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.

MQ Visual Edit and IBM MQ AMS

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The other day, an end-user contacted me saying that their MQAdmin had recently implemented IBM MQ AMS (Advanced Message Security) to some of their queue managers and that the end-user was having issues getting MQ Visual Edit working with those particular queue managers. Its too bad that the customer chose IBM MQ AMS over Capitalware’s […]

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IBM MQ V9.2.1 Announced

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IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.1: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS220-448 Highlights: MQ V9.2.1 base provides the following: Enhancements to the MQ Console Enhancements to MQ Script commands (MQSC) The authority model has been simplified for MQ running in containers to enable you to define permissions for users without the users having to exist in an LDAP server. IBM […]

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Another Useful Feature of runmqsc

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I was reading the MQ Knowledge Center today (surprising, yes, I know!) looking up whether or not runmqsc in client mode uses regular PCF commands when sending commands to a remote queue manager. It doesn’t. It uses escaped PCF messages. Anyway, I stumped across an interesting new feature that IBM included in IBM MQ v8.0 […]

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MQ Batch Toolkit v3.2.1 Released

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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v3.2.1. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Batch Toolkit. 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 […]

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MQTT Message Editing Suite V1.0.0 Released

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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQTT Message Editing Suite V1.0.0. 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 format similar […]

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C Code to Lookup MQ Reason Code

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Starting with the release of IBM MQ v8.0, IBM included a new header file called: cmqstrc.h. The file description says: This file provides mappings between MQI constant values and string versions of their definitions. In the cmqstrc.h file, from IBM MQ v9.2, there are 342 subroutines for looking up the various integer values and returning […]

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New: MQ Message Compression v1.0.0

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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Compression v1.0.0. MQ Message Compression (MQMC) is a solution that provides compression for MQ message data while it resides in a queue or topic and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). Data compression is the process of modifying and/or converting […]

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Replay of Online Meetup: Enterprise messaging on the Raspberry Pi with IBM MQ

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If you wanted to attend the online meetup of Enterprise messaging on the Raspberry Pi with IBM MQ but could not attend, you can now watch the replay of it at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learn-about-ibm-mq-an/register Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Troubleshooting Common TLS SSL Errors

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IBM has just published a helpful support document called: IBM MQ Troubleshooting Common TLS SSL Errors. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6359069 If you are having MQ SSL/TLS issues then have a read of this document and follow the instructions. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Withdrawn/Discontinued: IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform – Message Gateway

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I just came across the following announcement that says IBM has completely pulled the plug on IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform – Message Gateway. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6340723 So basically, that leaves IBM MQ as IBM’s primary messaging platform for MQTT? It is rather odd since IBM has refused to fully support MQTT in IBM […]

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