MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5

January 15, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). MQTC is an event that will educate attendees on current practices, methodologies, administration, problem determination, security best practices and technology trends for IBM MQ. MQTC will offer 70 technical sessions and 15 vendor sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM MQ on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS. Since we have 5 session rooms at MQTC, there will be 5 concurrent MQ sessions at any given time.

MQTC is the largest conference in the world solely dedicated to IBM’s WebSphere MQ.

Date: September 28 to September 30, 2015
Location: Kalahari Resorts in Sandusky, Ohio
Duration: 3 Days

Early-bird Price: $349.00 until July 28th, 2015
Regular Price: $399.00 from July 28th to September 13th, 2015
Group Price (5+ people): $299.00 until August 28th, 2015
Late/Onsite Price: $449.00 after September 13th, 2015

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

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 35.0 Released

January 13, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v35.0.
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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WebSphere MQ Fix Pack 7.1.0.6 Released

December 18, 2014 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released FixPack 7.1.0.6 for WebSphere MQ
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21691297

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 18, 2014 Roger Lacroix

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Fedora 21 Released

December 9, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project Contributors has just released Fedora v21.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/index.html

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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Mozilla Firefox 34.0 Released

December 2, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v34.0.
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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FreeBSD v10.1 Released

November 18, 2014 Roger Lacroix

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v10.1.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/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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Microsoft Launches Free, Unrestricted Version of Visual Studio for Small Teams

November 12, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft today announced a free, unrestricted version of Visual Studio for small teams called Visual Studio Community 2013:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Microsoft to Open Source .NET

November 12, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft today announced that they will be open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms.
http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v2.1.0

November 11, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v2.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit. MQ Authenticate User Security Exit is a solution that allows a company to fully authenticate a user who is accessing a WebSphere MQ resource. It authenticates the user’s UserID and Password (and possibly Domain Name) against the server’s native OS system, LDAP server, Microsoft’s Active Directory, Quest Authentication Services, Centrify’s DirectControl or an encrypted MQAUSX FBA file.

For more information about MQ Authenticate User Security Exit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqausx_overview.html

Changes for MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v2.1.0:

    Server-side:

  • Added new CheckFinalUserID keyword. It will take the final UserID and reprocess it against UseAllowUserID, AllowUserID, UseRejectUserID, RejectUserID and Allowmqm keywords.
  • Added code to display ‘Remote’ UserID that the client application is actually running under
  • Added code to display MQAUSX client-side version, type of application (Native/DotNet/Java) and platform it is running on
  • Improved the IniFile processing speed.
  • Fixed an issue with Enterprise License key not being loaded from a License file.
  • Fixed an issue with MQAUSX not recognizing the filename specified for FBAFile keyword.
  • Tested with WMQ v8.0
  • Tested with Windows 8/8.1
    Client-side:

  • Added code to send the UserID (labeling it as Remote UserID) that the application is running under
  • Added code to send the MQAUSX version, what type of application and platform that the application is running on
  • Fixed a bug on Windows 7, GetDlgItemText buffer was not being cleared of trailing garbage
  • Fixed an issue with MQAUSXJ, MQ v8.0 and SecExitData field being null vs blank
  • Fixed an issue with MQAUSXJ being re-instantiates and a flag was set incorrectly for reuse (after a failure).
  • Tested with WMQ v8.0
  • Tested with Windows 8/8.1

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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