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RockmanJoe
RockmanJoe

Reputation: 1658

How do I stop losing messages on MQ

I am writing a Java application, running in a LINUX environment, that does transactions on an MQ using SYNCPOINT. It uses Websphere MQ Java Classes to interact with the MQ service. What I am doing in my code is the following (pseudo):

MQGetMessageOptions gmo = new MQGetMessageOptions();
gmo.options = MQConstants.MQGMO_FAIL_IF_QUIESCING | MQConstants.MQGMO_SYNCPOINT;

MQMessage message = new Message();
queue.get(message, gmo);

// process the message, save to database

databaseConnection.commit();
queueManager.commit();

I basically grab the message, process it, persist to database, then call a commit on the queueManager. The process listens for a message on TIBRV in order to do a graceful shutdown.

I've been testing the process to make sure no messages are lost. I place 20k messages on a queue, then run the process. I perform a graceful shutdown call in the middle of processing. I then compare the amount of messages on the queue versus the amount of messages in database. When a graceful shutdown occurs via TIBRV message, the number of MQ messages + the number of DB messages = total messages originally on the queue.

However, when I do a kill or kill -9, I see that a message is lost. I always end up with a result of 19999 total messages.

Is there a way I can investigate how I am losing this message? Is there anything that occurs on the Websphere App Server that I would need to be aware of?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6466

Answers (2)

mqrus
mqrus

Reputation: 325

There is no reason to expect the numbers to reconcile when using single-phase commit. The program will always be between the WMQ and DB Commit call or else between the DB and WMQ Commit call when you kill it.

What you are asking for would require 2-Phase (XA) Commit. For WMQ, 2PC would require the application to be using bindings mode and for WMQ to be the resource coordinator. You would then call MQBEGIN, execute your WMQ and DB updates, then call MQCOMMIT. This way both the WMQ and DB transactions would succeed or fail together.

Upvotes: 5

Jason B
Jason B

Reputation: 406

Are you connecting or MQ in bindings mode or client mode? In my experience, transactions didn't work out of the box in client mode, but they did in bindings mode.

Upvotes: 0

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