Archive for the Category: Capitalware

Time Warp – AIX and MQ v6

July 12, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last week, a customer emailed an interesting request. They have 2 AIX hub servers running WebSphere MQ V6.0 and they want to determine what applications are using the 2 MQ hub servers, so that they can upgrade to a newer release of MQ. That made me clean my glasses because MQ v6 went out of […]

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Enhancement to MQ Auditor

June 28, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware has an MQ solution called MQ Auditor. MQ Auditor is a solution that allows a company to audit/track all MQ API calls performed by MQ applications that are connected to a queue manager. I have enhanced MQ Auditor with a new keyword called ExcludePCFMessages. It has a default value of ‘N’. When it is […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory – MQ Auditor

June 25, 2021 Roger Lacroix

A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s MQ Auditor related to PCF response message for the PCF MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command. The PCF response message to the MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_NAMES command has 2 parts: list of queues and list of queue types. To format the queue types (i.e. local, alias, etc.), the code used a 1024 byte static array. The […]

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MacBook Pro, External Monitor, Display Link and Java

March 11, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Ok. Here’s a really weird one reported yesterday by a customer. If you are using a MacBook Pro with an external monitor (or 2) via Display Link and you try and run a Java GUI application, it will crash because the JVM thinks that it is running on a headless computer (no graphics driver). Therefore, […]

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IBM MQ Message Duplication

February 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM Support has a technical note labeled Does MQ have a feature to generate automatically a duplicate message?. The options listed on that page are to use Pub/Sub or programs qload and dmpmqmsg. You can also use MQ Visual Edit and MQ Batch Toolkit to get messages from a queue and write the message to […]

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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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Capitalware’s MQ Exits for Raspberry Pi

January 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Well, after having fun compiling and linking my Java applications into native applications for Raspberry Pi ARM, I decided to next tackle the compiling and linking all of the MQ Exits that I have created over the years. Currently, Capitalware has 9 commercial distributed MQ solutions that are MQ Exits and 3 ‘Licensed as Free’ […]

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Capitalware releases MQ Visual Edit for Raspberry Pi

January 7, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit for Raspberry Pi. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility […]

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