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

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

And when / if you go to x86, you got a problem, right?

I've always given my customers sources.  I warn them to not use them if 
at all possible.  Don't need some hacker screwing up things.  But if the 
beer truck gets me, they at least got a chance.