Service Virtualization

Hi, Can anyone help me on MQ virtualization from the basics please?

You will probably have a better chance of getting help if you ask specific questions about what you are trying to do.  The documentation is a good starting place:

IBM WebSphere MQ Transport Protocol - DevTest Solutions - 8.5 - CA Technologies Documentation

Thanks Josh!

Hi, I am actually looking for a step-by-step procedure of MQ Virtualization (in DevTest 8.1). This is something that haven't done before.Which version of WebSphere best supports DevTest 8.1? Can I download that for free? Where can I get the required .jar files for WebSphere?

See if this helps. You will need WebSphere for MQ release 7 or 8. I've included a step-by-step, DevTest project, and the release 7 client jars

Thanks Robert! that was very detailed. I wanted to try that all by myself with the help of your documentation. But somehow, when i tried downloading the WebSphere release 7, ( WebSphere MQ V7.0 90 day trial for i 5 (formerly i5/OS V5) and i6 (formerly i5/OS V6) --> this is what i tried to download) the zip file just had some readme files but no setup.exe file. Have I downloaded the correct link?

Did you try the IBM Developer download site (IBM MQ Light):

IBM developerWorks : Download : IBM MQ, MQ Advanced for Developers, and MQ Light

If you're still having issues getting WAS MQ, please shoot me an email with your contact information at robert.karlin@ca.com

If you're looking for a setup.exe file you should download WebSphere MQ for WINDOWS, you're downloading it for OS V5i, you won't find a Windows EXE file there

Yep....thanks Rafael

Thank You very much! I will try this out and keep you posted on how it's going

I found this thread and started to check it for an upcoming PoC. However, I see that the server-responder.vsm can't be opened (managed) in the DevTest Portal in 9.1. The error message is Error while accessing the Virtual Service. Close the tab and try to open it again. (500 JSON Error Parsing Retrofit Error Error parsing JSON)

Ideas anyone?

Hi Bjorn -

Don't know what release of WAS MQ your're using, but wanted to check a couple things first:

• WAS MQ 7.5 (from the IBM MQ download site...advanced site for developers)...had issues with WAS MQ 8
• Useful blog: James the Integration Guy: Integrate the World | James, The Integration Guy
• Make sure to get the right WAS MQ jar files (referenced in the 9.1 doc):
• Third-Party File Requirements - DevTest Solutions - 9.1 - CA Technologies Documentation and the JAR files are available in the MQ_HOME\java\lib directory.place these in LISAhome\lib\core
• LISA_POST_CLASSPATH is set
  
• Now, back to your issue....
• I have an updated LISA project for this: MQdemo.zip (attached)
• remove server-responder.vsm from Server Console
• Bring up WAS MQ Explorer console and make sure all the Queue counts are zero by clearing the message (right-click, Clear Messages...)
• Redeploy server-responder.vsm and check the Server Console to see if it deployed without errors

IBM MQ Native Support - CA Service Virtualization - YouTube