Daily Archives: September 4, 2020

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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