Category Archives: General

If it doesn’t fit somewhere else…

When automatic translators go wrong…very wrong!

Posted on April 7, 2009 by T.Rob

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?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by T.Rob

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

Posted on December 2, 2008 by T.Rob

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

Posted on October 2, 2008 by T.Rob

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

Posted on September 7, 2008 by T.Rob

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

Posted on August 22, 2008 by T.Rob

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.

Posted on May 17, 2008 by T.Rob

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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