[Info-vax] Anyone using IBM MQ (client) on OpenVMS ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hi.

Is there anyone out there who runs IBM MQ (client)
on their OpenVMS *Alpha* systems ?

$ tcpip sh ver

   HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.7 - ECO 3
   on an AlphaServer DS25 running OpenVMS V8.4

I'm currently trying to get one of the demo apps in the
"Websphere MQ for HP OpenVMS Alpha, Version 6.0".

Installed from :
MQC4_AXPVMS-WMQ600_CLIENT.ZIP
IBM-AXPVMS-WMQCLIENT-V0600--1.PCSI

The demo app is :

$ d mqs_examples:AMQ0PUT0.COB

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.MQSERIES]

AMQ0PUT0.COB;1    23  17-JAN-2010 17:26:00.00

Total of 1 file, 23 blocks.
$

Built with :

$ cob AMQ0PUT0 /ansi
$ link AMQ0PUT0, sys$input/opt
sys$share:mqicb_64.exe/shareable
  Exit
$
$

But when run crasches with a stack overflow:

$ r AMQ0PUT0
AMQ0PUT0 start
Please enter the name of the target queue
asdgfasdg
%SYSTEM-F-STKOVF, stack overflow, PC=00000000002EF7A8, PS=0000001B

   Improperly handled condition, image exit forced by last chance handler.

The MQ startup has been run so sys$share:mqicb_64.exe is
istalled as it should.

Adding some extra debug "displays" shows that this happens
within MQ (in the first MQCONN connect call). I do not have
any server to run against, but it should give a proper
MQ error back, not a stack overflow...

Now, I have now found out from :
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg27013058#2
that MQ V6.0 might not be supported on Alpha V8.4, IA64 is.

And, to further turn the knife around, prabably de-supported :
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21584325#EOS2
(Where OpenVMS isn't mentioned at all.) But de-support should not
make it crasch...

Up to Alpha V8.3 there is a patch (like VMS83A_MQ-V0100) that
is mandatory for MQ on OpenVMS.

The patch-readme says :

5.2.1.4  Release Version of OpenVMS that will contain this change:
                Next release of OpenVMS Alpha after V8.3

So I guess a similar patch would not be neeed on V8.4.
*If* MQ runs *at all* on V8.4!

Anyway, all input on this matter is genuinely appreciated.

Jan-Erik.