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| Sam Uppu |
 Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject: MQ Client libraries |
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Yatiri
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Hi Guys,
We have some of our applications using MQ standard clients and others using copied client libraries.
How can we know if the application is using client libraries from installation path or copied client libraries?
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: MQ Client libraries |
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| Sam Uppu wrote: |
| ..How can we know if the application is using client libraries from installation path or copied client libraries?.. |
I dont think you would be able to track, that the used MQ Lib File(s) was/were being copied from the installation path or from the other location(s), until you have a monitoring script running which checks/logs the every step taken by the user once he/she enters in that server/location (MQ library).
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: MQ Client libraries |
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| Sam Uppu wrote: |
How can we know if the application is using client libraries from installation path or copied client libraries?
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In the same way your site controls how other components (like database clients) are installed and used.
There are many ways this can be achieved.
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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...for e.g.: a file ( say a.dll file) which was last modified on 01/08/2007 and was copied from the mq library to some xyz location on the windows server and then given to the application team to use it THEN it would carry the same last modified date with it where ever its been pasted/placed on. By that you won't be able to identify or differentiate. That I have tried on Windows. 
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| shashivarungupta |
| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Vitor is correct, when you are backtracking.. means copy of the some lib files was done under the change control and minute details such as name of the files, location copied from, location of files placed on etc. is/are mentioned there. You can find it out easily by the unique change control no.
{ If I got him correctly.  }
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| shashivarungupta wrote: |
| { If I got him correctly. } |
Pretty much. What I was getting at is there's going to be a site-specific method of providing/installing things like client libraries (or Microsoft Office!) on the machines on the site. From this comes the control mechanism of who has what version of which, and of course who needs what patch/upgrade. There's nothing in WMQ to do this sort of tracking any more than there's anything in DB2 or Microsoft Office.
This is how people make money selling software that controls such things. Trying to reverse engineer the position after the event is notoriously tricky.
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