[Info-vax] MQ on Alpha ?

[GerMarsh]

On 10 Dec, 20:57, Guy Peleg <makleeengineer... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 3:00 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi !
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> > We are investigating using MQ on a couple of Alpha's.
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> > There are a few things that my browsning of the docs
> > didn't seemed to answer...
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> > Do I need the Java kit on the Alpha's ?
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> > 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...
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> > It seems as the "MQ-folkes" also want to use some Tivoli
> > tools for managing MQ, and that might need Java !?
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> > (No, we don't have Java installed right now, and I'm not
> > a major Java-fan myself...)
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> > The apps using MQ will be in COBOL, which seems just fine
> > from the viewpoint of MQ.
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> > 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 ?
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> > Anything else in regard to MQ on VMS that I'd better
> > know about ? :-)
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> > I'm not *that* concerned, IBM is in many respects (quality
> > of the documentation and so on) quite like the old DEC. :-)
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> > Regards,
> > Jan-Erik.
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> If I recall correctly, you need Java installed to register the
> license.
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> The latest VMS kit is V6. Make sure you are using the latest SYS kit.
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> Guy Peleg
> Maklee Engineeringwww.maklee.com- Hide quoted text -
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...and if you worked out what the Java program did, you'd wonder why
they bothered. (Creates some subdirs and puts language specific
licences in them, or something like that.)

I had to increase the account quotas just to run the licence prog!