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Status Not under consideration
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 10, 2015

Add MQ functionality to zTPF - MRTMR and MRRTY

Asking for a standard retry mechanisms be added to the z/TPF MQ product.
Here is what is requested:

Channel parameters affecting message retry


Message Retry Interval - MRTMR - Default(1000) - The minimum time in milliseconds that must pass before the channel can
retry the MQPUT operation. A value of 0 means that the retry will happen as soon as possible.


Message Retry Count MRRTY - Default(10) - The number of times the channel will retry before it decides it cannot deliver the message.
A value of 0 means that the retry functionality is disabled.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Oct 21, 2021

    IBM does not expect to implement this in the foreseeable future.
    An alternative to this is to use the channel message retry exit to set a retry interval and retry count in order to deliver the message.

  • Guest
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    Apr 19, 2019

    IBM has modified some of the information in this request. Please contact us if you have any questions.

  • Guest
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    Oct 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF