Archive for the Category: MQ Channel Connection Inspector

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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Time Warp – AIX and MQ v6

July 12, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Last week, a customer emailed an interesting request. They have 2 AIX hub servers running WebSphere MQ V6.0 and they want to determine what applications are using the 2 MQ hub servers, so that they can upgrade to a newer release of MQ. That made me clean my glasses because MQ v6 went out of […]

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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: MQ Channel Connection Inspector v1.2.0

July 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Channel Connection Inspector (MQCCI) v1.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQCCI. MQCCI is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local queue manager […]

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New: MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS v1.2.0

July 23, 2020 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Channel Connection Inspector for z/OS (z/MQCCI) v1.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of z/MQCCI. z/MQCCI is a solution that allows a company to track and/or audit what information a client application or remote queue manager is exchanging with the local […]

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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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