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IBM MQ V9.0.5 Continuous Delivery Announced

March 16, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.0.5 Continuous Delivery: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/877/ENUSZP18-0084/index.html New features and enhancements for clients with MQ Advanced entitlement – Enhancements to the previously delivered Replicated Data Queue Manager support – New support for the MQ MFT REST administration interface – Identification of MQ Advanced installs – Improved performance for MQ AMS encryption on MQ […]

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High performance IBM MQ & JMS applications

March 15, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Bastien Jansen has written a blog posting called: High performance IBM MQ & JMS applications. If you program in JMS and IBM MQ then you should definitely read the blog posting. You can find it here: https://bjansen.github.io/java/2018/03/04/high-performance-mq-jms.html Persistent messages are used by queue managers to guarantee message delivery. That’s not the correct IBM terminology. It […]

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What is the default behaviour of method writeString of MQMessage for Java?

March 9, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Paul Titheridge has posted a blog item over at developerWorks with the title “What is the default behaviour of the IBM MQ classes for Java method MQMessage.writeString(String)?”: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/03/09/mqmessage-writestring-default-behaviour/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Levels of JRE and GSkit bundled with IBM MQ

March 9, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has posted a support note regarding the levels of JRE and GSkit bundled with IBM MQ http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27038676 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Creating a Standard for MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB

March 8, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, I wrote about MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB which are a pair of utilities for offloading and loading messages to/from SQLite database. I thought it would be a good idea to publish what I designed so that other vendors, companies or users can easy use the standard. First, the SQL to create the table […]

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MQ Messages to/from SQLite DB

March 7, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Message Replication (MQMR). MQ Message Replication will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message […]

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MQ Messages and GDPR – What are you doing about it?

March 2, 2018 Roger Lacroix

What is GDPR? From Wikipedia: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data […]

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Installing IBM MQ on Windows

March 1, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Over on IBM developerWorks, there are a couple of recent blog posting on how to install IBM MQ on Windows using MSIEXEC and a response file. Installing MQ using MSIEXEC on Windows by Alamelu Nagarajan: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/03/01/installing-mq-using-msiexec-windows/ Installation of IBM MQ components on Windows using Command Line by Prema Laxmanachar: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/02/26/installation-ibm-mq-components-windows-using-command-line/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ on IBM Cloud

February 22, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Last month, IBM announced an experimental service for MQ on IBM Cloud: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/01/experimental-service-mq-ibm-cloud/ Last week, IBM announced that MQ on IBM Cloud has moved into the “beta phase”: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/02/mq-on-ibm-cloud-weve-hit-beta/ So, if you like your MQ in the SAAS (Software-As-A-Service) format then you should give the beta a try. If I can find some time this […]

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Suganya Rane will be Speaking at MQTC v2.0.1.8

February 16, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Suganya Rane of Sabre will be speaking at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.8 (MQTC). Suganya Rane’s Sessions: MQ Monitoring on the Cloud MQ on AWS For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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