Archive for the Category: Capitalware

WooHoo! I have a brand new toy today!

April 21, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Today, I got a brand new z/OS v2.4 image (aka mainframe) from the IBM Z Dallas ISV Center. They set it up with lots of toys to play with. IBM MQ v9.0.1 DB2 V11 and V12 IBM V13, V14 and V15 CICS V5 R5 In my original request, I asked for a queue manager for […]

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New: Capitalware Software Lifecycle Pages

March 20, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Earlier this week, a customer asked if we could publish a software lifecycle page for MQAUSX. Since, I wasn’t knee deep into fixing a bug, I figured I would create a Software Lifecycle page for each commercial product. Each lifecycle page has 3 columns: version, general availability and end of support. The version number is […]

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Working from Home – Open Source Software

March 19, 2020 Roger Lacroix

The other day I wrote about working from home, since I recently upgraded both my desktop and laptop to Windows 10 64-bit, I thought I should review/list the open source software I use to get the job done. You don’t need to go broke setting up your PC/laptop with software. Here is a list of […]

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Customer Requested Enhancement to MQMR

March 17, 2020 Roger Lacroix

MQ Message Replication (MQMR) is an MQ API Exit. An MQ API Exit is configured to run within the queue manager’s address space (or the application’s address space if the application connects in bindings mode to the queue manager). For MQMR v1.1.0, a customer requested that information be added to the replicated messages, so that […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory

January 29, 2020 Roger Lacroix

A bug was discovered in Capitalware’s framework subroutine for removing trailing blanks (spaces) from a variable. If the contents of the variable contained only blanks then the code miscalculated the length by 1. This bug affects all commercial and “Licensed as Free” products. Commercial Products for distributed platforms affected: MQ Auditor MQ Authenticate User Security […]

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Windows Print Screen

December 12, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Ok. Here’s something not related to MQ or programming. 🙂 Everyday, someone sends Capitalware a support request with an image or two. Its not a problem. I review what they asking and send back a reply. Most of the images I receive are some sort of cropped image of the whole desktop. Sometimes the image […]

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MQME Issue with ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API Call

December 9, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Late last week, a customer discovered an obscure issue in MQ Message Encryption (MQME) with the ExcludeQueue keyword on an MQPUT1 API call. I have since fixed it but here is what I mean by obscure: – If the user has wild-carded their protected queue setup i.e. ‘TEST.*’ – And then set the ExcludeQueue keyword […]

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wc3270 and IBM RDP Issue

December 9, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I use IBM’s Remote Development Program (RDP) to host my z/OS and Linux for System z LPARs. I installed the latest release of wc3270 of the x3270 project on my new Windows 10 PC and copied my settings from my old Windows 7 PC. Hence, I should be good to go but no. I have […]

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MQ Batch Toolkit v3.2.0 Released

December 3, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v3.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Batch Toolkit. MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of an IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line […]

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Customer Requested Update to MQ Message Encryption

November 21, 2019 Roger Lacroix

MQ Message Encryption (MQME) is a solution that provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue or topic and in the MQ logs (i.e. data at rest). By default, when an application puts a message to a protected queue, MQME will encrypted the entire message data. If the application is putting […]

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