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

[David Froble]

Hollywood wrote:
> From reading this group i know there are users of MQseries out there,
> with IBM withdrawing MQSeries software from OpenVMS platform in 2016,
> i was curious what people are planning to use as a replacement/bridge
> ?
> 
> Secondly,  we are about to start migrating from Alpha to Integrity at
> an OpenVMS site in Boston,  MA,  looking for someone with prior
> experience in porting and Data Alignment that maybe interested in
> joining the team.  VAX Basic, RMS files, MQSeries, Dec Scheduler,
> CMS, few bits a C code, MAcro64, SMG, FMS, DCL and all that fun
> stuff.
> 
> Please ping me if you are interested or if you know someone that
> maybe interested, ping them ?
> 
> many thanks
> 
> Nigel

Our experience, it was NOT a port.  It was a compile, link, and use it. 
  Seriously, it was that easy.  The only problem was an error I made in 
a MACRO-32 run-down routine, that Alpha never raised an error condition. 
  No problem as the program was exiting anyway.  The itanic was a bit 
more picky.

If you have procedures to build your software, just put everything on 
the itanic, queue up the procedure(s), and then review the logs.

As for MQseries, I'm not familiar with it.  What does it do?  Perhaps a 
replacement can be found or implemented.