Date:         Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:46:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Myles Powers <myles.powers@CSC.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Myles Powers <myles.powers@CSC.COM>
Subject:      Re: IBM MQ interface with SAS V8.2, Unix or Windows server
Comments: To: david_johnson@TOTALISE.CO.UK

Check out http://www.sas.com/itech/doc/messageq/index.html.
The MQSeries examples should work with your MQService and Object names.
Many of the call routines will report back current message parameters.

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 22:59:15 -0000, Total DJ <david_johnson@TOTALISE.CO.UK>
wrote:

>A client with MQ for their Call Centre is looking to integrate the
>functionality with SAS.  From what little I have managed to glean from
>the team working on MQ, it is a Message Queueing system, developed by
>IBM.  A client requirement results in a message sent into a queue.  They
>wish to send requests from that message to a SAS server and have results
>surfaced back to the MQ system.
>
>It seems to me that all they are doing is setting up a set of query
>parameters, which I should be able to pass into SAS, which will then
>surface results in some predefined location.  I imagine something like
>Integration Technologies will have the functionality required, but I am
>having trouble finding out why the export of a set of parameters from
>the Queue is not possible, or if it is, why they cannot then look at a
>given intranet or file address for the results.
>
>Has anyone worked with SAS and MQ before, who can give me some guidance.
>Needless to say, I haven't worked with MQ before, but I have worked on
>Call Centres, understand their data needs, and have enough experience of
>SAS to be confident of starting a job with some pre defined criteria.
>
>Kind regards
>
>David Johnson
>
>
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