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

New: MQRC2 v1.1.0

April 12, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQRC2 v1.1.0. MQRC2 is an application that can interpret an MQ reason code number (i.e. 2035), MQ reason code symbol (i.e. MQRC_OBJECT_IN_USE) or AMQ message number (i.e. AMQ4005) and display the relevant information from the WebSphere MQ Messages manual. Updates for this release: Ported the […]

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New: Message Multiplexer v1.4.0

April 12, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of Message Multiplexer (MMX) v1.4.0. Message Multiplexer is an application that will get a message from a queue and output it to one or more queues. The context information is maintained across the message put(s). Updates for this release: Added GetWithConvert keyword Enhanced commit/backout processing Created […]

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New: Message Router v1.1.0

April 12, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of Message Router (MRTR) v1.1.0. Message Router is an application that will move a message from a central queue to a specific application queue. The destination queue that the message will be placed into will be based on a keyword in the message. Context information is […]

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A Comparison of Capitalware’s MQ Enterprise Security Suite to IBM’s WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security

March 11, 2011 Roger Lacroix

The following is a comparison of Capitalware’s MQ Enterprise Security Suite (MQESS) to IBM’s WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (WMQ AMS).   Capitalware’s MQESS IBM’s WMQ AMS Authentication Yes NO End-to-End Encryption Yes Yes Supported Encryption AES 128-bit AES 192-bit AES 256-bit   Yes Yes Yes   Yes No Yes Digital Signature SHA-2 SHA-1/MD5 Requires […]

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New: MQ Enterprise Security Suite

March 10, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Enterprise Security Suite. MQ Enterprise Security Suite (MQESS) is a new solution that provides authentication and data protection (Channels and Queues) for WebSphere MQ. MQ Enterprise Security Suite is comprised of: MQ Authenticate Security Exit for Authentication MQ Channel Encryption for Data Protection for […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v1.0.0

March 8, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v1.0.0. MQ Message Encryption (MQME) provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information into an unreadable form (encrypted data). […]

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Why choose MQ Channel Encryption over SSL?

March 8, 2011 Roger Lacroix

MQ Channel Encryption (MQCE) is priced at $299 USD (volume discounts available) per queue manager plus 15% yearly maintenance and support fee. SSL costs roughly $400 per certificate per year from a 3rd party CA (Certificate Authority). Hence, MQCE’s initial cost is cheaper than SSL and the ongoing yearly cost of MQCE is substantially cheaper […]

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Security White Paper

March 3, 2011 Roger Lacroix

James Michael Stewart of Global Knowledge has written a white paper called: Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security Here’s the interesting part: All too often when hacking is discussed, it is assumed that the hacker is some unknown outsider. However, studies have shown that a majority of security violations actually are caused by internal employees.  So, […]

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New WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service Date

March 3, 2011 Roger Lacroix

The original WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service date was September 30th, 2011, as noted in my blog posting here: https://www.capitalware.com/rl_blog/?p=98 Just recently, IBM has changed/updated the WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service date to be September 30th, 2012 (they added one more year). http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/support/lifecycle/ http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS211-072/index.html&breadCrum=DET001PT288&url=buttonpressed=DET001PT008&page=0&user+type=EXT&submit.x=12&submit.y=6&lang=en_US Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Channel Encryption v2.0.0

February 28, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Channel Encryption (MQCE) v2.0.0. MQCE provides encryption for WebSphere MQ (WMQ) message data over WMQ channels. MQCE operates with Sender, Receiver, Server, Requestor, Cluster-Sender, Cluster-Receiver, Server Connection and Client Connection channels of the WMQ queue managers. MQCE uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to encrypt […]

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