MQ Visual Edit V2.2.0 Released

August 4, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v2.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit V2. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue and/or topic of a IBM MQ 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 v2.2.0:

  • Added Prompt for Password on the UserId panel of the Queue Manager Access Profile window
  • Added a JSON Viewer for JSON data on the Message Edit window
  • Added back ‘Open Read Only’ feature on the Open Queue Window
  • Added ‘Open Read Only’ feature on the Open Topic Window
  • Added checks for Proxy Host and Port when Proxy Server is enabled
  • Added ‘Automatically scroll the table to the new message’ to the ‘MQ Topic’ window panel of the Preferences popup window
  • Added the ‘Follow New Message’ menu item under View menu item (it toggles on/off the auto scrolling for Topic messages)
  • Added Topic Name to the Open Topic window.
  • Added Cut and Delete Message to the main window for Topic Messages (Note: Messages are only removed from the table and not from the topic).
  • Added 2 new Topic Stress Testing Tools: Subscribe Server and Publish Server.
  • Added support on ‘Forward Message’ feature to remove MQRFH2 wrapped MQDEAD messages if ‘Remove Dead Letter Header’ is specified.
  • Added support for more internal MQ headers: MQDH, MQRMH, MQTM and MQWIH
  • Added support for delimiters to parse file(s) for ‘Import File’ feature.
  • Added support for 30 new languages: Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Cebuano, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Igbo, Javanese, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Pashto, Persian, Shona, Sindhi, Sundanese, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Xhosa, Yoruba & Zulu
  • Changed the location of the ‘MQVE_error.log’ file to be the same directory as the ‘CommProfileDB.properties’ file.
  • Fixed an issue with ‘Forward Message’ feature
  • Fixed an issue when Reset View was invoked and the subscriptions were not stopped.
  • Fixed an issue with not being able to select a message when it does not have payload (message data)
  • Fixed an issue with MQMD columns not showing when a message does not have payload (message data)
  • Fixed an issue with PutApplType being shown when MQMD columns are being displayed.
  • Fixed an issue with MQMD columns not honoring column alignment.
  • Fixed an issue with the Cut Message on the main screen.
  • Fixed an issue with PutDate & PutTime on the MQXQH panel.
  • Fixed an issue with acquiring the ‘i’th Access Code.
  • Fixed an issue with the Button Bar on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed button selection coloring on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed an issue with coloring the main table when the topic string contains either ‘#’ or ‘+’.
  • Fixed an issue with sort columns on List of Topics window.
  • Made sure Favorites and MQ Monitoring Tools store the settings/information in the ‘User Directory’.
  • Switched to JVM v1.8
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Visual Browse V2.2.0 Released

August 4, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v2.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse V2. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue and/or topic of a IBM MQ 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 v2.2.0:

  • Added Prompt for Password on the UserId panel of the Queue Manager Access Profile window
  • Added a JSON Viewer for JSON data on the Message Edit window
  • Added checks for Proxy Host and Port when Proxy Server is enabled
  • Added ‘Automatically scroll the table to the new message’ to the ‘MQ Topic’ window panel of the Preferences popup window
  • Added the ‘Follow New Message’ menu item under View menu item (it toggles on/off the auto scrolling for Topic messages)
  • Added Topic Name to the Open Topic window.
  • Added support for more internal MQ headers: MQDH, MQRMH, MQTM and MQWIH
  • Added support for 30 new languages: Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Cebuano, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Igbo, Javanese, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Pashto, Persian, Shona, Sindhi, Sundanese, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Xhosa, Yoruba & Zulu
  • Changed the location of the ‘MQVB_error.log’ file to be the same directory as the ‘CommProfileDB.properties’ file.
  • Fixed an issue when Reset View was invoked and the subscriptions were not stopped.
  • Fixed an issue with not being able to select a message when it does not have payload (message data)
  • Fixed an issue with MQMD columns not showing when a message does not have payload (message data)
  • Fixed an issue with PutApplType being shown when MQMD columns are being displayed.
  • Fixed an issue with MQMD columns not honoring column alignment.
  • Fixed an issue with PutDate & PutTime on the MQXQH panel.
  • Fixed an issue with acquiring the ‘i’th Access Code.
  • Fixed an issue with the Button Bar on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed button selection coloring on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed an issue with coloring the main table when the topic string contains either ‘#’ or ‘+’.
  • Fixed an issue with sort columns on List of Topics window.
  • Made sure Favorites settings are stored in the ‘User Directory’.
  • Switched to JVM v1.8
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Why isn’t my queue manager shutting down?

August 4, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Here’s a good write up by Colin Paice on issues and handling of them when your queue manager won’t shutdown.
https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2017/07/28/isnt-queue-manager-shutting/

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Windows 10 Creators Update causing Java to Crash

August 4, 2017 Roger Lacroix

The following applies to Capitalware Java products and any other program that uses Java (JVM) on Windows 10 with a recent Creators Update. Microsoft has changed something in Windows 10 that causes Java (JVM) to crash for some users (not all) when accessing a file.

For those IBM MQ users, just to refresh your memory, the following are MQ Java programs: MQ Explorer, JMSAdmin, Postcard, IVT (Verification), MQTT Listener, AMQP Listener, Java and Java/JMS sample applications, etc..

If you are using a Java program on Windows 10 that requires Java (JVM) and you get EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION with [MSVCR100.dll+0x121f4] then you may have the issue.

Microsoft has it documented here: Creators Update causing Java crashes

This issue appears to happen with most JVM’s. i.e. Oracle JRE, Excelsior Jet, OpenJDK, etc.. I cannot find a report of it with IBM JRE but it mostly likely has the issue too.

Capitalware’s Java products are desktop GUI programs, so if you see a popup box like the following then you have been hit with the issue:

Solution? Yes, sir, there is a solution and it is even stranger than the issue. It is a very simple solution: create a GodMode folder on your desktop and the issue goes away. I’m not kidding. Don’t ask me how many backdoors there are in Windows!!!

Here is a write up of the solution: Create a ‘God Mode’ Folder in Windows 10.

  • Right-click on your desktop and select New Folder
  • Type in or copy and paste the following as the name:

    • GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

  • Hit Enter and the folder icon will change to GodMode
  • Once it has been created, you can delete it if you wish. Whatever was changed in the system is done and the GodMode folder is no longer required.

If you scroll further down on the GodMode link, you will see a comment that the word ‘GodMode’ can be anything (i.e. BudaMode, YahwahMode, etc..).

So there you go, when dealing with Windows, you just have entered the Twilight Zone. 🙂

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Avada Software’s Session at MQTC v2.0.1.7

August 2, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Rob Sordillo of Avada Software will be doing the following vendor session at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.7 (MQTC):

    Rob Sordillo’s Vendor Sessions:

  • What’s Up DOCker

For more information about MQTC, please go to:
http://www.mqtechconference.com

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.7 Gold Sponsor: TxMQ

August 2, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that TxMQ is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.7 (MQTC).

For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SQLite v3.20.0 Released

August 1, 2017 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.20.0.
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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Nastel Technologies’ Sessions at MQTC v2.0.1.7

July 31, 2017 Roger Lacroix

Richard Nikula of Nastel Technologies will be presenting the following sessions at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.7 (MQTC):

    Richard Nikula’s Technical Session:

  • Introduction to Kafka (and why you care)
    Richard Nikula’s Vendor Sessions:

  • Using Machine Learning and Analytics to Understand How MQ Impacts Your Business
  • Get Out From Under the Tangle of Middleware Applications

For more information about MQTC, please go to:
http://www.mqtechconference.com

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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FreeBSD v11.1 Released

July 28, 2017 Roger Lacroix

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v11.1.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world’s busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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IBM Broke T.Rob’s Stash!

July 28, 2017 Roger Lacroix

T.Rob Wyatt has posted a blog item on how IBM broke his stash file (so to speak). You can read about it here: https://t-rob.net/2017/07/28/dude-ibm-broke-my-stash/

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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