MQ is not my choice. I would have preferred an open source. I would have
installed Stem from Stem Systems (http://www.stemsystems.com/) which is
an excellent MOM written in Perl which supports many protocols and can be
easily extended.
But MQ is imposed on us by an external entity (US Govt!) :-(
David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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12/23/2003 09:30 AM
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Subject: Re: Os/390 (no MQ) to Linux LPAR (MQ) anyone?
As far as I know, no one has written a open-source MQ clone. Would be
handy, but it's a LOT of work. The big gotcha is the interfaces to the
z/OS
apps.
As an alternative, you may want to look at using the Globus 3 toolkit and
building your apps as web/grid services. A lot of the functionality is
similar to that provided by MQ (although the interfaces are TOTALLY
different), but you'd be a few steps further in integration with future
services. Globus 3 is open-source and freely available (www.globus.org).
Ximian (now Novell) Mono (the open-source .NET re-implementation) would be
another option, and it is known to work tolerably well on USS, although
I've
never used it there. Neale Ferguson has done a good port of Mono to
Linux/390, and pointers are available from linuxvm.org.
Either option would allow you to eventually eliminate MQ entirely, in
favor
of more mainstream methods for remote transaction access. For now, either
would allow you to write a small MQ queue to web services bridge
application
on the Linux side, and do the transactions over to the z/OS side via web
services.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Ranga Nathan
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Os/390 (no MQ) to Linux LPAR (MQ) anyone?
>
> How can we get them to talk to MQ without
> having to buy an
> MQ for OS/390 as well (BTW that is expensive!). On the Linux
> side, I can
> use the Perl module for MQ to create an agent/adaptor to
> interface with
> MQ. If there is a client on OS/390 (I understand that MQ client is not
> available on OS/390) we could use it or we could roll something that
> connects to a perl script via socks to send / receive data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
