Monthly Archives: July 2021

How Long it Takes for a Hacker to Crack Your Password

July 27, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Over at Komando’s web site, they have an article called: Use this chart to see how long it’ll take to crack your passwords. A general rule is that your password should be at least 11 characters and use numbers, along with upper and lowercase letters. That combination will take hackers 41 years to crack. Here’s […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.1.0.8 for HP NonStop Server Released

July 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.1.0.8 for IBM MQ for HP NonStop Server: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/fix-list-ibm-mq-hpe-nonstop-version-81#8108 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.2.0.3 Released

July 23, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.2.0.3 for IBM MQ V9.2 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6474635 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ V9.2.3 Announced

July 20, 2021 Roger Lacroix

IBM has announced IBM MQ V9.2.3: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/877/ENUSZP21-0231/index.html Highlights: MQ 9.2.3: – Streaming queues to make message data from existing flows available to Apache Kafka streaming applications, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics applications, with zero impact to the existing applications or their messages and without a need for rearchitecting your message flows – Broadened uniform cluster […]

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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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MQ Request/Reply Scenario with Async Getter Thread

July 8, 2021 Roger Lacroix

Ok. Continuing on with the previous blog posting here, the StackOverflow user says that s/he wants the getter component to be run in a separate thread. To me, the request does not really make a lot of sense. If the user wants to do a Get with CorrelId then they should be coding for synchronous […]

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Put 2 Messages with Unique CorrelId and Get 1 Message by CorrelId

July 2, 2021 Roger Lacroix

On StackOverflow, someone asked a question about putting 2 messages on a queue with unique correlation ids and then retrieve a message with a particular correlation id. Here is a fully functioning Java/MQ program that will put 2 messages on a queue with unique correlation ids and then retrieve a message with a particular correlation […]

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