Hello wums,

My suggestion is to - for reasons of extensibility and maintainability - not to include it into the code directly but to create a file with queue names and their threshholds, like this:

Code:

QL.QUEUE1     50
QL.QUEUE2     75
QL.QUEUE3     100

At the start of your program you read in this file line by line and create an associative array of integers with the queue names as index and the threshhold values as values. When a line with a queue name is to be printed you first consult this array and if the queue name is in there you compare the queues length with the threshhold value and decide upon this if it is to ve included in the report or not.

Decisions you will have to make still are: what will happen if a queue is not included in this list. You have several options i could think of: a queue not included in the list is considered to have a threshhold of 0. This resembles what we started with. Another possibility is to ignore every queue not included in the list (so that in fact their "threshhold value is infinite". This way the list in your file would contain an extensive list of the queues you are interested in. Another possibility is to declare a general threshhold so that queues only get reported when they are crossing this threshhold. ONly the queues in the list will have their own differing threshhold value set according to this list. This is quite similar to the first possibility but there you'd have a general threshhold of zero.

I hope this helps.

bakunin