A customer requested a new feature be added to MQ Authenticate User Security Exit (MQAUSX).
The new feature is called Excessive Client Connections (ECC). ECC is an alert system that counts the number of connections over a period of time (i.e. Day / Hour / Minute) and writes a message to the log when the count exceeds a particular value. If the keyword WriteToEventQueue is set to ‘Y’ then an event message is also written to an event queue. The reason the customer requested the ECC feature, is to catch applications that are poorly written, for example, applications that continuously connect and disconnect from the queue manager for every message sent or received.
i.e.
UseECC=Y ECCWarnCount=100 ECCInterval=H
The above example says to generate a warning logfile message (and event message) if the channel receives more than 100 connections over the hour.
If you would like to try out the new feature then send an email to
support@capitalware.com and we will send you the latest release of MQAUSX or z/MQAUSX.
Note: The ECC feature has also been added to MQSSX and z/MQSSX.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
