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.

MQTC v2.0.1.5 Gold Sponsor: OpenLogix

April 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware would like to announce that OpenLogix is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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‘Restore the Link’ Wins at Western Engineering First-Year Design Showcase

April 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Some of you may remember my son, Tyler Lacroix, as a speaker at MQTC v2.0.1.3 for the ‘MQ Telemetry Transport Programming’ session. He is now in first year engineering at the University of Western. Tyler’s group (Dana Zagar, Eric Robinson, Kaylin Haill and Tyler) entered the Engineering First-Year Design Showcase along with nearly 500 students […]

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New: MQ Message Replication v1.0.0

April 13, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Replication v1.0.0. MQ Message Replication (MQMR) will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates […]

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SQLite v3.8.9 Released

April 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.9. 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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Leap Second May Cause Linux To Freeze

April 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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If you are running IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ/MQSeries) on Linux then you should read the following ‘Flash Alert’ published by IBM: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21602521 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 37.0 Released

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v37.0. 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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New Open Source Project called ‘Round Robin Messaging’

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce a new open source project called: Round Robin Messaging (RRM). RRM is a MQ application that will move messages from a single input queue to ‘n’ output queues (‘n’ can be up to 99) in a round robin fashion. There are 2 reasons people may be interested in RRM: […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Gold Sponsor: TxMQ

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware would like to announce that TxMQ is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.0

March 30, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.0. MQ Channel Throttler (MQCT) provides the ability to control/throttle the number of messages or bytes that flow over a channel. MQCT operates with IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) v6.0, v7.0, v7.1, v7.5 and v8.0 in Windows, Unix, IBM i […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.2.0

March 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v1.2.0. 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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