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IBM is Open Sourcing Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway (formerly IBM MessageSight)

Back in November 2020, IBM announced that they would be withdrawing/discontinuing IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway. The other day, IBM announced that they would be donating the source code for Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway (formerly IBM MessageSight) to Eclipse. You can read about the new Eclipse project here: https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-amlen […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6434245 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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All Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

David Csakvari has a blog posting called: A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16 If you ever wondered or needed to know what has changed between releases of Java, David Csakvari’s blog posting has an excellent list of changes. On the flip side, if you are a new […]

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Java 16 Released

Oracle has just released Java 16. https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-arrival-of-java-16 Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today’s demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today’s applicationsrequire. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Enhancement to Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

Yesterday, I wrote a blog item regarding Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files. I forgot that the dmpmqcfg program can output the MQ Object information as 1 line rather than spanning multiple lines. Hence, if we let dmpmqcfg do that work then we can simplify the Rexx script to only output the various MQ objects […]

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Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here. Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository. […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 Released

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6417257 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Message Duplication

IBM Support has a technical note labeled Does MQ have a feature to generate automatically a duplicate message?. The options listed on that page are to use Pub/Sub or programs qload and dmpmqmsg. You can also use MQ Visual Edit and MQ Batch Toolkit to get messages from a queue and write the message to […]

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Interesting Blog Item: IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST!

Morag Hughson of MQGem has a new blog posting called IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST! regarding a new feature in the IBM Knowledge Center. Instead of providing a link with the MQ version number, you can swap the version number for the word “latest”. This is a cool feature for putting links in a blog […]

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IBM MQ End of Service Dates

So, what version of IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) are you running? Are you behind in upgrading your release of MQ? Everybody “should be” running IBM MQ v9.0, v9.1 or v9.2, if you want support from IBM. In case it has slipped your mind, here is a list of IBM MQ releases and […]

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