Message flow porting considerations

If you have configured a message flow that runs on a broker on a distributed system, and you now want to deploy it to a broker that runs on z/OS, be aware of the following:

WebSphere MQ queue manager and queue names
There are restrictions on WebSphere MQ resource names on z/OS:
  • The queue manager name cannot be greater than four characters.
  • All queue names must be in uppercase. Although using quotation marks preserves the case, certain WebSphere MQ activities on z/OS cannot find the queue names being referenced.

For more information about configuring on z/OS, refer to the WebSphere MQ for z/OS Concepts and Planning Guide.

File system references
File system references must reflect a UNIX file path. If you deploy a message flow to z/OS that you have previously run on Windows, you might have to make changes. If you have previously deployed the message flow to a UNIX system (AIX, Linux, Solaris, or HP-UX), you do not have to make any changes.
Related concepts
Message flows overview
Related tasks
Developing message flows
Related reference
Supported databases
Built-in nodes