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Status Delivered
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 8, 2020

Implement zTPFDF connector for Java/Kafka Producer enhancement

We would like to take advantage of the Java/Kafka support on zTPF. The current implementation, MQ local queues are used as the guaranteed delivery mechanism. With our experience with MQ local queues, valuable system resources are required to support these local queues when the remote queue/channel is unavailable.

For some of our guaranteed delivery payloads, we have moved away from using MQ due to the system resouce requirements. We have moved our 'local queues' to zTPFDF databases. zTPFDF performs considerably better and is less intrusive on system resources.

For this reason, we would like to have a zTPFDF connector to the Java/Kafka implementation.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 9, 2021

    This is available with z/TPF APAR PJ46377.