Moving WebSphere Application Server (WAS) configuration items from one environment to another is not always as easy as you might expect. Using the property based configuration feature of WAS might help. This however requires to create portable properties files when exporting the configuration item which requires to specify the ["PortablePropertiesFile", "true"] option when exporting the configration item using AdminTask. extractConfigProperties . Another useful feature of the property based... [More]

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This entry marks the beginning of the tips & tricks series for beginners. So if you are new to WAS/ Portal Development  I hope you are able to speed up your learning & development process with the following tips  You might already stumbled upon some information on how to leverage the properties settings in your wp_profile. However I haven't found a complete guide with all important properties files and settings. Therefore I've tried to aggregate all important properties in the <pathtoyourwasprofile>/properties... [More]

Tags:  properties dx profile portal setup wsadmin was

We successfully built and tested WebSphere Portal v8.5 docker containers and ran them on Linux and on Windows. The images are created using docker build files. To run the applications we use docker-compose files to define the dependencies of the applications and docker volume containers to persist the data.   The build files allow to run the following environments at the moment: DB2 v10.5 CF5 WebSphere Portal v8.5 CF10 using derby as database system WebSphere Portal v8.5 CF10 using DB2 as database system WebSphere Portal v8.5 CF11 using... [More]

Tags:  docker portal db2 websphere

Recently investigated a syndication problem at a customer side when syndicating a huge library with many versions of the objects as well. The problem was happening repeatedly and was not solves by resetting the event log either. After running for some time and exporting about 1,1GB of data into the subscribers working directory in <profile_home>/PortalServer/wcm/ilwwcm/system the syndication seems to stop with the following errors as showm below: Messages in the syndicators log In the logs files of the syndicator server we found the... [More]

Many WebSphere Application Server based applications can benefit in terms of performance from using large page support provided by the Java virtual machine and the operating systems. Using large pages for the Java Heap can improve performance - especially when using large heap sizes. WebSphere Portal Server is no exception here and the tuning guide ( https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_WebSphere_Portal_V_8.5_Performance_Tuning_Guide ) recommends this as well. In addition the tuning guide provides instructions on how the set-up... [More]

Tags:  large java page huge heap pages

When migrating from WP v8.0 to WP v8.5 with managed pages enabled on v8.0 special care must be taken when projects with draft pages are used on v8.0. Especially if customer wants to use the JCR domain from a different environment (for example PROD) than the page hierarchy (REL). This because of the way how (draft) pages are handled when managed pages are enabled. When managed pages are enabled the page definitions are stored in two locations namely in the REL database as well as in the JCR database (in library Portal Site). Portal provides a... [More]

When using the health-check tool coming with CF08 (what is highly recommended) before you start the CF08 installation the health-check run fails with a java.net.MalformedURLException exception. This is reported via APAR PI51240 however there is no fix available at the time of writing this article.   As a circumvention and to go ahead with the CF08 installation you might fix the faulty code by editing <portal_home>/installer/wp.update/config/includes/upgrade_health_check.xml .   Perform the following steps to fix the problem:... [More]

Tags:  cf08 portal java.net.malformedurlexce... websphere health dxd check

Just faced a problem with a migration from WebSphere Portal v8.0 to WebShere Portal v8.5 at the upgrade-profile step. The previous steps all worked fine but the upgrade-profile task failed .   The task build for upgrade-profile failed due to the following error: --- snip --- /opt/WebSphere/i00/PortalServer/bp/wp.bp.exchange2k10/config/includes/wp.bp.exchange2k10.mig_cfg.xml:18: EJPXB0016E: An error occurred on the client: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found         at com.ibm.wps.xmlaccess.XmlAccessTask.fail(Unknown... [More]

Tags:  portal upgrade-profile xdx migration websphere v8.5 v8.0

The IBM JVM dump mechanism implemented by the dump agents uses a sophisticated strategy to determine where to save / store the dump files. The order of paths which are checked when the JVM tries to write the dumps is documented in the JVM Knowledge Center . While this mechanism makes perfectly sense to ensure that the required debug data are written there is one drawback namely that it might fill either WebSphere's working directory (which is usually the <profile_home>) or the operating system's temp directory (/tmp by... [More]

Recently I had a problem that a ConfigEngine task failed when adding a member to an existing cluster. The taskwith the following error: --- snip --- D:\WebSphere\PortalServer\installer\wp.config\config\includes\wp_cluster_cfg.xml:569: Target `action-post-cluster-configuration-prereq.wcm' does not exist in this project.         at com.ibm.wps.config.tasks.AntCallTask.execute(AntCallTask.java:65)         at... [More]

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As of WebSphere portal v8.5 CF05 it is not supported to create profile once a CF is installed. Therefore the currently correct order of installing WebSphere Portal v8.5 is: Installation of the binaries Creation of the profile (unless done during the installation of the product) Installation of the most current CF following the installation instructions for standalone or cluster installations The CF installation instructions also state at the beginning: " This cumulative fix can only be applied to an existing functional version of... [More]

WebSphere Portal 8.5 does not support standalone LDAP user registry anymore. Therefore the migration instructions will request you to switch to federated repository.  After migrating the user registry from standalone LDAP to federated repository and changing the realm name to the default name for federated repositories ( defaultWIMFileBasedRealm ) the principal name retrieved from the request might return the distinguished name (DN) of the user instead of the short name. While the API always returns the short name of the user when using... [More]

Running a migration from WP 7.0.0.2 CF27 (but possibly happens for WP v8 source systems as well) to WP 8.5 CF01 might fail when running the upgrade-profile task: The ConfigEngine.log just indicates a problem with xmlaccess and does not provide any specific information. --- snip --- [xmlaccess] EJPXB0006I: Connecting to URL http://localhost:10039/wps/config [xmlaccess] EJPXB0004I: Writing output file D:\WS\w_p\ConfigEngine\config\work\installedThemesSkins.xml [xmlaccess] EJPXB0002I: Reading input file... [More]

Tags:  migration com.ibm.portal.cache.depe... depenency v8.5 java.lang.classcastexcept... cache

While testing a migration to WP 8.5 CF01 I've noticed a com.ibm.websphere.management.exception.ConnectorNotAvailableException  failure during the  ConfigEngine upgrade-profile task after a restart of the Portal server performed by the ConfigEngine upgrade-profile task on two occasions. The SystemOut.log contained the following entries which are relevant to this situation:   [8/19/14 13:43:19:472 CEST] 00000108 ServletWrappe I com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper init SRVE0242I: [wps] [/wps/config] [config]:... [More]

Tags:  migration restart v8.5 connectornotavailableexce... wp performance portal v85 startup