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| ghoshly |
 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: Message Broker V6 with MQ V7 |
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Is the following combination is workable or have anyone installed and configured for use?
Message Broker V6 with MQ V7
Currently MQ V6 with MB V6 is present in all the environment for my customer. We need to upgrade MQ first for different queue managers in the network other than broker queue manager, then broker queue manager and finally broker upgrade.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Message Broker V6 with MQ V7 |
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| ghoshly wrote: |
Is the following combination is workable or have anyone installed and configured for use?
Message Broker V6 with MQ V7 |
WMBv6.0 isn't workable anywhere.
I've used WMBv6.1 with WMQv7 but I'm just some guy on the Internet & could be lying.
WMBv6.1 works with WMQv7 if it's on the list of supported configurations.
| ghoshly wrote: |
| Correct me if the direction is absolutely wrong. |
How did it work out when you tried it in your sandbox environemnt?
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:33 am Post subject: |
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MB 6.0 and MB 6.1 work fine with MQ 7.013 or later - providing you have installed the required MB fixpack level on them first.
However you might as well upgrade to MB 6.1 (or even MB 7) if you can.
MB 6.0 is out of standard IBM support, we still use it in production at present. |
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| ghoshly |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:49 am Post subject: |
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I have worked with different customer in a setup of MB6.1 and WMQ 7.0.1
Definitely the path is to upgrade MB to V7 in future and for that customer wants to upgrade MQ as the first step.
Before trying in Sand box I was trying to gather your comments/guidance. |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| ghoshly wrote: |
| Before trying in Sand box I was trying to gather your comments/guidance. |
- Apply the most recent FP of Broker v6.0.
- confirm it works
- upgrade MQ to v7.
- confirm it works
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| smdavies99 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:57 am Post subject: |
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As Broker 7 won't run on WMQ 6.x then the only way to upgrade 'in-situ' is to upgrage WMQ first then upgrade broker.
As has been said, you have to make sure that your fixpack levels of Broker are suffucuent to allow it to run on top of a V7 Queue Manager.
You have to ensure that also you patch WMQ 7 to an appropriately supported FixPack.
Naturally, you will be doing a thorough test of any changes before rolling it out into production.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| Or do both at the same time to avoid two rounds of regression testing. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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For our V7 migration we had
- upgrade V6.0 to V 6.0.0.10
- upgrade MQ to V 7.0.1.4 (you may choose to go to V7.0.1.
- Keep pub/sub on V6 (compatibility)
We then just added a V7 broker (using a different service user) and switched from one to the other... and that was it.
Hope it helped 
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
We then just added a V7 broker (using a different service user) and switched from one to the other... and that was it.
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Did this v7 use the same QM as the v6 Broker?
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| PeterPotkay wrote: |
| fjb_saper wrote: |
We then just added a V7 broker (using a different service user) and switched from one to the other... and that was it.
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Did this v7 use the same QM as the v6 Broker? |
No. We load balance through MQ Cluster. Switching traffic from one to the other worked like a breeze!.
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