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| ydsk |
 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: rfhutilC to access a qmgr on mainframe ?? |
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Can someone pls tell me if we can use RFHUtilC on a windows desktop to access a qmgr and its objects residing on a mainframe ??
thanks.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| Providing your mainframe QM accepts client connections then yes. I use it all the time for this. You will need RACF access of course. |
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| ydsk |
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: |
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zpat, thanks for the quick response.
Any gotchas or special setup required for z/OS ? I mean, do we need to do anything different here apart from RACF stuff ?
thnx.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Not really. It can work using the client channel table or by specifying the connection info in the GUI. It won't load a list of queue names from a z/OS queue manager, but you can just enter the one you want to access.
I sometimes start with a z/OS message (eg in EBCDIC), save it to a file using RFHUTILC and then upload it again from that file. This avoids codepage issues that can result if you start the process from an ASCII file created using a PC.
But providing your applications perform MQGET with CONVERT and you make sure all messages have MQSTR in the MQMD.Format then all is well. Just make sure the MQMD.CCSID matches the data in the message. |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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It probably would load a list of queues from a v6 zOS queue manager.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Any gotchas or special setup required for z/OS ? I mean, do we need to do anything different here apart from RACF stuff ?
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You need to ensure MQ's Client Attach Facility is installed and working; typically z/OS only supports bindings connections. It is this to which zpat is refering I believe when he talks about "accepting client connections".
Your system programmers will be able to help you on this.
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