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.

Configuring Mutual TLS Authentication for an IBM MQ Messaging Application

January 15, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Max Kahan of IBM has published a hands-on blog posting on how to configure an IBM MQ application for mutual TLS authentication. https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/configuring-mutual-tls-authentication-java-messaging-app/ In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to secure the queue manager and a client application, enabling them to complete a two-way TLS handshake and secure a messaging channel. Although we’re using […]

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CDex and freedb

January 13, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that my favorite gift (hint, hint) is music on CDs. (1) It is the best quality available for music and (2) the artists get paid the most from selling a CD (vs radio or streaming). I received a bunch of CDs for Xmas, so today I thought […]

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IBM MQ: What’s New and What’s Next Webinar

January 12, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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IBM will be hosting a webinar on IBM MQ called: What’s New and What’s Next When: March 30, 2021 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (ET) You can find out more information and to register go to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/middleware/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=c0bcb907-5eb5-4691-8ecd-cdcd29ba4c50 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Capitalware’s MQ Exits for Raspberry Pi

January 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Well, after having fun compiling and linking my Java applications into native applications for Raspberry Pi ARM, I decided to next tackle the compiling and linking all of the MQ Exits that I have created over the years. Currently, Capitalware has 9 commercial distributed MQ solutions that are MQ Exits and 3 ‘Licensed as Free’ […]

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Capitalware releases MQ Visual Edit for Raspberry Pi

January 7, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit for Raspberry Pi. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility […]

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Capitalware releases MQ Visual Browse for Raspberry Pi

January 7, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse for Raspberry Pi. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program. […]

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Capitalware releases MQ Batch Toolkit for Raspberry Pi

January 7, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit for Raspberry Pi. MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. MQ Batch Toolkit can run on the following […]

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Capitalware releases MQTT Message Editing Suite for Raspberry Pi

January 6, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQTT Message Editing Suite for Raspberry Pi. MQTT Message Editing Suite (MMES) application allows users to subscribe, publish, edit, copy, delete, forward, backup, restore, import and export messages of a topic of an MQTT Broker. The messages of a topic are presented in a table […]

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Capitalware releases World Clocks for Raspberry Pi

January 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the availability of World Clocks for Raspberry Pi. The World Clocks application allows the user to quickly view the time and date from various time zones from around the world. World Clocks can display as many time zones that will fit on the user’s display. World Clocks is available […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.11 Released

December 22, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.11 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-90011 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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