Archive for the Category: macOS (Mac OS X)

Excelsior Jet and macOS Mojave

May 29, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Well, here’s a little oddity that Excelsior Jet users should know about. On Friday, I decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro from High Sierra (v10.13) to Mojave (v10.14). Everything went smoothly. I checked the version level and it said I was running v10.14.2. Note: I have Excelsior Jet 15.3 Professional installed on my MacBook Pro. […]

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Java MQ Code to List All Local Queues and their Attributes

May 23, 2019 Roger Lacroix

If you have done the following runmqsc command to display all local queues with attributes of a queue manager: And you wanted to do the same thing via a program, here is a fully functioning Java MQ example that will connect to a remote queue manager, issue a PCF “Inquire Queue” command, get the PCF […]

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Its All Fun & Games Until Your Message Is Empty!

May 22, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I’ve collected a bunch of JSON sample files from the internet for testing with MQ Visual Edit. It is always good to have a variety of samples when testing features of a program rather than making up a couple of your own. I was doing some testing with MQ Visual Edit and the JSON samples […]

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SQLite v3.28.0 Released

April 17, 2019 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.28.0. 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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Swift 5 Released

March 26, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Ted Kremenek of Apple has announced release of Swift 5: https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/ Swift 5 is a major milestone in the evolution of the language. Thanks to ABI stability, the Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities that […]

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New: Universal File Mover v2.0.0

March 20, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v2.0.0. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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Knock knock

February 11, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM: Knock knock User: Who’s there? IBM: MQ User: MQ who? IBM: IBM MQ Client for macOS In case you didn’t hear, IBM has released “IBM MQ macOS toolkit for developers” a couple of days ago. I downloaded and installed it. I simply uncompressed it into my home directory. I played around with a bunch […]

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SQLite v3.27.1 Released

February 8, 2019 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.27.1. https://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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IBM MQ macOS toolkit for developers

February 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM releases IBM MQ macOS toolkit for developers. I’m shocked and wildly surprised that IBM did this. https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2019/02/05/ibm-mq-macos-toolkit-for-developers/ This toolkit provides the ability to develop and interact directly with MQ from your Mac, for developers using the language interfaces; such as C, C++, COBOL, GoLang, and Node.js; which are built on the platform-native C library […]

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Update to Java MQ PCF Code Samples

December 11, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Tim Zielke posted a comment to my blog posting of Java MQ Code to List Channel Status about an extra PCF response from a z/OS queue manager that caused the code to throw an exception. So, I updated line # 156 in MQListChannelStatus01.java to be: You can download the updated source code for MQListChannelStatus01.java from […]

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