Archive for the Category: Programming

Enhancement to Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I wrote a blog item regarding Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files. I forgot that the dmpmqcfg program can output the MQ Object information as 1 line rather than spanning multiple lines. Hence, if we let dmpmqcfg do that work then we can simplify the Rexx script to only output the various MQ objects […]

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Exporting MQ Objects into Individual Files

March 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

I posted this item on mqseries.net and I thought I should do a write up here. Back in the early 2000s, I was a consultant at a customer site and they wanted the nightly dumps of the MQ objects (not messages), 1 line per object and then check those files into a source code repository. […]

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Interesting Blog Item: IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST!

February 10, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Morag Hughson of MQGem has a new blog posting called IBM Knowledge Center – LATEST! regarding a new feature in the IBM Knowledge Center. Instead of providing a link with the MQ version number, you can swap the version number for the word “latest”. This is a cool feature for putting links in a blog […]

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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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Part 2: Customer Question Regarding Automation with MQ Visual Edit

February 4, 2021 Roger Lacroix

So, continuing with the customer, after they successfully tested MQ Batch Toolkit on Windows with a scheduled Windows batch script, they had a new question: how can we be sure that the file.txt are send in the proper order ( chronological) from the 1 to last ( by time) So, here are the batch/scripts files […]

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Customer Question Regarding Automation with MQ Visual Edit

February 3, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I got the following question from a customer: We have a system that generates files every couple of minutes, they are stored in a folder. Can we send those message contents using MQ visual edit to an mq server as soon as they become available in that folder? My answer to the customer was: […]

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Putting a File as a Message to a Queue

February 2, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has posted a support document describing the various ways to put a file as a message to a queue. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6409594 I would like to point out that both MQ Visual Edit and MQ Batch Toolkit can put a file as a message to a queue. MQ Visual Edit is a GUI program, so you […]

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IBM MQ: What is it, and why do developers need it?

February 1, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Max Kahan of IBM has created and posted a video on IBM MQ titled: “IBM MQ: What is it, and why do developers need it?” Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Back to Basics on Java with Azure Series

January 28, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft Reactor has a Back to Basics on Java Series. It is offering 5 events on Java for Azure. The Reactor is excited to launch a six-part series covering the basics of Java. The bitesize weekly episodes will cover topics including Containers, Databases, App Services and Serverless. By the end of the series you will […]

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