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.

3 Weeks until MQ Technical Conference

September 9, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) is only 3 weeks away – September 29 to October 1, 2014 at Kalahari Resorts in Sandusky, Ohio. MQTC will offer 85+ sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM’s WebSphere MQ on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS. […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.4 Schedule Updated

September 5, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I’ve made some small modifications to the schedule at www.mqtechconference.com/schedule.html A session list by topics can be found at www.mqtechconference.com/sessions.html Here is a list of sessions by speaker: Technical Sessions: Mark Taylor of IBM: – What’s New in IBM Messaging – IBM MQ Disaster Recovery – IBM MQ Internals, Performance and Tuning For Distributed Platforms […]

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Shortlist of Open Source Software that I Use

September 3, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I read this article today: Shortlist of open source software used at NASA lab and I thought I should do a quick write up of the open source (and free) software that I use. I develop/create software under 3 umbrellas: open source, licensed as free and commercial. About half of the software is written in […]

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Mozilla Firefox 32.0 Released

September 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v32.0. 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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MQTC v2.0.1.4 Silver Sponsor: NetFlexity

September 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware would like to announce that NetFlexity is a Silver Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Bob Zerbe will be Speaking at MQTC

September 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Bob Zerbe of BMC will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Bob Zerbe will be presenting the following session at MQTC: Using WebSphere Exits to Track Transactions Thru Composite Applications For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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4 Weeks until MQ Technical Conference

September 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) is only 4 weeks away – September 29 to October 1, 2014 at Kalahari Resorts in Sandusky, Ohio. MQTC will offer 85+ sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM’s WebSphere MQ on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS. […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Channel Throttler

September 1, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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All, Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Channel Throttler. MQ Channel Throttler provides the ability to control/throttle the messages that flow over a channel. It operates with Sender, Receiver, Server, Requestor, Cluster-Sender, Cluster-Receiver, Server Connection and Client Connection channels of the WMQ queue managers. Companies or users may have […]

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MQVB, MQVE & MQBT JRE Cipher Spec Issue

August 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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A customer was using MQ Visual Browse (MQVB) and configuring MQVB to use SSL to connect to a remote queue manger (WMQ v7.5.0.2). They said: I am getting error “Reason Code = 2400”, when specifying TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA as the SSL Cipher Spec Name. They also said: We have other MQ Java using SSL working with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA […]

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MQ Batch Toolkit and Limiting the Messages Retrieved

August 26, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I don’t write about MQ Batch Toolkit (MQBT) very often, so when I got an MQBT support email today, I thought that the question and answer would make a good blog item. Question: In MQ Batch Toolkit, what command can be issued, for exporting messages to a file, to retrieve all messages on a queue […]

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