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 JMS Message Named Property Issues

May 16, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Ah, the joys of writing applications for IBM MQ and inevitable customer support that goes with it. 🙂 Late last week, a customer contacted me with an issue with MQ Visual Edit (MQVE) saying after adding Named Properties (i.e. mcd.Msd, etc.) to a regular message which should turn it into a JMS message, they could […]

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Andrew Schofield will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.8

May 15, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Andrew Schofield of IBM will be presenting the following sessions at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC): Andrew Schofield’s Technical Session: Event Streams using Apache Kafka and how it relates to MQ For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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More Information on Command Server’s Issues

May 14, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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As some of you may have read in T.Rob Wyatt’s blog, I’ve been doing some testing with MQ Auditor enabled on a queue manager to see what is going on under the covers with MQ and sending my results to T.Rob. I was just going to send a simple note to T.Rob saying he should […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.9 Released

May 11, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released FixPack 8.0.0.9 for IBM MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22015103 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Fan Trailers: Marvel Cinematic Universe

May 4, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Its Friday afternoon, whether you watched Avengers: Infinity War last weekend or will watch it this weekend, here’s a couple of fan based trailers for MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) set to Queen’s ‘We will rock you’. Enjoy. 🙂 Volume #1: Volume #2: Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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And Now For Something Completely Different At MQTC

May 4, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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I’ve decided to give MQTC’s Tuesday night ‘Bats of a Feather’ event in the vendor pavilion a rest and do something completely different. T.Rob Wyatt and I have been bouncing ideas around. Matt Whitehead of MQ Lab asked if they could do an MQ session on getting MQ feedback from customers. So, I thought maybe […]

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T.Rob Wyatt will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.8

May 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting will be presenting the following sessions at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC): T.Rob Wyatt’s Technical Sessions: Using runmqsc and dmpmqcfg over TLS client Automated cluster health monitoring For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Glen Brumbaugh will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.8

May 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Glen Brumbaugh of TxMQ will be speaking at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC). Glen Brumbaugh’s Sessions: MQ Security MQ, IIB, Docker, Kubernetes and the IBM Cloud For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Sandeep Chellingi will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.8

May 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Sandeep Chellingi of Prolifics will be speaking at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC). Sandeep Chellingi’s Sessions: MQ and IIB Deployment Patterns using Docker on IBM Cloud Private MQ High Availability and Disaster recovery Implementation scenarios For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Fedora 28 Released

May 1, 2018 Roger Lacroix
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Fedora Project Contributors have just released Fedora v28. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/ChangeSet Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. The Fedora operating system is 100% […]

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