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  • Monday, May 14, 2012 7:43 PM
     
     
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    Respected Community Members,

                             Does any body knows whether MQ series can be used as same way as HIS2010?? i mean does MQ series have capability to run the Cobol/mainframe program and add/update/delete/retrive capability same as HIS 2010??

    Thanks,

    Nick

     

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  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:58 AM
     
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    Hi Nick, :-)

    MQ Series is a messaging system used to exchange messages between different systems. You can not use MQ Series to do a synchronous call but you could implement an asynchronous system using MQ Series. In that case you are putting a message to the MQ Series from Windows. On the Mainframe site, there will be a trigger on that MQ Queue waiting for a message to be used. That message will contain the data and the CICS Program to execute. This is only a workaround how you could use MQ in your scenario but it is not recommended !!!

    You could use MQ Series together with BizTalk Server ...

    Best Regards,

    Steve Melan - BCEE My Blog : http://stevemelan.wordpress.com

    • Marked As Answer by Nicksoft2011 Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:49 PM
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  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:50 PM
     
     
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    So basically MQSeries has capability to execute the Cobol programs but asynchronosly.....in order to eecute the Synchronous call...HIS 2010 is the only option???????????   OR does Webshpere has some other alternative too.....????
     
  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:28 PM
     
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    MQ Series doesn't have these capabilities, you have to write your own trigger/listener in order to make it work.

    There is an alternative to HIS 2010 and it is call IBM CICS Transaction Gateway : http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/ctg/zos/

    CICS Transaction Gateway is only interesting if you want to use a JAVA Client to speak to CICS. If you want to use .Net (VB.NET or C#), I strongly recommand you HIS !

    NO COMMENT on the prices, but I can only say that HIS is "cheaper" !

    I'm using now HIS for 6 years without any problems and with great performance !

    With both products, you have to do a great invert to build a solid rock architecture.

    Best Regards,

    Steve Melan - BCEE My Blog : http://stevemelan.wordpress.com

    • Marked As Answer by Nicksoft2011 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:46 PM
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