[Info-vax] MQ (again) and Alpha to Integrity Migration Job opening.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-12 19:50:40 +0000, Hollywood said:

> We use MQSeries on pretty much every platform it is available on, so 
> losing it for OpenVMS is a real drag, we would need some way of 
> interfacing back into MQSeries, we are sending and receiving millions 
> of transactions a day via MQ.

Then you might have a problem, as that IBM lifecycle site certainly 
makes it appear that all WebSphere MQ client support for OpenVMS on 
both Alpha and Itanium is ending in 2016.  There's no indications of a 
WebSphere MQ client release that's supported past 2016.

Are you looking to get ported to Itanium before the EOL and get any 
support requests logged, and then run unsupported?   (Or is there a 
release that's not listed?)

> As you can probably tell, we are not early adopters :-)

How well that works depends on local requirements — many of the 
enterprise environments tend not to be early adopters, for better and 
for worse, and for a variety of reasons.

> Also I believe there is a gap between Alpha OpenVMS support EOL 2016 
> and the VSI port to X86 in 2017 ?

With no certain path to WebSphere MQ Client support on OpenVMS for x86, either.

But then you clearly have a large and rather complex problem lurking 
within this case, and you may well be left to decide to migrate away 
from WebSphere MQ everywhere, or to migrate away from OpenVMS, this 
assuming you want and need IBM support for WebSphere MQ client.


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