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.

New: MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS v2.3.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS v2.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS. MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS is a solution that allows a MQAdmin to control and restrict who is accessing an IBM […]

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MQ Visual Edit V2.1.0 Released

November 30, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v2.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified […]

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MQ Visual Browse V2.1.0 Released

November 30, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v2.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse V2. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue of a IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to […]

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Fedora 25 Released

November 22, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Fedora Project Contributors have just released Fedora v25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/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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End of Service Date for MQ Visual Edit/Browse v1.6.5

November 21, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 were released on May 5th, 2015. MQ Visual Edit v2.0.0 and MQ Visual Browse v2.0.0 were released on October 3rd, 2016. Therefore, support for MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 will end on December 31st, 2016 for individual licenses. If your company has […]

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Webinar: IBM MQ CONNAUTH/CHLAUTH Doesn’t Work Like You Think it Does

November 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting will be giving a webinar on issues/problems with/using CONNAUTH and CHLAUTH: https://www.imwuc.org/p/ca/vi/sid=435 Date: November 30, 2016 at 01:00 PM EST Description: Native MQ password authentication (CONNAUTH) introduced in IBM MQ v8.0 has gotten off to a rough start. As of Fix Pack 8.0.0.5, the interaction between CONNAUTH and CHLAUTH has […]

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Mozilla Firefox 50.0 Released

November 15, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v50.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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IBM MQ V9.0.1 Released

November 15, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has released IBM MQ V9.0.1: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/649/ENUSA16-0767/index.html Highlights: – More flexible connectivity – Additional control for monitoring – Improvements in managed file transfer – Initial availability of the IBM MQ Console for administration and monitoring of IBM MQ – Initial release of a new REST API to enable the creation of new http-based tools to […]

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MQ Visual Edit V2 Colored Topic Messages

November 9, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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After the noise from last night, I thought the world could use some color. 🙂 Opening (subscribing to) an MQ Topic can be done just like opening an MQ Queue but a user can also open (subscribe to) a topic with a wild card (either ‘#’ or ‘+’). So, I decided that when the user […]

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T.Rob Wyatt’s MQ Password/CHLAUTH Research

October 25, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting has published an extremely extensive blog posting on the use of UserID/Password and CHLAUTH rules with IBM MQ V8 and V9. You can find it here: https://t-rob.net/2016/10/25/mq-idpwos-chlauth-exec-summary/ He did huge number and variety of tests against 9 different releases of MQ. A big thumbs up for the effort in creating […]

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