RE: Warehouse Automation Project

Could always use MQ Series...

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 5:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Warehouse Automation Project



> I have thought about going to dataqueues and skip all that SQL-stuff. 
> Are there dataqueue tools for Unix and Win2K systems (Visual Basic)?

I'm not aware of dataqueue tools for Unix, and I've had major stability
problems with data queues in Windows (I was using RUMBA, though, not client
access)

Sockets, however, are available on all of those systems... assuming that
they're all able to talk TCP/IP to each other.  Unlike data queues, sockets
are real-time.  (A data queue doesn't know if there's a program listening
for entries.  If there's no program there, it simply queues the entries for
later processing. Whereas, a socket scenario, there has to be a program
listening, or you get an error.)

Your Unix programmers will almost certainly be familiar with socket
programming, it's very common on Unix systems.   Your Windows programmers
might be familiar...  your iSeries programmers probably aren't, but I've got
a tutorial for them! :)

http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/socktut/


If you don't want to go with sockets, you might explore MQ Series. Although
I haven't used it, I know someone who uses it for this type of processing,
and he's happy with it.

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