing instead of polling?

2003-01-08 Thread Scott Gray
interested in knowing if the proposed design > meets the Gonzalo's original needs. His programming requirements reflect a > programming style that's used in real-time systems (MQ is not real-time). > > > > > > > Scott Gray >

Re: Demultiplexing instead of polling?

2003-01-07 Thread Scott Gray
sday, January 07, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: Re: Demultiplexing instead of polling? > You could use the high and low depth events to regulate the number of > getting processes... ? > > Sid > > > -----Original Message- > From: Scott Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sen

Re: Demultiplexing instead of polling?

2003-01-07 Thread Scott Gray
The problem with trigger-on-first comes when volume is high and a single process cant keep up with volume or response time requirements.Yes, you can always start multiple instances via a script/wrapper which is triggered but its not sensitive to volume so I dont consider that much of a solution

Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-03 Thread Scott Gray
Open source MOM efforts (as well as other middleware): http://www.jmiddleware.com/opensource_links_page.html - Original Message - From: "Gonzalo Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Newbie questions > > So far the FAQ

Re: Freeware for remote administration on MQ Objects,

2002-12-13 Thread Scott Gray
Does mqje work against os/390 like mo71 does? - Original Message - From: "Brian S. Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Freeware for remote administration on MQ Objects, > Vivek > > MQJExplorer is better than MO71 and

ZAP for increasing number of TCBs for CICS adapter

2002-12-04 Thread Scott Gray
I seem to recall there was a ZAP at mq 2.1 for increasing the number of TCBs used by the CICS adapter from the standard 8, but cant find reference to it anywhere.  If anyone knows anything about it or can point me to something equivalent for mq 5.2 Id greatly appreciate it.   Thanks, Scott

Re: MQSeries CICS Bridge Problem

2002-12-02 Thread Scott Gray
We've had the same problem with the bridge...you can look up our PMR in IBMLINK (48401, 487) and request the same patch IBM just gave us. Scott - Original Message - From: "Miller, Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:34 PM Subject: Re: MQ

Re: Questions re the MQ AMI

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Gray
level 2 never seems to know anything about it.We have rewritten major sections of code and are moving away from AMI not simply because we dont feel we can rely on IBM if there are problems with this interface. Regards, Scott Gray - Original Message - From: "Tony Devitt" <[EM

Re: Dynamic Queue Names

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Gray
You arent crazy...The unique portion of the dynamic queue name was based on date/time...We had processes that (foolishly) depended on it.  When we went to V5.2 (direct from V5) we noticed the change.   Scott - Original Message - From: DiLauro, Nick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clients and Clusters

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Gray
If youre really interested in round-robin for this case you can write a custom workload exit. Both queues will be presented as options to the exit and youre own algorithm can decide which to use. Scott - Original Message - From: "Marc Verhiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: CICS Bridge (CKBR)

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Gray
One gotcha with the MQCIH is that the distributed platforms (at least at v5.2) do not have support for converting them so you will need to do it on your sender channels. Scott - Original Message - From: "Robert Sloper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October

conversion question

2002-08-13 Thread Scott Gray
When receiving messages back from the CICS bridge, the following error is occurring on an hp 11.0 MQ 5.2 server when the receiving application is a client.  When a server app receives the replies, all is well.  Since "MQCICS" is one of the built-in formats, Im not sure what I'm missing here

JMS and fail if quiescing

2002-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Does the IBM JMS MQ implementation honor the use of FAIL_IF_QUIESCING options?   Its doesnt appear as such, but if anyone can confirm this Id appreciate it. Scott

MQSI database access question

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Gray
From what we have been able to determine it appears that the userid and password used when starting MQSI is used for *all* ODBC access from nodes within custom flows.  The userid and password entries in the .odbc.ini appear to be ignored.   This would mean having to propagate the db2 uid/pwd

Pipelining

2002-06-13 Thread Scott Gray
Does anyone know if channel pipelining supported in V5.2 on OS/390?  The OS/390 books don't make any mention of the attribute to turn on/off pipelineing in csq6chip, but the other books say this works with TCP 5.2 channels, with no exclusion for 390.  Thanks, Scott