Archive for the Category: MQ Message Encryption

Capitalware Products Listed at LinkedIn

The other day, MQGem posted a blog item about a new feature at LinkedIn where a company can list their products. I’ve have created a LinkedIn page for Capitalware and then added all 17 commercial products that Capitalware sells. You can view the entire list of Capitalware products at https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitalware/products/ page. The interesting feature that […]

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Explanation of Parameters in an IniFile of Capitalware Products

I have a new customer who is having a problem understanding parameters and relations of parameters in the IniFile (initialization file aka configuration file). By no means am I taking a shot or putting down or marking fun of the customer. When English is not your first language and a new user is trying to […]

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Capitalware’s MQ Exits for Raspberry Pi

Well, after having fun compiling and linking my Java applications into native applications for Raspberry Pi ARM, I decided to next tackle the compiling and linking all of the MQ Exits that I have created over the years. Currently, Capitalware has 9 commercial distributed MQ solutions that are MQ Exits and 3 ‘Licensed as Free’ […]

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Capitalware Products 2020 Release Train

Here is a summary of all the recent releases that Capitalware Inc. has published: Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v3.2.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.5.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.5.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.4.0 MQ Channel Encryption […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v4.2.0

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v4.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). For more information about MQME, […]

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New: Capitalware Software Lifecycle Pages

Earlier this week, a customer asked if we could publish a software lifecycle page for MQAUSX. Since, I wasn’t knee deep into fixing a bug, I figured I would create a Software Lifecycle page for each commercial product. Each lifecycle page has 3 columns: version, general availability and end of support. The version number is […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory

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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MQ Internals Explained (a little bit)

IBM likes to market IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) as a simple and complete solution for business’s messaging needs. Going with the KISS approach is wise (very wise in some cases). IBM talks about the 2 different messaging models that IBM MQ supports: Point-to-Point (P2P) and Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub). IBM will: show you how to […]

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MQME Issue with ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API Call

Late last week, a customer discovered an obscure issue in MQ Message Encryption (MQME) with the ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API call. I have since fixed it but here is what I mean by obscure: – If the user has wild-carded their protected queue setup i.e. ‘TEST.*’ – And then set the ExcludeQueue keyword […]

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Customer Requested Update to MQ Message Encryption

MQ Message Encryption (MQME) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue or topic and in the MQ logs (i.e. data at rest). By default, when an application puts a message to a protected queue, MQME will encrypted the entire message data. If the application is putting […]

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