Job submission steps

For every job that you want to submit you should at least perform the following steps:

1. Connect to the queue manager that manages the request queue.
2. Open the request queue for output.
3. Put one or more request messages on the request queue. Each message specifies a single request.
4. Close the request queue.
5. Disconnect from the queue manager.

This protocol allows you to submit several jobs over a single queue. In fact, the same queue can be used simultaneously by a number of clients. The steps above only describe the most basic form of interaction with ITP/Server via MQSeries. More complex forms of interaction are described below. How you connect, open a queue, send a request, close a queue and disconnect is described in the MQSeries manuals. This section describes the format of the requests that you sent to ITP/Server. Note that any client that has the MQSeries middleware installed can send requests to ITP/Server (provided it has sufficient access rights). Currently the MQSeries interface software is available for various platforms.