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.

LibreOffice 3.5 Released

February 14, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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LibreOffice has just released LibreOffice v3.5. http://www.libreoffice.org LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it’s available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, […]

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Very Cool: PortableApps.com

February 10, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I just came across PortableApps.com and was amazed by what I found. I have no idea how I have never heard of them before now!! (It has been around since 2004.) http://portableapps.com PortableApps.com is the world’s most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and […]

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IBM announces End of Support for WebSphere MQ v6.0

February 10, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has announced that support for WebSphere MQ v6.0 will end on September 30th, 2012. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21584325&myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSFKSJ&mync=R If you are running WebSphere MQ v6.0 on any of the following platforms then you will need to migrate to WebSphere MQ v7.0 to have support for WebSphere MQ. AIX HP-UX (Itanium) HP-UX (PA-RISC) iSeries (IBM i or OS/400) […]

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Free IBM e-book: Thinking outside the data warehouse

February 8, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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IBM is giving away free copies of the e-book: Thinking outside the data warehouse https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_PKG=500018646 Thinking outside the data warehouse: How businesses increase agility, boost performance and lower TCO Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQAUSX LDAP on Linux x86 & Linux x64

February 1, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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When MQAUSX first supported LDAP authentication, Capitalware used Novell’s LDAP Libraries for C for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux x86, Linux x64 (x86 64-bit) and Windows. Several years ago, for AIX, HP-UX and Solaris platforms, we switched to the native/included client LDAP libraries that are available for each OS (Operating System). This week, a weird bug […]

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Mozilla Firefox 10.0 Released

January 31, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v10.0. 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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MQAUSX/MQSSX versus WMQ v7.1 CHLAUTH

January 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Last week, there was a robust/lively discussion on the MQSeries List Server regarding Derek Hornby’s question of (see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.mq.devel/13985): In the MQ V7.1 base install, a channel authentication record is created which is a “block user list” for all channels, and the block is on a User List of *MQADMIN So I created a User […]

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Where’s the Security?

January 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Over the last 2 months, all of the sudden, I have “where’s the security?” phrase running through my head. Instead of that little old lady from the 80’s Wendy’s commercial saying “Where’s the beef?”, I have her in my head saying “Where’s the security?”. Back in 2005, when I first starting selling Capitalware’s MQ Authenticate […]

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Advanced Workflow with MQ File Mover (How To #6)

January 16, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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And now for something completely different. 🙂 In this blog posting, I will show you how to create an MQFM Workflow to do something other than move files with MQ. Lets say you have an online backup service or a cloud service where you want to backup important files to. So lets create an MQFM […]

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Export Messages from a Queue as a PDF File

January 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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When sharing information with team members or people in other groups, have you ever wanted to export/save messages from a queue into something other than a plain text file? In this blog posting, I will show you how to use MQ Visual Edit, MQ Visual Browse or MQ Batch Toolkit to generate a PDF or […]

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