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.

Simple File Transfer using Universal File Mover (How To #2)

December 10, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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In the Universal File Mover (UFM) How To #1 blog posting, UFM ran in “bindings mode” when it connected to the queue managers. In this blog posting, I will show how to do the same simple file transfer but in “client mode” when UFM connects to the queue managers. Client mode connectivity means that the […]

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New: MQ Visual Edit v1.6.2

December 5, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v1.6.2. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a […]

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New: MQ Visual Browse v1.6.2

December 5, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v1.6.2. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar […]

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Football Week # 14

December 5, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Well, week # 13 was interesting. Small Sliding scale picks were 8-8 and Fibonacci Sliding scale picks were 10-6. Like I said, Fibonacci Sliding scale picks have potential – maybe next year I’ll start using them. 🙂 Small Sliding scale picks for week #14 (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for week […]

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Impact 2013

December 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I just received an email from IBM regarding being a sponsor at Impact 2013: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact/ Note: Impact 2013 will be held at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV on April 28 – May 2, 2013. From an MQ point of view, does anyone find Impact useful? Now I said “MQ” and not “WebSphere”. Inquiring minds […]

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Football (NFL) Spreads

November 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I’m not really interested in Fantasy Football leagues (or other Fantasy sport leagues) but back in the early 90’s, I joined an NFL football pool when I was working at a bank (and I’m still in the pool). I thought I could apply some AI to the concept of picking my weekly picks. 🙂 Everybody’s […]

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Simple File Transfer using Universal File Mover (How To #1)

November 29, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I get asked on a regular basis how to do a simple Universal File Mover (UFM) setup on 2 servers. It is actually very straight forward and I will run through an example in this blog posting. In this example, the following servers are used: – aix001 is an AIX server with WMQ Server and […]

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New Desktop PC

November 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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A year ago, I bought a new ASUS ZenBook (UX31E-DH72) and it has been a great laptop. For the last 6 months, my 5 year old desktop PC has been feeling slow, especially compared to my new laptop. The old PC is a dual display running WinXP with quad-core and 4GB of RAM. It was […]

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MQ File Mover vs Universal File Mover

November 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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What is the difference between MQ File Mover (MQFM) and Universal File Mover (UFM)? To be honest, UFM v1.0 was originally called MQFM v5.0. There were so many things that I wanted to add/fix/change in MQFM that the more I did, the more I realized that I would have a lot of angry people when […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.0.0

November 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of Universal File Mover v1.0.0. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover (UFM) 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 […]

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