Archive for the Category: IBM i (OS/400)

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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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.14 Released

January 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.14 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1282120 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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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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MQME Issue with ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API Call

December 9, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Late last week, a customer discovered an obscure issue in MQ Message Encryption (MQME) with the ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API call. I have since fixed it but here is what I mean by obscure: – If the user has wild-carded their protected queue setup i.e. ‘TEST.*’ – And then set the ExcludeQueue keyword […]

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Customer Requested Update to MQ Message Encryption

November 21, 2019 Roger Lacroix

MQ Message Encryption (MQME) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue or topic and in the MQ logs (i.e. data at rest). By default, when an application puts a message to a protected queue, MQME will encrypted the entire message data. If the application is putting […]

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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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MQ Message Encryption Critical Bug Fixed

November 15, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Recently, a customer reported a bug in MQ Message Encryption (MQME) for certain types of JMS messages (aka MQRFH2) where the MCA (amqrmppa) process would crash. After some investigation, a buffer overrun condition was discovered that would cause the MCA (amqrmppa) process to crash. The bug has been fixed. Please contact support@capitalware.com for the latest […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.8 Released

October 28, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.8 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1089052?myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSYHRD Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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