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| cturner |
 Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:50 pm Post subject: contact admin MQ Control Express.. Free Download! |
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www.contact admin.com
Free! All new MQControl Express -- an amazing new tool for MQSeries Administrators and Developers
And it's yours, absolutely free. Just download it, and within minutes you'll have more control over your MQSeries middleware processes than you ever imagined.
MQControl Express gives you the power to configure, monitor and effectively manage your MQSeries network and MQSeries messages. It simplifies and centralizes the entire monitoring task, giving you instant access to MQSeries objects on any number of platforms from a single control point.
MQControl Express can establish, monitor and control connections to NT, UNIX, AS400 and VMS - without the need for a local installation of MQSeries or the complexity of installing and managing agents. Among its many powerful capabilities are:
Message Management that allows for copy, move, delete, edit and reroute
Automatic discovery of all MQSeries objects
Graphical displays of MQSeries events in real time
Automatic fault detection
So why are we giving it away for free?
Because we want you to experience the power that comes with being in control.
And because it's just the tip of the iceberg. It's just one of many contact admin products designed to work together to give you complete end-to-end application and business process monitoring control.
www.contact admin.com |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 15 May 2001
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Hi,
There is one thing that bugs me, offering a free download but NOT offering a free download. If I go to the trouble of filling out your contact detail form, then when I click the submit button I EXPECT to have an automatic download start or a link to click to download the file.
Seeing the message below is unacceptable (Note: I waited 20 minutes before writing this note!!! There was no email response from contact admin.):
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Thank you for your interest in contact admin's software solutions.
We will contact you shortly. |
If you think this will prevent your competition from getting a hold of your product, you are dreaming. All you do is piss-off potential / future clients.
So basically it is NOT a free download until some product / sales / marketing manager reviews my contact info against his / her database of not acceptable people. Lovely, just lovely.
I had an hour tonight to play with toys, but I guess it won’t be with your product.
Later
Roger…
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| cvshiva |
| Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hi cturner,
It sounds absolutely crazy !!!! I wanna know do u really have such product or trying to market something still on the drawing board.
Common, this is not the way to go !!! . It sounds funny if you guys are gonna accept requests like this and process each request ..!! It seems you got a few guys doing this job in full time..
Anyway , as ROGER said this is not way to market stuff..
Let me see what kind of response i hear from contact admin.
Absolutely dissatisfied , as the very first impression in your case has gone worst !!
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| sgarforth |
| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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We have listened to your comments and responded. The product, which does exist, now starts downloading as soon as you've filled in the form.
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| cvshiva |
| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Sam,
Thanks a lot for the initiative..
It's great to here such stuff..!!! Very Sorry for being a bit harsh at the first instant !!! I apologize and take my words back !!!!
I got a voice mail , and also an email response from contact admin regarding the Download request.. and instructions for the download, But unfortunately because of my hectic schedule y'day I couldn't download it ...
But today morning I got an email saying it's no longer available via Ftp and have to download straight from
http://www.contact admin.com/news/flash.html
So is the Ftp site valid only for one day..!! Any hard and fast rule like that !!! or is it any security/copyright policy...
Anyway .. I will certainly give it a try .today and see whether I can recommend this tool for our Bank's use . !!!
Regards
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| cturner |
| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:11 pm Post subject: MQ Control Express now available via immediate download |
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Just to let everyone know, contact admin did a very professional job of explaining the issue to me when I called asking why people weren't getting to download MQ Control Express. I got an immediate response from the person I talked to, and he explained that there were technical issues with the build of MQ Control Express they intended on releasing. contact admin also apologized for prematurely announcing the release. Later in the day I received an email from the director of R&D at contact admin, reiterating that they were working on a final release, and once it was finished the download would be immediate. Now it looks like everything has been fixed, and I hope everyone gives the product a try...
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| cvshiva |
| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Brandon & All,
Certainly I am going to give it a try .. I will be downloading the product today and checking it up..!!!
Anyway the product is available for download and thats the ultimate..and
I wouldn't want to do any postmortems..
I sincerely apologise, if I had been unprofessional in any manner...!!!
Cheers
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| TonyD |
| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I hope others are more successful than I have been at downloading the tool. MS Explorer hung when I tried to access the FTP link last week and now times out trying to follow the new link. |
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| bigdavem |
| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I've got the same problem. Maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing?  |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Brandon, I don't know what the story line is with contact admin, but here is what happen to me (maybe it can help somebody).
About 20 hours after I posted the above note, I received an email from contact admin telling me where I could ftp the files from. Note: They provided a link to a ftp directory (not a file).
So when I clicked on the link, Internet Explorer gave me 2 different errors about not having permission to access the folder. So, I tried ftping from a command prompt to ftp.contact admin.com . I could logon in and "cd" to download/mqcx but when I did a "ls" to list the files, I got "Invalid PORT Command" (and then the session locks up - I mean really locked up. CTL-C would not break it).
So, I sent a reply to the original email (Arthur something), with the same tone as above stating my problems with downloading the file (I included a comment about testing server and firewalls - because many times I seen people only test web application over an intranet rather than truely over the internet).
About 1 hour later I got this sarcastic email from Arthur, saying that they had fully tested the server & firewall. He said that I should check my firewall setting because he was current downloading the file. Note: That particular PC, it was on a cable modem with no firewall (yes, yes bad boy!!) - so I don't think I am having a firewall issue.
Thinking maybe that they fixed it, I tried it again. Same results. So, I phoned a friend and they tried it with the same results.
As I was writing another reply to Arthur, a thought occurred to me. I turned on “passive” file transfers in WS-FTP and connected to ftp.contact admin.com . Bingo, it work. I was able to download the files on their ftp server.
So, I finished my email to Arthur (including what I found out) and sent it to him. I never heard back from him (although the next day I did get a bulk email from contact admin about the new http download method). It is too bad that they did not share this information.
Later
Roger…
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| cvshiva |
| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 10:37 pm Post subject: contact admin MQ Control Express !!! |
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Hi All,
When I tried the Ftp Link to download the MQ Control Express. I had the same problem and my IE hung..
I realised only after few attempts that I am behind a firewall in the office network and its rules doesn't allow accessing ftp download sites..
But the result was same when I tried using Broad Band Connection too.!!!
When I try the http link in the office network, The browser times out after trying to download for a very long time..
But I haven't tried the http download using Broadband, I will have to try it, but my hopes are too low , So contact admin Members !!! do you have any better way which we can download the product.
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| TonyD |
| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| My initial attempts were from work and so I realised that it might be a firewall issue as far as the FTP download was concerned. But I tried the direct website link from home also and got the same timeout situation...stone dead. Maybe it is a Southern Hemisphere thing but, much as I appreciate contact admin's gesture, I am getting pretty tired of registering over and over again (10 or 11 times so far.) .....a pity also since it happened that a contact admin rep called on my boss today. Has anyone outside the USA successfully downloaded yet?!!! |
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| dgolding |
| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 5:28 am Post subject: |
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The download doesn't seem to work in Europe either. Maybe it's got DES encryption thingies in it so it can't be exported  |
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| amavashev |
| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 5:29 am Post subject: |
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Hi RogerLacroix,
Just wanted to find out. What was the problem with the FTP, is that a problem on the contact admin's FTP site or IE.
We had several people download the files off FTP outside of contact admin without any problems.
I tried downloading from home, using Exceed FTP with PASV Mode checked and no problems.
I would like to find out so that we can avoid these issues in the future.
Thanks, in advance.
FTP site was a temporary distribution channel and was removed once the
web site download came online. FTP location is no longer available.
As I understand there are some issues downloading from the web site as well. We are working on the problem at this moment.
It should be resolved within a couple of hours.
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