Re: I need your vote on this... -- MIDRANGE-L


  Yes but, especially if the Opti-Connect is handling multiple requests 
from multiple source applications knowing when the target program did 
what to the DB, within say a commit boundry is more important than what 
was going on in the source sometimes. Our application design usally 
includes a HDR that will have all the TP source information attached if 
it is even remorely possiable that the target will need it.  

  Is the Opti-Connect source object something that can be journaled as 
well. 

        JMS

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Bob Larkin wrote:

> In your case, I agree. If it was a user written tagret program. In this case,
> it is a system trigger program (QYYsomething-or-other as I recall), so we
> really get no usable information. I would compare it to the journal isting
> QDBPUT as the program that wrote the record, instead of our application
> program.
> Bober
> 
> Jeffrey M. Silberberg wrote:
> 
> >   Bob,
> >
> >         I vote NO, the local journal should maintain the names of the
> > components on that system that impacted that database.  However, is there
> > not a way to Journal the object on the source machine to show what what
> > happened there ?  Maybe this is what you need to request, as I have not
> > looked at OPTI-Connect software I am not sure but from an APPC view I
> > would always want my target program that is doing the processing to the
> > object to be the entry on the Journal Receiver.
> >
> >         JMS
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Bob Larkin wrote:
> >
> > > This question concerns Opti-Connect, but your opinion would be
> > > appreciated, even if you are not using it.
> > >
> > > Opticonnect is the mechanism one of my clients uses to cluster several
> > > AS/400s. Data resides on machine A. Programs, Display Files, other small
> > > objects on Machine B, Machine C Mirrors data from A, and is used as a
> > > query machine.
> > >
> > > Here is the baackground on the question. A program on Machine A
> > > writes/updates/deletes a record on Machine B. This is done thru
> > > Opti-Connect using it's smoke and mirrors. Later, we look in the
> > > journals on Machine B, and find the record we just
> > > wrote/updated/deleted. When we look to see which program did the file
> > > I/O, we get the name of the IBM program that wrote the record for
> > > OptiConnect, not the name of our application program.
> > >
> > > My question......
> > >   Should the Journal contain my applications name, or the IBM programs
> > > name?
> > >
> > > We use these journals for diagnostics, among other things. Since we have
> > > files being updated by multiple applications, on multiple machines,
> > > seeing the Application Program's name, instead of the IBM program, would
> > > be helpful.
> > >
> > > Any opinions?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Bob
> > > blarkin@wt.net
> > >
> >
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