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Re: v7.5 Infocenter (was: Is it just me?)

T-Rob — 2012-05-23T21:18:35

If you use a language that reads left-to-right then CLUSTERNAME.QMGRNAME 
reflects the from-to relationship and insures no overlapping channels.  It 
does impose a limit that cluster and QMgr names must be <= 9 chars but 
getting rid of the superfluous TO. at least means the limitation is not <= 
8 characters. 

I also want to make sure our QMgr or cluster names do NOT contain dot 
characters as we make these changes.  An underscore is okay.  Reason is 
that if you had a channel APPLE.X.ORANGE it is ambiguous whether it's the 
APPLE.X cluster and the ORANGE QMgr or the APPLE cluster and the X.ORANGE 
QMgr.  A channel name APPLE_X.ORANGE is unambiguous with this rule in 
place. 

Why is the dot significant and not the underscore?  Good question.  This 
is consistent with other names in WMQ where dots are significant, for 
example queue names and wild-card setmqaut profiles.

Re: v7.5 Infocenter (was: Is it just me?)

Potkay, Peter M (CTO and Service Mgmt — 2012-05-23T19:04:17

.." For example, cluster channel names like TO.MYQMGR have got to go!"

In favor of what? TO.MYQMGR.MYCLUSTERNAME is what I've been using without issue with overlapping clusters.

Peter Potkay 


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Subject: v7.5 Infocenter (was: Is it just me?)

I'm happy to report it's working GREAT!  Of course it's internal only right now but rest assured there's a lot of effort in progress to get it ready for release.  I'm participating in a workgroup addressing security issues for the v7.5 Infocenter and you are likely to see these start showing up in the v7.1 and v7.0 Infocenters as well.  We have limited resources and the primary goal is to adapt the v7.1 Infocenter for v7.5 but within that scope we are adding considerable cross-linking of related concepts and topics,

v7.5 Infocenter (was: Is it just me?)

T-Rob — 2012-05-23T18:48:07

I'm happy to report it's working GREAT!  Of course it's internal only 
right now but rest assured there's a lot of effort in progress to get it 
ready for release.  I'm participating in a workgroup addressing security 
issues for the v7.5 Infocenter and you are likely to see these start 
showing up in the v7.1 and v7.0 Infocenters as well.  We have limited 
resources and the primary goal is to adapt the v7.1 Infocenter for v7.5 
but within that scope we are adding considerable cross-linking of related 
concepts and topics, correcting known factual errors, expanding the 
glossary and working on consistency of terminology.

Although it is not security-related, I'm also pushing to update some of 
the best practices as reflected in the manuals.  For example, cluster 
channel names like TO.MYQMGR have got to go!  After 15 years or however 
long its been, I'll be happy to see the last of those PMR-inducing 
atrocities, if in fact I'm successful.   That remains to be seen.

Re: Is it just me?

Roger Lacroix — 2012-05-23T18:39:05

Hello T.Rob,

 > Do you know that Adobe recently proposed (seriously) to only 
include security updates as part of their paid support for things 
like Photoshop,
DreamWeaver and Creative Suite?

Yup.  Its called corporate greed (or just plain stupidity).

I didn't mean to imply that people had to use Adode's Reader, it was 
just an example.  People can use any PDF Reader they wish to use and 
there are lots of them out there. :)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Re: Is it just me?

Jackson, Richard R. — 2012-05-23T18:32:43

I'm wondering  if the PDF vote is really just a vote against Infocenter.  

I just want a lightweight soft copy of each book. 

Rich




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Subject: Re: Is it just me?

I think we have found the topic for this list that best qualifies as troll bait. 

There are good and bad things about a public RFE mechanism.  One detrimental aspect is that user-generated content is subject to power-law distribution.  An early front-runner has a tendency to float to the top for no other reason than that having the most votes attracts more votes. 
I've been monitoring but not voting on RFEs because I want it to reflect customer requirements rather than IBMer opinions and because I don't want to contribute to power-law skewing. 

As it happens, I would love to have the Infocenter available as an e-book but as a security speci

Re: Is it just me?

T-Rob — 2012-05-23T18:18:02

Thanks.  Usually it *is* me (for several reasons I won't go into here) so 
I've been trying for a couple of days by clearing cache and cookies, etc. 
When I convinced myself it was not me and reported it, my friendly tech 
writer was unable to duplicate the problem so naturally I had more doubts. 
 Good news, it seems to be working now though.

Re: Is it just me?

T-Rob — 2012-05-23T18:18:02

I think we have found the topic for this list that best qualifies as troll 
bait. 

There are good and bad things about a public RFE mechanism.  One 
detrimental aspect is that user-generated content is subject to power-law 
distribution.  An early front-runner has a tendency to float to the top 
for no other reason than that having the most votes attracts more votes. 
I've been monitoring but not voting on RFEs because I want it to reflect 
customer requirements rather than IBMer opinions and because I don't want 
to contribute to power-law skewing. 

As it happens, I would love to have the Infocenter available as an e-book 
but as a security specialist, I shudder to think of using PDF format.  Do 
you know that Adobe recently proposed (seriously) to only include security 
updates as part of their paid support for things like Photoshop, 
DreamWeaver and Creative Suite?  They quickly reversed themselves and 
provided free patches but given their track record, the current unresolved 
issues and bad security p

Re: Is it just me?

Hatcher Jeter — 2012-05-23T17:30:40

Hi Roger

I have to agree the Adobe works very well.  Plus they are portable and
printable.  I have voted and I have encourage ALL my customers to VOTE!
If I could vote multiple time I would

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Re: Is it just me?

Roger Lacroix — 2012-05-23T17:10:15

Hello T.Rob,

 > ...or is the WMQ v7.1 Infocenter search function broken for anyone else?

Well, please vote for my RFE to have IBM create WMQ manuals in PDF 
format.  The search feature in Adobe's Reader works very well. :)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=21041

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Re: Is it just me?

Paul S Dennis — 2012-05-23T14:36:51

As MQ 7.5 has not GA'ed yet, I wouldn't expect there to be an Infocenter
available for it yet :-)

Thanks
Paul


Paul Dennis
WebSphere MQ for z/OS Development


... and how about MQ 7.5 Infocenter ??? ;-)

Le 23/05/2012 15:16, T-Rob a écrit :
      ...or is the WMQ v7.1 Infocenter search function broken for anyone
      else? I
      cleared cache and cookies and am getting the same behavior on
      multiple
      browsers on multiple PCs.  Support can't reproduce the problem.
      Symptom
      is that after searching it says it's indexing, gets to 99% and then
      refreshes the page every 2 seconds  in a loop.
      -- T.Rob

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Re: Is it just me?

LM Demey (MQ — 2012-05-23T13:50:40

... and how about MQ 7.5 Infocenter ???  ;-)

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Re: Is it just me?

Norbert Pfister — 2012-05-23T13:30:01

After more than a minute i got results...

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Re: Is it just me?

Norbert Pfister — 2012-05-23T13:28:46

Same behaviour for me.

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Re: Is it just me?

Paul S Dennis — 2012-05-23T13:26:38

Hi T-Rob,

Not just you!! The appropriate people know about the issue, and are working
on it! Hopefully normal service will be restored soon :)

Thanks
Paul


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Is it just me?

T-Rob — 2012-05-23T13:16:45

...or is the WMQ v7.1 Infocenter search function broken for anyone else? I 
cleared cache and cookies and am getting the same behavior on multiple 
browsers on multiple PCs.  Support can't reproduce the problem.  Symptom 
is that after searching it says it's indexing, gets to 99% and then 
refreshes the page every 2 seconds  in a loop.

MA01 Update

Paul Clarke — 2012-05-21T12:24:03

Hi,

For anyone who might be interested this is just to let you know that I 
have updated the version of MA01 on the supportpac website. 

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000647

 This has added one or two new options for things like client reconnect 
etc.

Points to know about it though 

I have not updated the zLinux or z/OS version, there did not seem enough 
of a change to justify me trying to find available machines.
At long last I have built a version on iSeries since quite a few of you 
have asked for it.

Cheers,
P.

Paul G Clarke
WebSphere Messaging Clients
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Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Norbert Pfister — 2012-05-21T07:46:24

Hi Blair,

we just implemented ans analysis for our production schedulers with the
data Lyn mentioned.
But be aware of the huge mass of SMF records.

My colleage formed a nice SAS project out of them. Now they can better find
the causer for a queue filling up.

Regards, Norbert

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Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Blair L Snyder — 2012-05-19T17:34:20

Thanks Lyn for the pointer.. The SMF records I have access to!!!

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Subject: Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Hi Blair,

Here is a snippet of the SMF116 class 3 record for a batch job (printed using MP1B), it may contain what you are looking for:

z/OS:MPX1  MQ QMGR:QML1  Time: 2012069 11:45:18.99  Jobname:TEAM09S1
Userid:TEAM09
           ====> New task record found     <==========                     
       
== Thread type............> BATCH                                          
       
== Connection name........> TEAM09S1                                       
       
== Operator ID............> TEAM

Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Lyn Elkins — 2012-05-19T14:35:27

Hi Blair,

Here is a snippet of the SMF116 class 3 record for a batch job (printed
using MP1B), it may contain what you are looking for:

z/OS:MPX1  MQ QMGR:QML1  Time: 2012069 11:45:18.99  Jobname:TEAM09S1 
Userid:TEAM09
           ====> New task record found     <==========                     
       
== Thread type............> BATCH                                          
       
== Connection name........> TEAM09S1                                       
       
== Operator ID............> TEAM09                                         
       
== User ID................> TEAM09                                         
       
== Channel name...........>                                                
       
== Chl connection.........>                                                
       
== Correlator ID..........>                                                
       
== Correlator ID.....(HEX)> 404040404040404040404040                       
       
== Context token..........>

Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Neil Casey — 2012-05-19T03:55:36

Hi,

I don't believe MQ is going to create a log record as such, but MQ does
(depending on configuration) cut SMF records for statistics (type 115) and
accounting (type 116).

SMF accounting (type 116) data should contain at least most of the
information you are looking for.

You can find details of the accounting records in the MQ manuals, at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.mq.doc/zs11950_.htm

As an example, the Common WebSphere MQ SMF Header includes userid,
connection name and connection type information.
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.mq.doc/zs12000_.htm)

Unfortunately, it is not clear from this section of the manual whether the
data includes the job name, and I don't have access to a system to try it
out on a weekend.

Regards,

Neil Casey.






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Re: MQ Archive Log and z/OS Batch Question

Bob Juch — 2012-05-19T01:34:56

Blair,

The MQ logs that may be archived do not record anything about connections.

The queue manager can produce events, accounting, and statistics
messages but as far as I know there's nothing for batch adapter
connections.

There are many top MQ experts on this list but you'll probably not get
a response from any of them until Monday.

Bob Juch
Juch Services LLC


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