Archive for the Category: MQ Visual Edit

MQ Visual Edit V3.3.0 Released

December 15, 2025 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v3.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2/V3. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in […]

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Inflation and Tariffs

October 30, 2025 Roger Lacroix

Between 2020 and 2024, annual inflation in Canada & USA averaged roughly 4–5%, compared with about 2% in the preceding decade. The CPI surged in 2021–2022, reaching highs of around 8%, before slowing to about 3–4% by 2024 as interest rates rose and supply chains normalized. Despite this moderation, real purchasing power has declined, as […]

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New SUSE (SLES) Server

January 16, 2024 Roger Lacroix

My old server (x86 64-bit) that I had SUSE on it has been giving me headaches for several years. Many years ago, the hard drive crashed when I had SLES 11 SP2 installed on it. So, I replaced the hard drive with a new hard drive and install SLES 12 SP3. Everything was great for […]

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My Bad – Accessibility Features Were Missing

March 31, 2022 Roger Lacroix

I did an oops and I’m not sure when. I’ve always want to treat all people the same way, that is why I make sure Capitalware products support as many languages as possible and support people with reading issues. Capitalware uses Excelsior Jet to compile and link Java applications into a stand-alone executable and on […]

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And Now for Something Completely Different.

November 9, 2021 Roger Lacroix

I love that line from Monty Python which is from the film of the same name. Last week, someone emailed me about running MQ Visual Edit on Microsoft Surface Pro X. For those who don’t know, the Surface Pro X comes with a Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM processor. Yes, ARM CPU and not an […]

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MQ Visual Edit V3.2.0 Released

November 5, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v3.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2/V3. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of an IBM MQ queue manager and presents the data in […]

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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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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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