Monthly Archives: March 2012

SupportPac MS0P v7.1 Released

March 28, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Mark E. Taylor has released version 7.1 of SupportPac MS0P. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011617 This SupportPac provides a set of plug-ins for the WebSphere MQ Explorer, extending its capabilities for configuration of queue managers, and displaying additional information about those queue managers. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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WebSphere MQ Administration Seminar

March 28, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I receive emails from people all the time asking me where they can get training on WebSphere MQ. I generally tell them to take one of the IBM WebSphere MQ courses. Today, I received the following email from WebSphere Insights: We’re proud to announce the launch of our new 3-day seminar: WebSphere MQ Administration, coming [...]

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SQLite v3.7.11 Released

March 22, 2012 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.7.11. 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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MQAUSX and Microsoft Active Directory

March 21, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Centralize authentication is a great thing. Many customers use MQAUSX on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris and authenticate against Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a remote LDAP server. Since, AD conforms to LDAP v3, this generally works very well. Some companies configure their AD servers such that the attribute sAMAccountName contains the user’s [...]

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PdfCreator 1.3.1 Released

March 21, 2012 Roger Lacroix

PdfForge has just released PdfCreator v1.3.1. 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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WebSphere MQ Redbooks

March 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM has several Redbooks that provide in-depth details for WebSphere MQ. Here are 5 MQ related Redbooks that I have found: WebSphere MQ V7.0 Features and Enhancements WebSphere MQ V6 Fundamentals WebSphere MQ V6, WebSphere Message Broker V6 and SSL WebSphere Application Server V6.1: JMS Problem Determination WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET Environment [...]

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SupportPac IA94 v2.0.2 Released

March 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix

SupportPac IA94 v2.0.2 Released IBM has released version 2.0.2 of SupportPac IA94. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24007092 The IBM Message Service Client for C/C++ (“XMS C/C++”) renders the Java Message Service (JMS) API in the C/C++ languages. It brings the benefits of JMS — a standard, abstracted messaging API for pub/sub and point-to-point messaging, as well as externally administered [...]

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LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released

March 19, 2012 Roger Lacroix

LibreOffice has just released LibreOffice v3.5.1. http://www.libreoffice.org LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it’s available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, [...]

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Now that’s a resignation letter!!

March 14, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Greg Smith, who headed Goldman’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, resigned Wednesday with a letter in the Op-Ed section of The New York Times newspaper, entitled “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=1 As I always say to my kids, if it is black, call it black, don’t call [...]

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WebSphere MQ FixPack 7.0.1.8 Released

March 6, 2012 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released FixPack 7.0.1.8 for WebSphere MQ. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21586542 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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