RE: MQSeries Question

Hi Dean,

Thanks for the input. We're sending SAP IDOCS from a SAP R/3 system to the
AS/400. The problem being is that the current way of working of SAP with MQ
is that it sticks 1 IDOC into 1 Message. This is the problem as 1 IDOC, lets
say the order IDOC DELVRY1 can easily be greater than 32K because of the
size of an order. The only limitation we put on orders is that they
shouldn't be longer than 999 lines! The SAP IDOC is not the most efficient
way of storing data and we would get a lot of segments that we don't even
need.

It looks more and more like we will have to ask our clients to send the IDOC
in segments (ie 1 IDOC = 1 Segment). This will be easier from a programming
point of view as well :-). They aren't too happy about this as now they have
to code a user exit on their side to do this.

Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Alistair

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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:13 AM
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Subject: Re: MQSeries Question


Alistair,

In a message dated 11/3/99 5:06:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
alistairr@tbsa.co.za writes:

>snip

What the heck are you doing that would require a message length greater than
32K?  Certainly nothing that I've ever done on the web would require _THAT_
amount of data in a single record.  If you're blocking in MQ, use smaller
blocks.  I'll warn you in advance that MQ is a _transaction_ based system,
large volumes of data are _NOT_ handled well by it, especially if you're
using persistence.  I've used MQ quite a bit, so feel free to contact me
offline if you have specific questions...

Cheers,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.cm

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