Daily Archives: July 27, 2012

Get Fake Credit Card Numbers for Testing Purposes

Working in the financial industry, sometimes you need fake data (i.e. names, credit cards, etc..) for testing purposes. Over 10 years ago, I came across a Windows program called: Credit Card Verificator Engine. It has the ability to generate credit card numbers. I posted it to my web site at: https://www.capitalware.com/pc_win_general.html I now have come […]

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JBoss and Strange Looking Characters in the Message Data

Here’s an interesting issue that Lawrence Coombs had regarding porting a J2EE application from WAS to JBoss: We ported an applictaion from WAS to jboss 5.1. It interfaces with a mainframe CICS transcation that uses MQ 7.x. Neither the distributed nor the Z/OS queue manager changed. The CCSID of the Z/OS queue manager is 500 […]

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