Archive for the Category: z/OS

WebSphere MQ Redbooks

March 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM has several Redbooks that provide in-depth details for WebSphere MQ. Here are 5 MQ related Redbooks that I have found: WebSphere MQ V7.0 Features and Enhancements WebSphere MQ V6 Fundamentals WebSphere MQ V6, WebSphere Message Broker V6 and SSL WebSphere Application Server V6.1: JMS Problem Determination WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET Environment […]

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WebSphere MQ v7.1 and Java v1.4.2

February 29, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Here’s another head-banging item that some people may get burnt by. I was doing some testing of Java applications with WebSphere MQ v7.1 and received the following error message: If you do not know what “Unsupported major.minor version 49.0” means, in plain English, it means that the MQ Java JAR file you are using was […]

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WMQ v7 Java applications and JMS messages (MQRFH2)

February 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I have been banging my head against the wall this week over weird things in WMQ v7, so I figured I would post this so that people in the future would have less of a headache. A year or so ago, I noticed some odd behavior in WMQ v7 with Java applications reading messages with […]

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Where’s the MQ Security?

February 15, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I was at Wendy’s (in Canada) for lunch today and the cashier put the following flyer on my tray: Of course, it made me smile because I recently wrote a blog item that MQ people still need to implement either SSL or a security exit in WMQ v7.1. Maybe, I should create some T-Shirts with […]

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IBM announces End of Support for WebSphere MQ v6.0

February 10, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced that support for WebSphere MQ v6.0 will end on September 30th, 2012. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21584325&myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSFKSJ&mync=R If you are running WebSphere MQ v6.0 on any of the following platforms then you will need to migrate to WebSphere MQ v7.0 to have support for WebSphere MQ. AIX HP-UX (Itanium) HP-UX (PA-RISC) iSeries (IBM i or OS/400) […]

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MQAUSX/MQSSX versus WMQ v7.1 CHLAUTH

January 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Last week, there was a robust/lively discussion on the MQSeries List Server regarding Derek Hornby’s question of (see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.mq.devel/13985): In the MQ V7.1 base install, a channel authentication record is created which is a “block user list” for all channels, and the block is on a User List of *MQADMIN So I created a User […]

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Where’s the Security?

January 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Over the last 2 months, all of the sudden, I have “where’s the security?” phrase running through my head. Instead of that little old lady from the 80’s Wendy’s commercial saying “Where’s the beef?”, I have her in my head saying “Where’s the security?”. Back in 2005, when I first starting selling Capitalware’s MQ Authenticate […]

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Export Messages from a Queue as a PDF File

January 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix

When sharing information with team members or people in other groups, have you ever wanted to export/save messages from a queue into something other than a plain text file? In this blog posting, I will show you how to use MQ Visual Edit, MQ Visual Browse or MQ Batch Toolkit to generate a PDF or […]

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Links for WMQ Automatic Client Reconnect

December 15, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Here are some links to information on the Automatic Client Reconnect in WMQ v7.0.1 or higher: WMQ Client manual: Automatic client reconnection WMQ Using Java manual: Automatic client reconnection WMQ System Administration Guide manual: Automatic client reconnection Exploiting the Automatic Client Reconnect feature in WebSphere MQ JMS 7.0.1 Exploiting the Automatic Client Reconnect feature introduced […]

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WebSphere MQ version 7.1 Released

October 6, 2011 Roger Lacroix

IBM has released WebSphere MQ versoin 7.1: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP11-0483 Highlights – Multi-version and re-locatable installation for easier install, testing, and migration – Support for virtualized environments – Scalability and message throughput enhancements – Reduced complexity for enabling and checking system security – Extensions to support for .NET APIs – Telemetry function for lightweight connectivity to mobile […]

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