RE: qsyslibl entries and qmqm

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Ingvaldson wrote:

> I highly recommend that you do not put MQ Series libraries in 
> any library
> list. (including JOBD's)  MQ Series has a nasty habit of 
> locking up, (in our
> environment anyway) leaving all the users with requests 
> stacked up waiting
> for timeouts.  Then when IBM suggest a "cold start" you have 
> to make all of
> the users sign off so you can get the MQ libraries out of 
> their library
> lists.

I think this is slightly unfair to MQSeries.  It _used_ to be so, up to
and including MQSeries V4R2M1 -- and we had some times when we had put
QMQM in our SYSLIBL, and had to IPL the machine to quiesce the product.
So I would agree with the recommendation.  But I haven't seen anything
like the number of problems since MQSeries went to 5.1 and above.  Your
mileage may vary, of course.

And as to the version numbering, I think the original poster was
referring to MQSeries 5.3 (which is the current version) when he said
V5R3.  The AS/400 version of the product used to used the VRM numbering
convention like (but independent from) OS/400.  But after V4R2M1 (of
MQSeries) the version numbering (and codebase) was standardised across
the platforms (the OS/400 version came in line with all the others, in
other words).  So the correct way to refer to the release is "MQSeries
version 5.3".

Cheers,

Martin.

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