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| MQfirstlady |
 Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: Inquiry Only Tool for Developers |
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We are looking to issue something to our clients (developers) so that they are able to view queue information (attributes) about MQ objects within our environment.
Our admins use the MO71 Support Pac for administrative functions but we do not want the clients to have access to update/delete any objects in the environment.
Currently, we have functionality on our intranet but it is not refreshed realtime and clients have voiced their concern with that.
What are other people using within their companies?
Are there any tools that I should look into? |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Pretty much all of the commercial tools out there provide this capability.
You can dig around here and find a post from someone on setting permissions on queues for MQ Explorer - you can then give everyone MQ Explorer, and a minimum set of permissions on only the queues they need.
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Inquiry Only Tool for Developers |
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| MQfirstlady wrote: |
| We are looking to issue something to our clients (developers) so that they are able to view queue information (attributes) about MQ objects within our environment. |
Are you sure that developers want to view queue attributes or are they more interested in viewing message data in a queue?
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| MQfirstlady |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| Ideally they would like to do both. If we allow them to view message data, we'd need to find a way to secure it so that they can only see certain queues. Our online utility has both options but the queue attribute information is what we receive complaints about (for instance when they create a queue, its not immediately visible to them). |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| MQfirstlady wrote: |
| Ideally they would like to do both. If we allow them to view message data, we'd need to find a way to secure it so that they can only see certain queues. Our online utility has both options but the queue attribute information is what we receive complaints about (for instance when they create a queue, its not immediately visible to them). |
Well, MQ Visual Browse would cover off the read-only part and then you could use setmqaut for the ACL. Or use MQ Visual Edit and setmqaut.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Inquiry Only Tool for Developers |
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| MQfirstlady wrote: |
What are other people using within their companies?
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We use a mix of MO71, MQExplorer and a home-brew Java app, depending mostly on user preference. Permissions are set to restrict low level users from activities which are beyond them. We fear curiosity more than malice - "What happens if you change this?" 
I must stand with RogerLacroix on his point. My experience of developer requirements is that they are fairly simple:
1) Is there a message in the target queue?
2) What does the body of it look like?
Typically they have no interest in either queue or message attributes, prefering to complain if there's an unexpected result.
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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if it's only object settings you are looking for, you can have a look at MQDocument
you can schedule (using your own scheduler) MQDocument to take periodic snapshots of your Qmgr and security settings and show you what is there or what changed...
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