Archive for the Category: IBM MQ

Beta testers needed for MQ Message Compression

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Message Compression (MQMC). MQMC is an MQ API Exit. Question: Would you trade a little CPU time to drastically reduce the disk I/O time? I have written a long blog posting on the internals of queue manager logging (with help from Chris Frank) […]

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MQ Visual Edit and Reason Code of 2010

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Most users have to deal with many different queue managers in their MQ environment. If you are browsing a queue with large messages on a remote queue manager in MQ Visual Edit and have updated the “Maximum size of each message to retrieve” property on MQ Queue tab of the Preferences window to a number […]

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Compression, What’s It Good For?

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Well, to answer my own question, you want Netflix, Hulu, etc. to use compression when you stream movies or TV shows. Or compress files to free up disk space. There are a variety of reasons to use compression. I’ve been doing a lot of testing using large files and it got me thinking about the […]

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Enhancement to MQMR

September 2, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Message Replication (MQMR). MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message […]

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IBM CECC – Flawed Platform for ISVs, Developers, Vendors, etc.

August 12, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Earlier this year, IBM shutdown its IBM PDP (Power Development Platform), originally called IBM VLP (Virtual Loaner Program), and replaced it with IBM CECC (Client Experience Centers Cloud). IBM does loves their acronyms! I appreciate IBM supplying virtual VMs for developers to use to port their applications to AIX, IBM i and Linux on POWER, […]

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IBM MQ 9.2 for z/OS Availability

July 27, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced the availability IBM MQ 9.2 for z/OS: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/9/877/ENUS5655-MQ9/index.html IBM MQ 9.2 for z/OS will be available for electronic download on September, 11, 2020. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Redbooks on IBM MQ

July 24, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I have created a new section on Capitalware’s IBM MQ Documentation Library page called Redbooks on IBM MQ. I searched the internet and IBM’s Redbook site and found 20 redbooks on the subject of IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries). I have listed them in chronologically order. Note: Some of them may be old but […]

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Stackoverflow tag for MQ Visual Edit

July 24, 2020 Roger Lacroix

There are many ways for end-users to ask for help with MQ Visual Edit. You can: Send an email directly to support@capitalware.com Post a question on mqseries.net Send an email to the MQ ListServer Post a question on Stackoverflow Now on Stackoverflow, there is a tag called mq-visual-edit that you can add to your question. […]

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Capitalware Products 2020 Release Train

July 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Here is a summary of all the recent releases that Capitalware Inc. has published: Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v3.2.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.5.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.5.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.4.0 MQ Channel Encryption […]

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New: MQ Standard Security Exit v2.6.0

July 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Standard Security Exit v2.6.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Standard Security Exit. MQ Standard Security Exit is a solution that allows a MQAdmin to control and restrict who is accessing an IBM MQ resource. For more information about […]

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