Websphere MQ stage vs Websphere MQ connecor stage

svga · Post by **svga** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:31 am

Can anyone please let me know the difference between the Websphere MQ stage vs Websphere MQ connecor stage. Which stage has better advantages over other?

Thank you for the help.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:39 am

The new Connector stages replace all of the existing equivalent stages, which have been "deprecated". IBM encourages you to switch entirely over to them.

svga · Post by **svga** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:46 am

Thank you for your response...

svga · Post by **svga** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:48 am

Hi..One more question...

What is advantage of MQ connector stage over MQ stage?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:01 am

Other than the fact that they (eventually) will be the only supported stages? There's plenty of information out there for the googling about the new Common Connector stages, the technology behind them and the advantages they bring. If you're not willing to trawl IBM's official site, you can find articles like this one out there, as one example.

svga · Post by **svga** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:17 am

Thanks so much for your help..

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:17 pm

The Connector can handle * both * the MQ Client API and the MQ Server API......the Stage has to be installed with the desire to use one or the other....

...the Connector is set up to be coordinated with the DTS stage for distributed transactions and work queues....

...the Connector supports end of wave directly....

lots of things like this.....I've noticed that the Stage does a better job of sending indpendent columns into a payload when targeting, but that's a minor thing, especially when most messaging apps these days are carrying xml, so the link to/from an MQ Connector is usually one large varchar.

Ernie