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.

Troubleshooting WebSphere MQ Installation Issues

July 10, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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There is a new article on IBM’s developerWorks called: “Troubleshooting WebSphere MQ installation issues” http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1407_hans/1407_hans.html It has lots of diagnostic tips for MQ issues AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WMQ V8 and MQAUSXJ Client-side Java Bug

July 4, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The following was recently reported: When MQAUSXJ is used with a client application that is using WMQ V8 Java Jar files, the connection is closed with reason code 2407. It appears that IBM changed the behavior of a field, instead of empty (i.e. blank) field, they now set the field to null. If anyone is […]

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Richard Nikula’s Sessions at MQTC

June 27, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Richard Nikula of Nastel Technologies will be doing the following vendor session at MQTC: Beyond just monitoring MQ And Richard Nikula will be doing the following technical session at MQTC: Leveraging WBI (Broker) Monitoring For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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More Sessions Added to MQTC v2.0.1.4

June 26, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I was working on the scheduling for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) and I have a problem. It’s a little embarrassing but I have far more sessions than actual timeslots!! I was originally scheduling for 70 technical sessions and 10-15 vendor sessions but now, we will have 85 70 technical sessions and 10-15 vendor sessions. […]

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4 Speakers Coming From IBM MQ Labs in Hursley, UK

June 17, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The IBM MQ Labs in Hursley, UK will be sending 4 speakers (Mark Taylor, Morag Hughson, Dave Ware & Matthew Whitehead) to MQTC v2.0.1.4. Awesome. 🙂 Mark Taylor’s Sessions: What’s New in IBM Messaging IBM MQ Disaster Recovery IBM MQ Internals, Performance and Tuning For Distributed Platforms Morag Hughson’s Sessions: MQ CHLAUTH rules – including […]

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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 7.1.0.5 Released

June 12, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has just released FixPack 7.1.0.5 for WebSphere MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037553 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 30.0 Released

June 10, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v30.0. 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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Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

June 10, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64. […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.4 Early Bird Ends in Less Than 8 Weeks

June 5, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The early bird discount for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) expires on July 29th, 2014, which is less than 8 weeks away! So hurray and purchase your tickets before the early bird discount expires. MQTC will be the largest conference in the world solely dedicated to IBM’s WebSphere MQ. For more information, please go to: […]

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SQLite v3.8.5 Released

June 5, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.5. 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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