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.

Second Day of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

October 2, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Breakfast: Lunch: Chris Frank presenting ‘Mysteries of the Distributed MQ Logger’ session: Afternoon desserts – cheesecake: Bats of a Feather session – sorry I didn’t get a picture of the winners: Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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First Day of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

September 29, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Breakfast: Mark Taylor presenting ‘What’s New in IBM messaging’ session: Glen Brumbaugh presenting ‘SSL/TLS: Using and Managing Certificates’ session: Lunch: Lyn Elkins presenting ‘MQ for z/OS – Taking advantage of the platform’ session: Afternoon desserts – ice cream social: What’s that you ask? Well, its an IBM MQ Appliance: Monday evening in the Vendor Pavilion: […]

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Sunday at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

September 28, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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This year’s attendance is up by 15%-16% over last year’s conference. 🙂 Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.5: Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 41.0 Released

September 24, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v41.0. 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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Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.5

September 18, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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I have just added a “Registration & Welcome” social on Sunday, September 27th, from 5PM to 8PM. The bar will be open and we will have a nice selection of hors d’oeuvres. In past years, people have asked if there was anything going on for Sunday night and the answer was always no. So for […]

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MQTC Session Names Changed

September 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Matthew Whitehead has renamed 2 of his sessions: “An Introduction to MQ Light, MQ’s beta support for AMQP & Bluemix” is now called “An Introduction to MQ Light and Bluemix”. “Deploying MQ Light applications against MQ” is now called “Hybrid messaging with MQ Light, MQ’s beta support for AMQP and Bluemix”. For more information about […]

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Prizes for Bats of a Feather Session

September 10, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Prizes for Bats of a Feather Session: The winner will receive a Pebble Steel Watch. Second place will receive a Nano Quadcopter. Third place will receive a PowerUp 3.0 Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane. Full details can be found at https://t-rob.net/2015/08/25/mqtcbats15/ For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Bats of a Feather Session

August 25, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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We’re trying something new at MQTC this year and if it goes well it may become a regular event. Let us know what you think by voting and participating in the contest. It’s conceived as a cross between the Birds of a Feather sessions from IMPACT and the slightly more subversive events that take place […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Final Schedule

August 21, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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The final schedule has been posted to www.mqtechconference.com/schedule.html A session list by topics can be found at www.mqtechconference.com/sessions_v2015.html A session list by tracks can be found at www.mqtechconference.com/tracks.html Here is a list of sessions by speaker: Technical Sessions: Mark Taylor of IBM: – What’s New in IBM Messaging – MQ Integration with Directory Services – […]

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Bug in MQ V8.0 for Getting Messages in a Group

August 20, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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IBM Support has posted a bug report that may affect some Universal File Mover (UFM) users. Title: IT09814: IBM MQ V8.0: Applications cannot get messages that were put to a queue as a group. Error description: In IBM MQ v8.0 an application that reads from a queue can fail to get messages that are put […]

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