Archive for the Category: IBM MQ

Capitalware z/OS and IBM i Product Advisory

January 23, 2018 Roger Lacroix

A potential bug was discovered in Capitalware’s logging framework, see here for more details, for commercial and “Licensed as Free” products for z/OS and IBM i. Commercial Products affected: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for IBM i MQ Channel Encryption for IBM i MQ Standard Security Exit for IBM i MQ Authenticate User Security Exit […]

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T.Rob’s post of “When deprecated != deprecated”

January 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting has a new blog posting called “When deprecated != deprecated“. If you use SSL/TLS with IBM MQ then you should read it: https://t-rob.net/2018/01/19/when-deprecated-deprecated/ Here is the current IBM MQ Depreciated Cipher page. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ for HPE NonStop V8.0.1 is now available

January 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM MQ for HPE NonStop 8.0.1 is the first Continuous Delivery (CD) update for MQ NonStop. (WebSphere MQ NonStop 5.3.1 is the current Long Term Support option). The Continuous Delivery releases incrementally build on the MQ 8.0.0 features, providing early, supported access to the latest MQ capabilities. https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/01/19/ibm-mq-hpe-nonstop-v8-0-1-now-available/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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I’m a Bad Programmer! ;)

January 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

If I was in a code walk-through of someone else’s code and found the bug that I just found in my code, I would say “that is some bad programming”. So, I’ll admit it – I’m a bad programmer! 😉 A long time ago, I created a nice logging framework (C code) for Capitalware’s products. […]

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IBM Champion Again.

January 16, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Proud to be named as an IBM Champion for my contributions to IBM MQ community for the 2nd year in a row! https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/champion/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Beta testers needed for MQ Channel Connection Inspector

January 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

All, Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Channel Connection Inspector. Have you ever had client applications or remote queue managers attempt to connect to your queue manager but failed and the user claimed they used the “correct values”. I’ve created a new solution to quickly diagnose this problem and […]

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Java/JMS MQ Applications and Maven

January 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has made available the MQ Redistributable Client (Java/JMS portion) on Maven. Mark Taylor of IBM has a blog posting on it and how to configure your files to use it: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/01/09/developing-mq-java-applications-maven/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0

January 3, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0. MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment. Starting with MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0, the licensing model […]

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Sample Java Code to Subscribe to an IBM MQ Topic

December 8, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Here is blog posting # 2 on subscribing to a topic in IBM MQ. More code examples – here is a Java IBM MQ (non-JMS) sample program to subscribe to a topic within a queue manager of IBM MQ. It will receives messages until ‘no messages available’ exception which is set for 30 seconds. You […]

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Sample Java Code to Publish to an IBM MQ Topic

December 8, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Programmers always have questions about coding Pub/Sub in IBM MQ. I’ll do 2 blog posting: one on publishing to a topic and the next one on subscribing to a topic in IBM MQ. Since everyone likes code examples, here is a Java IBM MQ (non-JMS) sample program to publish a message to a topic within […]

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