Archive for the Category: Unix

A Prime Example of Bad Security Information

October 19, 2016 Roger Lacroix

This morning I noticed a new blog posting over at IBM’s MQdev Blog called Compiling IBM MQ sample programs on AIX platform using XL C/C++ Compiler by Prema Laxmanachar. This is a prime example of someone starting out with a good intentions but takes a short-cut and ends up writing an extremely bad MQ security […]

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SQLite v3.15.0 Released

October 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.15.0. 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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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 7.5.0.7 Released

October 11, 2016 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released FixPack 7.5.0.7 for WebSphere MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21983301 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New Video by Mark Taylor on IBM MQ V9 – Open-source monitoring

August 24, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor of IBM Hursley UK has posted a video titled IBM MQ V9 – Open-source monitoring. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WebSphere MQ v7.5.0 End of Service Date

August 12, 2016 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced the end of service date for WebSphere MQ v7.5.0. The end of service date for WebSphere MQ v7.5.0 on distributed platforms (Linux, Unix, Windows and IBM i) is April 30, 2018. The official announcement can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg3t453863g97713d77 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Another Sample Java/MQ Program – MQWrite2

June 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix

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

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

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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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.5 Released

May 27, 2016 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released FixPack 8.0.0.5 for IBM MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21982686 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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SQLite v3.13.0 Released

May 18, 2016 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.13.0. 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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