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| JasonG |
 Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 6:38 am Post subject: Questions from developers: |
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Hi all,
Just got a list of questions from some developers that are working with MQ Series Workflow- I'm acting as an intermediary so here goes...
MQ Workflow Questions
Managing Staff
Expectation – adding, changing staff (passwords or absences) and roles could be done on the fly.
1. It seems that any adding or changing of the staff record or the role a staff member is assigned requires a change in Buildtime and an FDL export or extensive programming by us. What are suggested ways of handling this?
2. How would I assign work from one userid's worklist to a different specific userid's worklist through workflow? They are both a member of the same Role, along with other multiple userids.
3. I have one user logon ID , but that ID is a member of several different roles. I just want to logon and become active to workflow for just one Role, not all of them. Is there a way Workflow handles that.
Data Flow between containers
We are having problems getting data moving from process to process.
Expectation – Changed data would be reflected in the container via the mapping at design time.
4. Is the only way to do this is to write programs that read and write the input/output containers that must be executed by every process and program in the workflow?
5. Do we need to hard code all the container fields on the command line for every program defined to workflow?
6. On the prgram definition tab for 390. What settings are needed to execute 390 mainframe? Can it fire off an IMS transaction? MQ transaction?
7. How do we use DLL’s? What are the settings needed to do this?
8. We need help with the Client configuration with the IIS Webserver.
9. Can you show us a simple workflow that makes a decision based on the container value and execute a selected path. One of each type a DLL, an NT executable and a mainframe. |
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| jmac |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Questions from developers: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 27 Jun 2001
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Location: EmeriCon, LLC
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| JasonG wrote: |
| 1. It seems that any adding or changing of the staff record or the role a staff member is assigned requires a change in Buildtime and an FDL export or extensive programming by us. What are suggested ways of handling this? |
You can use fmcibie on the fly, with FDL that you build yourself (i.e not with Buildtime), of course you should also import this FDL into your BTDB so that the BT and RT are in sync.
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| 2. How would I assign work from one userid's worklist to a different specific userid's worklist through workflow? They are both a member of the same Role, along with other multiple userids. |
The users must be Authorized to each other via Buildtime, then you can use the transfer() method.
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| 3. I have one user logon ID , but that ID is a member of several different roles. I just want to logon and become active to workflow for just one Role, not all of them. Is there a way Workflow handles that. |
MQWF does not handle this situation "as is". You would have to write some code to enable this. You really are not giving enough information here for me to say how difficult this might be.
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Data Flow between containers
We are having problems getting data moving from process to process.
Expectation – Changed data would be reflected in the container via the mapping at design time. |
I am assuming here that you mean "Activity" to "Activity"
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| 4. Is the only way to do this is to write programs that read and write the input/output containers that must be executed by every process and program in the workflow? |
It is not the only way, but that is generally how it is done.
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| 5. Do we need to hard code all the container fields on the command line for every program defined to workflow? |
Absolutely not, you have some misunderstanding of MQWF if that is what you think.
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| 6. On the prgram definition tab for 390. What settings are needed to execute 390 mainframe? Can it fire off an IMS transaction? MQ transaction? |
You definitely can fire an IMS or CICS transaction, but this is not my area of expertise.
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| 7. How do we use DLL’s? What are the settings needed to do this? |
Need more detail on what your question means.
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| 8. We need help with the Client configuration with the IIS Webserver. |
Look at the WebClient doc.
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| 9. Can you show us a simple workflow that makes a decision based on the container value and execute a selected path. One of each type a DLL, an NT executable and a mainframe. |
Have a look at the Getting Started redbook.
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John McDonald
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