Archive for the Category: Capitalware

MQTT Message Editing Suite V1.0.0 Released

November 19, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQTT Message Editing Suite V1.0.0. MQTT Message Editing Suite (MMES) application allows users to subscribe, publish, edit, copy, delete, forward, backup, restore, import and export messages of a topic of an MQTT Broker. The messages of a topic are presented in a table format similar […]

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C Code to Lookup MQ Reason Code

November 16, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Starting with the release of IBM MQ v8.0, IBM included a new header file called: cmqstrc.h. The file description says: This file provides mappings between MQI constant values and string versions of their definitions. In the cmqstrc.h file, from IBM MQ v9.2, there are 342 subroutines for looking up the various integer values and returning […]

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New: MQ Message Compression v1.0.0

November 10, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Compression v1.0.0. MQ Message Compression (MQMC) is a solution that provides compression for MQ message data while it resides in a queue or topic and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). Data compression is the process of modifying and/or converting […]

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Time for a Bigger NAS

September 30, 2020 Roger Lacroix

If you read my old blog posting, you know I like and use Buffalo TeraStation as my NAS (Network Attached Storage). It supports Windows and macOS (Mac OS X) without any issues. My current Buffalo TeraStation III 4TB (Terabyte) has been nearly full for at least a year. I have been selectively deleting files and […]

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Web Server Hardware Getting Upgraded Tonight (Sept. 25)

September 25, 2020 Roger Lacroix

This is take-two. The hardware upgrade was scheduled for Tuesday night but it was delayed about an hour before it was to happen. HostGator, Capitalware’s web hosting company, will be upgrading our web server tonight with new hardware (new unit with new SSDs). So, if you find there are issues with our web sites, blog, […]

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Dropping LZ1 support from MQ Message Compression

September 21, 2020 Roger Lacroix

I have been doing a lot of a testing of various messages types (i.e. Fixed-width, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, PNG, JPG, etc.). I’ll post the results in the next blog posting. I have decided to drop support for LZ1 compression algorithm from MQ Message Compression (MQMC) for the following reasons: LZ1 has the slowest compression […]

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Microsoft Screwed Me Again

September 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

On Tuesday, Windows 10 Pro said that my current release of Windows 10 (I believe it was 1904) was going out of support and I needed to upgrade to release 2004. Against my better judgment, I allowed it to proceed when I went to bed Tuesday night then the problems started on Wednesday (yesterday). What […]

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How to (Properly) Setup ASUS AiMesh

September 15, 2020 Roger Lacroix

One thing always leads to another! In my house (and home office), I had an ASUS RT-AC68U router (on main floor) and a Tenda W150M router (in basement). Once in a while, someone would complain that the ‘internet is not working’ or ‘internet sucks’! Sometimes it would be as simple as being on the wrong […]

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Beta testers needed for MQ Message Compression

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is ready for beta testers for a new solution called: MQ Message Compression (MQMC). MQMC is an MQ API Exit. Question: Would you trade a little CPU time to drastically reduce the disk I/O time? I have written a long blog posting on the internals of queue manager logging (with help from Chris Frank) […]

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MQ Visual Edit and Reason Code of 2010

September 4, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Most users have to deal with many different queue managers in their MQ environment. If you are browsing a queue with large messages on a remote queue manager in MQ Visual Edit and have updated the “Maximum size of each message to retrieve” property on MQ Queue tab of the Preferences window to a number […]

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