At 03:40 AM 10/15/2004, Greg Stigers wrote:

>So, here are my questions and concerns. There are two challenges. First, the
>shop is quite conservative about these things, and fourth quarter is our
>lucrative season. I would need to demonstrate that creating and using queues
>presents no risk to the system. Is this in fact the case? And I would have
>to develop my plan to implement them. Are there advantages I am missing, or
>issues I should address to make my case?

Greg,

I have used user-defined queues a lot both in my shop and at clients, and
they are extremely helpful in managing jobs. As mentioned, they give you
the ability to easily single-thread jobs. They also give you the ability to
shut down processing for one particular application area while leaving the
rest of the system up. They have never caused any problems either here or
at my clients' sites.

As mentioned, they do not survive a reboot, so your startup procedures need
to set them up as one the first things they do.

--
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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