MQSeries.net :: View topic - Message Broker File Extender Best Practices

Ching

Hey Everyone,

Can everyone who has used the MB File Extender please respond with any tips/tricks or best practices that you have learned.

I've gotten the provided f2f, m2f, and f2m working. Now I'm developing my own.

Here are some questions that I have:

Where can I find more documentation on the file extender? The information I'm looking for is not in the provided C3466660.pdf .

Are you using it in production? What has it been like to support the applications? How easy has it been to recover error files for processing? Any file size issues? CPU/Memory usage considerations?

1. What's best practice for using file input node catch and failure terminnals? How should they be used?

2. How can you tell why a message is "poisoned"? What does it mean if the RestartableStatus is BLOCKED? I can't find why it is blocked from logs

*********************************
SessionId: -1023261223
Broker: FADWBID1
Execution Group: Ching2
Flow: mbfesf2m
NodeTrnsactionOwnerName: FADWBID1.Ching2.mbfesf2m.FileInputNode
LastHandledRecord: 0
RetryCount: 3
RestartableStatus: BLOCKED
NotRestartableReason: POISON_FILE
NotRestartableInfo: null
WorkStatus: status: 'WORKING' - progress: ''.
*********************************
INPUT FILE
1)
FileName: mbfesf2m.Input.Celsius
Directory: null
FileId: 10r1g4h2g
NodeOwnerName: FADWBID1.Ching2.mbfesf2m.FileInputNode
MBFEQueueName: FADWBID1.Ching2.mbfesf2m.FileInputNode-.var.IBM.MBFE.filedata.inbox.mbfesf2m.Input.Celsius$
FirstReadDate: null
LastReadDate: null
OUTPUT FILES
No output file related to this transaction.

4. What are the files in the repository used for? On AIX it's in /var/IBM/MBFE/repository

5. What is best practice for using trace in a production environment? Should it be turned on or off?

I appreciate your help!!!
Ching