Archive for the Category: Programming

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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Static Analysis of Java Code

December 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

A few weeks ago, I was reading Java Magazine and in the current issue, it was reviewing the results of a Java Developer survey. One of the questions in the survey was “Which static quality tools do you use?”. I guess I’m part of the 36% of the people (results of the survey) who don’t […]

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SQLite v3.26.0 Released

December 6, 2018 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.26.0. 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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New: MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0

November 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0. It is a free open source project. MQ Channel Monitor (MQCM) application is a software package that is designed to gather and to display the status of MQ channels of the queue manager. MQCM displays 16 columns of channel status information. The display […]

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Java Code to Open a Web Page

November 7, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Some times the simplest things drive you nuts. 🙂 The Desktop class (java.awt.Desktop) was introduced in Java v1.6. There are occasions when you are running a Java application in JVM 1.6 or higher that the Desktop class is not available or fails to load. It is just weird and very frustrating. Its not just me. […]

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Java MQ Code to List Channel Status

November 6, 2018 Roger Lacroix

I thought I posted this code sample but I guess I forgot to do it. 😉 If you have done the runmqsc command for Channel Status for all channels of a queue manager as follows: And you wanted to do the same thing via a program, here is a fully functioning Java MQ example that […]

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Language Wars – Maybe Enough Already

October 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but I’m tired of surfing the internet and seeing language wars. I just saw this line “100% Java free!” the other day, listed as a product feature and it makes me shake my head. Of all the product features that would sell a product, you want to include that […]

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