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IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher

By : Pav Kumar-Chatterjee, Pav Kumar Chatterjee
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IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher

By: Pav Kumar-Chatterjee, Pav Kumar Chatterjee

Overview of this book

Business planning is no longer just about defining goals, analyzing critical issues, and then creating strategies. You must aid business integration by linking changed-data events in DB2 databases on Linux, UNIX, and Windows with EAI solutions , message brokers, data transformation tools, and more. Investing in this book will save you many hours of work (and heartache) as it guides you around the many potential pitfalls to a successful conclusion. This book will accompany you throughout your Q replication journey. Compiled from many of author's successful projects, the book will bring you some of the best practices to implement your project smoothly and within time scales. The book has in-depth coverage of Event Publisher, which publishes changed-data events that can run updated data into crucial applications, assisting your business integration processes. Event Publisher also eliminates the hand coding typically required to detect DB2 data changes that are made by operational applications. We start with a brief discussion on what replication is and the Q replication release currently available in the market. We then go on to explore the world of Q replication in more depth. The latter chapters cover all the Q replication components and then talk about the different layers that need to be implemented—the DB2 database layer, the WebSphere MQ layer, and the Q replication layer. We conclude with a chapter on how to troubleshoot a problem. The Appendix (available online) demonstrates the implementation of 13 Q replication scenarios with step-by-step instructions.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

MQ queues


MQ queues can be thought of as conduits to transport messages between Queue Managers.

There are four different types of MQ queues and one related object. The four different types of queues are: Local Queue (QL), Remote Queue (QR), Transmission Queue (TQ), and Dead Letter Queue, and the related object is a Channel (CH).

One of the fundamental processes of WebSphere MQ is the ability to move messages between Queue Managers. Let's take a high-level look at how messages are moved, as shown in the following diagram:

When the application Appl1 wants to send a message to application Appl2, it opens a queue - the local Queue Manager (QM1) determines if it is a Local Queue or a Remote Queue. When Appl1 issues an MQPUT command to put a message onto the queue, then if the queue is local, the Queue Manager puts the message directly onto that queue. If the queue is a Remote Queue, then the Queue Manager puts the message onto a Transmission Queue.

The Transmission Queue sends the message...