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.

Raspberry Pi 4 and Network Interfaces

December 21, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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When I received my new Raspberry Pi 4, I simply plugged in the keyboard, mouse, power, monitor and booted it up. I originally just used a WiFi connection for everything including downloading IBM MQ. I setup MQ Visual Edit, MQ Explorer, PuTTY and FAR to connect to my Raspberry Pi 4. Now that I had […]

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Raspberry Pi 4 and IBM MQ

December 16, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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I have a new Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM and I decided to install the latest release of IBM MQ on it. The current available release of IBM MQ is v9.2.1 CD. If you want to try out IBM MQ on Raspberry Pi then just follow the instructions on this page. The instructions […]

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MQ Visual Edit V3.1.0 Released

December 15, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v3.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2/V3. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of a IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in […]

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MQ Visual Browse V3.1.0 Released

December 15, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v3.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse V2/V3. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue and/or topic of a IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format […]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 11, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.7 Released

December 11, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.7 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-9107 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Visual Edit and IBM MQ AMS

December 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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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

December 2, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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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

November 27, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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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

November 26, 2020 Roger Lacroix
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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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