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Sunday at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

September 28, 2015 Roger Lacroix

This year’s attendance is up by 15%-16% over last year’s conference. 🙂

Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.5:

Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.5

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 41.0 Released

September 24, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v41.0.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Registration & Welcome Social for MQTC v2.0.1.5

September 18, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I have just added a “Registration & Welcome” social on Sunday, September 27th, from 5PM to 8PM. The bar will be open and we will have a nice selection of hors d’oeuvres.

In past years, people have asked if there was anything going on for Sunday night and the answer was always no. So for this year, I have decided to add a social event, so that people can unwind from their flight/travel to Kalahari.

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

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC Session Names Changed

September 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Matthew Whitehead has renamed 2 of his sessions:

“An Introduction to MQ Light, MQ’s beta support for AMQP & Bluemix” is now called “An Introduction to MQ Light and Bluemix”.
“Deploying MQ Light applications against MQ” is now called “Hybrid messaging with MQ Light, MQ’s beta support for AMQP and Bluemix”.

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

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Prizes for Bats of a Feather Session

September 10, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The winner will receive a Pebble Steel Watch.
Second place will receive a Nano Quadcopter.
Third place will receive a PowerUp 3.0 Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane.

Full details can be found at https://t-rob.net/2015/08/25/mqtcbats15/

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

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Bats of a Feather Session

August 25, 2015 Roger Lacroix

We’re trying something new at MQTC this year and if it goes well it may become a regular event. Let us know what you think by voting and participating in the contest. It’s conceived as a cross between the Birds of a Feather sessions from IMPACT and the slightly more subversive events that take place at Def Con. We’re calling it Bats of a Feather and prizes will be awarded.

Full details can be found at https://t-rob.net/2015/08/25/mqtcbats15/

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

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Final Schedule

August 21, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The final schedule has been posted to www.mqtechconference.com/schedule.html

A session list by topics can be found at www.mqtechconference.com/sessions_v2015.html

A session list by tracks can be found at www.mqtechconference.com/tracks.html

Here is a list of sessions by speaker:

Technical Sessions:

Mark Taylor of IBM:
– What’s New in IBM Messaging
– MQ Integration with Directory Services
– PCF Programming
– Where is my Message?

Dave Ware of IBM:
– An introduction to MQ publish/subscribe
– Using publish/subscribe in an MQ network
– What can you achieve with MQ clusters?
– Introducing the IBM MQ Appliance

Matthew Whitehead of IBM:
– An Introduction to MQ Light, MQ’s beta support for AMQP & Bluemix
– Deploying MQ Light applications against MQ
– An Introduction to JMS 2.0 in MQ V8

Chris Frank of IBM:
– Mysteries of the Distributed MQ Logger
– Flexible MQ Topologies in IBM Integration Bus V10
– MQ Appliance Administration Using the IBM MQ Console

Lyn Elkins of IBM:
– MQ for z/OS – Taking advantage of the platform
– MQ for z/OS – An introduction to tuning and queue manager management
– MQ for z/OS – An introduction to tuning applications for performance
– MQ for z/OS – The V8 SMF data

Jeff Lowrey of IBM:
– Advanced MQTT for Developers
– IOTF, MessageSight and Bluemix

T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting:
– Managing CA Certificates for MQ
– Beyond Intrusion Prevention

Suganya Rane of Prolifics:
– Architecting & Tuning IIB / eXtreme Scale for Maximum Performance and Reliability
– Top Ten ways to improve your MQ/IIB environment

Sandeep Chellingi of Prolifics:
– Pure pattern for MQ & IIB components
– The new MQ Appliance as a “Messaging in a Box” and “MQ/MFT Hub” solution

Glen Brumbaugh of TxMQ:
– SOA, APIs, and MQ
– MQ Performance Tuning
– SSL/TLS: Using and Managing Certificates

Art Rodriguez of TxMQ:
– MQ for Administrators
– MQ Internet Pass Through

Allan Bartleywood of TxMQ:
– Can your App keep up with MQ

Gary Dischner of TxMQ:
– MQ Telemetry

Roger Lacroix of Capitalware:
– Introduction to MQ

Tim Zielke of AON:
– MQ Problem Determination With Tracing

Barry Lamkin of IBM:
– The top ten issues in IBM MQ and WebSphere MB

Greg Brown of CACI:
– Enabling Auto-Segmentation of Messages Having Defined Properties

Richard Nikula of Nastel Technologies:
– Monitoring and Tracking for Remote MQ Environments

Vendor Sessions:

Roger Lacroix of Capitalware:
– Capitalware’s Commercial & Open Source Products Explained
– Application API Tracking
– Authentication with MQAUSX

Peter D’Agosta of Avada Software:
– Productivity through smart self service for IBM MQ/IIB
– An Infrared360 deep dive-little known secrets
– How to build a PLUG-IN to the IR360 framework

Richard Nikula of Nastel Technologies:
– 3 Things That Nobody Tells You About MQ Monitoring
– When Good Flows Go Bad…

Barry Lamkin of IBM:
– What is new in OMEGAMON XE for Messaging v7.3
– What happened to my Transaction

T.Rob Wyatt of IoPT Consulting:
– Advanced Scripting with MQSCX by T.Rob Wyatt

Allan Bartleywood of TxMQ:
– MQ Capacity Planner by Allan Bartleywood
– TxMQ Virtual MQ by Allan Bartleywood

Krista Valentine & Steve Lokam of OpenLogix:
– 7 Tips to Successful Engagements with your Business Partners

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

So, hopefully there is lots of MQ content that will keep attendees busy for 3 days. 🙂

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Bug in MQ V8.0 for Getting Messages in a Group

August 20, 2015 Roger Lacroix

IBM Support has posted a bug report that may affect some Universal File Mover (UFM) users.

Title: IT09814: IBM MQ V8.0: Applications cannot get messages that were put to a queue as a group.

Error description:

In IBM MQ v8.0 an application that reads from a queue can fail to get messages that are put to the queue as a group. The failure occurs for new messages put to the queue in a group after the application opens the queue and tries to get messages. If the group of messages is already on the queue when the application tries to read from the queue then the operation succeeds.

This only affects UFM users who are running MQ v8.0 queue managers and if the files they are receiving are larger than 4MB. When a file is larger than 4MB, UFM uses MQ’s message grouping feature. Therefore, for UFM instances running against MQ v8 queue managers, if the entire message group is not available when the get is issued then the problem will appear (only a single message is retrieved and not the entire group of messages).

IBM says this will be fixed in FixPack 8.0.0.4.

For more information on Universal File Mover, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/ufm_overview.html

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

IBM i (OS/400), IBM MQ, IBM MQ Appliance, Java, Linux, macOS (Mac OS X), Universal File Mover, Unix, Windows Comments Off

Sessions by Track for MQTC v2.0.1.5

August 20, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I have created a new web page called ‘Tracks‘. I have group sessions together by various Tracks. It is designed to help attendees determine what sessions they should attend at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC).

I have created 7 Tracks and here is the list: