IBM has announced IBM MQ 9.4.5:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4.x?topic=delivery-whats-new-changed-in-mq-945
IBM MQ & IBM MQ Advanced for Multiplatforms 9.4.5
IBM MQ for z/OS and MQ Advanced for z/OS 9.4.5
IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ) homepage
https://www.ibm.com/products/mq
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Today, I received the email below stating that I have been removed from the IBM Champion program after being in the program for 9 years. I have a blog dedicated to IBM MQ, answer email questions on various forums and mailing lists and the committee thinks I don’t provide value. All I can say is I’m shocked.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
A long time ago, Capitalware Support was constantly having issues with customers not upgrading to the latest version of a product and the customers reporting bugs/issues that had already been fixed months or years earlier.
About 12 years ago, we added expiry code to output the “too old” error message. The error message is outputted when a product is more than 5 years old.
At the same time, we started doing a “yearly release train” of all products on all platforms. It was very time-consuming to release 14 Capitalware products across 13 varied platforms. After that, customers using very old releases of Capitalware products was greatly reduced.
In 2021, I decided it would be far better to do “iteration releases” like most open source projects. Hence, all emails with download links would included the line “Please use the latest release of the product” and the 4 digit release number.
Until this year, we have never ever had an issue with customers using older products with the expiry code. It would appear that many customers took the major release number, i.e. 4.2.0, as nothing has changed, which clearly was not true, versus the full release number of 4.2.0.26. Clearly, I didn’t understand that the message of upgrading in a timely matter was not being heard or understood.
I really don’t want to go back to yearly release trains but it would appear that maybe it is something I should seriously consider. Based on a customer suggestion, I have begun adding code to output a warning message 6 months before the release is set to expire.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v3.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2/V3. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program.
For more information about MQ Visual Edit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqve_overview.html
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v3.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse V2/V3. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program.
For more information about MQ Visual Browse go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqvb_overview.html
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v3.2.3.
MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment.
MQ Batch Toolkit can run on the following platforms: Linux for X64 & ARM64, macOS for X64 & AArch64, Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 for X64 & ARM64 and Raspberry Pi (ARM).
For more information about MQ Batch Toolkit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqbt_overview.html
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQTT Message Editing Suite V1.2.0.
MQTT Message Editing Suite (MMES) application allows users to subscribe, publish, edit, copy, delete, forward, backup, restore, import and export messages of a topic of an MQTT Broker.
MMES supports MQTT protocol versions 3.1, 3.1.1 and 5.0.
MMES can run on the following platforms: Linux for X64 & ARM64, macOS for X64 & AArch64, Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 for X64 & ARM64 and Raspberry Pi (ARM).
For more information about MQTT Message Editing Suite go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mmes_overview.html
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v2.0.1. It is a free open source project.
Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create the UFM Workflow XML file. UFM is supported on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, macOS (Mac OS X), Solaris and Windows.
For more information on Universal File Mover, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/ufm_overview.html
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
A long time ago, I created a Java/MQ GUI program to monitor certain queues in various MQ environments because a backend system had a throughput limitation and the request messages sent to it needed a reply message within 60 seconds or it would cause issues. I called the program Throttler and not only did it display queue depth, input opens and outputs opens of a particular queue, it also has the ability to change/update the queue attributes “get inhibit” and “put inhibit”.
You can download the source code from here.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
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