INTRODUCTION
This module implements a perl5 API for the IBM MQSeries / WebSphere MQ messaging middleware product API (often referred to as the MQI), as well as:
- Object Oriented (OO) interface to the MQI
- OO interface to the MQSeries administrative commands via PCF or MQSC
- OO interface to the Publish/Subscribe subsystem
- OO interface to the various configuration, log, and error files
For more information on the MQSeries / WebSphere MQ product itself, see the IBM website at: http://www.ibm.com/software/mqseries
PREREQUISITES
This release requires perl5.005 or later, and some release of the IBM MQSeries product installed, either V5.1, V5.2 or V5.3.
The PubSub extensions, and the RulesFormat message support require either V5.2 or V5.1. MQSI is not supported.
PLATFORMS
This package has been known to build with the following combinations of software. Those marked with an asterix (*) are platforms the maintainer can not test personally, so there is a remote possibility that there may be new bugs in these platforms. Please report problems to the maintainer.
Operating System MQSeries Version Perl Version
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* SunOS 5.5.1 5.0 5.00502
5.00503
5.6.1
* SunOS 5.6 5.0 5.00503
SunOS 5.7 5.1 5.00503
5.6.1
5.8.0
SunOS 5.7 5.2 Same as SunOS 5.7 / MQ 5.1
SunOS 5.7 5.3 Same as SunOS 5.7 / MQ 5.1
SunOS 5.8 5.1 Same as SunOS 5.7 / MQ 5.1
SunOS 5.8 5.2 Same as SunOS 5.7 / MQ 5.1
SunOS 5.8 5.3 Same as SunOS 5.7 / MQ 5.1
*IRIX 6.5 2.x Same as SunOS 5.5.1
*IRIX 6.5 5.0 Same as SunOS 5.5.1
*HP-UX 11.0 32bit 5.1 5.00503
*HP-UX 11.0 32bit 5.2 5.6.1
*NT 4.0 5.0 AS build 521
*NT 4.0 5.1 AS build 521
*NT 4.0 5.1 AS build 617
*NT 4.0 5.1 AS build 617
*Windows 2000 5.2 ??
*Windows 2000 Pro SP1 5.2 ActivePerl 5.8
5.3 ActivePerl 5.8
*Windows 2000 Pro SP2 5.2 ActivePerl 5.8
5.3 ActivePerl 5.8
*Windows 2000 Pro SP3 5.2 ActivePerl 5.8
5.3 ActivePerl 5.8
*AIX 4.3.3 5.1 5.00503
*AIX 4.3.3 5.2 5.6.1
*AIX 5.1L 5.2 5.6.1
*SuSE Linux 6.3 5.1 5.00503
*HP-UX 10.20 ?? ??
*HP-UX 11 5.3 5.6.1
*Redhat Linux 5.2 ?? ??
*Redhat Linux 6.1 5.1 5.00503
*Redhat Linux 6.2 5.1 5.6.0
Redhat Linux 7.x 5.2 5.00503
5.6.1
5.8.0
Redhat Linux 8.x 5.2 5.00503
5.6.1
5.8.0
Redhat Linux 8.x 5.3 Same as Red Hat 8 / MQ 5.2NOTE: The ?? indicates that I received reports of a successful test suite run, but I never received confirmation of the MQSeries version. if you have built in on these platforms, *PLEASE* help save the free world by letting me know what version of MQSeries, compiler, perl, etc. you built it with.
If you succeed in making this work on any other platform, please send the changes (in the form of a context diff) to the author, so I can integrate it.
INSTALLATION
This module installs much like anything else available on CPAN.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Before building the module, you need to edit the CONFIG file and change, minimally, the name of the queue manager against which the tests will run. The rest of the defaults should be reasonable, but you will have to customize this file to match your local environment. The CONFIG file has comments which document each of the parameters, so go read it for more information.
On some platforms (notably Linux and HP-UX), you need to link to different libraries depending on whether your perl has been set up to run multi-theaded or not. The MQClient/Makefile.PL script tries to figure this out automatically; if you run into issues, patches to that script will be welcome.
You will obviously need to create the queue used for the test suite on the queue manager you specified in the CONFIG file.
NOTE: If you do not support client channel table files, then you may have to set the MQSERVER environment variable in order to allow the client tests to work.
Any failure in the test suite should a cause for concern. In order to get more details from it, run it via:
make test TEST_VERBOSE=1If you can't figure out what broke, then send the author the output from "perl -V", as well as the output from the verbose test run. Please include as many details as possible about the operating system and MQSeries software on both the host being used to compile this extension, as well as the queue manager to which the test suite is connecting.
RELEASE NOTES
The Changes.html file has a complete, historical list of all user-visible (and some invisible) changes to this code.
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation will be installed as man pages by default, but the location of them depends entirely on how you have perl built and installed. Watch the installation, and you will see where they get installed. Prepend that to your MANPATH environment variable, and then, all of these man commands will work.
Personally, the author prefers the results of "pod2html", but the perl5 Makefile.PL infrastructure won't do this for you automatically.
man MQSerieswill provide the documentation for the core MQI interface, and,
man MQSeries::QueueManager
man MQSeries::Queue
man MQSeries::Messagewill provide the core documentation for the OO interface.
The following man pages document the classes that handle various special MQSeries message types:
man MQSeries::Message::Event
man MQSeries::Message::Storable
man MQSeries::Message::XML-Dumper
man MQSeries::Message::PCF
man MQSeries::Message::RulesFormat
man MQSeries::Message::DeadLetterThere is an OO interface to the Command Server:
man MQSeries::Command
man MQSeries::Command::Request
man MQSeries::Command::ResponseThere is also an interface to the Publish/Subscribe system:
man MQSeries::PubSub::Broker
man MQSeries::PubSub::Stream
man MQSeries::PubSub::Command
man MQSeries::PubSub::Message
man MQSeries::PubSub::AdminMessageA number of utility classes have been created for parsing the various file formats used by the MQSeries product:
man MQSeries::Config::ChannelTable
man MQSeries::Config::Machine
man MQSeries::Config::QMgr
man MQSeries::ErrorLog::Parser
man MQSeries::ErrorLog::Tail
man MQSeries::ErrorLog::Entry
man MQSeries::FDC::Parser
man MQSeries::FDC::Tail
man MQSeries::FDC::EntryAUTHORS
The code is currently maintained and supported by:
Hildo Biersma <Hildo.Biersma@MorganStanley.com>Most of the previous development, maintenance and support work was done by:
W. Phillip Moore <Phil.Moore@MorganStanley.com>We also have to give credit to:
Brian T. Shelden <shelden@shelden-associates.com>for his help in porting and testing the code.
This module was originally developed as an IBM SupportPac, so credit must also go to the original author:
David J. Lennon <davidl@bristol.com>Although, nothing remains of the original code.... (sorry, David :-)