Archive for the Category: z/OS

IBM MQ V9.2.3 Announced

July 20, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.3: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZP21-0231/index.html Highlights: MQ 9.2.3: – Streaming queues to make message data from existing flows available to Apache Kafka streaming applications, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics applications, with zero impact to the existing applications or their messages and without a need for rearchitecting your message flows – Broadened uniform cluster […]

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IBM MQ Knowledge Center Icons

June 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM keeps added more and more icons in the MQ Knowledge Center to highlight which platforms and/or versions that a particular feature is supported on. You can find a complete list and explanation of the icons on the following MQ Knowledge Center page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/latest?topic=mq-release-platform-icons-in-product-documentation Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Updates to My ByteArray Class

May 19, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last year, I posted a blog item called Java’s Missing Byte Array Class regarding the missing ByteArray class in Java and I published my ByteArray class for all to use. I have fixed a bug in the getBytes method and added 2 new methods: public int convertToInt_BE() public void replaceAndResize(byte[] oldByteArray, byte[] newByteArray) I have […]

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All Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

April 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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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IBM MQ V9.2.2 Announced

March 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.2: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS221-075 Highlights: MQ 9.2.2: – Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) browse support MQ Advanced 9.2.2: – The capabilities listed in MQ 9.2.2 – New ordering options for nonproduction workloads – An early release of “native high-availability”, which is made available for demonstration purposes for clients deploying container-based queue managers […]

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Java 16 Released

March 17, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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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Interesting Blog Item: IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST!

February 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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

February 9, 2021 Roger Lacroix

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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Local Transactions Using IBM MQ and the JMS API

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Olja Rastic-Dulborough has written an article that introduces the user to the concepts of local transactions using IBM MQ and JMS. https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-mq/articles/an-introduction-to-local-transactions-using-mq-and-jms/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Video: How to boost your business with IBM MQ

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Marcus Kaye of IBM has created and posted a video on IBM MQ titled: “How to boost your business with IBM MQ” Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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