I have been working on MQ installation in last couple of weeks. Now I need to automate MQ 7.5 installation using chef or powershell scripts. MQ installation for unix I got this URL https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-chef through chef. For windows I am not sure how to automate ? Please guide me or send me any articles to do that. Thanks advance!
We encounted an error wherein the Oracle support said we need to restart the IBM Websphere MQ in SHARED mode, but I cannot find a documentation on how to do it. I consulted some MQ teams and they are also puzzled with the requested option. Can I have some link on how to do it? The Oracle KnowledgeBase article follows:
Symptoms You have successfully configured the MQ adapter, but upon use you receive an com.ibm.mq.MQException error in the logs
Cause The IBM MQ error is suggesting that the MQ has been started in exclusive mode, and that an earlier process already has a lock on the MQ
Caused by: com.ibm.mq.MQException: MQJE001: An MQException occurred: Completion Code 2, Reason 2009 MQJE016: MQ queue manager closed channel immediately during connect Closure reason = 2009
This is an IBM error indicating an EXCLUSIVE mode MQ Solution Start the MQ in SHARED mode, or verify that no other process has already connected to the MQ when started in Exclusive mode.
Thank you.
We've got several processes that move files across servers - SFTP, FTP, SCP; Windows, Linux, AIX; there is a workflow component (usually require a control file with filenames and hash values to move a batch of related files). The action is often initiated on our servers to get the files, so we need to make sure they're done being written.
We have some homegrown scripts to do this, but they don't always work properly, and troubleshooting, maintenance, and log review is not easy this way. There's a lot of servers, and our scripts don't have central logging or a dashboard/console/etc.
We're looking into commercial products to do this. Has anyone used MQ File Transfer Edition? Another team in our company is using Aspera, does anyone have any thoughts on that, or other favored products?
I have no idea what our budget is for this, yet. Just trying to get a handle on the product space from the perspective of other admins.
/edit - In my situation, we're moving 2-file payloads (one binary, one metadata) of scanned images from different sources to different destinations. We wait until a 3rd control file is written with the checksums - when the move is complete, the control file is deleted.
The sources are primarily a handful of Windows file servers, or Windows SFTP servers, that receive these files from scanning processes. We also have sources that are FTP or SFTP servers that receive the same payloads from external parties. The destination is a set of AIX servers that ingest the images into an archive, so the files don't remain in the destination either. Robustness is definitely our major concern.
We move a few GB every day, I guess. (Without centralized logging, I can't give a better number.) The binary files probably average around 100 MB, the metadata quite a bit smaller.
Are there any alternatives to IBM Websphere MQ Server for Windows? We need to access a remote Queue Manager that doesn't support client connections (only Queue Manager to Queue Manager).
I've noticed that there are some BizTalk Host Integration adapters but they only seem to behave as clients (one transactional, the other non-transactional).
The IBM RedBook instructions didn't help.
I need to give a script a queue manager and a queue/topic name, and have it return the number of messages queued up.