Author Archives: Roger Lacroix

My name is Roger Lacroix and I am a die hard programmer. I have been programming since the 80s. My favorite programming languages are Java, C and Rexx. I have worked in the airline, retail but I have spent most of my time doing middleware work in the financial services industry. In 1994, I was introduced to IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) and I thought it was the next best thing since man created fire. This blog will be about IBM MQ, Java, C, Rexx and any other interesting items that I can think of. I hope you enjoy it.

C Program to Send an MQSC Command to a z/OS Queue Manager

May 7, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I was surfing on mqseries.net today and someone asked for help to fix their program that was attempting to send an MQSC command to a z/OS queue manager. The person had taken someone else’s program that sent a PCF message to a distributed queue manager, twisted and attempted to make it send an MQSC command […]

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Glen Brumbaugh will be Speaking at MQTC

May 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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More great news. Glen Brumbaugh of Prolifics will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Glen Brumbaugh’ session information will be posted in the near future. Note: We will do our best to make sure that each session is presented twice. For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix […]

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OpenBSD v5.5 Released

May 1, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Theo de Raadt has just released OpenBSD v5.5. http://www.openbsd.org/55.html The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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It’s back: Excelsior JET Charity Bundle

April 30, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Excelsior have announced the Excelsior JET charity bundle, where you can get the standard edition of Excelsior JET for just $50 (without support), and they contribute all of the money to charity. www.ExcelsiorJET.com/charity That’s a discount of over $1,400 from the list price of Excelsior JET Standard Edition. What’s the catch? No support. That’s fine, […]

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GCC v4.9.0 Released

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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GCC v4.9.0. was released http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,…). Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 29.0 Released

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v29.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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Lyn Elkins will be Speaking at MQTC

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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More great news. Lyn Elkins of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Lyn Elkins’ session information will be posted in the near future. Note: We will do our best to make sure that each session is presented twice. For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix […]

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Chris Frank will be Speaking at MQTC

April 25, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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More great news. Chris Frank of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Chris Frank will be presenting the following sessions at MQTC: Considerations when using WebSphere MQ and JMS with JEE Application Servers So You Think You Understand Multi-Instance Queue Managers? Performance Considerations with WebSphere MQ and IBM Integration Bus […]

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Paul Clarke will be Speaking at MQTC

April 24, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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I have persuaded Paul Clarke (former IBM Hursley developer) to be a speaker at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Paul has offered 9 subjects (he’ll be presenting 3), so I figured I would let the MQ community pick what they want Paul to present. I have created a poll at mqseries.net for people to […]

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Mark Taylor and Morag Hughson will be Speaking at MQTC

April 24, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Mark Taylor of IBM and Morag Hughson of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). With the recently announced release of IBM MQ V8, here are some MQ V8 specific sessions: What’s New in IBM Messaging by Mark Taylor IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS: Latest Features Deep Dive by Morag Hughson […]

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