Archive for the Category: MQ Enterprise Security Suite

Weird Problem related to a Channel Security Exit

March 1, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I posted the following weird channel security exit problem on the MQSeries ListServer. I received a lot of emails (both public and private) offering help to the problem. Thanks. It was not an SELinux issue nor was it a corrupt shared library issue. It was an issue related to permissions for a mount point. Here […]

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Here We Go Again!

December 13, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is being forced to change our online shopping cart again. Ugh! When Capitalware started selling software in 2003 (yup, a long time ago), I signed up with RegSoft (owned by Digital River) to handle the online shopping cart. Everything worked well and I was happy with the setup. In January 2011, Digital River decided […]

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Capitalware IniFile GUI Tools Updated

November 26, 2018 Roger Lacroix

If you read my ‘Size Matters’ blog posting, this is just a continuation but for Capitalwre’s IniFile GUI Tools. Many of Capitalware’s back-end solutions have a lot of keyword/value pairs, so each product has an associated IniFile GUI Tool program to make it easier for the MQAdmin to configure the IniFile rather than using notepad […]

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Capitalware Products 2018 Release Train

May 28, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Here is a summary of all the recent releases that Capitalware Inc. has published: Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v3.0.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.3.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.3.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.0.0 MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.0.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption […]

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Pres. Trump says gov’t agencies need better security – MQ security too?

February 3, 2017 Roger Lacroix

The other day, U.S. President Donald Trump said: the government agencies need to better protect their networks. Most of the U.S. government agencies use IBM MQ for their messaging middleware. Application messages that traverse their MQ environment contain confidential and highly secure information. As many of you know, A basic setup of IBM MQ Server […]

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Capitalware Products 2016 Release Train

December 15, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, Capitalware Inc. released updates to all of the products that involve MQ Exits. Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v2.4.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.2.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.1.2 MQ Channel Encryption for z/OS v3.1.2 MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.2 MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0 MQ […]

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New Categories for my Blog

April 5, 2016 Roger Lacroix

I frequently get asked to notify a particular customer of an update/issue/patch for a product. I used to send mass emails to all customers when I needed to notify them of something but I stopped doing this several years ago. Now I say ‘check my blog‘ to find the information. I have created a bunch […]

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Apple vs FBI Encryption Court Case

March 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix

I have not commented publicly on the Apple vs FBI encryption court case that is going on in the USA because Capitalware sells encryption software to companies to protect customer data, so you can guess that I’m on Apple’s side. This is not a simple issue like some people want to make it out to […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory for Windows

June 12, 2015 Roger Lacroix

It has been discovered that a common subroutine for dumping environment variables on Windows had an error with the FreeEnvironmentStrings Windows API call. Hence, this would cause the product to leak memory on Windows. This is true regardless of the IniFile’s LogMode keyword value. This issue affects all Capitalware commercial and ‘Licensed As Free’ products […]

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Capitalware’s Products and the Heartbleed Issue

April 14, 2014 Roger Lacroix

None of Capitalware’s Products directly use OpenSSL, so the Heartbleed issue does not directly affect our products. If you use MQAUSX on Linux and have configured MQAUSX to target an LDAP server using “LDAP over SSL”, then you will want to check what OpenSSL package is installed on your Linux server. i.e. The affected versions […]

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