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.

Robin Wiley will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.6

July 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Robin Wiley of Robin Wiley Training will be speaking at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.6 (MQTC). Robin Wiley’s Session: MQ-DataPower Connectivity Deep Dive For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Finally, a Beta of MQ Visual Edit V2

July 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Finally, is an understatement. In December 2014, I decided it was time for version 2 of MQ Visual Edit. I had already done sketches of what MQ Visual Edit V2 should look like a couple of years earlier, so it was time to get rolling on the coding of it. I decided that version 2 […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.6 Gold Sponsor: TxMQ

July 13, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware would like to announce that TxMQ is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.6 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Chris Frank’s Sessions for MQTC v2.0.1.6

July 12, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Chris Frank of IBM will be speaking at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.6 (MQTC). Chris Frank will be presenting the following sessions at MQTC: More Mysteries of the MQ Logger Performance Considerations When Designing IBM Integration Bus solutions For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Calling IBM MQ from Go Applications

July 11, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Mark Taylor of the IBM UK MQ Labs has published a blog entry on how to use IBM MQ from a Go application. You can read about it at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/messaging/entry/Calling_IBM_MQ_from_Go_applications I’m kinda surprising that IBM hasn’t created an interface between IBM MQ and Swift, since I get monthly emails from IBM telling me that I […]

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Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) Released

July 7, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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On June 22nd, 2016, Eclipse Foundation has released the annual Eclipse release train: https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20160622_neon.php Key Highlights of Neon Release Eclipse JSDT 2.0:New tools for JavaScript developers, including a JSON editor, support for Grunt/Gulp and a new Chromium V8 Debugger. Platform and JDT Features: Key Eclipse Platform improvements are HiDPI support and autosave. JDT’s Content Assist […]

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Fedora 24 Released

June 21, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Fedora Project Contributors has just released Fedora v24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. The Fedora operating system is 100% […]

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Another Sample Java/MQ Program – MQWrite2

June 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Someone over at Stack Overflow posted a question about logging MQ error messages to a file. After the user updated the posting, I recognized the code as mine (MQWrite.java) that I wrote back in 2000 (Yup, 16 years ago!!). So, I decided to bring MQWrite.java into this decade and created MQWrite2.java. Here is MQWrite2.java that […]

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A Tip for Handling Java/MQ Internal Message Class

June 16, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Here’s an interesting head-scratcher. I was writing some Java code to handle an MQ message and in this particular case, it was an MQRFH2 message. The code below was working fine until I decided to dump (output) the message in hexadecimal. The printMsgHex() method is a simple method to retrieve the message and output. When […]

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Using SSL TLS To Connect 2 MQ Queue Managers Using Self-Signed Certificates

June 16, 2016 Roger Lacroix
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Angel Rivera and Mike Cregger of IBM have published a support document titled: Using SSL TLS to connect two MQ queue managers in MQ 7.5 and MQ 8.0 / MQ 9.0 using self-signed certificates The document provides step-by-step details for connecting a WebSphere MQ V7.5 queue manager in one platform (Windows) to a V8.0 queue […]

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