Monthly Archives: September 2020

Time for a Bigger NAS

September 30, 2020 Roger Lacroix

If you read my old blog posting, you know I like and use Buffalo TeraStation as my NAS (Network Attached Storage). It supports Windows and macOS (Mac OS X) without any issues. My current Buffalo TeraStation III 4TB (Terabyte) has been nearly full for at least a year. I have been selectively deleting files and […]

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Free ‘Intro to Linux’ Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments

September 28, 2020 Roger Lacroix

The Linux Foundation has announced its ‘Introduction to Linux’ training course on the edX platform has surpassed one million enrollments. So, if you are working from home, or even in the office, and want to learn a new skill for free then you should sign up and take the free ‘Introduction to Linux‘ training course. […]

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Web Server Hardware Getting Upgraded Tonight (Sept. 25)

September 25, 2020 Roger Lacroix

This is take-two. The hardware upgrade was scheduled for Tuesday night but it was delayed about an hour before it was to happen. HostGator, Capitalware’s web hosting company, will be upgrading our web server tonight with new hardware (new unit with new SSDs). So, if you find there are issues with our web sites, blog, […]

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Dropping LZ1 support from MQ Message Compression

September 21, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I have been doing a lot of a testing of various messages types (i.e. Fixed-width, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, PNG, JPG, etc.). I’ll post the results in the next blog posting. I have decided to drop support for LZ1 compression algorithm from MQ Message Compression (MQMC) for the following reasons: LZ1 has the slowest compression […]

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Microsoft Screwed Me Again

September 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On Tuesday, Windows 10 Pro said that my current release of Windows 10 (I believe it was 1904) was going out of support and I needed to upgrade to release 2004. Against my better judgment, I allowed it to proceed when I went to bed Tuesday night then the problems started on Wednesday (yesterday). What […]

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How to (Properly) Setup ASUS AiMesh

September 15, 2020 Roger Lacroix

One thing always leads to another! In my house (and home office), I had an ASUS RT-AC68U router (on main floor) and a Tenda W150M router (in basement). Once in a while, someone would complain that the ‘internet is not working’ or ‘internet sucks’! Sometimes it would be as simple as being on the wrong […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Message Compression

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Message Compression (MQMC). MQMC is an MQ API Exit. Question: Would you trade a little CPU time to drastically reduce the disk I/O time? I have written a long blog posting on the internals of queue manager logging (with help from Chris Frank) […]

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MQ Visual Edit and Reason Code of 2010

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Most users have to deal with many different queue managers in their MQ environment. If you are browsing a queue with large messages on a remote queue manager in MQ Visual Edit and have updated the “Maximum size of each message to retrieve” property on MQ Queue tab of the Preferences window to a number […]

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Compression, What’s It Good For?

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Well, to answer my own question, you want Netflix, Hulu, etc. to use compression when you stream movies or TV shows. Or compress files to free up disk space. There are a variety of reasons to use compression. I’ve been doing a lot of testing using large files and it got me thinking about the […]

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Enhancement to MQMR

September 2, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Message Replication (MQMR). MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message […]

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