Apache ActiveMQ ™ -- zOS

Running ActiveMQ on z/OS

It is relatively straightforward to run the ActiveMQ broker on z/OS.

There are a couple of steps:

1. Copy ActiveMQ to z/OS
2. Modify the configuration
3. Run using JZOS
4. Test

Copy ActiveMQ to z/OS

Ensure that the 1.5 JVM is available on z/OS, together with the JZOS component.
Download the .zip version of ActiveMQ from Apache.
FTP the broker to a suitable directory in USS.
Log into USS using rlogin or whatever has been configured at your site to do a login into USS.
Extract the zip file using the command: jar -xvf apache-activemq-5.0.0.zip
This will extract the whole package in ASCII, so do not except any of the files to be viewable on z/OS, except using special editors suitable for ASCII.
Maybe rename the directory to which the files were extracted to something shorter or create a softlink for more convenient access.

Modify the configuration

Currently, the Jetty plugin does not work on z/OS, so need to be disabled in the activemq.xml file.

FTP the activemq.xml file from the conf directory in the ActiveMQ installation to your PC in binary mode.
Edit the XML file using your XML editor or a text editor like Wordpad.
Search for "jetty" in the XML.
Change the comment block so that jetty is completely commented out.
Save the file.
FTP the file back into the location on z/OS it came from, again in binary mode, so that it is preserved as an ASCII file.

Run using JZOS

I have renamed the lib/optional directory in USS and shortened some of the lib/optional jar names to make the JCL easier to handle. The JCL to run the ActiveMQ broker is then:

ACTIVEMQ.JCL

//ACTIVEMQ JOB (), // CLASS=A,
// MSGCLASS=X,
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
// NOTIFY=&SYSUID,
// REGION=0M,
// TIME=1440
//PROCLIB JCLLIB ORDER= //*
//********************************************************************* //*
//* Batch job to run Tomcat under JZOS
//*
//* Tailor the proc and job for your installation:
//* 1.) Modify the Job card per your installation's requirements
//* 2.) Modify the PROCLIB card to point to JZOS proclib
//* 3.) Set VERSION='14' for Java 1.4 or VERSION='50' for Java 5
//* 4.) Set JAVA_HOME to point the location of the Java SDK
//* 5.) Set CATALINA_HOME to point to the shared Tomcat install dir
//* 6.) (Optional) set CATALINA_BASE to point to instance specific
//* Tomcat base dir
//*
//********************************************************************* //*
//JAVA EXEC PROC=JVMPRC50,
// LOGLVL='+D', // JAVACLS='org.apache.activemq.console.Main', // ARGS='start' //STDENV DD * # This is a shell script which configures # any environment variables for the Java JVM. # Variables must be exported to be seen by the launcher. . /etc/profile export JAVA_HOME=/space/javaV5_31/J5.0 AMQ_HOME=/home/user/activemq/amq ACTIVEMQ_BASE="$AMQ_HOME"

export PATH=/bin:"${JAVA_HOME}"/bin:

LIBPATH=/lib:/usr/lib:"${JAVA_HOME}"/bin LIBPATH="$LIBPATH":"${JAVA_HOME}"/bin/classic export LIBPATH="$LIBPATH":

CLASSPATH="${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/conf" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/activemq-all-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/bin/run.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/bin/wrapper.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activation-1.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-console-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-core-5.0.0-tests.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-core-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-jaas-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/activemq-web-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-core-1.2.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-jms-1.2.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/camel-spring-1.2.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-j2ee-management_1.0_spec-1.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-jms_1.1_spec-1.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec-1.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/jaxb-api-2.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/jaxb-impl-2.0.3.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/stax-1.2.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/stax-api-1.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/spring-2.0.6.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xbean.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jetty-6.1.4.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jetty-util-6.1.4.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activeio-core-3.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/geronimo-j2ee-connector.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activeio-core-tests.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/geronimo-j2ee-jacc.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activemq-optional-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/activemq-xmpp-5.0.0.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/jmdns-1.0-RC2.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-beanutils-1.6.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/log4j-1.2.14.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-collections-3.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/servlet-api-2.5-6.1.4.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-dbcp-1.2.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-httpclient-2.0.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/commons-pool-1.2.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xmlpull-1.1.3.4d_b4_min.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/derby-10.1.3.1.jar" CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$AMQ_HOME/lib/opt/xstream-1.1.2.jar" export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":

# Set JZOS specific options # Use this variable to specify encoding for DD STDOUT and STDERR

export JZOS_OUTPUT_ENCODING=IBM-1047

# Use this variable to prevent JZOS from handling MVS operator commands

export JZOS_ENABLE_MVS_COMMANDS=false

# Use this variable to supply additional arguments to main

export JZOS_MAIN_ARGS=""

# Configure JVM options # Note that ActiveMQ requires default ASCII file.encoding IJO="-Xms64m -Xmx512m" IJO="$IJO -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1" IJO="$IJO -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" IJO="$IJO -Dorg.apache.activemq.UseDedicatedTaskRunner=true" IJO="$IJO -Dderby.system.home=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/data" IJO="$IJO -Dderby.storage.fileSyncTransactionLog=true" IJO="$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password" IJO="$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password" IJO="$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/broker.ks" IJO="$IJO -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/broker.ts" IJO="$IJO -Dactivemq.classpath=${CLASSPATH}" IJO="$IJO -Dactivemq.base=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}" IJO="$IJO -Dactivemq.home=${AMQ_HOME}" IJO="$IJO -Djava.io.tmpdir=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/temp"

# Configure SDK5.0 to use shared classes (at group level) # You must comment this out if you are not running SDK 5 groupname=`id -gn` IJO="$IJO -Xshareclasses:name=$groupname,groupAccess" export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS="$IJO "

export JAVA_DUMP_HEAP=false export JAVA_PROPAGATE=NO export IBM_JAVA_ZOS_TDUMP=NO //

Test

Once the broker has been started on z/OS, modify one of the example application to have the hostname of the z/OS system and run it to confirm that the broker is functioning correctly.

You can also gather information about the broker as usual using jmx.

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