Is there something like UPOC protocol on CSC Client?

[Jim Kosloskey]

All,

We have a situation where CSC might be of benefit to us.

We have a Client system that has its messages in MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) and that is it.

If we were to try and use CSC on the Client system we would need to write some code that connects CSC Client to MSMQ I think, since from the published documentation it seems the only protocols supported currently are TCP/MLP and File.

Is there a place for custom (Tcl or Java or .Net) code to be deploeyd on the CSC Client such that instead of getting the messages via TCP/MLP or File one could deploy custom code for protocols not covered in the CSC configurarion (like the UPOC Protocol in Cloverleaf(R)?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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[Scott Folley]

This would be great functionality and I believe that CSC would benefit greatly from being able to service all of the different connectivity options that Cloverleaf can service.  Currently that is not the case, the only options open to you are to listen on a port or to read from a directory.  Once you have the message in, you have similar functionality to the Inbound-TPS and Outbound-TPS and you can filter based on an HL7 message type but you have to get the messages in via one of those two methods.

I do not know how MSMQ works but I know that IBMs MQ Series sits on top of TCP/IP for its transport.  If that is the case for MSMQ then it might be possible to listen on a port for communications from MSMQ and then parse the MQ header in the “Inbound-TPS” or just pass the communications raw to the server and use the MQ capabilities of Cloverleaf but this is just theoretical because I do not have the ability to test it.  Intuitively I can see little reason why that would not work.

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