Archive for the Category: MQ Enterprise Security Suite

Capitalware Products & Older Versions of the Products

January 2, 2026 Roger Lacroix

A long time ago, Capitalware Support was constantly having issues with customers not upgrading to the latest version of a product and the customers reporting bugs/issues that had already been fixed months or years earlier. About 12 years ago, we added expiry code to output the “too old” error message. The error message is outputted […]

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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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Capitalware Products Listed at LinkedIn

January 26, 2022 Roger Lacroix

The other day, MQGem posted a blog item about a new feature at LinkedIn where a company can list their products. I’ve have created a LinkedIn page for Capitalware and then added all 17 commercial products that Capitalware sells. You can view the entire list of Capitalware products at https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitalware/products/ page. The interesting feature that […]

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Explanation of Parameters in an IniFile of Capitalware Products

January 25, 2022 Roger Lacroix

I have a new customer who is having a problem understanding parameters and relations of parameters in the IniFile (initialization file aka configuration file). By no means am I taking a shot or putting down or marking fun of the customer. When English is not your first language and a new user is trying to […]

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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 Products 2020 Release Train

July 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Here is a summary of all the recent releases that Capitalware Inc. has published: Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v3.2.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.5.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.5.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.2.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.4.0 MQ Channel Encryption […]

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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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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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Capitalware Products Minimum MQ Level Changed

July 3, 2019 Roger Lacroix

The minimum IBM MQ level for the following Capitalware products (distributed platforms) is now IBM MQ v7.1 (or higher): MQ Auditor MQ Authenticate User Security Exit MQ Message Encryption MQ Message Replication MQ Standard Security Exit Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Capitalware Products 2019 Release Train

June 29, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Here is a summary of all the recent releases that Capitalware Inc. has published: Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v3.1.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.4.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.4.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.1.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.1.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.3.0 MQ Channel Encryption […]

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