Archive for the Category: Unix

Enhancement to MQ Auditor

June 28, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Auditor. MQ Auditor is a solution that allows a company to audit/track all MQ API calls performed by MQ applications that are connected to a queue manager. I have enhanced MQ Auditor with a new keyword called ExcludePCFMessages. It has a default value of ‘N’. When it is […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory – MQ Auditor

June 25, 2021 Roger Lacroix

A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s MQ Auditor related to PCF response message for the PCF MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command. The PCF response message to the MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command has 2 parts: list of queues and list of queue types. To format the queue types (i.e. local, alias, etc.), the code used a 1024 byte static array. The […]

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IBM MQ Knowledge Center Icons

June 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM keeps added more and more icons in the MQ Knowledge Center to highlight which platforms and/or versions that a particular feature is supported on. You can find a complete list and explanation of the icons on the following MQ Knowledge Center page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/latest?topic=mq-release-platform-icons-in-product-documentation Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.8 Released

June 3, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.8 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-9108 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Java MQ Code to Clear a Queue of Messages

May 20, 2021 Roger Lacroix

If you have done the following runmqsc command to clear a queue: And you wanted to do the same thing via a program, here is a fully functioning Java MQ example that will connect to a remote queue manager, issue a PCF “Clear Queue” command, get the PCF response messages and output if the PCF […]

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Updates to My ByteArray Class

May 19, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last year, I posted a blog item called Java’s Missing Byte Array Class regarding the missing ByteArray class in Java and I published my ByteArray class for all to use. I have fixed a bug in the getBytes method and added 2 new methods: public int convertToInt_BE() public void replaceAndResize(byte[] oldByteArray, byte[] newByteArray) I have […]

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Programmatically Get IBM MQ Version for Both Client and Queue Manager

April 21, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Recently, on both StackOverflow and mqseries.net, people have been asking about getting both the client and queue manager versions numbers for MQ. It is pretty easy to get both the client and queue manager from the command line. For the IBM MQ installation that is running the queue manager, you simply issue the following command: […]

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IBM is Open Sourcing Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway (formerly IBM MessageSight)

April 16, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Back in November 2020, IBM announced that they would be withdrawing/discontinuing IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway. The other day, IBM announced that they would be donating the source code for Watson IoT Platform Message Gateway (formerly IBM MessageSight) to Eclipse. You can read about the new Eclipse project here: https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-amlen […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 Released

April 15, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.2 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6434245 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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All Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

April 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix

David Csakvari has a blog posting called: A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16 If you ever wondered or needed to know what has changed between releases of Java, David Csakvari’s blog posting has an excellent list of changes. On the flip side, if you are a new […]

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