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.

Security with Secret Phrases, Passwords, etc.

November 19, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Over the weekend, I was reading different articles/blogs about how people think that passwords, no matter how long, are useless. These people write that their accounts (email, Apple, phone, bank, etc) were hacked even when they used long passwords. When you reread the articles/blogs and analyze what they are saying, you realize that the password, […]

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SupportPac MS0P v7.1.0.2 Released

November 16, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Mark E Taylor of IBM has released version 7.1.0.2 of SupportPac MS0P. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011617 This SupportPac provides a set of plug-ins for the WebSphere MQ Explorer, extending its capabilities for configuration of queue managers, and displaying additional information about those queue managers. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Free: Parser, Syntax Checker and Interpreter Tools

November 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is now hosting Richard Tsujimoto’s Parser, Syntax Checker and Interpreter Tools. These tools provide a simple means for parsing strings, perform syntax checking and interpreting the parameters and/or values of the parsed strings. https://www.capitalware.com/psci_overview.html These tools are written in C for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, IBM i (OS/400) and Windows. For IBM mainframes, the tools […]

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Excelsior JET Charity Bundle

November 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Excelsior have announced the Excelsior JET charity bundle, where you can get the standard edition of Excelsior JET for just $10 (without support), and they contribute all of the money to charity. www.ExcelsiorJET.com/charity That’s a discount of over $1,100 from the list price of Excelsior JET Standard Edition. What’s the catch? No support. That’s fine, […]

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Did Human Intelligence Peak 2000 to 6000 Years Ago?

November 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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The Independent reports that Professor Gerald Crabtree of Stanford’s Crabtree Laboratory has put forward the iconoclastic idea that rather than getting cleverer, human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and from then on there has been a slow decline in our intellectual and emotional abilities. Given what I see on the nightly news, I would […]

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RFE for Adding Security Exit support to WMQ FTE

November 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I have created an RFE called “Add security exit support to WMQ FTE”. The RFE ID # is 28410. Please vote for it, so that IBM will add security exit support for WMQ FTE plugin, agents and other FTE components when connecting to a remote queue manager. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=28410 To vote, locate the “RFE Actions” section […]

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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 7.1.0.2 Released

November 9, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released FixPack 7.1.0.2 for WebSphere MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21612438 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WMQ v7.1 and v7.5 manuals as PDFs

November 9, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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After a nice community push for RFE # 21041, IBM has made available WebSphere MQ v7.1 and v7.5 manuals as PDFs. 🙂 WebSphere MQ 7.1 PDFs: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.mq.doc/zo00170_.htm WebSphere MQ 7.5 PDFs: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r5/topic/com.ibm.mq.doc/zo00170_.htm Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Batch Toolkit v2.0.2

November 8, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v2.0.2. MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. For more information about MQ Batch Toolkit go to: https://www.capitalware.com/mqbt_overview.html Changes for […]

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Free IBM e-book: Understanding Big Data

November 7, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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IBM is giving away free copies of the e-book: Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_PKG=500016891&S_CMP=is_bdebook1_bdmicrornav Big data is going to change the way you do things in the future, how you gain insight, and make decisions (the change isn’t going to be a replacement, rather a synergy and extension). […]

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