Archive for the Category: Linux

Withdrawn/Discontinued: IBM IoT MessageSight and IBM Watson IoT Platform – Message Gateway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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Ubuntu 20.10 Released

October 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Canonical has just released Ubuntu v20.10. http://releases.ubuntu.com/20.10/ Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It’ll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps. Regards, […]

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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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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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