[Info-vax] MQ on Alpha ?

[Guy Peleg]

On Dec 10, 3:00 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Hi !
>
> We are investigating using MQ on a couple of Alpha's.
>
> There are a few things that my browsning of the docs
> didn't seemed to answer...
>
> Do I need the Java kit on the Alpha's ?
>
> It seems as some part of the license registration uses
> Java, but there is also a (stripped down ?) JVM shipped
> with the install kit to be used in the lic registration.
> As far as I understood from the docs, that would be
> enought for the installation to work without needing
> a full Java install on the Alpha's...
>
> It seems as the "MQ-folkes" also want to use some Tivoli
> tools for managing MQ, and that might need Java !?
>
> (No, we don't have Java installed right now, and I'm not
> a major Java-fan myself...)
>
> The apps using MQ will be in COBOL, which seems just fine
> from the viewpoint of MQ.
>
> The current MQ kit for VMS is some 6.x kit, right ?
> The current MQ version seems to be 7.x, but I don't
> think that is a major problem, or ?
>
> Anything else in regard to MQ on VMS that I'd better
> know about ? :-)
>
> I'm not *that* concerned, IBM is in many respects (quality
> of the documentation and so on) quite like the old DEC. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Jan-Erik.

If I recall correctly, you need Java installed to register the
license.

The latest VMS kit is V6. Make sure you are using the latest SYS kit.

Guy Peleg
Maklee Engineering
www.maklee.com