Have you checked your system parameters?  Often System Administrators are asked to install the WebSphere MQ Software and are not given the necessary background information to prepare their system and perform the kernel tuning parameters necessary for optimum WebSphere MQ performance. This ends up causing resource issues as a result once the applications are deployed and load tested. The WebSphere MQ information center includes a "Quick Beginnings" guide for each platform that has a section for kernel configuration and/or resource... [More]

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The "Test Feature" of the WebSphere MQ Explorer was added in WebSphere MQ V7.  This tool examines your WebSphere MQ object definitions, and can spot configuration errors.  Test results are displayed in the WebSphere MQ Explorer Test Results view, which opens the first time that you run a test. In my testing for this new feature, I defined some WebSphere MQ objects with some very obvious errors.  For example, my remote queue specified: transmission queue, remote queue, and a remote queue manager object that did not exist.  My sender... [More]

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  This 2-part blog is focused on some commonly occurring exceptions for the status cache problem. With this problem, the status display of an application server, node agent, or an application is shown as 'red' or 'unknown' on the WebSphere Administrative Console. However, the actual process is up running.  In part 1, we will look at when this type of issue can occur due to one of the following areas: Configuration file Discovery ports with firewall Operating system level Some of these exceptions can be seen in the... [More]

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  This blog is part 2 of a 2-part blog that is focused on some commonly occurring exceptions for the status cache problem. To read part 1 first, see Common status cache problems in the WebSphere Administrative Console - Part 1 . With this problem, the status display of an application server, node agent, or an application is shown as 'red' or 'unknown' on the WebSphere Administrative Console. However, the actual process is up running.  In part 2, we will look at when this type of issue can occur due to one of the... [More]

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  Sometimes users are asked to update an IBM Business Process Manager (BPM)/Lombardi configuration file to overwrite default configuration settings. I hope this step-by-step guide will help a new BPM administrator finish his first configuration update quickly before reading many technote and product documentation pages about the related product design. What configuration files could/should be changed? Generally speaking, you should not make changes on the default configuration files directly, which start with a number less than 100, for... [More]

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In this post I would like to introduce the Database Design Tool (DDT) that comes with WebSphere Process Server (WPS) V7. This tool is useful for those who want to configure all the required database resources in WebSphere Process Server: common database, messaging engine database, CEI and BPC databases. This tool is also helpful for those who want to have a custom configuration for each database. For example, when different databases need to be configured on different servers or even, when those databases are of different database types, such... [More]

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  Working in WebSphere Application Server z/OS level 2, we sometimes see issues with the configuration of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) OEM Edition for z/OS. Most are seen during the configuration stage to create a server instance of WAS OEM. To help save yourself some time during this process, here are a few things to check before you start this process.   SCLBDLL2 is a commonly missed library that needs to be in the system link list and APF authorized. Here is the complete list of libraries that need to be the system link... [More]

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  by Yan Zhao and Sangwon Oh   Imagine that you are a WebSphere administrator who does not have a lot of scripting experience. Due to recent changes you need to modify a set of specific configurations or copy a set of properties from one environment to another or move large number of configuration objects to a different scope in the cell, etc. Manually going through panel by panel in the Administration console would be very tedious and error prone. Writing your own scripts might be time consuming. Properties File Based Configuration... [More]

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  Because IBM Business Monitor keeps the user name and password for the IBM Cognos BI content store database in a Java Authentication and Authorization Service J2C authentication data alias ( Cognos_JDBC_Alias ), you can maintain all database credentials in one place. Whenever you start the IBM Business Monitor server, the current values are passed to the IBM Cognos BI configuration to allow IBM Cognos BI access to the content store. Because of this integration, you cannot change the content store user name and password using the IBM... [More]

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  Most of the Business Process Manager (BPM) migration scenarios require migrating configuration data from source to target. It doesn't matter if it is for a version-to-version migration or a hardware migration for the same version of the product, how we migrate the configuration data completely and accurately is a very important element for the success of a migration project. As you might know, starting from BPM 8.5.5, BPM uses the command utility BPMConfig -migrate / -export to extract the source configuration data. However, some of... [More]

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  Overview IBM® MobileFirst Quality Assurance (MQA) takes mobile application development life cycle to the next level by providing neat features such as mobile application testing, user validation, and streamlined quality feedback with sentiment analysis, over-the-air build distribution, automated crash reporting, in-app bug reporting, and user feedback. In a fragmented and complex environment, this product helps you to provide quality assurance for your mobile applications. This blog takes you through the deployment and configuration... [More]

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