Archive for the Category: IBM i (OS/400)

Capitalware Products Listed at LinkedIn

January 26, 2022 Roger Lacroix

The other day, MQGem posted a blog item about a new feature at LinkedIn where a company can list their products. I’ve have created a LinkedIn page for Capitalware and then added all 17 commercial products that Capitalware sells. You can view the entire list of Capitalware products at https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitalware/products/ page. The interesting feature that […]

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Explanation of Parameters in an IniFile of Capitalware Products

January 25, 2022 Roger Lacroix

I have a new customer who is having a problem understanding parameters and relations of parameters in the IniFile (initialization file aka configuration file). By no means am I taking a shot or putting down or marking fun of the customer. When English is not your first language and a new user is trying to […]

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Updated SimpleLogger Class

December 22, 2021 Roger Lacroix

The other day, someone emailed me and asked if I could add code to externalize the default values used by the SimpleLogger Class. I thought about it and figured it would be reasonably straight forward. Hence, here are the JVM Environment variables that the SimpleLogger Class supports: SimpleLogger.LogFileName – any valid file name SimpleLogger.LogDirectory – […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.10 Released

December 21, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.10 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-91010 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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My SimpleLogger can be a Replacement for Log4J

December 16, 2021 Roger Lacroix

In this blog post, don’t get me wrong, I think Log4J is a great product and I am not trying to discourage anyone from using it. I have used Log4J v1.x on hundreds of projects for customers and myself. It has always worked exactly as expected. I have never used Log4J v2.x, so I cannot/will […]

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Log4J Vulnerability And Capitalware Products

December 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

For those who have not heard, there is a new vulnerability in Log4J v2.x. Here is a link to the Log4J v2.x vulnerability: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/apache-log4j-vulnerability-cve-2021-44228/ The Log4J v2.x vulnerability is related to the ‘lookups’ feature that was introduced in version 2. Lookups provide a way to add values to the log4j configuration at arbitrary places. They […]

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IBM MQ V9.2.4 Announced

November 17, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/899/ENUSLP21-0278/index.html Highlights: MQ 9.2.4: – Intelligent workload rebalancing with updates to uniform clusters – Security enhancements that build on the existing robust security mechan – MQ client support for new Java™ 11 runtimes – MQ client support for Java 17 runtimes – Updates to improve usability of the IBM […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.4 Released

November 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.4 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6514427 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.12 Released

October 29, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.12 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-mq-90012 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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JMS/MQ Program That Creates Connection Factory from Scratch

October 21, 2021 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked a question about why their JMS/MQ code was failing. There are many errors in the code. Here is a fully functioning JMS/MQ program that will create the Connection Factory from scratch, connect to a remote queue manager and put a message to a queue. You can download the source code from […]

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