Archive for the Category: Windows

Withdrawn/Discontinued: IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform – Message Gateway

November 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I just came across the following announcement that says IBM has completely pulled the plug on IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform – Message Gateway. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6340723 So basically, that leaves IBM MQ as IBM’s primary messaging platform for MQTT? It is rather odd since IBM has refused to fully support MQTT in IBM […]

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Microsoft Java Developer Conference – Seriously!!

October 7, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft Java Developer Conference, those are words that I never thought I would say or hear!!! Microsoft is hosting a 3-day virtual conference for Java developers on October 27, 28 & 29, 2020. You can find out more information and sign up at the following web page: aka.ms/jdconf Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Java Method to Output a Byte Array in HEX Dump Format

October 6, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, I posted code to output a byte array in a HEX dump format. I thought I should post the code here as a complete working sample. You can download the source code from here. You can copy the 2 methods (dumpBuffer & formatHex) to your general purpose toolkit and use them in any […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.1 Released

October 1, 2020 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.1 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-version-9201 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Time for a Bigger NAS

September 30, 2020 Roger Lacroix

If you read my old blog posting, you know I like and use Buffalo TeraStation as my NAS (Network Attached Storage). It supports Windows and macOS (Mac OS X) without any issues. My current Buffalo TeraStation III 4TB (Terabyte) has been nearly full for at least a year. I have been selectively deleting files and […]

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Dropping LZ1 support from MQ Message Compression

September 21, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I have been doing a lot of a testing of various messages types (i.e. Fixed-width, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, PNG, JPG, etc.). I’ll post the results in the next blog posting. I have decided to drop support for LZ1 compression algorithm from MQ Message Compression (MQMC) for the following reasons: LZ1 has the slowest compression […]

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Microsoft Screwed Me Again

September 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On Tuesday, Windows 10 Pro said that my current release of Windows 10 (I believe it was 1904) was going out of support and I needed to upgrade to release 2004. Against my better judgment, I allowed it to proceed when I went to bed Tuesday night then the problems started on Wednesday (yesterday). What […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Message Compression

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Message Compression (MQMC). MQMC is an MQ API Exit. Question: Would you trade a little CPU time to drastically reduce the disk I/O time? I have written a long blog posting on the internals of queue manager logging (with help from Chris Frank) […]

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MQ Visual Edit and Reason Code of 2010

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Most users have to deal with many different queue managers in their MQ environment. If you are browsing a queue with large messages on a remote queue manager in MQ Visual Edit and have updated the “Maximum size of each message to retrieve” property on MQ Queue tab of the Preferences window to a number […]

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Compression, What’s It Good For?

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Well, to answer my own question, you want Netflix, Hulu, etc. to use compression when you stream movies or TV shows. Or compress files to free up disk space. There are a variety of reasons to use compression. I’ve been doing a lot of testing using large files and it got me thinking about the […]

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