Archive for the Category: MQ Technical Conference

Compression, What’s It Good For?

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Well, to answer my own question, you want Netflix, Hulu, etc. to use compression when you stream movies or TV shows. Or compress files to free up disk space. There are a variety of reasons to use compression. I’ve been doing a lot of testing using large files and it got me thinking about the […]

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RIP: MQ Technical Conference

February 19, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. is a small software company specializing in IBM MQ. Capitalware used to be a vendor at IBM’s Transaction and Messaging Technical Conferences (T&M Conference). IBM merged several conferences including the T&M Conference into Impact 2007. I went as a vendor to Impact 2007 but found that most attendees were not involved in MQ. […]

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Here We Go Again!

December 13, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is being forced to change our online shopping cart again. Ugh! When Capitalware started selling software in 2003 (yup, a long time ago), I signed up with RegSoft (owned by Digital River) to handle the online shopping cart. Everything worked well and I was happy with the setup. In January 2011, Digital River decided […]

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MQ Lab at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8

October 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix

For those who don’t know, IBM sends laptops and lab materials to MQ Technical Conference (MQTC) for attendees to do FREE hands-on training. The MQ Lab was open to attendees all day Monday and Tuesday. I would like to thank Lyn Elkins, Jack Carnes Jr and Mitch Johnson from IBM for doing an awesome job […]

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Third Day of MQ Technical Conference

September 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Richard Nikula presenting ‘If you can’t clone yourself, Delegate!’ session: Rob Sordillo presenting the ‘REST Easy with Infrared360’ session: Krista Valentine presenting the ‘Licensing Lingo – The Users Guide to IBM Licensing’ session: Lunch: Chris Frank presenting the ‘What’s new with Logging in IBM MQ?’ session: Jonathan Levell presenting the ‘MQTT: The Protocol for the […]

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Second Day of MQ Technical Conference

September 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Suganya Rane presenting ‘MQ on AWS’ session: Rob Parker presenting ‘Running MQ in the Cloud’ session: MQ Labs: Lunch: Afternoon snacks – tortilla & pita chips served with 4 different dips Mark Taylor presenting ‘Using Open Source solutions to monitor your queue managers’ session: Tuesday evening in the Vendor Pavilion – cheesecake: Regards, Roger Lacroix […]

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First Day of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8

September 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Opening Remarks: Selfie: David Ware presenting ‘What’s New in IBM Messaging’ session: MQ Labs: Lunch: Sandeep Chellingi presenting ‘MQ High Availability and Disaster recovery Implementation scenarios’ session: Afternoon desserts – ice cream social: Glen Brumbaugh presenting ‘MQ, IIB, Docker, Kubernetes and the IBM Cloud’ session: Monday evening in the Vendor Pavilion: Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware […]

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Sunday at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8

September 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Sorry for the delay in getting the MQTC pictures posted but it has been a very busy. Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.8: And everybody got a bag of cool (hopefully) swag: Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Sessions by Tracks for MQTC v2.0.1.8

September 13, 2018 Roger Lacroix

The final list of sessions, schedule and tracks have been posted to MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 web site. I have posted the ‘Tracks‘ web page. I have grouped the sessions together by various Tracks. It is designed to help attendees determine what sessions they should attending at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 . I have created […]

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Transcendence IT’s Vendor Session at MQTC v2.0.1.8

September 12, 2018 Roger Lacroix

George Klarmann of Transcendence IT will be doing the following vendor session at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC): George Klarmann’s Vendor Sessions: Best Practices for bringing your Queue Manager for maintenance For more information about MQTC, please go to: https://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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