Developing a plan to prevent queue overflow occurrences
Based on the information that you have collected and analyzed on queue overflow occurrences and queue usage, determine what actions should be taken to keep these problems from affecting your IMS availability.
The following table shows possible solutions to the types of queue overflow occurrences you might typically expect to encounter.
Examples of queue overflow occurrences | Solutions |
|---|---|
A runaway BMP inserts a large number of messages in the queues. | Abend the BMP. |
A computer or link failure causes outbound messages to fill the queues. | Stop the origin of the messages or unload and dequeue the messages. |
Reports that are no longer needed continue to be queued by legacy applications. Since these messages are not pulled off the queues, they slowly fill the message queues. | Dequeue and unload the messages. |
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