MQSeries.net :: View topic - Triggering Mechanism Approach "Needed Advice" in M

run · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject:

To all grand masters out there needed an advice on two approaches that we are considering right now
Overview: This is a synchronous transaction. An XML to CPY vice verse (Note: mainframe is VSE and MQ version 2 does not participate in clustering so itâ€™s a point to point). A Single transaction (XML message comes in transformed to a CPY sent to MAINFRAME but as a response multiple messages are put on the response queue in a group which are picked up by the broker to process.***Note(throughput here is 800,000 per day)
1 Approach: when a message arrives on local queue say MFREQUEST on mainframe (triggering is set up on the queue) that triggers a COBOL program to pick up the messages that arrived). The COBOL program picks up then picks up all the messages and process them by sending to other COBOL programs and sent out responses on to a MFRESPONSE queue.
2 Approach: Message arrives on the request MFREQUEST queue. A COBOL program keeps hitting the queue checking for messages every 2 seconds and process them when the message is available on the queue.
Questions: 1) which approach uses high CPU? 2) What is a better approach as the throughput is pretty high?
3) Any other approach that can be considered?

Any advice is deeply appreciated