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.

New: MQ Visual Browse v1.6.2

December 5, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v1.6.2. 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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Football Week # 14

December 5, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Well, week # 13 was interesting. Small Sliding scale picks were 8-8 and Fibonacci Sliding scale picks were 10-6. Like I said, Fibonacci Sliding scale picks have potential – maybe next year I’ll start using them. 🙂 Small Sliding scale picks for week #14 (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for week […]

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Impact 2013

December 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I just received an email from IBM regarding being a sponsor at Impact 2013: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact/ Note: Impact 2013 will be held at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV on April 28 – May 2, 2013. From an MQ point of view, does anyone find Impact useful? Now I said “MQ” and not “WebSphere”. Inquiring minds […]

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Football (NFL) Spreads

November 30, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I’m not really interested in Fantasy Football leagues (or other Fantasy sport leagues) but back in the early 90’s, I joined an NFL football pool when I was working at a bank (and I’m still in the pool). I thought I could apply some AI to the concept of picking my weekly picks. 🙂 Everybody’s […]

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Simple File Transfer using Universal File Mover (How To #1)

November 29, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I get asked on a regular basis how to do a simple Universal File Mover (UFM) setup on 2 servers. It is actually very straight forward and I will run through an example in this blog posting. In this example, the following servers are used: – aix001 is an AIX server with WMQ Server and […]

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New Desktop PC

November 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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A year ago, I bought a new ASUS ZenBook (UX31E-DH72) and it has been a great laptop. For the last 6 months, my 5 year old desktop PC has been feeling slow, especially compared to my new laptop. The old PC is a dual display running WinXP with quad-core and 4GB of RAM. It was […]

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MQ File Mover vs Universal File Mover

November 23, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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What is the difference between MQ File Mover (MQFM) and Universal File Mover (UFM)? To be honest, UFM v1.0 was originally called MQFM v5.0. There were so many things that I wanted to add/fix/change in MQFM that the more I did, the more I realized that I would have a lot of angry people when […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.0.0

November 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of Universal File Mover v1.0.0. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover (UFM) 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 […]

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Security with Secret Phrases, Passwords, etc.

November 19, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Over the weekend, I was reading different articles/blogs about how people think that passwords, no matter how long, are useless. These people write that their accounts (email, Apple, phone, bank, etc) were hacked even when they used long passwords. When you reread the articles/blogs and analyze what they are saying, you realize that the password, […]

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SupportPac MS0P v7.1.0.2 Released

November 16, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Mark E Taylor of IBM has released version 7.1.0.2 of SupportPac MS0P. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011617 This SupportPac provides a set of plug-ins for the WebSphere MQ Explorer, extending its capabilities for configuration of queue managers, and displaying additional information about those queue managers. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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