Advantages of using shared queues
The shared queue architecture, where cloned servers pull work from a single
shared queue, has some very useful properties:
- It is scalable, by adding new instances of the server application, or
even adding a new z/OS image with a queue manager (in the queue-sharing group)
and a copy of the application.
- It is highly available.
- It naturally performs pull workload balancing,
based on the available processing capacity of each queue manager in the queue-sharing
group.