IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience V8.0
Sun, May 20th 2012 1:44p Dave Hay Mobile is exploding and no longer considered an add-on. It is quickly becoming a primary channel for customers and employees to be productive. The Portal Mobile Experience provides you code to quickly extend WebSphere Portal sites to mobile devices that support Webkit (Apple, Android, Blackberry phones). This new theme shows how to control the look and feel, page navigation and content navigation on a smartphone and provides examples of rich mobile web interaction patterns such as swipe, carou [read] Keywords: ibm
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Basic Steps to Install Lotus Notes 8.5.1 (or later) Multi-User on Citrix XenApp
Wed, May 16th 2012 12:45p Dave Hay This rather useful Technote appeared in my "River of News" on Twitter today What are the steps to install Lotus Notes 8.5.1 or later releases Multi-user installation, with a customized data directory, on a Citrix XenApp Server for new or existing Lotus Notes installs? One of my clients uses Notes and Citrix together, so I'll make sure that he's aware of this - I'm sure he is but it never hurts to mention :-) I've blogged about Citrix before, so this is another one for the pile ..... [read] Keywords: ibm
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More Linux geekiness ...
Fri, May 11th 2012 2:04p Dave Hay Following on from my earlier post, I had a requirement to delete a bunch of lines from a file using everyone's favourite editor - vi - today. Now I've known for a long while that DD gets rid of a single line, but I had about fifty to remove, and my fingers were getting tired .... Thanks to my colleague, Richard, I know now that I can simply type: - 10dd to delete ten lines, or: - 20dd to delete twenty lines. You get the picture ..... Still, I do miss the IBM mainframe-style editors, that giv [read] Keywords: ibm
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Aide Memoire - Commands for Linux, WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server
Wed, May 9th 2012 10:24a Dave Hay I could print this stuff out, but then I'd have to carry paper - perhaps I should create an ePub with this stuff in ...... All of these came from this rather excellent blog: - WebSphere Help, Tips & Tricks or, more specifically, this post. Find the process that uses most CPU ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -2 Find the last 10 process that use the most CPU ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10 Find cpu usage mpstat -P ALL Display the size of the current d [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Social Business Roadshow - May 2012 - Dublin / Edinburgh / London
Tue, May 8th 2012 2:24p Dave Hay The world now spends 22% of its time – more than 110 billion minutes – on social networks and blog sites per month. Are you ready to turn that time into growth, innovation, and productivity? Social Business is more than a Facebook page or a Twitter account. It's about leveraging the talent and intelligence of your existing social circles to help your employees be more effective... improve the quality and speed of operations... engage customers more deeply. Just starting or well down the [read] Keywords: ibm
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More on Lotus Notes and temporary directories
Thu, May 3rd 2012 7:04a Dave Hay Had an interesting discussion regarding an earlier blog post: - Lotus Notes 8.5.3 on Apple Mac OSX - Where do your temp files go to, my lovely ? It *IS* possible to change the location of temporary files, via this NOTES.INI setting: - NOTES_TEMPDIR= I set this on my own machine ( I'm using Notes Standard 8.5.4 CD3 ), and had previously created a directory: - $ mkdir /tmp/Notes Therefore, I set the parameter: - NOTES_TEMPDIR=/tmp/Notes in: - /Users/david_hay/Library/Preferences/Notes P [read] Keywords: lotus
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WebSphere Application Server and DNS Caching
Thu, May 3rd 2012 4:24a Dave Hay Earlier today, I was having a discussion about DNS caching in WebSphere Application Server, during my presentation - Desktop Single Sign-On in an Active Directory World - to the DanNotes conference here in Denmark. I'd stated, in error, that WAS caches IP addresses that it retrieves from DNS. Whilst this WAS the case in the past, things have changed with Java 1.4.1 as per this Technote: - Slow performance or hang in HostName lookup due to high DNS traffic Starting with Java™ 1.4.1, the IP add [read] Keywords: agent
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Managed Pages – First Look at a New WebSphere Portal 8 Feature
Thu, May 3rd 2012 4:04a Dave Hay A good summary of a rather nice new feature in WebSphere Portal 8 ( which ships tomorrow ! ) from David Wilkerson of Davalan Managed Pages – First Look at a New WebSphere Portal 8 Feature The task of managing portal pages and web content is evolving and in the next release of WebSphere Portal the integration between web content management and portal page management will grow even tighter. Recently I installed WebSphere Portal 8 Beta 3 and dove into my first examination. In the following parag [read] Keywords: administration
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DanNotes 2012 - My Presentations are Here
Wed, May 2nd 2012 6:04a Dave Hay Desktop Single Sign-On in an Active Directory World http://www.slideshare.net/david_hay/dave-hay-desktop-single-signon-in-an-active-directory-world-12770466 - This is an update to previous versions of this deck, and contains even more good stuff lessons learned. WebSphere Administration for Domino Administrators http://www.slideshare.net/david_hay/dave-hay-web-sphere-administration-for-domino-administrators These have been kindly posted by Per Henrik Lausten on his blog here with, more importa [read] Keywords: administration
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Counting down to the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference in Berlin - 13-15 June 2012 #IBMExperience
Wed, May 2nd 2012 4:24a Dave Hay Only six weeks to go. Have you registered yet ? If not, go here and do so NOW ! Getting the right web experience anywhere, on any device, with the right content, delivered the way the users want it, is how organizations are transforming their essential web sites into exceptional web experiences. Learn at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference how other businesses are employing today's web experience technology and delivering award-winning web experiences for spectacular business results. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM WebSphere Portal 8 is Released
Tue, May 1st 2012 11:24p Dave Hay Well, technically it's announced, with electronic general availability (EGA) on Friday 4 May. IBM WebSphere Portal V8.0 and IBM Web Experience Factory V8.0 deliver new capabilities for integrated social, contextual, and optimized multichannel online experiences WebSphere Portal V8.0 new powerful Intelligent Pages bring together essential web experience capabilities that can help you: • Deliver targeted content that is relevant and compelling to each user • Go where your users are by prov [read] Keywords: ibm
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Tips for Investigating Concurrency Issues in WebSphere Applications
Tue, May 1st 2012 11:04p Dave Hay I saw this in my inbox earlier today, from the WebSphere User Group via their most excellent The Sphere Journal Online publication: - With the increasing core counts on modern machines, it becomes increasingly important to eliminate contention between threads within your applications whenever possible. There are a number of tools and technologies that can help you identify contention in your WebSphereTM applications many of which are freely available. These include: • Javacore analysis • [read] Keywords: apple
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Social Connections III - IBM Dublin - 22 June 2012
Mon, Apr 30th 2012 12:44p Dave Hay Following on from two excellent events in 2011: - Get Social, Do Business - And have fun - Social Connections, 4 July 2011 Social Connections - the very first ever IBM Connections User Group meeting ever anywhere IBM Social Connections II - Cardiff ( Wales ) - Friday 9 December 2011 Social Connections II - My observations The third Social Connections event will take place on 22nd of June 2012 at IBM Dublin, Ireland. For the third time since its creation in 2010 the Social Connections user gr [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Using OpenSSL to manage multiple certificates
Mon, Apr 30th 2012 11:44a Dave Hay More in my occasional series of "Now I did not know that" covering openssl, GSK, IBM HTTP Server etc. Multiple Certificates In One File In almost all cases, OpenSSL will assume that there's only one certificate in a given file. As such, it will generally only use the first certificate that it finds, and will ignore all others. Normally, you will only have one certificate in a file, so that'll be OK. However, you may ocassionally come across files with several certificates in them. Unless y [read] Keywords: ibm
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Counting down to DanNotes 2012
Mon, Apr 30th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay As per my previous post - DanNotes - Comwell Klarskovgaard, Korsør - May 2/3 - I'm proud as punch to be presenting at the DanNotes conference in Denmark later this week. My two sessions are very WebSphere-related, which may be a shock to some people :-) Wednesday 14.15-15.15 WebSphere administration for Domino admins Thursday 10.00-11.00 Desktop Single Sign-On in an Active Directory World The full agenda is available online here. Am looking forward to the event, and hope to see you ther [read] Keywords: administration
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Single sign-on for HTTP requests using SPNEGO web authentication
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 1:44p Dave Hay You can securely negotiate and authenticate HTTP requests for secured resources in WebSphere® Application Server by using the Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) as the web authentication service for WebSphere Application Server. Note: In WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1, a trust association interceptor (TAI) that uses the Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) to securely negotiate and authenticate HTTP requests for secured resources was in [read] Keywords: ibm
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Knowledge Collection: IBM WebSphere Portal Performance
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 1:44p Dave Hay A Knowledge Collection is a focused compilation of links to documents that share a common theme. Knowledge Collections are navigation aids that organize content to help readers quickly find relevant information. Knowledge Collections are not designed to be an all-inclusive list of all documents dealing with a specific theme. This technote contains links to additional reading on the topic of IBM WebSphere Portal Performance Answer How should I start tuning WebSphere portal Server for better perf [read] Keywords: connections
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More on IBM HTTP Server and WAS Plugin passwords
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 2:24p Dave Hay Following on from my earlier blog posts here and here. This is definitely a work-in-progress. *FIRST BACKUP YOUR KEY DATABASE ETC.* Using gsk7cmd to check password expiration C:IBMHTTPServerbin>gsk7cmd.bat -keydb -expiry -db IBMHTTPServerPluginsconfigwebserver1plugin-key.kdb -pw WebAS Password expiry time: 26-Apr-2012 16:20:31 Using gsk7capicmd to check password expiration C:IBMHTTPServerbin>gsk7capicmd.bat -keydb -expiry -db IBMHTTPServerPluginsconfigwebserver1plugin-key.kdb -pw WebA [read] Keywords: ibm
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More on DB2 UDB JDBC drivers ...
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 5:24a Dave Hay This following yesterday's post, I've just gone through the process of inferring the version/type of JDBC driver that I'm using: - $ ls -al total 3336drwxr-x--- 2 wasadmin wasgrp 4096 Dec 8 2010 .drwxr-x--- 40 wasadmin wasgrp 4096 Jul 25 2011 ..-rwxr-x--- 1 wasadmin wasgrp 3395609 Dec 8 2010 db2jcc4.jar-rwxr-x--- 1 wasadmin wasgrp 1015 Dec 8 2010 db2jcc_license_cu.jar $ . /opt/IBM/WebSphere/wp_profile/bin/setupCmdLine.sh$ java -version java version "1.6.0"Java(TM) SE Runt [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM DB2 UDB JDBC Drivers - What are you using ?
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 9:24a Dave Hay Having an interesting conversation on Skype re a JDBC driver issue from IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.0.0.5 to IBM DB2 UDB 9.7.0.2 Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver' java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: (com/ibm/db2/jcc/DB2Driver) bad major version at offset=6 and the question of the JDBC driver version came up. Did you know ( and I didn''t ) that you can deduce the JDBC driver version by the size of the JAR file e.g. db2jcc.jar etc. from this table: - DB2 JDBC [read] Keywords: connections
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Argh, Want to get some file info on OSX ? Use GetFileInfo …. if you can find it :-)
Tue, Apr 17th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay Having an interesting conversation with Eric Mack about OSX folders and aliases in Notes, and wanted to check the file permissions for a file that isn't playing ball. Everything I read on the 'net told me to use GetFileInfo - which is part of the OSX Developer Tools. So I duly launched the Mac App Store, downloaded the Developer Tools ( all 1.5 GB of it ), and … I still couldn't find GetFileInfo. According to the documentation, it should be here: - /usr/bin/GetFileInfo but ….. it ain't. [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Connections - Unpacking IBM Installation Manager on AIX
Tue, Apr 17th 2012 12:04a Dave Hay I "heard' this on the IBM Connections Community Chat on Skype last week, and thought it worthy of sharing here. One of the participants was seeing this error: - "The insall executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library" when running install.sh. After checking pre-requsities, disk space etc. our colleague realised that they'd fallen into an tar on AIX trap. To quote from the Connections 3.0.1 documentation: - (AIX only) If you are downloading IBM Installation Manager, [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM WebSphere Application Server - Plugin Personal Certificate will expire on April 26, 2012
Mon, Apr 16th 2012 12:44p Dave Hay Does this affect you ? Abstract The personal certificate called "WebSphere Plugin Key" within the plugin-key.kdb that is shipped with the WebSphere Plugin install will expire on April 26, 2012. Content When the plugin is first installed, it places a copy of the plugin-key.kdb file within the [Plugin_Home]/etc directory. When the plugin is configured to an installed web server, it will pull a copy of this file from the [Plugin_Home]/etc location and place it within the [Plugin_Home]/config/{ [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM SmartCloud Meetngs - Where's my Java gone ?
Mon, Apr 16th 2012 5:44a Dave Hay I saw this today: - and then remembered some advice from a colleague - the most recent OSX Java update ( there to help get rid of Flashback and other similar Java-delivered malware ) automagically turns off Java, and relies upon you - the user - to turn it back on again. Job Done :-) [read] Keywords: ibm
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CentOS Linux - Reading AND Writing NTFS
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 9:44p Dave Hay I had a bit of an "Ooops" moment yesterday, when I had an urgent need to share some virtual machines with a colleague; Active Directory 2003 and DB2 UDB / IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator. Having converted them from VirtualBox to VMware ( more on this in another post ), I went to write them to his USB drive .... Ah, his drive is formatted with NTFS because he uses Windows ..... ... and my USB drive is formatted with HFS+ because I use it with Linux and Mac .... Thankfully, a quick [read] Keywords: ibm
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Create custom installation repositories for WebSphere Application Server with the IBM Packaging Utility
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 1:44p Dave Hay Saw this on the blog of one of my IBM colleagues, Mike Whale, earlier this evening: - Summary: IBM WebSphere Application Server V8 uses the IBM Installation Manager for product installation and lifecycle management. IBM Installation Manager accesses source repositories that contain the content for a software product installation. Repositories are available on product media, in IBM-hosted web-based repositories, and from Passport Advantage for download. This article describes a free, no-cost com [read] Keywords: ibm
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Rational Application Developer 8 and WebSphere Portal - RAD is not for Theming :-)
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay We saw these rather helpful dialogue boxes earlier today: - with the even more friendly message: - The selected wizard could not be started. Plug-in "com.ibm.etools.portal.ui" was unable to instantiate class "com.ibm.etools.portal.internal.wizard.portal.PortalProjectWizard". Array index out of range: -1 when one clicked on the "Details >>>" button. Thankfully this Technote: - Creating a new Portal Project results in "Array index out of range: -1" error helped us out: - Creatin [read] Keywords: ibm
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WebSphere Portal - Migration from v6.1.5 to v7.0.x
Thu, Apr 12th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay At present, this is merely a collection of links, but my main aim is to identify any release notes, Javadocs etc. that describe what, if any, portlets or APIs have been deprecated or significantly changed between WP615 and WP70x. So far, it's looking good e.g. my developers don't need to worry about code that they're writing on WP615, it'll work on WP7, but they will ( of course ) properly test it :-) WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager (formerly Lotus Web Content Management) - Pro [read] Keywords: ibm
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ThisWeekInLotus and IBM Connections 3.0.1.1
Wed, Apr 11th 2012 1:44p Dave Hay I'd encourage you to check out the @ThisWeekInLotus podcast, specifically episode 94, where our very own Baan Slavens and Mac Guidera discuss the new features in IBM Connections 3.0.1.1, including the back-end infrastructure changes ( including improved browser support ) and the Mobile updates. This Week In Lotus is here and episode 94 ( Educating Connections ) is here. One of the podcast's co-hosts, Stuart McIntyre has also posted a blog post about duplicate HTTP headers in Chrome here. The 3 [read] Keywords: administration
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BM HTTP Server - Lost the stashed password
Wed, Apr 11th 2012 4:05a Dave Hay When IHS fails to start with: - $ cat error_log [Wed Apr 11 07:13:17 2012] [crit] SSL0104E: GSK could not initialize, Invalid password for keyfile. Configuration Failed Check that you did not inadvertently delete the stashed password file, typically key.sth If so, you can recreate the stash file as follows: - $ cd /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin $ ./gsk7capicmd -keydb -stashpw -db /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/ssl/key.kdb -pw which results in: - $ ls -al /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/ssl/key.sth -rw------- 1 was [read] Keywords: ibm
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Making sense of GSKKM_ERR_ASN
Wed, Apr 11th 2012 4:05a Dave Hay Problem $ ./gsk7capicmd -cert -add -file /tmp/www.uk.ibm.com.cer -db /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/ssl/key.kdb -pw passw0rd -label www.wcm.uk.ibm.com Gives this: - Error: 2 Please refer to the GSKCapiCmd User's Guide for the meaning of the error. Error id: GSKKM_ERR_ASN Details: www.wcm.uk.ibm.com $ ./gsk7cmd -cert -add -file /tmp/www.uk.ibm.com.cer -db /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/ssl/key.kdb -pw passw0rd -label www.wcm.uk.ibm.com Gives this: - The public key of 'www.wcm.uk.ibm.com' is the same as the [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Fixpack 1 - Now available for the embedded version
Mon, Apr 9th 2012 12:44p Dave Hay Following on from my previous blog post - IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Fixpack 1 Released - I'm pleased to report that the fix pack has now been released for the Embedded version of Symphony ( that which is embedded in the Lotus Notes client ) IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Embedded in Lotus Notes Fix Pack 1 for Windows Lotus_Symphony301_addon_w32_fp1.zip IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Embedded in Lotus Notes Fix Pack 1 for MacOSX Lotus_Symphony301_addon_mac_fp1.zip IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Embedded in Lo [read] Keywords: ibm
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More on adding and extending file systems using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and LVM
Mon, Apr 9th 2012 9:44a Dave Hay This follows on from an earlier blog post: - Increasing the size of a partition using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 under VMware Workstation Create a new file system for the newly added disk - set as type 8e $ fdisk /dev/sdb Dump out the file system listing $ fdisk -l Create a new physical volume for the newly added disk - /dev/sdb1 $ pvcreate /dev/sdb1 Show the existing volume groups $ vgscan Extend the existing volume group - vg00 - to include the newly added disk - /dev/sdb1 $ vgex [read] Keywords: apple
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IBM Connections not indexing your files ? Check this out ....
Wed, Apr 4th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay Copy Search conversion tools to local nodes to enable full indexing of data. The Search conversion tools make it possible to index Files and Wiki attachments. However, the conversion tools are initially deployed on a network share so you must copy them to each node in the Search cluster. If you are performing this task after you have added a node to an existing cluster, as described in the Adding a node to a cluster topic, you need to complete the steps in this task only if the new node is a m [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 101 is here … well, there actually
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 11:24p Dave Hay Gab Davis and Paul Mooney have launched this new site - http://www.connections101.net/ - to provide a useful launchpad to an IBM Connections deployment. Gab and Paul explain it best here: - This is a joint post by Paul and Gab… As posted here a few weeks ago and due to the feedback from the community and IBM, we have decided to go live with an education site dedicated to IBM connections software. So… (drum roll), www.connections101.net is now up. To start, we are going to take you throug [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections 3.0.1.1 Administration Command: Preview commands for synchronizing user data
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 10:24p Dave Hay Saw this Technote earlier today, and thought it worth sharing: - (Q) Improvements in version 3.0.1.1 include preview commands for user data synchronization that shows you what the synchronization command would do if you ran it. For example, the FilesMemberService.previewSyncAllMemberByExtId command generates a log showing what the FilesMemberService.syncAllMemberByExtId command would do if you ran it. (A) Many of the synchronization commands have a matching "preview" command that shows you wha [read] Keywords: administration
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How to serve static files from both IBM HTTP Server and an application in WebSphere Application Server
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 4:44a Dave Hay Saw this Technote in my Twitter river of news earlier : - Q: How can I configure IBM HTTP Server (IHS), and the IBM web server Plug-in, and my web application running in WebSphere Application Server (WAS), to serve some of my static files (JPG, GIF, CSS, JS, etc) from the IHS web server, but serve other static files from my web app running in WAS? A: If you want to serve any static files (JPG, GIF, CSS, JS, etc) from your web application in WAS, you must use fileServingEnabled="true" in the ib [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections 3.0.1.x - March Mobile Update
Sun, Mar 25th 2012 4:44a Dave Hay Following on from my previous post, a new Mobile Update was released on March 22: - 3.0.1.0-IC-Multi-Mobile-IFLO67638 March 2012 mobile update. This update is cumulative and includes changes from previous mobile updates. Please use the latest Update Installer for IBM Connections published to Fix Central to apply this fix. Thanks to Kieran for sharing this with me …. [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator solutions for IBM Connections real-world scenarios
Fri, Mar 23rd 2012 2:24p Dave Hay Thanks to Sonia and Lorraine for sharing this via Twitter The intent of this article is to give you an insight into the real-world scenarios occurring with IBM® Connections 3.0.1 with respect to IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator (TDI) scripts and user population. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with basic concepts of TDI and its corresponding usage in IBM Connections Profiles population activity. For details on setting up TDI and IBM Connections 3.0.1, refer to the IBM Connections [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM WebSphere Portal Unified Task List Portlet version 5.0
Fri, Mar 23rd 2012 9:44a Dave Hay The IBM WebSphere Portal Unified Task List Portlet version 5.0 for WebSphere Portal 7.0 aggregates tasks and activities from multiple systems into a single user interface. WebSphere Portal 7.0 users access the Unified Task List portlet to view all tasks relevant to them. They can then complete these tasks using task processing portlets created with the included Unified Task List Business Process Support package for Web Experience Factory. The Unified Task List portlet in this release contains a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Kerberos Troubleshooting
Thu, Mar 22nd 2012 2:24p Dave Hay This comes from a colleague of mine, with whom I've worked on and off over the past few years. As most people know, I've been doing and blogging lots of stuff about Kerberos recently, including a delivering a presentation at the WebSphere User Group yesterday. Mike's done a great job of writing up some of the tools that one really needs to have in the kitbag, including klist. Thanks, Mike, great job …….. [read] Keywords: blogger
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WUG 2012 - Desktop Single Sign-On in an Active Directory - My Presentation
Thu, Mar 22nd 2012 12:04a Dave Hay After an excellent WebSphere User Group at IBM South Bank yesterday, I've uploaded my presentation to SlideShare here. Here's the objectives slide: - This presentation tells the story of a particular ISSC project – however, the story is relevant to many other clients, projects and requirements Understand how to integrate WebSphere Application Server, and related products, with Active DirectoryUnderstand how to implement desktop single sign-on with WebSphere Portal, IBM Web Content Manager, I [read] Keywords: connections
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WebSphere and Kerberos
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 7:44a Dave Hay I'm presenting on this subject at the WebSphere User Group at IBM South Bank tomorrow. Will I see you there ? I hope so ..... However, the conversation around two-way forest-level transitive trust has come up on another project, so I was looking for a good definition of it in a WebSphere context. This section of the WAS 7 Info Centre is definitely worth a read: - The Kerberos authentication mechanism enables interoperability with other applications (such as .NET, DB2 and others) tha [read] Keywords: ibm
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Scripting the creation of the WebSphere Portal v7 databases
Sat, Mar 17th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay I'm following this Wiki article: - Configure WebSphere Portal to use DB2 and these are the scripts that I'm using to create the databases via this command: - $ db2 -tvf CreatePortalDB.sql CreatePortalDB.sql CREATE DB release using codeset UTF-8 territory us PAGESIZE 8192; UPDATE DB CFG FOR release USING applheapsz 4096; UPDATE DB CFG FOR release USING app_ctl_heap_sz 1024; UPDATE DB CFG FOR release USING stmtheap 32768; UPDATE DB CFG FOR release USING dbheap 2400; UPDATE DB CFG FOR rel [read] Keywords: clp
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WebSphere Portal -> DB2 UDB - It's The Firewall, Stupid :-)
Sat, Mar 17th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay I saw this error: - and: - Attempting to connect to database: jdbc:db2://db2.uk.ibm.com:60000/release:returnAlias=0; using com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver, db2inst1, PASSWORD_REMOVED Level.SEVERE, Error Connecting db com.ibm.db2.jcc.am.ro: [jcc][t4][2043][11550][4.8.87] Exception java.net.NoRouteToHostException: Error opening socket to server db2.uk.ibm.com/192.168.1.73 on port 60,000 with message: No route to host. ERRORCODE=-4499, SQLSTATE=08001 99 RETURN_CODE_FOR_THIS_TASK: 99 in: [read] Keywords: ibm
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Installing DB2 UDB 9.7 on CentOS Linux 6.2
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 11:04p Dave Hay More notes from the field .... This time I'm installing DB2 UDB as a precursor for an IBM Connections and WebSphere Portal deployment. I've unpacked DB2 as follows: - $ cd /tmp $ tar xvf /media/LenovoExternal/Products/DB297/db297linux64.tar and then commenced the installation: - $ ./db2setup WARNING: The 32 bit library file libstdc++.so.6 is not found on the system. 32-bit applications may be affected. DBI1190I db2setup is preparing the DB2 Setup wizard which [read] Keywords: connections
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My System Is Smarter Than Your System ...
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 6:44a Dave Hay This from Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP, WebSphere Chief Technology Officer These days, everywhere you turn, technology is finding its way into our lives. Sometimes it is overt and sometimes it is hidden. Smarts are in our cars, in our homes, in the traffic systems, even in our TVs (which is funny considering people sometimes think watching too much TV makes you dumb). When you peer inside of the IT department of any big enterprise – there is no questioning the level of smarts that occupy the d [read] Keywords: ibm
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Resolving a "deadlock" issue with IBM HTTP Server
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 5:44a Dave Hay I did a silly thing this morning - I deleted the IHS log files whilst the web server was still running - IHS and, I guess, Apache, from whence IHS is derived, is really dependant upon it's Process ID ( PID ) file, as evidenced below: - $ sudo /sbin/service ibmhttpd start Starting IBM HTTP Server: [ OK ] $ ls /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/logs error_log.20120316 httpd.pid siddport $ rm -Rf * $ sudo /sbin/service ibmhttpd stop Stopping IBM HTTP Server: httpd (no pi [read] Keywords: ibm
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You Are Entitled …. to IBM Software
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 11:44p Dave Hay One of my colleagues pointed out that the IBM "You Are Entitled!" workshops are coming to Manchester, Edinburgh and London later this month: - Wouldn't it be great if we were entitled to more with our investments? Find out about what additional software you may be entitled to as part of your existing IBM Collaboration Solutions license subscription, and delve into the latest and greatest version of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, IBM Connections and IBM Portal. 20th March 2012– IBM Manchester 22nd [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Humax PVR and Me …. dia Streaming
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 11:44p Dave Hay I've blogged about the Hummy (!) before, as it's been a real pleasure to buy (!),set up and use. Last week I acquired a WiFi adapter for it, so that I can choose to watch BBC iPlayer and YouTube on my telly … not something that I have a regular compelling requirement to do but …. The more important reason that I took my TV wireless was to allow me to enable the Humax HDR-Fox T2 to work as a media streaming device, allowing me to watch recorded TV programmes on devices other than the TV. It [read] Keywords: apple
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Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Security
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 5:04a Dave Hay This came up on my Twitter "River O'News" this morning from @packtpub, and looks worthy of a re-post It is not uncommon to run into issues when global security is first enabled in a WebSphere environment. Some of those situations may occur due to performing tasks out of order. Other problematic conditions related to security configuration may take place due to inadvertently omitting one or more steps in a set up process. Moreover, a third category of errors that may happen due to security con [read] Keywords: ibm
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Using Oracle VM VirtualBox to run Linux on Linux ....
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 9:44a Dave Hay Following on from my previous thread, I wanted to install the VirtualBox equivalent of VMware Tools, which Oracle call VBox Additions. This requires one to mount a virtual CD image - VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.8_75467. From this, one executes a binary: - $ ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run This immediately failed: - Building the main Guest Additions module [FAILED][Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong] To cut a long story short, I was missing the Linux development tools, including g [read] Keywords: apple
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Mountain mounting problems with Oracle VM VirtualBox on CentOS
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 8:44a Dave Hay I'm making more use of VirtualBox as a "free" virtualization tool on Linux, working alongside VMware Fusion that I use on the Mac. My host OS is CentOS 6.2, and I'm using VirtualBox 4.1.8. Having happily created VMs containing Windows Server 2003 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, I wanted to create a third VM running .... CentOS 6.2. I went through the usual process to create the VM, and then added a new virtual CD/DVD drive to connect to the ISO that contains CentOS: - CentOS-6.2-x86 [read] Keywords: blogger
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IBM Collaboration Solutions - WW Partner Demo Community
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay One of our partners drew my attention to this Community out on the IBM Greenhouse: - This community is used by the ICS team at IBM to provide information to our business partners WW. It's also meant to be a platform for partners to be able to share best practices, provide feedback, and share information with IBM, and among the partner community. This community is your community. Please make the most of it, feel free to download the presentations/material you find relevant to your projects, use [read] Keywords: collaboration
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And there's more - looking at the sound preferences on OSX using the "hidden" menu ...
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay Hot on the back of my previous two posts: - Mac OSX - Checking your WiFi signal strength More hidden secrets in OSX - battery strength indicator ... I've just "discovered" another one.If you hold down the [Alt] key and click on the sound/volume icon you get this: - which is very very useful, especially to me with an external Plantronics CS-60 USB/DECT headset. [read] Keywords: blogger
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IBM Connections 3.X - No need to use Xsoftrefthreshold16 any longer ...
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 4:04a Dave Hay I've been looking at our IBM Connections 3.0.1 environment, specifically focusing on the DEVELOPMENT server, as I was implementing CA Wily Introscope as part of a monitoring and diagnosis regime. Introscope requires that we set some JVM parameters in order that the relevant Wily classes be loaded. Whilst I was configuring the JVM for the WAS instance that hosts the Profiles cluster, I noticed that the parameter: - -Xsoftrefthreshold16 had been set: - …. …. This parameter is referenced i [read] Keywords: agent
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More hidden secrets in OSX - battery strength indicator ...
Tue, Mar 13th 2012 12:04p Dave Hay Picking up on my previous blog post about the hidden signal strength indicator, as if by magic, whilst listening to the most recent @BritishTechMac podcast, I heard Gazmaz mention a similar tip for the battery health indicator on OSX As with the WiFi signal strength indicator, hold down the [Alt] key as you click on the Battery icon, and this is what you'll see Nice one, Gaz, thanks :-) [read] Keywords: blogger
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Mac OSX - Checking your WiFi signal strength
Mon, Mar 12th 2012 3:24p Dave Hay This came from a friend of mine, Mr Halman, and has solved a problem that's been bugging me for a very very long time. Did you know that, on Apple Mac OSX, holding down the [Alt] key whilst clicking on the wireless link, then you can see the signal strength and other relevant characteristics of a WiFi network, as per the following example ... Jonathan tells me that he found this from the book - Mac Kung Fu - Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion by Keir Thomas After you' [read] Keywords: apple
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Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition
Mon, Mar 12th 2012 3:04p Dave Hay Continuing to climb the learning curve, as IBM Business Process Management (BPM) has cropped up in a number of projects recently …. In today's dynamic business environment, your organization needs to be ready to turn signals from the marketplace into strategic plays. BPM helps you quickly find and execute on missed opportunities trapped inside day-to-day operational processes. By unleashing the power of technology as a competitive advantage, your entire enterprise becomes far more agile, hel [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections 3.0.1 Mobile Now Working
Fri, Mar 9th 2012 3:04a Dave Hay This popped up in my Twitter activity stream this morning The Tweet takes us this thread: - SOLVED: ipad/iphone app connectivity issue on the IBM Connections Forum which links across to Tom Truitt's blog post: - IBM Connections 3.0.1 Mobile Now Working To make the iPad/iPhone/Android mobile client work for Connections, there's more required than just checkmarking the Mobile app when installing IBM Connections Applications. Want to know more ? Then check out the blog post here…. [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Web Content Manager - Cluster Installation – setting WCM_HOST and WCM_PORT
Thu, Mar 8th 2012 10:44p Dave Hay Saw this on Graham Bucknell's blog this morning, and wanted to share it as it's something that has cropped up for me in the past When you set up a WebSphere Portal cluster, the WCM_HOST and WCM_PORT environment variables need to be changed so they point to your webserver address. This is important for syndication. If you don't make this change, syndication will go through the individual node instead of the load balancing webserver. This is a problem if the individual node goes down – syndic [read] Keywords: ibm
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Performance management tools for IBM WebSphere Portal
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 10:44p Dave Hay A link to this article popped into my inbox this morning, thanks to a weekly newsletter that summarises the support position for IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager This article describes the tools and how they were used to evaluate an IBM® WebSphere® Portal 7.0 performance and/or problem determination issue during a recent engagement at a customer site. The list of tools addressed here is not complete; specifically, it does not include well known commercial tools used in many en [read] Keywords: connections
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Blue Screen of Death … well almost
Sun, Mar 4th 2012 2:04p Dave Hay Yesterday I took delivery of a Humax HDR-FOX T2 device; this is a so-called Personal Video Recorder (PVR), which is somewhat anacrhonistic - a Hard Disk Recorder is, perhaps, a better name, hence the model name :-) The Humax ( also known as a Hummy ) contains a pair of Freeview HD tuners, allowing me to record two different Freeview digital TV channels at the same time, which is rather useful. There were a number of reasons for the purchase, including the fact that the Humax devices were listed [read] Keywords: apple
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IBM Web Content Manager delivery solutions for your website
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 5:24a Dave Hay This came to my attention earlier; one of my IBM UK colleagues kindly shared the link via a blog post in IBM Connections, which then popped up in Notes via the Connections Alerts plugin in my sidebar :-) Stefan Hepper - Comment lines: Choosing the right web content management delivery solution The IBM Web Content Manager software offers different solutions for delivering web content to your users. This article explains all the solutions available and why you would chose each. The article is here [read] Keywords: connections
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More on the Global Security Toolkit (GSK) and OpenSSL on Linux
Thu, Mar 1st 2012 4:04a Dave Hay This is just a bunch of links right now, but has been extremely useful to me in the past few days ….. IBM SDK for Java 6 - Security information https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/security/60/ IBM SDK Policy files I needed to use this as I have a requirement to import 2048-bit SSL root/intermediate certificates into the SSL keystore for IBM HTTP Server, and IHS only supports 1024-bit certificates out-of-the-box IBM's SDKs ship with strong but limited jurisdiction policy files. Unlimit [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM HTTP Server and CentOS Linux - Global Security Toolkit (GSK) not playing nicely
Wed, Feb 29th 2012 11:44p Dave Hay I'm breaking new ground, at least for me, with SSL certificates etc. within IBM HTTP Server on a current project, and have been expanding my knowledge of the Global Security Toolkit (GSK) on my own CentOS environment. I've written about CentOS and IBM software before so this is merely a continuation of the series :-) So when I saw an exception trying to run certain GSK commands such as gsk7cmd, I immediately assumed that I might be missing a shared library of some sort. I confirmed this by run [read] Keywords: ibm
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Installing Rational Software Architect 8.0.3 on CentOS Linux 6.2
Sat, Feb 25th 2012 11:04a Dave Hay More fun with CentOS, this time it's Rational Software Architect … Initially, I saw the same sort of issues that I'd previously seen with IBM HTTP Server including: - .../bin/bash: /tmp/RSA803/RSA_SETUP/InstallerImage_linux_gtk_x86/install: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory… ... libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work… which I resolved with: - $ sudo yum install ld-linux.so.2 and $ sudo yum install libgcc_s.so.1 respectively. However, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Got Portal, Get Connections - no, really, GET Connections NOW
Tue, Feb 21st 2012 12:24p Dave Hay We knew this was coming from around the Lotusphere 2012 timeframe, but it's taken a few weeks to make it into the official news e.g. an IBM Announcement Letter ( ULET ) IBM WebSphere Portal Server V7.0.0, IBM WebSphere Portal Enable V7.0.0, and IBM WebSphere Portal Extend V7.0.0 add entitlement to IBM Connections Files and IBM Connections Profiles If you have IBM® WebSphere® Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Portal Enable, or IBM WebSphere Portal Extend on an active Passport Advantage® Software S [read] Keywords: connections
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