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yps_sengar

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:22 am Post subject: Scheduling Message Broker Flow - Design Challange

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I have a requirement for scheduling a message broker flow which reads the XML messages from MQ Queue and Writes into a file in a Shared FTP location. There is another java Batch process which consume these files for further processing and removes these files from the FTP location.

I want to schedule this message broker flow to run every 2 hrs interval daily and wait (stop) between say 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM daily for Java batch process to consume the files from FTP location.

Queries:
1. what should be the nodes structure and how can I achieve this?
2. Is it good to use some external scheduling tools like crontab or CA7 for such requirements.

I will greatly appreciate your help. Thanks!!

I searched through this forum for similar issues related to Timernotification and TImerControl nodes. Not exactly answers my question.

Vitor

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:26 am Post subject: Re: Scheduling Message Broker Flow - Design Challange

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yps_sengar wrote:

1. what should be the nodes structure and how can I achieve this?

Well you're going to need an MQInput and a FileOutput node at least.

yps_sengar wrote:

2. Is it good to use some external scheduling tools like crontab or CA7 for such requirements.

You might find this easier.

yps_sengar wrote:

I searched through this forum for similar issues related to Timernotification and TImerControl nodes. Not exactly answers my question.

Hence my comment that an external scheduler might be more straightforward.
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mqjeff

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:50 am Post subject: Re: Scheduling Message Broker Flow - Design Challange

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[quote="yps_sengar"I searched through this forum for similar issues related to Timernotification and TImerControl nodes. Not exactly answers my question.[/quote]

Why not?

These and an MQGet and a FileOutput node are what I'd use.

yps_sengar

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:38 am Post subject:

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Thanks for replies. Yes I am using MQInput/MQGet --> FileOutput.

I want to know which is a better approach between using TimerNotification and TimerControl or external scheduler. I am little confused. The below article recomends Timer node over external scheduler.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0603_schutz/0603_schutz.html

Vitor

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:24 am Post subject:

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yps_sengar wrote:

The below article recomends Timer node over external scheduler.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0603_schutz/0603_schutz.html

It's a fine article from a worthy associate on this forum. I would agree with him wholeheartedly that if you have a flow with an inbuilt timeout or other self contained timing issue then these node provide an ideal way to handle them.

I am less convinced that for a simple batch process such as you describe maintaining crontab is as much of an issue as he claims. I've also never seen a Unix site that didn't have cron installed. But it is an issue (insofar as it's a point to consider when planning) and you must make your own mind up given the particular requirements under which you're working.

Bottom line - I said cron might be easier. You might decide I'm wrong. You might be correct in that.
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