Archive for the Category: MQ Standard Security Exit

MQAUSX/MQSSX versus WMQ v7.1 CHLAUTH

January 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Last week, there was a robust/lively discussion on the MQSeries List Server regarding Derek Hornby’s question of (see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.mq.devel/13985): In the MQ V7.1 base install, a channel authentication record is created which is a “block user list” for all channels, and the block is on a User List of *MQADMIN So I created a User […]

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Where’s the Security?

January 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Over the last 2 months, all of the sudden, I have “where’s the security?” phrase running through my head. Instead of that little old lady from the 80’s Wendy’s commercial saying “Where’s the beef?”, I have her in my head saying “Where’s the security?”. Back in 2005, when I first starting selling Capitalware’s MQ Authenticate […]

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Capitalware products and HP-UX on Itanium (IA64)

July 8, 2011 Roger Lacroix

For the record, Capitalware will support all of its commercial and open source products on HP’s HP-UX for Itanium (IA64) for as long as customers require it. By no means am I taking sides in the HP/Oracle war, I’m just stating what Capitalware’s support position is. If you want to read about the HP/Oracle Itanium […]

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Security White Paper

March 3, 2011 Roger Lacroix

James Michael Stewart of Global Knowledge has written a white paper called: Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security Here’s the interesting part: All too often when hacking is discussed, it is assumed that the hacker is some unknown outsider. However, studies have shown that a majority of security violations actually are caused by internal employees.  So, […]

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Capitalware Products for WMQ v5.3 on 32-bit Unix

December 22, 2010 Roger Lacroix

As of December 31st, 2010, Capitalware will no longer support its products on the 32-bit release of WebSphere MQ v5.3 (or earlier) on Unix (AIX, HP-UX and Solaris). Note: This does not affect the support of WebSphere MQ 32-bit for Linux. IBM ended support for WebSphere MQ v5.3 for distributed platforms on September 22, 2006. […]

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