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.

Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Solar

August 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Jess Lee of Stuff has a really interesting article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/7408149/Tokelau-to-shed-diesel-dependence Lead contractor Powersmart Solar is helping Tokelau replace its diesel generators – which burn about 200 litres of fuel daily – with 4032 solar panels, 392 inverters and 1344 batteries. Some countries/politicians just get it – they just get it. There are far better ways […]

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Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium

August 2, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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ComputerWorld writes about the ruling: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/432432/judge_sides_hp_rules_oracle_must_continue_porting_software_itanium/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Get Fake Credit Card Numbers for Testing Purposes

July 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Working in the financial industry, sometimes you need fake data (i.e. names, credit cards, etc..) for testing purposes. Over 10 years ago, I came across a Windows program called: Credit Card Verificator Engine. It has the ability to generate credit card numbers. I posted it to my web site at: https://www.capitalware.com/pc_win_general.html I now have come […]

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JBoss and Strange Looking Characters in the Message Data

July 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Here’s an interesting issue that Lawrence Coombs had regarding porting a J2EE application from WAS to JBoss: We ported an applictaion from WAS to jboss 5.1. It interfaces with a mainframe CICS transcation that uses MQ 7.x. Neither the distributed nor the Z/OS queue manager changed. The CCSID of the Z/OS queue manager is 500 […]

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SupportPac MO71 v7.5.0 Released

July 26, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Paul Clarke of IBM has released version 7.5.0 of SupportPac MO71. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000142 Changes: Added MQ 7.5 Support Attribute monitoring. Graphing. Predefined dialog groups. SupportPac MO71 provides a simple, easy to configure GUI interface to administer WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) Queue Managers. It consists of a single program which sends PCF or MQSC messages to a local […]

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How to Clear a MQ Queue from a Script or Program

July 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Have you ever wanted to clear a MQ queue? A quick and easy way to do it is to use runmqsc’s CLEAR QLOCAL command. This method works very well as long as no application has the local queue opened for input. Method #1: If you need to clear a queue on Linux, Unix, Windows or […]

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Nokia and RIM – Who will be first?

July 19, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Is it just me, or is Nokia and RIM in a race to be the first ones to be gone! You would think that each company has the Three Stooges running each company. Wouldn’t Helen Keller (if she were a live) do a better job understanding the mobile market and running either or both companies […]

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Raspbian-based SD card image released

July 18, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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The Raspberry Pi foundation has announced the release of the first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WMQ v7 for z/OS and IMS/CICS

July 17, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has the following technical bulletin: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21472819 Problem(Abstract) An IMS Bridge (OTMA) or CICS Bridge application that worked with WebSphere MQ for z/OS V6.0.0 now fails with V7.0.0 or V7.0.1. Symptom Symptoms may include MQRC 2148 MQRC_IIH_ERROR MQRC 2142 MQRC_HEADER_ERROR MQRC 2112 MQRC_SOURCE_INTEGER_ENC_ERROR DFHMQ0745 E CKBP nnnnn Unable to put message to reply queue. MQRC=2112. […]

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jgc.org: Some things I’ve learnt about programming

July 17, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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John Graham-Cumming has some interesting thoughts on programming that I really like: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/07/some-things-ive-learnt-about.html Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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