TxMQ, Inc. Introduces: MQ Capacity Planner™

TxMQ, Inc. Introduces: MQ Capacity Planner™Presented by: Allan Bartleywood

Senior Executive Consultant

©2014 TxMQ, Inc., 1430B Millersport Highway, Amherst, NY 14221 | 716-636-0070 | www.txmq.com

What is IBM MQ?• The Industry Standard Application Messaging-oriented Middleware• For how long ?

– MQM MVS/ESA V1.1 - 1993– MQSeries V2.x – 1995– WebSphere MQ V5.3 – 2002– Latest V8.0 - 2014

• Platforms Supported– AIX, HP, IBM I, Linux, 4690, Solaris, Windows, z/OS– Both Client and Server

• MQ APIs– IBM Message Queue Interface (MQI) for C, Java, Cobol, PL/1, RPG and C++– Java Message Service (JMS)– XMS for C/C++ and .NET– Not Officially supported

• Perl, Python, Windows PowerShell


How Does MQ Work?


Flexible Architecture• MQ Server Based– Any to Any– Hub and Spoke– Zoned Hub and Spoke

• Enterprise Shared MQ Service– Centralized MQ Service– Applications are Clients – Physical deployment

• Hub and Spoke • May include Zoning


• What is the capacity of a Queue Manager?• Capacity of the MQ environment• Segments of the MQ environment

How do we measure MQ Capacity?

Big Questions


Basic Hub & Spoke Example



How Does MQCP™ Do This?

• By using a process– Repeatable– Measurable– Quantifiable

• Measures Queue Manager responses vs. system utilization


What makes MQCP™ Unique?• Configurable process– Multi-threaded– Produces 1000 messages per thread– Puts– Gets– Puts & Gets

• Capture system utilization• Produce charts


Sample Environment• Linux Redhat 2.6 VM– 4 cores (i7 2.8 Ghz boosting to 3.6 Ghz)– 4 GB Memory– Storage, SSD

• MQ Version 7.5– Hub and Spoke Queue Managers


Thread Response Time


Message Response Time


CPU Utilization


Transaction per second


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Application Persistent Message Puts to QueueTPS / No of Threads / Message Size

1KB Messages10KB Messages20KB Messages30KB Messages50KB Messages75KB Messages100KB Messages

No of Active Threads

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CPU Total : 100 Threads : 100Kb Messages

User% Sys% Wait%

What is MQ Capacity Measuring?

MQ Capacity => sum( Response Time = MsgSize + (latency * 2) * demand )


© 2013 TxMQ, Inc, 1430B Millersport Highway, Amherst, NY 14221 | 716-636-0070 | www.txmq.com

Summary

• Cost management• Understand your current MQ capacity• Effectiveness of your virtual and horizontal

program

© 2013 TxMQ, Inc, 1430B Millersport Highway, Amherst, NY 14221 | 716-636-0070 | www.txmq.com

Contact UsContact us about Scheduling your MQ Capacity Planner engagement.Miles Roty: Vice President, 716-636-0070 (228), [email protected], or [email protected].

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TxMQ, Inc. Introduces: MQ Capacity Planner™