Re: Probably a basic MQ question

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Richardson
We've seen this before. It means that MQ thinks there is something it needs to keep track of from that date. It could be a dead or orphaned message. Try re-cycling (stop/start) the queue manager to free up the datasets, and then manually delete the datasets (if MQ hasn't). If the re-cycle

Probably a basic MQ question

2008-10-20 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi list, I know very little about MQSeries except that I'm having a problem with it and I don't know enough about it to even know where to look next. We are running MQ 5.3.1 on z/OS 1.7. According to a DISPLAY ARCHIVE command, I have the ARCRETN period set to 5 days. We discovered that for