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72dolfan · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

Hi All,

We currently have an inhouse written MQ 6.0 monitoring application that monitors Mainframe (z/OS) queues only usinf Display commands going across the System.Command.Input.* queue. We are looking to changing our monitor process to use PCF commands to allow us to collect stats on and monitor our Websphere (Windows Distributed) queues as well. Our hope is to continue to run the collector application as a started task (application probably written in Cobol) on one LPAR (maybe a second as back up) that will build and send PCF commands through the local queue manager, and collect the necessary data (Inquire_Q-Status, Inquire_Queue, & Inquire_Usage_Pageset) from the local queue manager, other mainframe queue managers on seven other LPARs, and distributed queue managers on Windows 2003 Servers.

The problem is I have never used PCF Commands. I've been reading through several manuals that discuss this subject and it's not very clear to me at this point.

Is what I'm trying to do actually doable, and if so, is it very complicated? Is there a class that IBM or any other company provides detailed info covers using PCF Commands to collect Queue & Pageset Stats for monitoring purpose (or any CBTs, Classes on CDs, etc....)?

Any info you can provide will be deeply appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill