Message Queues

Good news for those deploying UniVerse as part of a distributed infrastructure.

Rocket has announced that the upcoming Release 11 of UniVerse - the first and eagerly awaited major release of UniVerse since the move to Rocket - will include an upgrade to the current support for IBM WebSphere message queues (MQ).

UniVerse has long offered support for MQ through a serviceable Basic interface built upon AMI. However, this route for accessing MQ was superceded some years back and is now deprecated: the patches required to use AMI are not available for all operating systems and it is becoming increasingly difficult to track these down. So the investment in providing a link to MQ that supports more current protocols is very welcome, both technically and as a signal of intent.

From what I have been told, the old functions will continue to operate as they do currently so that sites can continue to run their existing MQ routines without the need to do any immediate development. The new functionality will be provided through a new set of MQI functions. This means that sites wanting to make use of the new features will need to do some development work, but it is probably the safer option.