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.

Here We Go Again!

December 13, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is being forced to change our online shopping cart again. Ugh! When Capitalware started selling software in 2003 (yup, a long time ago), I signed up with RegSoft (owned by Digital River) to handle the online shopping cart. Everything worked well and I was happy with the setup. In January 2011, Digital River decided […]

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FreeBSD v12.0 Released

December 12, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v12.0. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/announce.html FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive […]

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Update to Java MQ PCF Code Samples

December 11, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Tim Zielke posted a comment to my blog posting of Java MQ Code to List Channel Status about an extra PCF response from a z/OS queue manager that caused the code to throw an exception. So, I updated line # 156 in MQListChannelStatus01.java to be: You can download the updated source code for MQListChannelStatus01.java from […]

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Static Analysis of Java Code

December 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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A few weeks ago, I was reading Java Magazine and in the current issue, it was reviewing the results of a Java Developer survey. One of the questions in the survey was “Which static quality tools do you use?”. I guess I’m part of the 36% of the people (results of the survey) who don’t […]

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SQLite v3.26.0 Released

December 6, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.26.0. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0

November 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0. It is a free open source project. MQ Channel Monitor (MQCM) application is a software package that is designed to gather and to display the status of MQ channels of the queue manager. MQCM displays 16 columns of channel status information. The display […]

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IBM MQ V9.1.1 Announced

November 27, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.1.1: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS218-511/index.html Highlights: MQ V9.1.1 base provides the following: Support for running applications on Microsoft™ .NET Core Provision for a list of acceptable Transport Layer Security (TLS) CipherSpecs Dynamic TLS CipherSpec negotiation More effective integration with IBM WebSphere® Liberty Improved queue manager restart and client reconnect times MQ Advanced V9.1.1 […]

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Capitalware IniFile GUI Tools Updated

November 26, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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If you read my ‘Size Matters’ blog posting, this is just a continuation but for Capitalwre’s IniFile GUI Tools. Many of Capitalware’s back-end solutions have a lot of keyword/value pairs, so each product has an associated IniFile GUI Tool program to make it easier for the MQAdmin to configure the IniFile rather than using notepad […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.1 Released

November 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.1 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10738815 and for IBM i: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10740195 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Size Matters

November 15, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Ha! Got your attention. 🙂 This posting is not what you think it is about! So, get your mind out of the gutter. 🙂 A couple of weeks ago, a customer using MQ Visual Edit sent me a screenshot of an issue they were having. The column label on one of the windows was truncated. […]

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