Posted by [IP Address: 12.79.213.143] 'Martin Jaegemann' on August 23, 2001 at 14:53:59 EST:
In Reply to: How is MQSI as an integration tool? posted by [IP Address: 12.79.213.143] 'Grisha' on August 21, 2001 at 15:25:49 EST:
: Looking for opinions regarding MSQI versus Mercator/LSMW?
Mercator is easier to learn and to use (my experience), and it has a lot of adapters to databases, messaging systems, communication protocols like HTTP, FTP, and ERP software like SAP R/3, Peoplesoft, OracleAQ, including importers for data definitions (type trees).
MQSI is tightly integrated with MQ Series, i.e. message oriented. Though IBM offers some support for database access etc., integration with ERPs is much more complicated (for both, data type definition, and IO adapters).
It's mapping engine is actually licensed from NEON. The mapping rules are kept in a database so they can be modified "on the fly" (Mercator uses compiled maps so changes require here a re-compilation and deployment of the compiled maps).
As a mapping engine I'd certainly favor Mercator - it's easier to learn and easier to use, and pretty powerfull; and it has more support for standard interfaces, what means the development time (cost) to create interfaces is lower.
Regarding data routing and messaging, it depends on the environment you're working with - high performance, stability requirements speak for MQSI, also, if MQ Series is already used. Tough, you can integrate Mercator pretty nicely with MQ Series, too (getting the best out of both products).