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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-03-13 03:39:
> Hollywood wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> As you can probably tell, we are not early adopters :-)  Also I
>> believe there is a gap between Alpha OpenVMS support EOL 2016 and the
>> VSI port to X86 in 2017 ?
>
> I'm not too sure how this would be accepted, but, if I was in this
> situation, I'd go to IBM and ask for some help.
>
> 1) With the advent of VSI, perhaps consider continuing to support the
> product on VMS.
>
> 2) Ask for sources so that you can support yourself after 2016.  You might
> mention that support fees until that date are contingent upon you getting
> the capability of supporting yourself.
>
> I've got to wonder what type of commitments IBM made when initially selling
> the product and support?  Lawyers could always argue that they should offer
> you self support in the event they (IBM) stop offering it.
>
> I'd also wonder how many VMS users have this problem.

We use MQ VMS client APIs. But using a MQ version that was
de-supported probably well over 10 years ago.