Archive for the Category: IBM MQ

Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4

Capitalware would like to announce MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). MQTC is an event that will educate attendees on current practices, methodologies, administration, problem determination, security best practices and technology trends for IBM’s WebSphere MQ. MQTC will offer 70 sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM’s WebSphere […]

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MQ v7.0.1 on z/OS and Security Exits

If you are using MQ v7.0.1 on z/OS with a security exit (i.e. z/MQAUSX) and the SVRCONN channel’s attribute SHARECNV is greater than 0 then you may be experiencing a slow memory leak as given in the following IBM APAR (# PI08162): https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PI08162 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQAUSX Client-side Java Bug

The following was recently reported: For WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, when the user inputs an incorrect password, the exit rejects the connection (as expected). If you try and connect again, you do not get a pop up prompting you for a new password attempt and the exit immediately ends the connection attempt. If a user […]

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IBM’s MQ Light

I just found out about IBM’s new messaging product called MQ Light. IBM has made available an “alpha release” for Windows and Linux. https://www.ibmdw.net/messaging/mq-light/ IBM® MQ Light provides a messaging runtime that developers can install, configure, and use to write applications in just a few minutes. MQ Light aims to enable developers to quickly create […]

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Avoid Building a Certificate Management Center of Mediocrity

A live Q&A on “Avoid Building a Certificate Management Center of Mediocrity” with MQ security guru T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting will be held on Tuesday, January 28 at 11:00 AM EDT. Here is the link to register for this live Q&A session: https://secure2.wispubs.com/gwc_qa_register/home?id=93bf57de-8c25-4beb-80be-198256560810 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Compress, Encrypt and Upload Files with Universal File Mover (How To #10)

As I mentioned in this blog posting, I use a UFM Workflow to perform a daily backup of selected directories, encrypt the compressed files then upload the encrypted files to a remote server. In this blog posting, I will show you how to create a UFM Workflow that will compress the contents of 3 directories […]

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SupportPac MO72 v7.5 Released

WebSphere MQ Development, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories has released version 7.5 of SupportPac MO72. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24007769 Changes: Updated to be compatible with V7.5 client tables. SupportPac MO72 is a command line tool for issuing MQSC commands to a queue manager or client. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Is Microsoft Server to Server Traffic Encrypted? Nobody Knows.

There have been a lot of discussions recently about NSA snooping on data traffic between servers. Microsoft has been extremely quiet and evasive about where in the transfer the data is unencrypted between Microsoft Servers. A couple of weeks ago, Ars Technica had the following article where Microsoft’s Dorothee Belz, EMEA VP for Legal and […]

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30-day Trial of MQBT, MQVB & MQVB for Linux Now Available Online

Rather than people emailing Capitalware Support and requesting a trial download for MQ Batch Toolkit for Linux, MQ Visual Browse for Linux or MQ Visual Edit for Linux, I have made the downloads available via each product’s download page. As Linux has grown in popular, so too have the requests for trial versions of each […]

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New: MQ Visual Edit v1.6.4

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v1.6.4. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a […]

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