Class loader synchronization bottlenecks are common problems brought to the attention of WebSphere Application Server L2 Support by our clients.  This is a common type of performance problem called a livelock where many threads are contending on a set of locks. The performance overhead is proportional to the lock contention, so the problem might not show up in a test environment with a low number of concurrent requests, or patterns of requests which aren't exercising the lock at the same time.  From the viewpoint of... [More]

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    This blog provides additional details about our support policy for JDBC databases and drivers. We hope this blog will help clarify most of the questions customers ask IBM support every day.   General Support Statement for customers concerned about whether a DB is supported: As noted in the compatibility reports, available here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006921 , WebSphere Application Server traditional and WebSphere Application Server Liberty support the use of any database with a JDBC driver that... [More]

  Ever wonder why you can't access the admin console (ISC),  or why no values are displayed for Default Key or Trust Store  or why Node re-sync doesn't work, or why accessing an application over SSL fails ?    The problem may be your SSL setup.    Self help is available by issuing the same commands WebSphere on z/OS support will ask you to use (see step 1 in Mustgather at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996848 )   In the following:    Control Region ID =... [More]

  The snapshot feature in PureApplication System provides the ability to save a copy of the  entire state of a Virtual System so you can revert it back to the previous state if desired.  A snapshot is intended for use as a restore point if a problem occurs during a planned  update to a virtual system instance, such as a maintenance update.   I especially find this feature useful when I am applying WebSphere Application Server fixpack  updates to my test environment and want to ensure I can easily back out any... [More]

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  This blog article contains tips that for IBM Operational Decision Manager. They are in no particular order. IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6 needs to be installed AFTER you have previously installed IBM Installation Manager, WebSphere Application Server, and so on . In other words, in the /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/imcl listInstalledPackages directory, you need to have these installed packages before you can install IBM Operational Decision Manager: com.ibm.cic.agent_1.8.1000.20141126_2002... [More]

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  After updating WebSphere's SDK to Java 8 SR5 FIx Pack 5 (8.0.5.5) or later, some clients started getting an error in their SystemOut.log: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: [Ljava.lang.String;"   The solution is to add a Generic JVM argument of: -Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true   The behavior in Java 8.0.5.0 and earlier is incorrect, because it shouldn't be possible to load array classes in this way. In fact, array classes are never "loaded" at all - they are created automatically as... [More]

  The WebSphere eXtreme Scale (WXS) product documentation has a section on monitoring that details all the monitoring options.   However, the documentation in the Knowledge Center does not provide details of what specifically needs to be monitored and how to interpret the results. Thus, in support we are often asked “What should we monitor in WXS to determine the health of the environment?” Normally this question is in regards to environmental stability or determining the status of the environment after container start or... [More]

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  I would like to talk about the every popular and common features of TWSearch and saved searches for IBM Business Process Manager (BPM).   Searching! Searching for instances and tasks is a common operation in IBM BPM. Three common methods are with the TWSearch JS API ( example 2 ), exposed saved search , and the REST API searches ( saved search and query ). Something we see in Support is "How and why are my searches taking a long time?" Sometimes the performance issue is the query itself and how the query... [More]

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  IBM Installation Manager (IM) is used to install IBM products such as WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v8.x. Once you use IM to install WAS v8.0 or above, you must maintain IM’s agent data and IMShared in good shape, or there would be an issue once you plan to upgrade WAS to a higher fixpack level, install other products on top of WAS, or downgrade WAS later.   These are the design features of using Installation Manager (IM): - IM can be used to install individual software packages on your local machine, or in conjunction... [More]

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  If you are a Business Process Manager (BPM) system administrator or developer, you have probably known about the function of "Copy" assets from one track to another at Process Center and Eclipse Process Designer for a long time. We offered this function to enable our users to take advantages of multiple tracks, in other words, generating splitting workspaces for developers to work in isolation. You could always have different tracks under the same project or process application, and after separate development and testing, this... [More]

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  We often get this question in Business Process Manager (BPM) support: "How do we get a list of bpd instances or tasks for a particular snapshot?" When it comes to application and snapshot management, it’s a very common question that each BPM system administrator may encounter. Therefore, a tool or method which can be used to simply query and customize the results, is always one of the top requirements we have received from our clients. In this article, we will cover some basic tools and steps that we recommend you use... [More]

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  The running of business processes and services in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) involves persisting data in multiple tables in different cardinalities in the BPM Process Server schema (assuming Oracle as the database in this blog) including the persistence of the process instances, tasks, variables etc. Once these processes are completed or terminated, the data is of little use to the functional needs of the business. At a given point in time, a process can assume the following states Active-1 Failed -3 Suspended -6 Terminated -4... [More]

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  In this case, only one user id failed to login into IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Process Designer and the system prompted error in the screen dump. Even rebooting the BPM environment did not solve the problem. CORBA MARSHAL 0x4942f89a No;nested exception is:    org.omg.CORBA.MARSHAL: Unable to read value from underlying bridge: Unable to read value from underlying bridge: ClassNotFoundException com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException vmcid:IBM minor code:89A completed:No   From the BPM server log... [More]

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  Hello again, and welcome to my blog entry on the subject of "Fronting WebSphere" with bundled Proxy and Load Balancer products like IBM HTTP Server (IHS webserver), WebSphere Plug-in proxy load balancer module for webservers, Edge Caching Proxy and Edge Load Balancer. The subject for this blog entry is the first of a series to cover some basic concepts related to using proxy and load balancing to front WebSphere Application Server (WAS) JVMs.   During the Vietnam war there was a politically designated neutral zone between... [More]

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