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.

MQTC v2.0.1.4 Schedule Posted

August 18, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The MQTC v2.0.1.4 schedule has posted to www.mqtechconference.com/schedule.html MQTC will be the largest conference in the world solely dedicated to IBM’s WebSphere MQ. For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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SQLite v3.8.6 Released

August 18, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.6. 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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IBM’s New Super Conference: InterConnect 2015

August 14, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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IBM has announced a new super conference called InterConnect 2015 InterConnect will connect three popular IBM conferences – Impact, Innovate and Pulse – and combine the best in education and networking, into one of the most comprehensive software events ever. Cloud. Security. Mobile. DevOps. IT optimization. Internet of Things. Application Infrastructure. Many years ago, MQ […]

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Suganya Rane will be Speaking at MQTC

August 12, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Suganya Rane of Prolifics will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Suganya Rane will be presenting the following sessions at MQTC: Migrate from older versions of MQ to MQV7.1/7.5/8.0 An Overview of MQ Clustering For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Glen Brumbaugh’s Sessions for MQTC

August 12, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Glen Brumbaugh will be presenting the following sessions at MQTC: IBM MQ Performance Analysis SSL and TLS Explained: A User Perspective IBM MQ “Golden Image” Queue Managers For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.4 Early Bird Ends in 7 Days

July 23, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The early bird discount for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) expires on July 29th, 2014. So hurry and purchase your tickets before the early bird discount expires. MQTC will be the largest conference in the world solely dedicated to IBM’s WebSphere MQ. For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 31.0 Released

July 22, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v31.0. 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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MQTC v2.0.1.4 Early Bird Ends in 3 Weeks

July 10, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The early bird discount for MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC) expires on July 29th, 2014, which is only 4 weeks away! So hurry and purchase your tickets before the early bird discount expires. MQTC will be the largest conference in the world solely dedicated to IBM’s WebSphere MQ. For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com […]

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Troubleshooting WebSphere MQ Installation Issues

July 10, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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There is a new article on IBM’s developerWorks called: “Troubleshooting WebSphere MQ installation issues” http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1407_hans/1407_hans.html It has lots of diagnostic tips for MQ issues AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WMQ V8 and MQAUSXJ Client-side Java Bug

July 4, 2014 Roger Lacroix
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The following was recently reported: When MQAUSXJ is used with a client application that is using WMQ V8 Java Jar files, the connection is closed with reason code 2407. It appears that IBM changed the behavior of a field, instead of empty (i.e. blank) field, they now set the field to null. If anyone is […]

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