Archive for the Category: z/OS

Capitalware Product Advisory

January 29, 2020 Roger Lacroix

A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s framework subroutine for removing trailing blanks (spaces) from a variable. If the contents of the variable contained only blanks then the code miscalculated the length by 1. This bug affects all commercial and “Licensed as Free” products. Commercial Products for distributed platforms affected: MQ Auditor MQ Authenticate User Security […]

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SQLite v3.31.0 Released

January 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.31.0. 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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JMS/MQRFH2 Message Properties in “other” Folder

January 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked about having an “other” folder (not “usr”) with an MQRFH2 (aka JMS) message. That day, I played around with a MQ/Java program that created various folders in an MQRFH2 message. i.e. When I ran a MQ/JMS program to retrieve the messages, the MQ/JMS programs simply ignore all folders outside of ‘mcd’, […]

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MQ Internals Explained (a little bit)

December 10, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM likes to market IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) as a simple and complete solution for business’s messaging needs. Going with the KISS approach is wise (very wise in some cases). IBM talks about the 2 different messaging models that IBM MQ supports: Point-to-Point (P2P) and Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub). IBM will: show you how to […]

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wc3270 and IBM RDP Issue

December 9, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I use IBM’s Remote Development Program (RDP) to host my z/OS and Linux for System z LPARs. I installed the latest release of wc3270 of the x3270 project on my new Windows 10 PC and copied my settings from my old Windows 7 PC. Hence, I should be good to go but no. I have […]

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IBM MQ V9.1.4 Announced

December 3, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.1.4 for Multiplatforms: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS219-487/index.html Planned availability for IBM MQ V9.1.4 is December 5, 2019 for Electronic software delivery. IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ) homepage https://www.ibm.com/products/mq Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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AMQ7234 Question from the MQ ListServer

November 20, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Doug posted a question on MQ List Server regarding the MQ error message AMQ7234. His question was: My shop has always struggled with large number of messages just being left on the queue. Sometimes to be processed later, sometimes because the application does not know what to do with them, but they cannot be removed. […]

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SQLite v3.30.0 Released

October 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.30.0. 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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JMS and Java Client Mode Performance Issues for MQ Get API Calls

August 15, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I’ve wasted far, far too much of my time inspecting what is going on with the auto-resizing of the get buffer for the internal JMQI and MQI components for MQ classes for JMS, MQ classes for Java and MQ classes for .NET. A strange entry in one of the MQ Auditor audit files got my […]

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Pub/Sub Java/JMS MQ MQGet API Issue

August 9, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Not surprisingly, when I tested: Subscribing to a topic with JMS Subscribing to a topic with Java (non-JMS) They both showed that the internal JMQI routine was starting with a MQGet buffer size of 4KB and auto-adjusting the size of the buffer as needed (all behind the scenes). Hence, when I used MQ Auditor, I […]

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