Archive for the Category: Linux

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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Free ‘Intro to Linux’ Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments

September 28, 2020 Roger Lacroix

The Linux Foundation has announced its ‘Introduction to Linux’ training course on the edX platform has surpassed one million enrollments. So, if you are working from home, or even in the office, and want to learn a new skill for free then you should sign up and take the free ‘Introduction to Linux‘ training course. […]

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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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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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Enhancement to MQMR

September 2, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Message Replication (MQMR). MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message […]

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IBM CECC – Flawed Platform for ISVs, Developers, Vendors, etc.

August 12, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Earlier this year, IBM shutdown its IBM PDP (Power Development Platform), originally called IBM VLP (Virtual Loaner Program), and replaced it with IBM CECC (Client Experience Centers Cloud). IBM does loves their acronyms! I appreciate IBM supplying virtual VMs for developers to use to port their applications to AIX, IBM i and Linux on POWER, […]

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Redbooks on IBM MQ

July 24, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I have created a new section on Capitalware’s IBM MQ Documentation Library page called Redbooks on IBM MQ. I searched the internet and IBM’s Redbook site and found 20 redbooks on the subject of IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries). I have listed them in chronologically order. Note: Some of them may be old but […]

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Stackoverflow tag for MQ Visual Edit

July 24, 2020 Roger Lacroix

There are many ways for end-users to ask for help with MQ Visual Edit. You can: Send an email directly to support@capitalware.com Post a question on mqseries.net Send an email to the MQ ListServer Post a question on Stackoverflow Now on Stackoverflow, there is a tag called mq-visual-edit that you can add to your question. […]

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