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

What is the default behaviour of method writeString of MQMessage for Java?

March 9, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Paul Titheridge has posted a blog item over at developerWorks with the title “What is the default behaviour of the IBM MQ classes for Java method MQMessage.writeString(String)?”: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/03/09/mqmessage-writestring-default-behaviour/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Creating a Standard for MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB

March 8, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I wrote about MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB which are a pair of utilities for offloading and loading messages to/from SQLite database. I thought it would be a good idea to publish what I designed so that other vendors, companies or users can easy use the standard. First, the SQL to create the table […]

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MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB

March 7, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Message Replication (MQMR). MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message […]

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MQ Messages and GDPR – What are you doing about it?

March 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix

What is GDPR? From Wikipedia: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data […]

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Capitalware z/OS and IBM i Product Advisory

January 23, 2018 Roger Lacroix

A potential bug was discovered in Capitalware’s logging framework, see here for more details, for commercial and “Licensed as Free” products for z/OS and IBM i. Commercial Products affected: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for IBM i MQ Channel Encryption for IBM i MQ Standard Security Exit for IBM i MQ Authenticate User Security Exit […]

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SQLite v3.22.0 Released

January 23, 2018 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.22.0. 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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T.Rob’s post of “When deprecated != deprecated”

January 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting has a new blog posting called “When deprecated != deprecated“. If you use SSL/TLS with IBM MQ then you should read it: https://t-rob.net/2018/01/19/when-deprecated-deprecated/ Here is the current IBM MQ Depreciated Cipher page. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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I’m a Bad Programmer! ;)

January 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

If I was in a code walk-through of someone else’s code and found the bug that I just found in my code, I would say “that is some bad programming”. So, I’ll admit it – I’m a bad programmer! 😉 A long time ago, I created a nice logging framework (C code) for Capitalware’s products. […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Channel Connection Inspector

January 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

All, Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Channel Connection Inspector. Have you ever had client applications or remote queue managers attempt to connect to your queue manager but failed and the user claimed they used the “correct values”. I’ve created a new solution to quickly diagnose this problem and […]

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Sample Java Code to Subscribe to an IBM MQ Topic

December 8, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Here is blog posting # 2 on subscribing to a topic in IBM MQ. More code examples – here is a Java IBM MQ (non-JMS) sample program to subscribe to a topic within a queue manager of IBM MQ. It will receives messages until ‘no messages available’ exception which is set for 30 seconds. You […]

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