Archive for the Category: Unix

Limited Continuing Support for IBM MQ 8.0

April 28, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced Limited Continuing Support for IBM MQ v8.0: In order to help customers through the challenges caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, IBM has announced Limited Continuing Support (LCS) for IBM MQ 8.0 and other selected offerings through 30 September 2020. Customers with active Software Subscription and Support coverage (S&S) on these offerings […]

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IBM MQ v9.0 End of Service Date

April 16, 2020 Roger Lacroix

The end of service date for IBM MQ v9.0 on distributed platforms (Linux, Unix, Windows and IBM i) is September 30, 2021. The IBM MQ Software lifecycle page is at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/announcement-end-support-ibm-mq-90 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ, Java and MQ MI and/or MQ HA

April 8, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Sometimes you come across things that make you just scratch your head and say who the hell wrote this @#$% code. I’m not trying to say that I’m the world’s greatest programmer but some of the shit that the MQ/Java team writes just makes my head spin. They need to share what they’re smoking! IBM’s […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.5 Released

April 6, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.5 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6090700 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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End of Service Date: IBM MQ v8.0 & IBM MQ Appliance M2000

April 3, 2020 Roger Lacroix

The end of service date for IBM MQ v8.0 on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS and IBM MQ Appliance M2000 is April 30, 2020. Here is the IBM MQ announcement page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/announcement-end-support-ibm-mq-80-and-ibm-mq-appliance-m2000 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V9.1.5 Announced

April 3, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.1.5 for Multiplatforms: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/877/ENUSZP20-0119/index.html Planned availability for IBM MQ V9.1.5 is April 2, 2020 for Electronic software delivery. Ian Harwood of IBM wrote a blog posting summarizing the IBM V9.1.5 CD release. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/imwuc/blogs/ian-harwood1/2020/04/02/mq915ga IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ) homepage https://www.ibm.com/products/mq Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Customer Requested Enhancement to MQMR

March 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

MQ Message Replication (MQMR) is an MQ API Exit. An MQ API Exit is configured to run within the queue manager’s address space (or the application’s address space if the application connects in bindings mode to the queue manager). For MQMR v1.1.0, a customer requested that information be added to the replicated messages, so that […]

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memmem() Function for a C Program

March 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Last week, I needed a function for a C program that would search a string not null terminated for a string not null terminated. Hence, I could not use strstr() function because it requires the strings to be null terminated. So, I checked my trusty C Runtime Library Reference and found nothing that matched. Now […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.9 Released

March 11, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.9 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/3255381?myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSYHRD Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM Integration Technical Conference 2020

March 5, 2020 Roger Lacroix

After I received David La Rose of IBM’s email, I replied asking about the IBM Integration Technical Conference 2020 and I copied Ray Daniel of IBM on the email. Ray Daniel replied with an official statement of: Thank you for your interest in the Integration Technical Conference 2020 on March 16-19. Due to participant travel […]

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