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I work for Aspen Grove Solutions as the VP of Infrastructure & Automation.  Within this role I am responsible for managing the delivery and support of a secure enterprise scale global computing platform for our business and customers.

• Design, delivery and management of hybrid enterprise IT Infrastructure solutions.
• Embracing a devops culture improve efficiency and increase automation across IT operations and development.
• Champion delivery of infrastructure/network and storage as code initiatives within the enterprise using tools such as Terraform, Vagrant, Packer, Puppet and Ansible.  
• Responsible for the delivery of the Infrastructure Roadmap and Cloud Infrastructure strategies across the business.
• Extensively working with Global Enterprise Technology partners to delivery high quality Infrastructure Services and Support to our staff and customers.
• Collaborating with Application Release Management, Application Teams, DBA, QA, Service Delivery and Partners to deliver enterprise class solutions to our customers.
• Responsible for the strategic planning of all infrastructure related activities and driving innovation within the team and implementing future state technology to support the business.

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package my.mq.samples;

import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueue;

import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnection;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnectionFactory;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSender;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSession;
import com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.WMQConstants;

public class MQSend {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
try {
MQQueueConnectionFactory cf = new MQQueueConnectionFactory();
cf.setHostName("localhost");
cf.setPort(1414);

cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CONNECTION_MODE, WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT);

cf.setQueueManager("QM_GRIDSERVER");
cf.setChannel("SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN");

MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection();
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Basic Receive Message to MQ with Java and IBM MQ JMS

package my.mq.samples;

import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueue;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnection;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnectionFactory;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueReceiver;
import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueSession;
import com.ibm.msg.client.wmq.WMQConstants;

public class MQReceive {

public static void main(String[] args)
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cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CONNECTION_MODE, WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT);

cf.setQueueManager("QM_GRIDSERVER");
cf.setChannel("SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN");

MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection();
//MQQueueConnection connection = (MQQueueConnection) cf.createQueueConnection("username","password");

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In my case the config.properties file contains the following
username=mysqluser
password=1234mysql
url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/bankrecords
driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

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< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<dataSource type="POOLED">
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<…
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