Author Archives: Roger Lacroix

My name is Roger Lacroix and I am a die hard programmer. I have been programming since the 80s. My favorite programming languages are Java, C and Rexx. I have worked in the Airline, Retail but I have spent most of my time doing middleware work in the financial services industry. In 1994, I was introduced to IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) and I thought it was the next best thing since man created fire. This blog will be about IBM MQ, Java, C, Rexx and any other interesting items that I can think of. I hope you enjoy it.

Schools are Obsolete

March 4, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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If you live in Ontario Canada, you can’t help but think that the title is correct. If you want to learn about the dysfunction in Ontario’s school system, then just Google (search) it, as I have no interest in writing about the sorry state of affairs. My wife started home-schooling our 5 kids long before […]

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March 1, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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New: Universal File Mover v1.0.3

February 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v1.0.3. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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New: MQ File Mover v4.1.8

February 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of MQ File Mover v4.1.8. It is a free open source project. MQ File Mover is a managed file transfer solution that facilitates the transfer of files using IBM’s WebSphere MQ (aka MQSeries). MQFM processes “Action” commands which are controlled through an MQFM Workflow XML file. The user […]

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Mozilla Firefox 19.0 Released

February 19, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v19.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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RFE: Generating MQ Stats for Puts on Remote Queues

February 15, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Peter Potkay has created an RFE (Request For Enhancement) for generating MQ Statistics for MQPUTs on Remote Queues. MQ provides statistics for # of PUTs and GETs, and last date/time of PUTs and GETs for Local Queues. It would be real helpful to have these statistics available for individual remote queues. Since XMITQs are often […]

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Emergency Broadcast System Hacked

February 15, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing when I read this article. I especially like the police’s response. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/zombie-alert-hoax-emergency-broadcast-sy/240148355?cid=nl_IW_daily_2013-02-12_html&elq=f2fe05f4fed74f9eac66c2cababa620e Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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dlsym and dlerror Weirdness on Solaris

February 14, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Lately, I have been complaining about Microsoft’s Visual C++, so I figured I better write about some recent Solaris weirdness. A customer installed MQAUSX on Solaris v10 that has WebSphere MQ v7.0.1.9 installed. They configured MQAUSX to authenticate the incoming MQ client connections against a remote LDAP server. Everything was working perfectly fine. Here’s what […]

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Ooka Island Adventure – Very Interesting!

February 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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I was watching an episode of Dragons’ Den and Lowell MacPhee & Joelle MacPhee were on pitching Ooka Island Adventure. Ooka Island Adventure is an online educational web site designed to increase literacy skills for children. 99% of the “educational” web sites out there use the standard “do section 1 and when you pass, move […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.0.2

February 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v1.0.2. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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