Archive for the Category: Open Source

Updates to My ByteArray Class

May 19, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last year, I posted a blog item called Java’s Missing Byte Array Class regarding the missing ByteArray class in Java and I published my ByteArray class for all to use. I have fixed a bug in the getBytes method and added 2 new methods: public int convertToInt_BE() public void replaceAndResize(byte[] oldByteArray, byte[] newByteArray) I have […]

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Ubuntu 21.04 Released

April 22, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Canonical has just released Ubuntu v21.04. http://releases.ubuntu.com/21.04/ Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It’ll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps. Regards, […]

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Programmatically Get IBM MQ Version for Both Client and Queue Manager

April 21, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Recently, on both StackOverflow and mqseries.net, people have been asking about getting both the client and queue manager versions numbers for MQ. It is pretty easy to get both the client and queue manager from the command line. For the IBM MQ installation that is running the queue manager, you simply issue the following command: […]

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FreeBSD v13.0 Released

April 16, 2021 Roger Lacroix

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v13.0. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce.html FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive […]

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Enhancement to Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I wrote a blog item regarding Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files. I forgot that the dmpmqcfg program can output the MQ Object information as 1 line rather than spanning multiple lines. Hence, if we let dmpmqcfg do that work then we can simplify the Rexx script to only output the various MQ objects […]

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Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here. Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository. […]

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CDex and freedb

January 13, 2021 Roger Lacroix

If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that my favorite gift (hint, hint) is music on CDs. (1) It is the best quality available for music and (2) the artists get paid the most from selling a CD (vs radio or streaming). I received a bunch of CDs for Xmas, so today I thought […]

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C Code to Lookup MQ Reason Code

November 16, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Starting with the release of IBM MQ v8.0, IBM included a new header file called: cmqstrc.h. The file description says: This file provides mappings between MQI constant values and string versions of their definitions. In the cmqstrc.h file, from IBM MQ v9.2, there are 342 subroutines for looking up the various integer values and returning […]

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Ubuntu 20.10 Released

October 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Canonical has just released Ubuntu v20.10. http://releases.ubuntu.com/20.10/ Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It’ll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps. Regards, […]

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OpenBSD v6.8 Released

October 20, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Theo de Raadt has just released OpenBSD v6.8. http://www.openbsd.org/67.html The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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