New: MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.2

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.2. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Channel Throttler. MQCT provides the ability to control/throttle the number of messages or bytes that flow over a channel.

For more information about MQCT, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqct_overview.html

  • Added the Active keyword
  • Enhanced logging – the LogFile keyword now supports the following tokens: %QM%, %CHL%, %UID%, %PID% & %TID%
  • Fixed an issue with shared memory

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest).

For more information about MQME, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqme_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0:

  • Added the ability to exclude applications – new keywords: UseExcludeApplications & ExcludeApplications
  • Added the ability to exclude UserIDs – new keywords: UseExcludeUserIDs & ExcludeUserIDs
  • Enhanced logging – the LogFile keyword now supports the following tokens: %QM%, %UID%, %PID% & %TID%
  • Added code to clear hostname field before use
  • Fixed memory allocation when MQOPEN has a non-zero reason code

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Message Replication v1.2.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Replication v1.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Replication. MQ Message Replication (MQMR) will clone messages being written (via MQPUT or MQPUT1 API calls) to an application’s output queue and MQMR will write the exact same messages to ‘n’ target queues (‘n’ can be up to 100). When MQMR replicates a message both the message data and the message’s MQMD structure will be cloned.

For more information about MQMR, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqmr_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Message Replication v1.2.0:

  • Added the ability to exclude applications – new keywords: UseExcludeApplications & ExcludeApplications
  • Added the ability to exclude UserIDs – new keywords: UseExcludeUserIDs & ExcludeUserIDs
  • Added UserIDFormatting flag to force lowercase/uppercase/as_is UserID formatting on all platforms
  • Enhanced logging – the LogFile keyword now supports the following tokens: %QM%, %UID%, %PID% & %TID%
  • Added code to clear hostname field before use
  • Fixed memory allocation when MQOPEN has a non-zero reason code

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Standard Security Exit v2.3.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Standard Security Exit v2.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Standard Security Exit. MQ Standard Security Exit is a solution that allows a MQAdmin to control and restrict who is accessing an IBM MQ resource.

For more information about MQ Standard Security Exit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqssx_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Standard Security Exit v2.3.0:

  • Added support for log disconnect message (new keyword: LogDiscMessage)
  • Added support for single or double quotes for log message (new keyword: LogMessageQuote)
  • Enhanced logging – the LogFile keyword now supports the following tokens: %QM%, %CHL%, %UID%, %PID% & %TID%
  • Fixed an issue with ECC shared memory
  • Fixed an issue with MCC shared memory

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS v2.3.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS v2.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS. MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS is a solution that allows a MQAdmin to control and restrict who is accessing an IBM MQ resource.

For more information about MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqssx_zos_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Standard Security Exit for z/OS v2.3.0:

  • Added support for log disconnect message (new keyword: LogDiscMessage)
  • Added support for single or double quotes for log message (new keyword: LogMessageQuote)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Visual Edit V2.1.0 Released

November 30, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v2.1.0. 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 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 v2.1.0:

  • Added support for 18 new languages
  • Added Send and Receive Exits on the Exits panel of the Queue Manager Access Profile window
  • Added colored topic messages on main window when a topic was opened using a wildcard
  • Added the ‘Reset View’ feature (under the View menu item) to reset the framework to its default values
  • Added back the ‘Get All Data’ button on the Message Edit window. To enable this feature, the ‘Automatically retrieve entire message’ checkbox on the ‘MQ Queue’ panel of the Preferences window must be de-selected.
  • Added more checks/verifications around the registration, so that users input the correct information
  • Fixed a variety of bugs related to the framework
  • Fixed several bugs related to internal message handling
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Visual Browse V2.1.0 Released

November 30, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v2.1.0. 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 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 v2.1.0:

  • Added support for 18 new languages
  • Added Send and Receive Exits on the Exits panel of the Queue Manager Access Profile window
  • Added colored topic messages on main window when a topic was opened using a wildcard
  • Added the ‘Reset View’ feature (under the View menu item) to reset the framework to its default values
  • Added back the ‘Get All Data’ button on the Message Edit window. To enable this feature, the ‘Automatically retrieve entire message’ checkbox on the ‘MQ Queue’ panel of the Preferences window must be de-selected.
  • Added more checks/verifications around the registration, so that users input the correct information
  • Fixed a variety of bugs related to the framework
  • Fixed several bugs related to internal message handling
  • Updated docs (English only)

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Fedora 25 Released

November 22, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project Contributors have just released Fedora v25.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/ChangeSet

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. The Fedora operating system is 100% free of cost for you to enjoy and share.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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End of Service Date for MQ Visual Edit/Browse v1.6.5

November 21, 2016 Roger Lacroix

MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 were released on May 5th, 2015.

MQ Visual Edit v2.0.0 and MQ Visual Browse v2.0.0 were released on October 3rd, 2016.

Therefore, support for MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 will end on December 31st, 2016 for individual licenses. If your company has a support contract then support will continue as per the support contract.

MQ Visual Edit V1 and MQ Visual Browse V1 were originally written for MQSeries v5.2 then ported to WebSphere MQ 5.3, 6.0., 7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.1.

MQ Visual Edit V2 and MQ Visual Browse V2 are a complete rewrite of the products designed to handle all of the new features that IBM introduced in MQ V7, V8 & V9.

WebSphere MQ v7.1.0 end of service date is April 30th, 2017 (earlier releases of MQ are long out of support). Hence, I choose an end of service date for MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 to be December 31st, 2016 for individual licenses, so that users would phase out MQ Visual Edit v1.6.5 and MQ Visual Browse v1.6.5 while migrating off WebSphere MQ v7.1.0.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Webinar: IBM MQ CONNAUTH/CHLAUTH Doesn’t Work Like You Think it Does

November 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix

T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting will be giving a webinar on issues/problems with/using CONNAUTH and CHLAUTH:
https://www.imwuc.org/p/ca/vi/sid=435

Date: November 30, 2016 at 01:00 PM EST

Description:

Native MQ password authentication (CONNAUTH) introduced in IBM MQ v8.0 has gotten off to a rough start. As of Fix Pack 8.0.0.5, the interaction between CONNAUTH and CHLAUTH has exhibited 5 distinct behaviors. After applying Fix Packs some of these cause hard failures while others silently over-authorize client users, leaving the queue manager exposed. This webcast will present findings from our CONNAUTH/CHLAUTH security research as well as recommendations for MQ users and the audit community.

I STRONGLY recommend all MQAdmins attend this webinar.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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