Monthly Archives: April 2014

It’s back: Excelsior JET Charity Bundle

April 30, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Excelsior have announced the Excelsior JET charity bundle, where you can get the standard edition of Excelsior JET for just $50 (without support), and they contribute all of the money to charity. www.ExcelsiorJET.com/charity That’s a discount of over $1,400 from the list price of Excelsior JET Standard Edition. What’s the catch? No support. That’s fine, […]

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GCC v4.9.0 Released

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix

GCC v4.9.0. was released http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,…). Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 29.0 Released

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v29.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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Lyn Elkins will be Speaking at MQTC

April 29, 2014 Roger Lacroix

More great news. Lyn Elkins of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Lyn Elkins’ session information will be posted in the near future. Note: We will do our best to make sure that each session is presented twice. For more information about MQTC, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix […]

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Chris Frank will be Speaking at MQTC

April 25, 2014 Roger Lacroix

More great news. Chris Frank of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Chris Frank will be presenting the following sessions at MQTC: Considerations when using WebSphere MQ and JMS with JEE Application Servers So You Think You Understand Multi-Instance Queue Managers? Performance Considerations with WebSphere MQ and IBM Integration Bus […]

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Paul Clarke will be Speaking at MQTC

April 24, 2014 Roger Lacroix

I have persuaded Paul Clarke (former IBM Hursley developer) to be a speaker at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). Paul has offered 9 subjects (he’ll be presenting 3), so I figured I would let the MQ community pick what they want Paul to present. I have created a poll at mqseries.net for people to […]

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Mark Taylor and Morag Hughson will be Speaking at MQTC

April 24, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor of IBM and Morag Hughson of IBM will be speaking at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 (MQTC). With the recently announced release of IBM MQ V8, here are some MQ V8 specific sessions: What’s New in IBM Messaging by Mark Taylor IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS: Latest Features Deep Dive by Morag Hughson […]

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WebSphere MQ v7.0.x End of Service

April 24, 2014 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced the end of service date for WebSphere MQ v7.0.x. The end of service date for WebSphere MQ v7.0.x on distributed platforms (Linux, Unix, Windows, IBM i and z/OS) is September 2015. The official official announcement can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS914-067 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V8 Released

April 22, 2014 Roger Lacroix

It appears that IBM has changed MQ’s name (again) from WebSphere MQ to IBM MQ. I guess someone at IBM decided MQ does not belong under the WebSphere umbrella. IBM has released IBM MQ V8: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS214-177/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en Highlights – Verification of user ID and password, making use of either operating system definitions or a Lightweight Directory […]

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IBM MQ V8 for z/OS Released

April 22, 2014 Roger Lacroix

It appears that IBM has changed MQ’s name (again) from WebSphere MQ for z/OS to IBM MQ for z/OS. I guess someone at IBM decided MQ does not belong under the WebSphere umbrella. IBM has released IBM MQ V8 for z/OS: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP14-0222 Highlights – Verification of user ID and password, making use of either operating […]

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