And now for something completely different. The following comments are for your ‘right-brain’. 🙂
When you create documentation or presentations, how do you draw MQ queue managers and queues?
We all know what IBM uses for a queue manager – a yellow square with a single ‘U’ inside the square and for a queue, IBM uses a ‘U’ with an envelope inside.
I tend to draw a light blue colored square box with many ‘U’s inside the square and for a queue, I draw a ‘U’ with a ridge (i.e. like a bowl with a ridge or lip). Personally, I don’t like this design for a queue. I prefer the open box with many envelopes in it but it is hard to get many of those pictures in inside the square box for the queue manager. And when I am creating a small picture (of a queue manager), it is impossible to draw an ‘open boxed queue’ inside it.
So, close your eyes and let your right-brain speak. How do you visualize queue managers and queues?
Also, how do you differentiate queue managers in different environments. A company can have different environment where they run MQ. i.e. Sandbox, DEV, TEST, QA, UAT, PrePROD, PROD, etc.. Do you draw a queue manager for DEV differently than PROD? Or do you color-code them differently?
I have to create lots of document for products, this blog and presentations for MQTC, so I would like to hear from everyone about how they visualize or draw queue managers and queues across the different environments.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
