Free, limited-edition e-book: Systems Engineering for Dummies

IBM is giving away free copies of the e-book: Systems Engineering for Dummies
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=swg-rtl-sd-wp&S_PKG=eb_sys-eng-dummies

Learn what systems engineering is, and how it can help you speed time to market, improve business agility, and develop and deliver smarter, higher-quality, more connected products while cutting costs.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SupportPac MO71 v7.0.2 Released

Paul Clarke of IBM has released version 7.0.2 of SupportPac MO71.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24000142

    Changes:

  • WebSphere MQ V7.0.1 support.
  • Multiple Queue Manager list support.
  • Sizeable list dialog areas.
  • Show object name in entryfield rather than dropdown.
  • Set default browse message range#.
  • Auto update of lists on change action.
  • MO71 Authority changes.
  • Browse message selector added.
  • New set() filter function.

SupportPac MO71 provides a simple, easy to configure GUI interface to administer WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) Queue Managers. It consists of a single program which sends PCF or MQSC messages to a local or remote Queue Manager and displays the output from the command server in dialogs. All Queue Managers that have a command server can be administered, including z/OS.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Capitalware products and HP-UX on Itanium (IA64)

For the record, Capitalware will support all of its commercial and open source products on HP’s HP-UX for Itanium (IA64) for as long as customers require it.

By no means am I taking sides in the HP/Oracle war, I’m just stating what Capitalware’s support position is. If you want to read about the HP/Oracle Itanium war, here are a few links:
– ZDNet Article
– InformationWeek Article
– ComputerWorld Article

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Capitalware, MQ Auditor, MQ Authenticate User Security Exit, MQ Batch Toolkit, MQ Channel Encryption, MQ Channel Throttler, MQ Enterprise Security Suite, MQ Message Encryption, MQ Message Replication, MQ Standard Security Exit, Unix Comments Off on Capitalware products and HP-UX on Itanium (IA64)

Java 7.0 Preview Release

Oracle has issued the first release candidate of Java Standard Edition version 7.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ea-jsp-142245.html

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Thunderbird 5.0 Released

Mozilla/Mozilla Labs has just released Thunderbird v5.0
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

    The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:

  • More responsive and faster to start up and use.
  • Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine.
  • New Add-ons Manager.
  • Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup.
  • New Troubleshooting Information page.
  • Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows.
  • Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments.
  • Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default.
  • There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
  • Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac).
  • Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. Just as Firefox aims to redefine the web browser, Thunderbird is a refinement of the mail and news interface.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Visual Edit and WMQ v7 local queue manager

The current and previous releases of MQ Visual Edit are designed to work with any version of an WMQ remote queue manager (i.e. connecting in ‘client mode’).

If the user has WMQ v6 server installed on their PC, MQ Visual Edit can connect in either ‘bindings mode’ or ‘client mode’ to the local queue manager.

If the user has WMQ v7 server installed on their PC, MQ Visual Edit can only connect in ‘client mode’ to the local queue manager. If the user prefers to connect to the WMQ v7 local queue manager in ‘bindings mode’ then they need a special build of MQ Visual Edit.

If any registered user of MQ Visual Edit would like a release of MQ Visual Edit that connects in bindings mode to an WMQ v7 local queue manager then send an email to support@capitalware.com to request it.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQ File Mover v4 beta

I am working on the next release of MQ File Mover and was working if anyone working like to beta test it? (This is a beta, so do not put it into your production environments.)

Here are the new features/updates so far:

– Added support for unlimited file size for Send, Receive and Watch Actions
– Added support for end-to-end encryption:
    – Enhanced Send and Watch Actions to have the ability to encrypt a message with AES 128, 192 or 256-bit.
    – Enhanced Receive Action to have the ability to decrypt a message with AES 128, 192 or 256-bit.
– Added support for file locking when reading and writing to/from a file.
– All Actions now have an “On Error Fail” flag.
– Fixed an issue with “dir” attribute of File element of Watch element

15 New Actions:
– Added a DecryptFile Action to decrypt a file with AES 128, 192 or 256-bit.
– Added an EncryptFile Action to encrypt a file with AES 128, 192 or 256-bit.
– Added an If/Else conditional test.
– Added a Merge Action to merge 2 or more files into a target file
– Added a MergeSort Action to merge 2 or more files and sort the results into a target file
– Added a ReplaceText Action to perform a search and replace of text on a file.
– Added a Launch Action to invoke an MQFM Workflow XML file.
– Added a Schedule Action to invoke an MQFM Workflow XML file at a specific date and/or time.
– Added a SendEmail Action to send an email to 1 or more recipients.
– Added a Sleep Action to pause the Workflow.
– Added a Sort Action to sort a file into a target file
– Added a Touch Action to set the modification time of the file to the current time of day. If the file doesn’t exist, it is created.
– Added a Tar Action to create a tar archive from the contents of a file or files in a directory.
– Added an UnTar Action to extract the contents of a tar archive to a directory.
– Added an UnZip Action to extract the contents of a zip archive to a directory.

The If/Else Action allows the user to test variables of an action to see if a particular condition is met. i.e. Did the Receive Action receive 2 or more messages?

If anyone who like to try it out then send an email to support@capitalware.biz

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQAUSX and AES 256-bit Encryption

MQ Authenticate User Security Exit (MQAUSX) currently uses the ‘Tiny Encryption Algorithm Variant’ (aka TEAV or XTEA) for encryption and decryption of the user’s password between the client-side security exit and the server-side security exit.

The security group of existing customers and potential customers are requesting that we use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric-key encryption rather than XTEA. I have a working prototype (beta) of MQAUSX that supports AES 256-bit encryption/decryption. The prototype defaults to AES 256-bit rather than XTEA and it is backwards compatible with the previous releases of MQAUSX.

If anyone (existing customers and/or potential customers) would like to try out the new prototype then send an email to support@capitalware.com

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Eclipse 3.7 Released

Eclipse Foundation has just released 62 projects including Eclipse v3.7 (‘Indigo’).
http://www.eclipse.org

Highlights
– EGit 1.0 provides tight integration with the Git version control system.
– WindowBuilder, a popular GUI builder for Eclipse developers, is now open source and part of Indigo
– Drag to Install support with Eclipse Marketplace Client.
– Better integration with Maven, including starting Maven builds and maintaining pom files.
– Jubula provides automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML.

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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PdfCreator 1.2.1 Released

PdfForge has just released PdfCreator v1.2.1.
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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