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.

IBM MQ for HPE NonStop V8.1 is now available

April 11, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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IBM MQ for HPE NonStop V8.1 is the follow-on offering to MQ for HPE NonStop V8.0 and also the next release for clients who follow the Continuous Delivery (CD) releases. https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/897/ENUS219-093/index.html Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.2 Released

April 10, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.2 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10879379 and for IBM i: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10880085 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.6 Released

March 28, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.6 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10876306 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Swift 5 Released

March 26, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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Ted Kremenek of Apple has announced release of Swift 5: https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/ Swift 5 is a major milestone in the evolution of the language. Thanks to ABI stability, the Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities that […]

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Oh Hardware, how I hate thee!

March 25, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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Well, there went 2 days of my life I won’t get back. 🙂 About 2 weeks ago, when I booted up my SLES 64-bit Linux server, it complained about issues with the hard drive. So, I ran “fsck” to fix the file system issues. There was only a couple of problems then everything was fine. […]

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New: Universal File Mover v2.0.0

March 20, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v2.0.0. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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Offline C Runtime Library Reference

March 14, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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Google is a great search engine. When I search for “ftime linux”, the first search hit will be the man page for ftime which is exactly what I wanted. But sometimes I just want the whole manual in PDF format so that I can simply read about functions and scroll through it while I’m trying […]

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More RSS Sidebar MQ Content on my Blog

March 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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You may have noticed for a couple of weeks that the “IBM MQ” content sidebar was not showing anything. That is because IBM again changed the link. IBM doesn’t publish the information and they love to change it every so often, so for me it is like a game of whack-a-mole. Someone sent me the […]

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Weird Problem related to a Channel Security Exit

March 1, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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I posted the following weird channel security exit problem on the MQSeries ListServer. I received a lot of emails (both public and private) offering help to the problem. Thanks. It was not an SELinux issue nor was it a corrupt shared library issue. It was an issue related to permissions for a mount point. Here […]

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Best Practices for an IBM MQ Channel’s SHARECNV Parameter

March 1, 2019 Roger Lacroix
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I was chatting with Josh the other day and he asked me if I knew that IBM now does not recommend uses the default value of 10 for a channel’s SHARECNV (shared conversation) value. He said that the MQ Knowledge Center recommends for distributed queue managers a value of 1 for a channel’s SHARECNV. Of […]

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