Archive for the Category: Linux

Swift 5 Released

March 26, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Ted Kremenek of Apple has announced release of Swift 5: https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/ Swift 5 is a major milestone in the evolution of the language. Thanks to ABI stability, the Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities that […]

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Oh Hardware, how I hate thee!

March 25, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Well, there went 2 days of my life I won’t get back. 🙂 About 2 weeks ago, when I booted up my SLES 64-bit Linux server, it complained about issues with the hard drive. So, I ran “fsck” to fix the file system issues. There was only a couple of problems then everything was fine. […]

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New: Universal File Mover v2.0.0

March 20, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v2.0.0. 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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Offline C Runtime Library Reference

March 14, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Google is a great search engine. When I search for “ftime linux”, the first search hit will be the man page for ftime which is exactly what I wanted. But sometimes I just want the whole manual in PDF format so that I can simply read about functions and scroll through it while I’m trying […]

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More RSS Sidebar MQ Content on my Blog

March 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix

You may have noticed for a couple of weeks that the “IBM MQ” content sidebar was not showing anything. That is because IBM again changed the link. IBM doesn’t publish the information and they love to change it every so often, so for me it is like a game of whack-a-mole. Someone sent me the […]

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Weird Problem related to a Channel Security Exit

March 1, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I posted the following weird channel security exit problem on the MQSeries ListServer. I received a lot of emails (both public and private) offering help to the problem. Thanks. It was not an SELinux issue nor was it a corrupt shared library issue. It was an issue related to permissions for a mount point. Here […]

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Best Practices for an IBM MQ Channel’s SHARECNV Parameter

March 1, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I was chatting with Josh the other day and he asked me if I knew that IBM now does not recommend uses the default value of 10 for a channel’s SHARECNV (shared conversation) value. He said that the MQ Knowledge Center recommends for distributed queue managers a value of 1 for a channel’s SHARECNV. Of […]

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How to Compile and Link MQ Programs on Linux

February 13, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Someone on StackOverflow asked “How to compile a C program without knowing the include files”. JasonE gave a really good answer, so I thought I would repeat it here: To compile and link 64-bit MQ applications on Linux, follow the instructions here To compile and link 32-bit MQ applications on Linux, follow the instructions here […]

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SQLite v3.27.1 Released

February 8, 2019 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.27.1. https://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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IBM MQ V9.1.2 Announced

February 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.1.2: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZP19-0031/index.html Highlights: MQ V9.1.2 base automatically balances a pool of connected applications across a set of available queue managers. MQ V9.1.2 base provides enhanced REST Messaging performance with connection pools. MQ Advanced V9.1.2 includes the capabilities in MQ V9.1.2 base and new REST API calls for MQ Managed File […]

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