Here are the most commonly asked questions about running IBM WebSphere Application Server as a non-root user. Its applicable for a WebSphere Application Server V6.0 profile and later. Introduction: It is a common practice to run the application server as a non-root user. Most of the WebSphere Application Server users install and run the application server as a non-root user only. There are no restrictions on how you protect your resource. You can set the permission of the file as you like, but there are some key and common factor needs to be... [More]

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  If you are an experienced IBM MQ administrator, it’s likely that you have been certified in the past on one the previous versions.  It has been many years since I attained my first MQ certification and 5 years since the most recent, which was MQ V7. A few MQ product updates have occurred in the past 5 years, but it has been quite some time since a new certification test for MQ was available. I had been checking as it is always a nice feather in your cap to be certified in the product that you support. I was excited to see the... [More]

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  Whether a problem can be resolved in a timely manner depends heavily on the documentation, especially dumps, that can be captured at time the error occurred.   You have the choice of two different types of CICS dumps to help you with problem determination. They are the transaction dump, that only contains storage related to the transaction that abended, and the CICS system dump, that contains storage from the entire CICS region. The type of dump to use for problem determination depends on the nature of the problem. In practice, the system... [More]

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  So I spent about 20 minutes wondering why I kept getting this exception: WASX7015E: Exception running command: "AdminTask.manageWMQ(ra, '[-nativePath /opt/ibm/mqm/usr/mqm/java/lib64 -disableWMQ false ]')"; exception information: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException: com.ibm.ws.scripting.ScriptingException: WASX7025E: Error found in String ""; cannot create ObjectName. when running this Jython script: cellID = AdminControl.getCell() clusterName = sys.argv[0] clusterName = "AppCluster"... [More]

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  Continuing on my voyage of discovery with IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), I was having all sorts of fun and games adding a new agent to a "clean" installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. I chose to add the agent via Resources  > Agents  > Add New Agent , manually entering details such as hostname, SSH port, user ID and password:     Validating the Agent Installation Properties:   Note that I'd previously installed IBM Java 1.7 as validated here: /opt/IBM/Java/jre/bin/java -version java... [More]

  Upon investigation of a WebSphere Application Server performance issue, you may find that the poor performance correlates with long classloader unload times. To check if this is indeed a problem, enable verbose GC and note the times of poor performance. Then correlate the times of poor performance to the time stamps in the verbose GC data:   Example of long class unload time as seen in the verbose GC output (default log is the native_stderr.log in WebSphere): ... <classunloading classloaders="3058" classes="6490"... [More]

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  This time around, I have a requirement to deploy IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and the WebSphere Plugin to route traffic to WebSphere Application Server (WAS). So far, so good. However, the difference is that, this time, I'm NOT leveraging the power of WAS Network Deployment ( WAS ND ). There are no clusters here. Equally, the two instances of WAS are completely self-contained. For my proof of concept, I've got a single set of WAS binaries ( I am using WAS 8.5.5.3 ) with a pair of standard profiles, AppSrv01 and AppSrv02. Similarly, I... [More]

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When a new version of an existing monitor model is installed on a production mode server, all active monitoring context (MC) instances from the previous version must be moved to the new version. Then. the CEI distribution mode of the new version can be set to "Active" if any previous versions have a CEI distribution mode set to "Inactive (event queue recoverable)". You can check the number of active monitoring context instances for the previous version on the Version Details page for the previous version in the WebSphere... [More]

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  WebSphere MQ implements more enhancements and improvements with each new version that is released. While major changes receive a lot of fanfare through topics in the IBM Knowledge Center, there are often many behind-the-scenes updates that aren't as major, but still greatly enhance MQ. Sometimes the code is just tightened up a bit or (for MQ on z/OS) service parameters are implemented to help mitigate undesired behavior. Here, we will take a look at some of these changes, code enforcements, and service parameters that Level 2 cites... [More]

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