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| PeterPotkay |
 Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 11:29 am Post subject: Clustering across different versions of MQ |
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Is there a rule of thumb here? If you had 10 QMs on 10 different servers which themselves might be a variety of different platforms and wanted to cluster them all, would it make a difference what versions of MQ they have? Is there anything specific to older/newer versions of MQ that prevent them from being in the same cluster?
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Padawan
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I think the official answer is, any version of MQSeries which supports clusters can cluster with any other version of MQSeries which supports clusters. However, in practice, I had quite a time clustering 5.1 and 5.2 queue managers. But I think this was due to the instability of clustering in 5.1 to begin with, rather than the fact that they were trying to communicate with 5.2. What specific platforms/versions are you considering clustering?
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Poobah
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Z/os 5.2
OS400 5.2
NT 5.2.1
Solaris 5.2.1
Tru64 5.1 Base
WIN2000 5.2.1
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Well, past experience tells me to be leery of that 5.1 queue manager, but I think the IBM guys will tell you that it should work just fine. Perhaps with the latest service patches, it will.
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm, doesn't look like OS/400 is supported at all, based on the list of platforms in Concepts and Terminolgy in the clustering handbook.
I just wonder if the argument "We shouldn't cluster all our platforms just because they are different platforms" is a valid arguement. Or if it was 2 years ago and not anymore?
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| vmcgloin |
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Peter,
I haven't checked the documentation that you refer to but we certainly have OS/400 (5.1) queue managers in our clusters - along with AIX (5.2), NT (5.2.1) and OS/390 (2.1), without problems.
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| PeterPotkay |
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| vmcgloin |
| Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 5:11 am Post subject: |
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I may be wrong but I think this refers to the AS/400...
WebSphere MQ for iSeries, V5.3
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