Archive for the Category: Education

How Long it Takes for a Hacker to Crack Your Password

July 27, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Over at Komando’s web site, they have an article called: Use this chart to see how long it’ll take to crack your passwords. A general rule is that your password should be at least 11 characters and use numbers, along with upper and lowercase letters. That combination will take hackers 41 years to crack. Here’s […]

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IBM MQ Knowledge Center Icons

June 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM keeps added more and more icons in the MQ Knowledge Center to highlight which platforms and/or versions that a particular feature is supported on. You can find a complete list and explanation of the icons on the following MQ Knowledge Center page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/latest?topic=mq-release-platform-icons-in-product-documentation Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Reasons MQSC Commands for an AMQP Channel May Not Work

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has posted a support document describing the various reasons why an MQSC command may not work for an AMQP channel. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6411487 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Local Transactions Using IBM MQ and the JMS API

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Olja Rastic-Dulborough has written an article that introduces the user to the concepts of local transactions using IBM MQ and JMS. https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-mq/articles/an-introduction-to-local-transactions-using-mq-and-jms/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Join Microsoft and the Java developer community at Devnexus 2021

February 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft is sponsoring and participating in Devnexus 2021, you can read more about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/join-microsoft-and-the-java-developer-community-at-devnexus-2021/ba-p/2114247?WT.mc_id=appsonazure-twitter-shboyer Microsoft is excited to be sponsoring and participating in Devnexus 2021, and you might be wondering—what is Microsoft doing with Java? Quite a bit actually! We’ve been busy releasing new features and functionality to support Java apps on Azure, […]

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How to Perform Common IBM MQ Management Certificate Tasks

January 15, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has published a technical note on how to perform common IBM MQ management certificate tasks. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6382940 This document is intended to help with IBM MQ certificate management. It lists some of the most common commands needed to do basic certificate management tasks. In IBM MQ you can performed such tasks through the IBM Key […]

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Configuring Mutual TLS Authentication for an IBM MQ Messaging Application

January 15, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Max Kahan of IBM has published a hands-on blog posting on how to configure an IBM MQ application for mutual TLS authentication. https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/configuring-mutual-tls-authentication-java-messaging-app/ In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to secure the queue manager and a client application, enabling them to complete a two-way TLS handshake and secure a messaging channel. Although we’re using […]

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IBM MQ: What’s New and What’s Next Webinar

January 12, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM will be hosting a webinar on IBM MQ called: What’s New and What’s Next When: March 30, 2021 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (ET) You can find out more information and to register go to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/middleware/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=c0bcb907-5eb5-4691-8ecd-cdcd29ba4c50 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Another Useful Feature of runmqsc

November 27, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I was reading the MQ Knowledge Center today (surprising, yes, I know!) looking up whether or not runmqsc in client mode uses regular PCF commands when sending commands to a remote queue manager. It doesn’t. It uses escaped PCF messages. Anyway, I stumped across an interesting new feature that IBM included in IBM MQ v8.0 […]

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Replay of Online Meetup: Enterprise messaging on the Raspberry Pi with IBM MQ

November 9, 2020 Roger Lacroix

If you wanted to attend the online meetup of Enterprise messaging on the Raspberry Pi with IBM MQ but could not attend, you can now watch the replay of it at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learn-about-ibm-mq-an/register Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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