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| pintrader |
 Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 4:36 am Post subject: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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hi
a question on installing MQ on Solaris .
According to Creating File System on Unix, it says the working data directory cannot be changed.
Right now I have a current system with limited /var space. Is there any way to workaround this without much hassle ? Would creating a symbolic link to another file system path help? for eg, i can link /var/mqm to /myotherapplications file system. ?
i don't understand why this working directory cannot be changed.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 4:50 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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Yet here it says the -ld & -md parameters can be used to place a queue manager's files in separate areas; go figure.
Indeed even in the link you post, it explictly says that the 4 critical directories under /var/mqm should be mounted on different file systems to ensure stability.
| pintrader wrote: |
| i don't understand why this working directory cannot be changed |
I don't understand why you'd want to when all you want to do is use different file systems. I don't understand why you're considering a symlink when the documentation recommends mounting the different file systems you want to use. I don't understand why you wouldn't, by default, specifically place queue manager data stores in secure locations when they are created via the crtmqm command.
One specific use case: you have 2 critical and heavily used queue managers. You would want all of their I/O through separate disc controllers to improve throughput and prevent contention, and would need to place log & queue files accordingly.
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| pintrader |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:01 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
Yet here it says the -ld & -md parameters can be used to place a queue manager's files in separate areas; go figure.
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ok thanks. then that solves my concern on limited /var space.
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I don't understand why you'd want to when all you want to do is use different file systems. |
what i actually meant was why can't the installation prompt me for another file system for /var, like the one for /opt , which i can choose to install on other directories instead of default. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| pintrader wrote: |
| what i actually meant was why can't the installation prompt me for another file system for /var, like the one for /opt , which i can choose to install on other directories instead of default. |
On many Solaris systems of my experience (including the one I'm currently blessed with), putting "user" data anywhere other than /var have the Solaris sysadmins forming lynch mobs. It was a long and interesting discussion having the queue manager data elsewhere and I still think they're plotting to have be deported.
I know that isuggesting the installing of WMQv7.5 other than in /opt in Linux got us a formal memo of protest from the Linux admins to senior management. Perhaps if they club together, I can be deported first class.
To answer your question I don't know and it's never actually been an issue for me in 2 decades of using this software. But raise an RFE, post the link and you can count on my vote. 
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| pintrader |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:46 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
To answer your question I don't know and it's never actually been an issue for me in 2 decades of using this software. But raise an RFE, post the link and you can count on my vote. :yes: |
thanks again.
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| smdavies99 |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
It was a long and interesting discussion having the queue manager data elsewhere and I still think they're plotting to have be deported.
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Noooooooooooo..... We don't want him back 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 6:35 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| smdavies99 wrote: |
| Vitor wrote: |
It was a long and interesting discussion having the queue manager data elsewhere and I still think they're plotting to have be deported.
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Noooooooooooo..... We don't want him back |
I'm back for the IIB V.Next workshop in June. Be Afraid.
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 6:52 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| smdavies99 wrote: |
| Vitor wrote: |
It was a long and interesting discussion having the queue manager data elsewhere and I still think they're plotting to have be deported.
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Noooooooooooo..... We don't want him back |
I'm back for the IIB V.Next workshop in June. Be Afraid. |
Best I hoover the dungeon and clean up all the cobwebs - chains to be oiled or do you want them to remain clanky?
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| smdavies99 wrote: |
| Vitor wrote: |
It was a long and interesting discussion having the queue manager data elsewhere and I still think they're plotting to have be deported.
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Noooooooooooo..... We don't want him back |
I'm back for the IIB V.Next workshop in June. Be Afraid. |
Best I hoover the dungeon and clean up all the cobwebs - chains to be oiled or do you want them to remain clanky? |
Clanky. And remember to clear the thong panties out the dungeon before I get back this time.
If you're going wear that sort of thing, do it in your own room.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| I'm back for the IIB V.Next workshop in June. Be Afraid. |
I think it's called "extraordinary rendition".... 
Which week of the Beta are you attending?
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| zpat wrote: |
| I think it's called "extraordinary rendition".... |
It's extraordinary if you can get through LHR with all the luggage you started with
| zpat wrote: |
| Which week of the Beta are you attending? |
The first. Though I will of course be disguised as my mild mannered, real life alter ego.
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| smdavies99 |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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It's extraordinary if you can get through LHR with all the luggage you started with
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It is usually Frankfurt, Delhi and CDG (paris) that lose my bags.
I'll give Ohio a wave as I fly over it tomorrow en-route to Denver.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 8:01 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| smdavies99 wrote: |
| I'll give Ohio a wave as I fly over it tomorrow en-route to Denver. |
More than 1 finger please
(Note to self - check rediness of ground to air missiles)
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 8:06 am Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| exerk wrote: |
| Best I hoover the dungeon and clean up all the cobwebs - chains to be oiled or do you want them to remain clanky? |
Clanky. And remember to clear the thong panties out the dungeon before I get back this time.
If you're going wear that sort of thing, do it in your own room. |
They're not mine and I have absolutely no idea how they got there... 
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: Websphere MQ installation for Solaris |
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| Vitor wrote: |
The first. Though I will of course be disguised as my mild mannered, real life alter ego. |
Damn, I'll be there on the second week.
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