Category Archives: News

Pages updated

I’ve just updated the WMQ and Links pages with new content.  There are a couple new Mission:Messaging articles and I fixed a few broken links on the Links page.  On the WMQ page I’ve added some new content, rearranged some … Continue reading

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Let's (not) do the time warp again!

Wow, the last 24 hours has been…interesting…here at Store and Forward.  Friday night I noticed all of my blog posts after October 2009 had disappeared!  My hosting provider’s front page lists daily backups as one of their services so I … Continue reading

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WebSphere Client Experience Program has extensive presence at IMPACT

Wow, I can’t believe how many WebSphere Client Experience Program sessions are at IMPACT this year!  IBM has been working for quite some time to build stronger partnerships between the folks using WebSphere software and the folks developing it.  One … Continue reading

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WMQ Security Lab materials posted

As promised, here are the WMQ Security Lab materials.  These include the lab guide and the scripts.  To run the lab you will need a Linux server with WMQ v7.0 installed, as well as WMQ Explorer with SupportPac MS0P, the … Continue reading

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WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic

Regular followers of this blog won’t want to miss tomorrow’s WebSphere Technical Exchange “WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic“.  Panelists scheduled are Alex Fehners, Andrew Akehurst, Calista Stevens, Jonathan Rumsey, Mike Horan, Rhys Francis, Tameka Woody, Mark Womack and Tiffanie … Continue reading

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Up for air and off to IMPACT

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted here but I finally came up for air and even managed to take a week off.  I was supposed to be in Germany last week at the Guide Share Europe  WMQ Working … Continue reading

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In memorium

The PCI community has suffered a great loss with the passing of Dave Taylor recently.  Dave had a vision of helping companies achieve not just the letter of PCI compliance, but the spirit of PCI compliance through better understanding and … Continue reading

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WMQ free tools updated

Michael Dag at MQSystems has updated his WMQ 1-Page Quick Reference cards.  Go to his Links page and look at the top two entries.  While you are there, check out the Solutions page where you can find out abour MQ … Continue reading

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New WMQ Channel vulnerability and interim fix announced

The IBM Internet Security Systems XForce team recently announced a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebSphere MQ client channels.  According to the release, the vulnerability includes the possibility of remotely executing arbitrary code or “causing the application to crash.”  It is … Continue reading

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Wrapping up IMPACT 2009

Well, this is the last day of IMPACT. It’s always lightly attended as many folks take Friday as a travel day. I have one more session this morning though. It’s the WMQ ESE introduction. Overall the WMQ security sessions were … Continue reading

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