Category Archives: General

If it doesn’t fit somewhere else…

When automatic translators go wrong…very wrong!

I just found a blog post about WMQ security that has, I believe, been run through an automated translation service with unintentionally hilarious results.   Here’s an excerpt: WMQ Adventurer authenticating a connexion to a queue director For both waiter and … Continue reading

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Choosing a PCI DSS Auditor? Does WMQ awareness count?

James DeLuccia’s post about choosing a PCI DSS QSA auditor has some good advice.  I would add to his list a criteria one of my own: the auditor should at least know how to spell WMQ.  Or JMS.  Or “message … Continue reading

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Mission:Messaging: Migration, failover, and scaling in a WebSphere MQ cluster

Certain aspects of service orientation are best served using an IBM® WebSphere® MQ cluster. The cluster provides the location independence, run time resolution of names, and concurrency required by SOA applications. For these reasons, adoption of SOA is driving migrations … Continue reading

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Puzzled by WMQ vulnerability advisory

Well, I knew this one was out there but never looked at the CVE for it – there is a memory corruption vulnerability in the WebSphere MQ ( CVE-2007-6044) that is network exploitable.  What I can’t figure out is why … Continue reading

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DQ #2 delayed

As those who follow me on Twitter already know, I was in the hospital for several days last week with a really high fever.  That has pushed almost everything on my calendar back a week, including episode #2 of The … Continue reading

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Upcoming publications

I haven’t blogged much lately because I’m on deadline for a new developerWorks Mission:Messaging column.  The next installment discusses changing culture to embrace SOA and how SOA impacts WebSphere MQ prevailing practices.  The premise is that migration to SOA is … Continue reading

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If it aint broke – fix it anyway.

My web site has not ever been much of anything special.  I’m no artist so the site design was never flashy.  I just tried to keep it plain and easy to load.  The content has mainly been things I needed … Continue reading

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