Monthly Archives: February 2021

IBM MQ Message Duplication

February 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM Support has a technical note labeled Does MQ have a feature to generate automatically a duplicate message?. The options listed on that page are to use Pub/Sub or programs qload and dmpmqmsg. You can also use MQ Visual Edit and MQ Batch Toolkit to get messages from a queue and write the message to […]

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Interesting Blog Item: IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST!

February 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Morag Hughson of MQGem has a new blog posting called IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST! regarding a new feature in the IBM Knowledge Center. Instead of providing a link with the MQ version number, you can swap the version number for the word “latest”. This is a cool feature for putting links in a blog […]

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IBM MQ End of Service Dates

February 9, 2021 Roger Lacroix

So, what version of IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) are you running? Are you behind in upgrading your release of MQ? Everybody “should be” running IBM MQ v9.0, v9.1 or v9.2, if you want support from IBM. In case it has slipped your mind, here is a list of IBM MQ releases and […]

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Reasons MQSC Commands for an AMQP Channel May Not Work

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has posted a support document describing the various reasons why an MQSC command may not work for an AMQP channel. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6411487 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Using Loki and Grafana with MQ Logs

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor of IBM has posted a blog item on using Loki and Grafana software to parse and display information from MQ logs. https://marketaylor.synology.me/?p=838 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Local Transactions Using IBM MQ and the JMS API

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Olja Rastic-Dulborough has written an article that introduces the user to the concepts of local transactions using IBM MQ and JMS. https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-mq/articles/an-introduction-to-local-transactions-using-mq-and-jms/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Join Microsoft and the Java developer community at Devnexus 2021

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft is sponsoring and participating in Devnexus 2021, you can read more about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/join-microsoft-and-the-java-developer-community-at-devnexus-2021/ba-p/2114247?WT.mc_id=appsonazure-twitter-shboyer Microsoft is excited to be sponsoring and participating in Devnexus 2021, and you might be wondering—what is Microsoft doing with Java? Quite a bit actually! We’ve been busy releasing new features and functionality to support Java apps on Azure, […]

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Part 2: Customer Question Regarding Automation with MQ Visual Edit

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

So, continuing with the customer, after they successfully tested MQ Batch Toolkit on Windows with a scheduled Windows batch script, they had a new question: how can we be sure that the file.txt are send in the proper order ( chronological) from the 1 to last ( by time) So, here are the batch/scripts files […]

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Video: How to boost your business with IBM MQ

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Marcus Kaye of IBM has created and posted a video on IBM MQ titled: “How to boost your business with IBM MQ” Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Customer Question Regarding Automation with MQ Visual Edit

February 3, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I got the following question from a customer: We have a system that generates files every couple of minutes, they are stored in a folder. Can we send those message contents using MQ visual edit to an mq server as soon as they become available in that folder? My answer to the customer was: […]

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