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| tonynix |
 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:30 pm Post subject: Demonstrating basic MQ Get/Put on z/OS |
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| Hi everyone. This is my first post to the MQ forum and I would appreciate your help. I've been "chosen" to become the MQ expert for our team and I need to be able to demonstrate in a demo format how you can put a simple message like "hello world" to a queue, see the message in the queue, get it out of the queue and print the results. I only want to demonstrate get and put to one local queue. Do you know of an easy way to demo this function for z/OS? Thanks. Tony |
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulClarke |
| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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What is this demo for ? It might affect the answer ? Are you just trying to demonstrate that you can indeed put a message to a queue and get it off again? Or are you trying to demonstrate the API, and if so which one ?
Essentially I think we need to know what the attendees of the demonstration should gain from the demo.
Cheers,
Paul.
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| tonynix |
| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:00 am Post subject: Demo |
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@PaulClarke: it's a demo I would use to show beginners to MQ. Many people I work with have little experience with MQ and it would be good to show a very basic process flow with a simple application. I want to show how an application program would send and retrieve a message from a local MQ queue.
@gbaddeley: I have looked at those samples and did successfully run the PUT and GET samples, however I don't see how I can change the COBOL code to add a message and see it sent. It looks to me that the samples are only demonstrating the PUT and GET process without seeing the actual message |
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Unlike the Windows/UNIX sample programs, the z/OS samples lack the hands-on user-interface (UI) - the samples are all batch in z/OS, and they're not pretty.
Why not use the MQ Explorer utility to connect to the z/OS qmgr, and then demo using the Explorer?
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Demo |
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| tonynix wrote: |
| however I don't see how I can change the COBOL code to add a message and see it sent. |
From inside the COBOL, the message is just another data structure like a record or a database results set. Do with it what you will.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| Why not use the MQ Explorer utility to connect to the z/OS qmgr, and then demo using the Explorer? |
Possibly the OP's sys progs have a stern view of client connections to z/OS.
The ISPF panels are an option for the OP though.
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Demo |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| tonynix wrote: |
| however I don't see how I can change the COBOL code to add a message and see it sent. |
From inside the COBOL, the message is just another data structure like a record or a database results set. Do with it what you will. |
Add DISPLAY statements in the COBOL program and recompile ???
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