April
27, 2004 Seminar Status and Presentation Download
This meeting was sponsored by Bristol Technology, IBM
Tivoli and IDI.
Managing Service Delivery Across J2EE and WebSphere MQ
Ken Blackwell, CTO,
Bristol
Technology
Ken presented how transaction tracking, monitoring, and
analysis can provide a methodology to address questions relating to what has
happened with a business transaction. Performing
transaction tracking from a middleware view of the world does this.
Examine transactions related to complex events associated
with in flight messages with rules to identify a variety of conditions and take
action if thresholds are exceeded.
Benefits
- Increase
service level based on real-time transactional performance
- Improves
capacity planning
- Reduce
and/or eliminate recurring errors
- Reduce
exception management cost by detecting transactional patterns and applying
rules to increase automation of decisions.
- Improves
customer service by relating specific transactional instance failure
IBM Publish and Subscribe Technical Overview
Patrick Verdugo, Business Integration Worldwide Technical
Support, IBM
Patrick presented WBI Broker’s publish and subscribe
messaging model, qualities of service, performance considerations,
implementation considerations, and multicast capabilities.
Patrick provided a pub/sub demonstration.
Topics covered in detail in the presentation include:
- Underlying
architecture and component interaction
- Pub/Sub
message detail
- Pub/Sub
messages and what they do
- Additional
features with business value and examples
- Best
Practices
Enhanced Security for WMQ and WBI
Joe Carusillo, Product Manager and Sales Enablement, IBM
Tivoli
Kevin Phillips, VP Sales & Marketing, Information Design, Inc
IBM and IDI showed how to implement security for WMQ and
WBI achieving data confidentiality and integrity, assure application and user
Authentication and Authorization, and meet regulatory and non-regulatory
security requirements
- Certificates
- WMQ
Authorization Options
- WMQ
Data Protection Options
MQS in Merrill Lynch and the future plan
John Froud, Middleware Technology, Merrill Lynch
John discussed the growth of MQS within Merrill Lynch, some
of the driving factors, some of the problems encountered, solved, and gotcha’s.
- Since
1997,
- Products
– WebSphere MQ 5.3
- Candle
ROMA v1.1
-
Candle
Command
Center
- Dramatic
growth in queue managers
- Built
monitoring and management tools and parameters heuristically
- Used
offshore successfully for Tier1. Had
to provide initial training
- Reviews
of each failure of significant outage caused the number of outages to
dramatically decrease.
- Moved
to hub based methodology to simplify
- Proactive
management using various indicators to anticipate and avoid problems
- WMQI
with hub methodology was not a good design because one user could disrupt
many others.
- Some
Memorable problems
- Some
infrastructure headaches
- Future
Directions
- Future
product support model
- Good
Q&A
How to efficiently manage WebSphere MQ projects
Maryellen Evans, President, Entploy
Unfortunately, Maryellen was called away but
Derek Hornby went through her presentation.
Topics covered include:
- Project
process
- MQ
Issues
- Point
to Point vs. Hub & Spoke
- Distributed
vs. Mainframe
- Middleware
Politics
- Complicated
Middleware Projects – pitfalls & recommendations
- Project
Process
- Design
Specifications
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Some presentation materials are available to be
downloaded:
J2EE-MQ.zip
PubSubBroker.zip
MQ-WBI-Security.zip
MQ at Merrill Lynch.zip
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