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| timjohnarm |
 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: MQ UPPER.CASE vs MixedCase queue names |
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I've always used upper case queue names but I must admit I don't know why.
Anyone got a historical reason I may have forgotten, or an OS peculiarity that comes into play that might explain why we all(well almost all) seem to do things this way. |
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Quite simply, MQ object names are case-sensitive.
Upper-case BOB is different than lower-case bob and mixed-case Bob.
Mixed-case takes two fingers. Lower-case l and 1 (el and one) look the same after an evening face-down in a bowl of margaritas. Same with zero and oh in upper-case.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Heh.
MQSC and various other things will uppercase them if you don't put them in quotes.
If you always put them in UPPERCASE you'll never have to remember when you need to remember the case and when you don't.
If you put them in lowercase, you'll always forget at least once, and get issues.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: |
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And for those of us who are lucky enough to use mainframe, lower case is the province of those trendy, johnny-come-lately Unix types. The ISPF editor tends to capitalise everything so all mainframe objects are in upper case for simplicity. This dovetails nicely with the comment of jefflowrey.
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| timjohnarm |
| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Vitor. Yes I was reflecting, on the way home, on my life as a dinosaur and the fact that dataset names were all uppercase as one of the causes  |
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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Someone once asked Vanna White (letter twirler on Wheel of Fortune TV program) what was the hardest part of her job. She quipped "knowing all 26 letters."
We MQ folks must know all 52 letters...
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| We MQ folks must know all 52 letters... |
Because if we don't...
MQ is broken!
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| timjohnarm wrote: |
| Hi Vitor. Yes I was reflecting, on the way home, on my life as a dinosaur |
I quite enjoy the bit where I demolish Tokyo 
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