Monthly Archives: January 2020

Inhibit/Allow the Get & Put Actions of a Queue

January 31, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked a question about inhibiting get actions against a queue. Here is a simple Java/MQ program that will set inhibit or allow for the GET and PUT attributes of a queue. You can download the source code from here. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Request & Reply JMS/MQRFH2 Messaging Scenario

January 31, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Sometimes people over think a problem and write a complicated solution when really the solution is no different than any other Request/Reply scenario (use case). On StackOverflow, someone asked a question about sending a reply JMS/MQRFH2 message using the RFH2 header and folder values from the original request message. The code will copy the RFH2 […]

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IBM announces WebSphere MQ V5.3.1 Fix Pack 16 for HPE NonStop

January 30, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 5.3.1.16 for WebSphere MQ for HPE NonStop: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT29752 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Capitalware Product Advisory

January 29, 2020 Roger Lacroix

A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s framework subroutine for removing trailing blanks (spaces) from a variable. If the contents of the variable contained only blanks then the code miscalculated the length by 1. This bug affects all commercial and “Licensed as Free” products. Commercial Products for distributed platforms affected: MQ Auditor MQ Authenticate User Security […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.14 Released

January 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.14 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1282120 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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SQLite v3.31.0 Released

January 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.31.0. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ and C# .NET Compatibility

January 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Today, I went to build (compile) and run a C# .NET/MQ sample that I have which worked perfectly before and I got the following error when I ran it: I compiled it again. No errors and it successfully generated the executable. Weird. When I ran it, I got the above error message. I searched the […]

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JMS/MQRFH2 Message Properties in “other” Folder

January 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked about having an “other” folder (not “usr”) with an MQRFH2 (aka JMS) message. That day, I played around with a MQ/Java program that created various folders in an MQRFH2 message. i.e. When I ran a MQ/JMS program to retrieve the messages, the MQ/JMS programs simply ignore all folders outside of ‘mcd’, […]

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