This is a discussion on Queue manager naming standard - Websphere ; I'm in the process of defining some Websphere MQ standards for our organization. I have found a fairly old looking document at http://www.capitalware.biz/dl/docs/MQStandards.pdf . It states that queue manager names should be kept short because many queue managers use the ...
I'm in the process of defining some Websphere MQ standards for our organization. I have found a fairly old looking document at http://www.capitalware.biz/dl/docs/MQStandards.pdf .
It states that queue manager names should be kept short because many queue managers use the first 8 characters when generating unique message IDs.
Does anyone know (a) if this is still the case, as the document seems rather old (b) whether this applies to version 6.0.2.4 Websphere MQ queue managers running on Solaris?
Thanks very much for any responses.
Richard
Short qmgr names are easier to type and easier to say. All upper case and no punctuation seems to be a common pattern. Prefix of MQ or QM is common. The rest of the name can indicate the system name, app name, environment (dev/test/uat/prod etc), and an arbitrary sequence number (to cater for multiple similar qmgrs). eg. MQACMET01 is Acme's first test qmqr.
BTW, z/OS is limited to 4 character qmgr names. Names like MQT1, MQA1 etc are common.
HTH,
Glenn.
