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| cicsprog |
 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:17 am Post subject: Poll for MQ Admins |
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Partisan
Joined: 27 Jan 2002
Posts: 347
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I would like to request your input. My company is considering Centralized MQSeries Administration. I would like to get an idea from existing LARGE MQSeries installations on how many MQ Administrators you have to perform the work – MQM Setup, MQ Admin, Monitoring Configuration, Monitoring, Administration of add-on MQ products like MQSI. No need to provide company names or confidential information. I am trying to get an idea on how many individuals our site might require. So for example if your site had:
10 MVS MQM’s
20 Win MQM’s
10 AIX MQM’s
Admin - WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MQ Workflow, WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker, Candle CCC
We have 5 MQ Admins
Thanks for your Posts! |
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Posts: 1261
Location: Detroit,MI USA
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We have
4 MVS QMGRS
8 NT/W2k QMGRS
4 HPUX Qmgrs
2 MQAdmins
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| RatherBeGolfing |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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Centurion
Joined: 12 Nov 2002
Posts: 118
Location: Syracuse, NY, USA
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We have:
3 z/OS QMgrs
27 W2K QMgrs
2 MQ Admins
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| oz1ccg |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Yatiri
Joined: 10 Feb 2002
Posts: 628
Location: Denmark
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 13 Jun 2002
Posts: 2607
Location: The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
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2 MQAdmins, would be the minumum.
With proper tooling they can cover a lot of 'ground'... 
Michael |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Grand Poobah
Joined: 16 Oct 2002
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The real question is: "What do you expect from an MQAdmin?".
If you expect someone who will be purely an MQSeries systems administrator, then yes with a proper tool you can get away with 2 or three.
If you expect someone who will not only manage your MQSeries infrastructure, but will also manage the systems that MQSeries runs on, and also provide development support, and and and....
Then you will need more.
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| spfdgio |
| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Apprentice
Joined: 09 Oct 2002
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We have:
11 qmgrs on 7 win2k boxes
8 qmgrs on 4 aix boxes
3 qmgrs on 2 os/390 boxes
administering WMQI and WebSphere/MQ
using MQSoftware Qpasa monitoring tool to page/email on exceptions
2 staff ( 1 fulltime, 1 parttime ) - both fulltime during upgrades/problems
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 7:30 am Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Posts: 1261
Location: Detroit,MI USA
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Well for us the 2 admins are fine we do more than just MQSeries aministration. We are involved in many other things MQSI/Assisting Developers/Developing. In fact the actual MQSeries Admin. piece is the least amount of work. We have extremely few MQSeries Issues, if our only jobs were MQSeries we would be the maytag repair guys.
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| LuisFer |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Partisan
Joined: 17 Aug 2002
Posts: 302
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We have 19 z/Os , 10 NSK, 4 iSERIES, 30 Win (NT,2K,XP), 4 Aix, 59 Solaris, 2 Liinux.admin with ASG-TMon for MQSeries , Prognosis on NSK ,MO71 & "home tools".(HLAsm, C, PL/I)
We are 5 MQAdmins for all task (Admin, support, Install,documentation,....), this team gives support for IMS, CICS, Pathway, TMF,......., too. |
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| Tibor |
| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 20 May 2001
Posts: 1033
Location: Hungary
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We have
3 NSK
5 AIX
4 Tru64
2 Linux
1 HP-UX
12 Solaris
11 WinNT/2K
There is 3 employees for MQ/MQSI admin and I used to teach & support the newbie MQ* developers.
We are administering our MQ network with QPasa and some scripts. |
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| cicsprog |
| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Partisan
Joined: 27 Jan 2002
Posts: 347
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I sure appreciate everyone’s replies! This data may help some justification for some warm bodies.
Just so you see my dilemma, below are my numbers (some yet to be determined). If you throw in MQSI and the other add-ons for the base product, then even more bodies maybe. Not to mention the Distributed side is PATROL monitored and the MVS side Candle – that’s another can of worms.
60 MVS MQM’s
6 Linux(zSeries)
150+ of Unix Flavor MQM’s (still counting)
Windows ? (Sacred to think)
Some Tandem I have heard of
Some ? |
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| LuisFer |
| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Partisan
Joined: 17 Aug 2002
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| [We have Tandem NSK with Prognosis. |
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| tso0rxp |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:02 am Post subject: |
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Voyager
Joined: 07 Jan 2002
Posts: 85
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12 Solaris
2 AIX
1 Windows
1 R/3 link for SAP
Candle CCC
1 MQ Admin.
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Posts: 1261
Location: Detroit,MI USA
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Did they take away your vacation  It's tough to be the only one and want time off. I was in your shoes at my last job for awhile , They gave me a pager I could snd/rcv email and a cell phone with modem so I could dial in (took vacations camping no real phone lines) .
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 13 Jun 2002
Posts: 2607
Location: The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
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60 MVS MQM’s
6 Linux(zSeries)
150+ of Unix Flavor MQM’s (still counting)
Windows ? (Sacred to think)
Some Tandem I have heard of
Some ? |
Impressive numbers!!!
How are those linux QM's running on zSeries? anyone else running linux QM's on zSeries?
Michael |
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