New: MQ Visual Edit v1.6.0

April 17, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v1.6.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program.

For more information about MQ Visual Edit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqve_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Visual Edit v1.6.0:

  • Added 3 new columns to the main windows when displaying MQMD: MsgIdInHex, CorreldInHex and GroupIdInHex
  • Added a new feature called “Search MQMD”, it is under MQMD menu item. The Search MQMD feature supports searching on the following MQMD fields: MsgID, CorrelID, GroupID, UserID, Appl Id Data, Appl Origin Data and Format.
  • Added a gutter/line number column and a status line to the Raw Data tabs of the Message Edit window
  • Added a copy and find commands for the Hex Data and EBCDIC Data tabs of the Message Edit window
  • Added 3 new stand-alone Tools: Hex Converter, Hex Editor and XML Editor
    • Hex Converter can convert a hexadecimal number to its corresponding string representation and vice versa. i.e. 0x’3132333041424344′ to ‘1230ABCD’.
    • Hex Editor allows the user to edit a file in a HEX display.
    • XML Editor allows the user to edit an XML file in a tree display.
  • Added a gutter/line number column and a status line to the Text Editor and Tail File Tools
  • Added the ability to launch the tools in a separate JVM
  • Fixed a bug when SIMClient connects to the queue manager
  • Fixed a bug in the XML Message Editor that was not properly saving the message back to the queue
  • Fixed a bug with DOCTYPE handling in the XML Message Editor
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Visual Browse v1.6.0

April 17, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v1.6.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar to a database utility or spreadsheet program.

For more information about MQ Visual Browse go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqvb_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Visual Browse v1.6.0:

  • Added 3 new columns to the main windows when displaying MQMD: MsgIdInHex, CorreldInHex and GroupIdInHex
  • Added a new feature called “Search MQMD”, it is under MQMD menu item. The Search MQMD feature supports searching on the following MQMD fields: MsgID, CorrelID, GroupID, UserID, Appl Id Data, Appl Origin Data and Format.
  • Added a gutter/line number column and a status line to the Raw Data tabs of the Message Edit window
  • Added a copy and find commands for the Hex Data and EBCDIC Data tabs of the Message Edit window
  • Added 3 new stand-alone Tools: Hex Converter, Hex Editor and XML Editor
    • Hex Converter can convert a hexadecimal number to its corresponding string representation and vice versa. i.e. 0x’3132333041424344′ to ‘1230ABCD’.
    • Hex Editor allows the user to edit a file in a HEX display.
    • XML Editor allows the user to edit an XML file in a tree display.
  • Added a gutter/line number column and a status line to the Text Editor and Tail File Tools
  • Added the ability to launch the tools in a separate JVM
  • Fixed a bug in the XML Message Editor that was not properly saving the message back to the queue
  • Fixed a bug with DOCTYPE handling in the XML Message Editor
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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LibreOffice 3.5.2 Released

April 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix

LibreOffice has just released LibreOffice v3.5.2.
http://www.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it’s available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, …).

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Here’s another idea for the world!

April 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

For anyone who parks a car/truck/van on a city street or parking lot, at some point, you have had to put money or a credit card into a centralized parking payment machine and then place the issued parking receipt on your vehicle’s dash (face up of course). Pretty standard stuff if you live in a city and drive a vehicle. Usually, you pay for 1 or 2 hours of parking at a time. Then what happens? You have to run back and put more money into the centralized parking payment machine and again you need to put the new parking receipt on the dash of your vehicle. It is a real pain in the butt.

Here’s another idea that I will license under Apache License 2. 🙂

Lets combine the new technology in smartphones with the existing parking infrastructure.

  1. Add Near Field Communication (NFC) ability to those centralized parking payment machines.
  2. Update the centralized parking payment machines to printout 2 types of parking receipts
    • Regular parking receipts with the normal end time
    • New parking receipt with a bar code and ticket number
  3. For those with a smartphone with NFC, when you go to the centralized parking payment machines, you pay via NFC with your smartphone and the machine issues the new parking receipt with bar code and ticket number
  4. You place the parking receipt as usual on your vehicle’s dash
  5. When the meter-person inspects your parking receipt, they will need to scan the bar code or input the ticket number to see if the time has expired.
  6. Finally, the MOST critical part, the parking company must allow their customers to put more money towards the parking receipt (via an app or web page or whatever).

Now why go through all of this? Because now you will be able to “feed the meter” from anywhere, without having to run back to your vehicle.

Of course, features like having the app on your smartphone popup with an announcement that you only have 5 minutes left before the parking time expires would be excellent.

If parking lot companies make it very easy to pay for parking then more people will pay in a timely fashion, hence, in the end, it will mean MORE revenue for the parking companies.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Free IBM e-book: DB2 10 for z/OS

April 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM is giving away free copies of the e-book: DB2 10 for z/OS: The Smarter, Faster Way to Upgrade
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=swg-DB210nurtt1

Written by IBM DB2 experts and published by MC Press, this e-book lays out best practices for planning and executing your upgrade to IBM DB2 10 for z/OS® (from DB2 8 or DB2 9), and for quickly realizing the financial benefits of the new release.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SupportPac IA94 XMS for .NET v2.0.0.8 Released

April 4, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM has released version 2.0.0.8 of SupportPac IA9H: IBM Message Service Client (XMS) for .NET.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011756

The IBM Message Service Client for .NET (“XMS .NET”) renders the Java Message Service (JMS) API in a managed .NET environment. It brings the benefits of JMS – a standard, abstracted messaging API for pub/sub and point-to-point messaging, as well as externally administered objects – to the non-Java world.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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RFE for WMQ manuals in PDF format

April 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I have created an RFE called “Create PDFs for WebSphere MQ”. The RFE ID # is 21041. Please vote for it, so that IBM will create/generate WebSphere MQ in PDF format.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=21041

To vote, locate the “RFE Actions” section on the right hand side of the screen and click the vote link. You can only vote once, so we need everyone to vote to get IBM’s attention.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SupportPac MS0P v7.1 Released

March 28, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Mark E. Taylor has released version 7.1 of SupportPac MS0P.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011617

This SupportPac provides a set of plug-ins for the WebSphere MQ Explorer, extending its capabilities for configuration of queue managers, and displaying additional information about those queue managers.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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WebSphere MQ Administration Seminar

March 28, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I receive emails from people all the time asking me where they can get training on WebSphere MQ. I generally tell them to take one of the IBM WebSphere MQ courses. Today, I received the following email from WebSphere Insights:

We’re proud to announce the launch of our new 3-day seminar: WebSphere MQ Administration, coming to 5 cities near you in 2012, starting in New York, June 5-8. New to WebSphere MQ Administration or feeling less than confident in your skills? Join us at our 1-day workshop prior to the seminar and ensure you have a foundation to execute with confidence.

This seminar will dive into best practices and real-world advice to solve your MQ challenges on both distributed platforms (Unix and Windows) and the mainframe (IBM System z). From root cause analysis, to security, High Availability (HA) clustering, and the future of MQ, this seminar covers what you need to take your WebSphere MQ Administration skills to the next level.

They are offering the WebSphere MQ Administration seminar 5 times:

  • New York — June 5-8
  • Chicago — October 9-12
  • London — October 23-26
  • Orlando — November 12-14
  • Amsterdam — December 4-7

Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about WebSphere Insights nor the seminar they are offering. I do not even know where they got my email address from, so buyer beware. Hence, please do NOT take my blog posting as an endorsement of WebSphere Insights or their seminar.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SQLite v3.7.11 Released

March 22, 2012 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.7.11.
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html

SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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