What is MQSeries Client for VM ?
MQSeries products enable applications using message queuing to communicate across different platforms via client-server technology. MQseries for VM is a client that runs on VM's CMS component. Because it is a client and not a full-function queue manager, the VM client will need to be connected to one of these queue managers:- AIX
- MVS/ESA
- OS/2
- Unix
- Windows NT
VM Requirements for MQSeries Client?
- VM/ESA Version 2 Release 4.0, or later
- LE/370 Release 1.8
- C for VM Release 3.1 or compatible product
- TCP/IP feature included with VM/ESA V2 R4, or later or VTAM
Application Language Bindings Supported
The programming language Bindings are:- IBM C for VM Release 3.1
- IBM VS Cobol II
- IBM OS PL/I Release 2.3
- IBM VM/ESA REXX/VM
- IBM Assembler
Links to:
- MQ Series home page
- z/VM V5.2 information.
- A presentation by Richard Lewis (of IBM) delivered at an IBM VM and VSE Technical Conference in 2000
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See Appendix J of the
IBM z/VM CMS Application Development Guide
for some usage examples.
- Discussion of the programming API's and usage of the client will be found in the MQSeries product library.
- The MQ Insider, a quarterly technical newsletter from BMC Software
- New York-New Jersey MQSeries User Group