Hey! Thank you to all who attended the WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) Technical Exchange about UPDI Validator on October 12. For those of you who missed it, here is the link to the presentation so you can have the materials too. To help you master the concepts, here is a case study: Client's WPG machine is at 6.2 base level (General Availability or GA) with a new install and she has never used UPDI before on this machine. What can she do to enable the WPG UPDI validator on this machine? Solution 1: Since this client has never used UPDI on this... [More]

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This has happened to people who report problems to the Support Center... You call and wait anxiously for a call back and later to find out that you did not submit enough information. You are told "The logs you uploaded did not contain the details we are looking for". You are thinking .. how could that be? Here is a simple tip to help improve your turnaround time when you open a ticket with WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) Support Center - Always have your debug logs uploaded! How are debug logs different from "non-debug"... [More]

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So have you been having issues with Certificate Management on WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) 6.2?  During this period I have dealt with a number of these issues and I thought I would share some useful links to help troubleshoot these issues. During WPG processing are you getting errors such as CertPathBuilderExceptions in your logs.  This normally refers to Certificate Chaining errors where WPG is unable to build the certificate path. To resolve this issue please refer to document:  Avoiding certificate chaining errors when loading Public... [More]

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So, have you been having issues when usng the Archiver Utility on WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) 6.2?  During this period I have dealt with a number of these issues and I thought I would share some useful links to help troubleshoot these issues. WebSphere Partner Gateway provides an Archiver utility for archiving and purging data from the system. Using the WebSphere Partner Gateway console, you can schedule the archiver task to run automatically without manual intervention. In case of failure, the report and the corresponding error event... [More]

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So have you been experiencing any of those nasty Out of Memory error messages when running WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) on WebSphere Application Server 6.1.  During this period I have dealt with a number of these issues and I thought I would share some useful links to help troubleshoot these error messages. The first step in troubleshooting these Out of Memory error messages is to enable verbosegc on your WebSphere Admin Console.  To activate the verbosegc trace, use the Java runtime option -verbose:gc. This value is set in WebSphere... [More]

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As the End of Service date (30 September 2010) approaches for WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG) version 6.0, it is time to grab that Migration Bull by the horns and begin the process of upgrading to a newer release like WPG 6.1, 6.1.1, or 6.2. I thought I would share some useful links to what's new in WPG 6.2 and to some WebSphere Software Technical Exchange (WSTE) presentations for migrating from WPG 6.0 to a supported WPG release (6.1, 6.1.1 or 6.2) that will help you to steer that migration bull in the right direction. To learn what's new in... [More]

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