MQSeries.net :: View topic - How do you control your message flows in Batch Environment?

kirani

Environment:
WMQI 2.1 CSD2/3 on Win2K.

We are using WMQI in a Batch & Online environment. One doesn't have to schedule message flows in an online env, but what about Batch env? I wanted to get your opinion about scheduling/Controlling Batch Message flows in Production environment?

COBOL programs running on M/F trigger all our Batch Message flows. We send status messages when the batch starts/ends. If something goes wrong within a message flows, we "flag" the error and stop the message flows by disabling the input queue. So someone out there knows that something is wrong with the message flow and they can fix the problem. All Our COBOL programs/JOBs are controlled by Autosys. We also have to do some post processing after the Message Flows. There is a very small window where we don't know what's happening in the message flow, we don't want people to watch the input/output queue continuously to see whether the messages are getting processed or not. We want to give some kind of control to the operator to let them know that the message flows are still running.

Currently we have an ASP page, which gets data from Audit database and displays the status of Message Flows. But we don't like the idea of having 2 GUI's to know what's happening.

Thanks in advance.
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Kiran

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