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.

Mozilla Firefox 26.0 Released

December 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v26.0. 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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Do You Backup Your Data?

December 9, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Over the weekend, I read Alan Zeichick’s article Protect your developer data and it made me smile as I’ve been through the exact same thing many times over the years. Of course, it made me think, are people/companies backing up their data or just flying by the seat of their pants. Do people think that […]

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Is Microsoft Server to Server Traffic Encrypted? Nobody Knows.

December 6, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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There have been a lot of discussions recently about NSA snooping on data traffic between servers. Microsoft has been extremely quiet and evasive about where in the transfer the data is unencrypted between Microsoft Servers. A couple of weeks ago, Ars Technica had the following article where Microsoft’s Dorothee Belz, EMEA VP for Legal and […]

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SQLite v3.8.2 Released

December 6, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.2. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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30-day Trial of MQBT, MQVB & MQVB for Linux Now Available Online

December 4, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Rather than people emailing Capitalware Support and requesting a trial download for MQ Batch Toolkit for Linux, MQ Visual Browse for Linux or MQ Visual Edit for Linux, I have made the downloads available via each product’s download page. As Linux has grown in popular, so too have the requests for trial versions of each […]

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New: MQ Visual Edit v1.6.4

December 2, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v1.6.4. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a […]

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New: MQ Visual Browse v1.6.4

December 2, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v1.6.4. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar […]

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It’s back: Excelsior JET Charity Bundle

November 26, 2013 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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SupportPac MH06 v1.0 Released

November 26, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Tim Zielke has released SupportPac MH06 version 1.0: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24036430 This SupportPac provides simple command line tools (mqtrcfrmt and mqoptions) to aid in reading distributed MQ traces. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Need beta Testers for a new MQ client-side security exit that works with DTCC

November 21, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Every 7-8 months I get an email asking me if MQAUSX’s client-side security exit will work with DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation) server-side security exit. I normally tell the person to tell DTCC to use MQAUSX since MQAUSX’s client-side security exit is free to use. But that goes nowhere fast. 🙁 After another recent request […]

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