Archive for the Category: Programming

IBM MQ and Visual Studio 2015 Issue

January 20, 2017 Roger Lacroix

If you plan on using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 with IBM MQ on Windows prior to Windows 10 then you need to apply Microsoft Windows update KB3118401. If you do not have the Windows update then you will receive the following error: The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-|1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling […]

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SQLite v3.16.1 Released

January 4, 2017 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.16.1. 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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MQ not honoring MQGMO_PROPERTIES_IN_HANDLE

December 22, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Summary: For an MQGET with the option of MQGMO_PROPERTIES_IN_HANDLE on a subscription, MQ does not honor the option when a message is published from an MQTT client. Note: This does not happen when a regular MQ client program publishes a message to the same topic. Setup: MQ v8.0.0.4 (on Windows 64-bit) and the latest SupportPac […]

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SQLite v3.15.0 Released

October 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.15.0. 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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Firefox for iOS Gets Faster, Easier to Use

July 27, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Tyler Lacroix (my son) has been working at Mozilla’s Toronto office this summer as an intern. He’s been lucky to be doing new development work for Firefox on iOS. He’s been telling me about some of the new features he has been adding to Firefox and now it has been released to the public. You […]

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Calling IBM MQ from Go Applications

July 11, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor of the IBM UK MQ Labs has published a blog entry on how to use IBM MQ from a Go application. You can read about it at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/messaging/entry/Calling_IBM_MQ_from_Go_applications I’m kinda surprising that IBM hasn’t created an interface between IBM MQ and Swift, since I get monthly emails from IBM telling me that I […]

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Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) Released

July 7, 2016 Roger Lacroix

On June 22nd, 2016, Eclipse Foundation has released the annual Eclipse release train: https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20160622_neon.php Key Highlights of Neon Release Eclipse JSDT 2.0:New tools for JavaScript developers, including a JSON editor, support for Grunt/Gulp and a new Chromium V8 Debugger. Platform and JDT Features: Key Eclipse Platform improvements are HiDPI support and autosave. JDT’s Content Assist […]

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Another Sample Java/MQ Program – MQWrite2

June 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Someone over at Stack Overflow posted a question about logging MQ error messages to a file. After the user updated the posting, I recognized the code as mine (MQWrite.java) that I wrote back in 2000 (Yup, 16 years ago!!). So, I decided to bring MQWrite.java into this decade and created MQWrite2.java. Here is MQWrite2.java that […]

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A Tip for Handling Java/MQ Internal Message Class

June 16, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Here’s an interesting head-scratcher. I was writing some Java code to handle an MQ message and in this particular case, it was an MQRFH2 message. The code below was working fine until I decided to dump (output) the message in hexadecimal. The printMsgHex() method is a simple method to retrieve the message and output. When […]

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SQLite v3.13.0 Released

May 18, 2016 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.13.0. 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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