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.

Price Drop for MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS

March 26, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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To stimulate sales of MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS (z/MQSSX), Capitalware has decided to slash the price of z/MQSSX. As of today, z/MQSSX will be priced at $999.00 USD per z/OS queue manager plus 15% Yearly Maintenance Fee down from the original price of $2490.00 USD (plus 15%). Also, the price for the ‘Enterprise […]

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Java and MQ issues with UFM and MQ v7.5.0.3

March 25, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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The last 3-4 weeks have been an interesting and painful, ‘beat your head against the wall’ type of developer nightmare. A customer was getting some very strange behavior with Universal File Mover (UFM) setting the Correlation Id of a message when running as a Windows service. When UFM is watching a directory for files to […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Platinum Sponsor: Nastel Technologies

March 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware would like to announce that Nastel Technologies is a Platinum 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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Essay on ‘How Time Travelling Theoretically Works’

March 13, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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And now for something completely different. 🙂 As some of you know, my wife and I have 5 kids. The reason we moved to London, Ontario is so that our kids could go to University of Western Ontario (aka Western) and live at home. Richard (son #1) is in 2nd year Engineering and Tyler (son […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Message Replication

March 11, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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All, Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Message Replication. I get a lot of emails asking me if I have a solution to do message replication/cloning. I always direct people to MMX (Message Multiplexer) application. Some people are happy with this solution but a lot of people say that […]

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New Feature Requested for MQAUSX (and z/MQAUSX)

March 10, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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A customer requested a new feature be added to MQ Authenticate User Security Exit (MQAUSX). The new feature is called Excessive Client Connections (ECC). ECC is an alert system that counts the number of connections over a period of time (i.e. Day / Hour / Minute) and writes a message to the log when the […]

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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.2 Released

February 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released FixPack 8.0.0.2 for WebSphere MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21697959 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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A Comparison of Capitalware’s MQAUSX to MQ V8 Authentication

February 26, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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The following is a comparison of Capitalware’s MQ Authenticate User Security Exit (MQAUSX) to IBM’s MQ V8 new authentication feature. By authentication, I mean UserId and Password authentication against a target system (i.e. Local OS, LDAP, etc.). Authentication IBM MQ V8 MQAUSX& z/MQAUSX Authentication against Local OS Yes Yes Authentication against LDAP Server Yes Yes […]

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Mozilla Firefox 36.0 Released

February 24, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v36.0. 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 releases IBM MQ Appliance M2000

February 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has announced IBM MQ Appliance M2000 that provides an optimized version of IBM MQ V8 that runs in a hardware appliance. IBM MQ provides universal messaging that allows applications, systems, and services to connect and exchange information securely, reliably, rapidly, and simply. Offering MQ capability in hardware appliances, additional features are provided, as well […]

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