Monthly Archives: January 2013

Again MS Visual C++ 2010 bites me in the …

January 31, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I really hate MS Visual C++ 2010. I have had so many problems since I installed it a couple of weeks ago that it is driving me crazy. I have an MQ API Exit built for Windows 64-bit (via a script) with /Release /x64. And in the makefile I use the parameter /LD for the […]

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Super Bowl

January 31, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Small Sliding scale picks for Super Bowl (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for Super Bowl (least probable to most probable): So what does it mean? U1 means the underdog team will beat the spread (favorite will not cover the spread) with the highest probability of success. Enjoy. 🙂 As they say […]

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Updated MMX and MRTR Load-Modules for z/OS

January 29, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday afternoon while doing some z/OS MQ testing, I discovered that both Message Multiplexer (MMX) and Message Router (MRTR) had been linked with the wrong MQ stub. Oy vey!! I relinked both MMX and MRTR with the correct MQ stub (CSQBSTUB) then posted the both download archives to Capitalware’s web site. Note: The source did […]

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Using Universal File Mover on Mac OS X (How To #6)

January 25, 2013 Roger Lacroix

In this blog posting, I will discuss the prerequisites and issue related to using UFM on Mac OS X. First, as with any other platform that you run UFM on, Mac OS X must have Java v1.5.0 or higher installed. Second, follow the “Unix and Linux” instructions from the UFM Installation and Operation manual for […]

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Scheduling a Simple File Transfer using Universal File Mover (How To #5)

January 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix

At mqseries.net, a user asked the following question: I’m using MQ FTE version 7.0.4.1 , and I’d like to make a File Transfer to occur from Tuesday to Saturday , is it possible? Since this is very easy to do in UFM, I thought I would make a ‘UFM How To’ from the question. I […]

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O’Reilly Giving Away Open Government Book

January 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix

O’Reilly is giving away electronic copies of the ‘Open Government’ book as a tribute to Aaron Swartz: http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/open-government-files-released.html In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case […]

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3 Hours of Wasted Time That I’ll Never Get Back

January 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I have some code for outputting a buffer as a HEX dump like this: 000000: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ……………. 000010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ……………. 000020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ……………. I have used this code for years on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS without issue. I have compiled […]

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Football Conference Championship Games

January 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Small Sliding scale picks for Conference Championship games (least probable to most probable): F1 San Francisco 49ers F3.5 at Atlanta Falcons F2 Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots F9.0 Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for Conference Championship games (least probable to most probable): F1 San Francisco 49ers F3.5 at Atlanta Falcons F2 Baltimore Ravens at New […]

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CentOS 5.9 Released

January 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

The CentOS Project has just released CentOS v5.9. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.9 CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on a rebuild of the freely available sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Fedora 18 Released

January 15, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project Contributors has just released Fedora v18. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/index.html Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. The Fedora operating system is 100% […]

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