Monthly Archives: March 2021

IBM MQ V9.2.2 Announced

March 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.2: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS221-075 Highlights: MQ 9.2.2: – Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) browse support MQ Advanced 9.2.2: – The capabilities listed in MQ 9.2.2 – New ordering options for nonproduction workloads – An early release of “native high-availability”, which is made available for demonstration purposes for clients deploying container-based queue managers […]

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Java 16 Released

March 17, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Oracle has just released Java 16. https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-arrival-of-java-16 Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today’s demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today’s applicationsrequire. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Enhancement to Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I wrote a blog item regarding Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files. I forgot that the dmpmqcfg program can output the MQ Object information as 1 line rather than spanning multiple lines. Hence, if we let dmpmqcfg do that work then we can simplify the Rexx script to only output the various MQ objects […]

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MacBook Pro, External Monitor, Display Link and Java

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Ok. Here’s a really weird one reported yesterday by a customer. If you are using a MacBook Pro with an external monitor (or 2) via Display Link and you try and run a Java GUI application, it will crash because the JVM thinks that it is running on a headless computer (no graphics driver). Therefore, […]

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Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here. Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository. […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 Released

March 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.16 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6417257 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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