Archive for the Category: IBM MQ Appliance

Security Risk for MQ Model Queue

June 20, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Well, I learnt something new today: an MQ model queue is a security risk! It is not that a model queue in of itself is a security risk but rather what you can do with a model queue to get a backdoor to a queue or maybe it is called a ‘side channel attack’ of […]

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C# .NET Code to Get a Message from a Remote Queue Manager

June 4, 2018 Roger Lacroix

In my previous posting here, I did a write up of putting a message to a queue in a remote queue manager using C# .NET. In this blog posting, I’ll show you how to get a message from a queue of a remote queue manager using C# .NET. If you are familiar with IBM MQ […]

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C# .NET Code to Put a Message to a Remote Queue Manager

June 4, 2018 Roger Lacroix

I write a lot of C & Java code and I like to publish working examples of C and Java using MQ. So, I thought I should throw a little love towards C# .NET. 🙂 If you are familiar with IBM MQ Classes for Java then writing code with IBM MQ Classes for .NET will […]

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Creating A JMS (MQRFH2) Message in non-JMS Java Application

April 11, 2018 Roger Lacroix

This is the third post regarding JMS (MQRFH2) messages in non-JMS application. The previous 2 are: Handling A JMS (MQRFH2) Message in non-JMS Java Application JMS (MQRFH2) Message But The User Sees Garbage If you want to create JMS messages then the simplest solution is to use the IBM MQ classes for JMS. In case […]

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Handling A JMS (MQRFH2) Message in non-JMS Java Application

April 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

In the post ‘JMS (MQRFH2) Message But The User Sees Garbage‘, I wrote about how to properly view a JMS message (aka MQRFH2 message) on an MQ queue. I mentioned in the posting that non-JMS applications can be coded to deal with JMS messages. So in this posting, I’ll show you code for handling both […]

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JMS (MQRFH2) Message But The User Sees Garbage

April 6, 2018 Roger Lacroix

I swear at least once a month I read about someone complaining that they are seeing garbage (unreadable) output when they try to read their JMS (aka MQRFH2) message in IBM MQ. The user will put a message to a queue with their JMS application then try and read it with a non-JMS tool and […]

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Easy Disaster Recovery with IBM MQ Advanced 9.0.5

March 27, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Mark Campbell has posted a new blog item on disaster recovery with MQ Advanced 9.0.5 over at developerWorks: https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2018/03/23/easy-disaster-recovery-ibm-mq-advanced-9-0-5/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V9.0.5 Continuous Delivery Announced

March 16, 2018 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.0.5 Continuous Delivery: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/877/ENUSZP18-0084/index.html New features and enhancements for clients with MQ Advanced entitlement – Enhancements to the previously delivered Replicated Data Queue Manager support – New support for the MQ MFT REST administration interface – Identification of MQ Advanced installs – Improved performance for MQ AMS encryption on MQ […]

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High performance IBM MQ & JMS applications

March 15, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Bastien Jansen has written a blog posting called: High performance IBM MQ & JMS applications. If you program in JMS and IBM MQ then you should definitely read the blog posting. You can find it here: https://bjansen.github.io/java/2018/03/04/high-performance-mq-jms.html Persistent messages are used by queue managers to guarantee message delivery. That’s not the correct IBM terminology. It […]

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New: MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0

January 3, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0. 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 or shell scripting environment. Starting with MQ Batch Toolkit v3.0.0, the licensing model […]

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