MQ Network Mapper Supervisor: Peter Strazdins Client: Trung Nguyen (EDS), MQ Admin, Customs Connect Facility Presentation by Tim Goodwill, Thursday 09/03/2006 Graduate Diploma Information Technology (eScience) COMP6701, eScience Project I Semester

Intro Background Overview Goal Sources Summary & Questions

Background Websphere MQ is used in every major industry in many countries around the world, and is the pseudo-standard for program-to-program communication in the Financial industry.

Background The MQ Network: Websphere MQ is IBM’s middleware for commercial messaging and queuing – a method of program-to-program communication. Websphere MQ programs use a consistent API across all platforms

Background The MQ Network: Each remote system has its own queue manager with its own queues. The queue manager transfers messages to other queue managers via channels using existing network facilities, such as TCP/IP, SNA, SPX.

Background The MQ Network:

Overview Introducing – ‘HyperTree’

Overview

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Goal Portable Out-of the box Auto Discovery At-a-glance-monitoring Easily accessible diagnostic information

Timetable WeekDatesNotes 416 MarModelling and Learning of Chosen Technics Phase 630 MarModelling phase completed. 720 AprMid-project result (prototype) 94 MayImplementation of Comments MayDebugging 1118 MayDocumentation 1227 MayImplementation completed. To Supervisors. 131 JunFinal report, code cleaning, debugging. 148 JunProject presentations JunExamination period 1622 JunFinal Reports

Sources

HyperTree Java Library – IBM Redbooks – IBM Software - WebSphere MQ – Library – IBM Software -WebSphere MQ- Support – IBM Websphere MQ Iformation Center –

Summary MQ – Ubiquitous in the Financial industry May be vast, complex networks HyperTree – Hyperbolic tree structure Challenges: –Data handling - HyperTree –Websphere MQ ‘PCF’ Commands Portable, easily deployable, diagnostic

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