Archive for the Category: Linux

New: MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0

November 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of MQ Channel Monitor v1.2.0. It is a free open source project. MQ Channel Monitor (MQCM) application is a software package that is designed to gather and to display the status of MQ channels of the queue manager. MQCM displays 16 columns of channel status information. The display […]

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IBM MQ V9.1.1 Announced

November 27, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.1.1: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS218-511/index.html Highlights: MQ V9.1.1 base provides the following: Support for running applications on Microsoft™ .NET Core Provision for a list of acceptable Transport Layer Security (TLS) CipherSpecs Dynamic TLS CipherSpec negotiation More effective integration with IBM WebSphere® Liberty Improved queue manager restart and client reconnect times MQ Advanced V9.1.1 […]

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Capitalware IniFile GUI Tools Updated

November 26, 2018 Roger Lacroix

If you read my ‘Size Matters’ blog posting, this is just a continuation but for Capitalwre’s IniFile GUI Tools. Many of Capitalware’s back-end solutions have a lot of keyword/value pairs, so each product has an associated IniFile GUI Tool program to make it easier for the MQAdmin to configure the IniFile rather than using notepad […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.1 Released

November 19, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.1 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10738815 and for IBM i: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10740195 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Size Matters

November 15, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Ha! Got your attention. 🙂 This posting is not what you think it is about! So, get your mind out of the gutter. 🙂 A couple of weeks ago, a customer using MQ Visual Edit sent me a screenshot of an issue they were having. The column label on one of the windows was truncated. […]

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Java Code to Open a Web Page

November 7, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Some times the simplest things drive you nuts. 🙂 The Desktop class (java.awt.Desktop) was introduced in Java v1.6. There are occasions when you are running a Java application in JVM 1.6 or higher that the Desktop class is not available or fails to load. It is just weird and very frustrating. Its not just me. […]

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Java MQ Code to List Channel Status

November 6, 2018 Roger Lacroix

I thought I posted this code sample but I guess I forgot to do it. 😉 If you have done the runmqsc command for Channel Status for all channels of a queue manager as follows: And you wanted to do the same thing via a program, here is a fully functioning Java MQ example that […]

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released

October 31, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM Z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64. All […]

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Fedora 29 Released

October 31, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project has just released Fedora 29. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/ Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat […]

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IBM announced plans to buy Red Hat

October 29, 2018 Roger Lacroix

This is interesting. IBM announced it will buy Red Hat for $34 Billion. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/ibm-buys-red-hat-with-eye-on-cloud-dominance/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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