In this latest adventure the executives are not happy when Ben causes havoc during a very important presentation.  Will Allie help Ben collect the proper set of MustGather documentation and get the problem resolved before Ben has to face the executives?  Find out in this new fun adventure with our favorite IT professionals from Company A - Allie Star and Ben Shuarmer:   Check out previous adventures in the series of Ben and Allie videos for #smarterSupport@IBM: Using the Java Screen Recorder for Speedy PMR Resolution When... [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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  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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  Introduction The password management tool named passwords.sh can modify the passwords in the Deployment Service environment [chef, job topologies] and in the IBM® Cloud Orchestrator servers automatically. The script changes the passwords of the users of all the IBM Cloud Orchestrator servers except the Deployment Server VM itself.   Password Rules Passwords can comprise of the following: [a – z], [A – Z], [0 – 9] and _.   Passwords of the following users and IBM HTTP Server keystore (key.kdb) must be the... [More]

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  Introduction Before you begin upgrading to IBM Cloud Orchestrator 2.4.0.4, it is imperative that the passwords in the deployment service environment match that of the users in your IBM Cloud Orchestrator environment. The upgrade process will fail if this condition is not met. This blog entry describes how to use a new script, provided with IBM Cloud Orchestrator v2.4.0.4, to ensure that the above condition is met.   Password Rules Note: If any of the following rules are not met, make appropriate password changes to comply with these... [More]

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  I often hear the question, "What web services trace specification should I use?". The answer to that question will depend on the type of problem you are trying to diagnose. In this blog entry, I'll list the different types of trace specifications and give you a bit of guidance on when to use each one. Its important to select the best trace string from the list below. The trace specifications and trace strings below are target-designed to gather information based on your problem-type.   To determine root causes of... [More]

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  When WebSphere JDBC Adapter accesses Oracle database to pick up the XMLType data, you may encounter the following error at IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) runtime: com.ibm.j2ca.jdbc.JDBCRecord getNext Exception Occurred When Event is not null. javax.resource.ResourceException: NoClassDefFoundError occur while try to read Oracle XML, please ensure the required Oracle xdb library is in the class path.   The above error message indicates no proper operation is found to parse the Oracle XML data. Oracle supplies xdb6.jar and... [More]

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  Installing multiple iFixes is always a topic we deal with in Support. There are several ways to install many BPM iFixes at one time, like " Install Multiple Interim Fixes Together Using imcl Command Silently " and " An efficient update strategy for large IBM Business Process Manager installations ." If you are using Windows and you are used to installing an iFix with GUI, the Packaging Utility (PU) is a good choice. By using PU, there will be a single package generated after copying all the iFixes you want to install.... [More]

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  Ben and Allie are back in their next support adventure... Ben is anxious to get to Taco Tuesday but can not leave the office until he gets his technical question answered.  Will he miss Taco Tuesday? Will he use Technical Support Chat to get a quick answer from L2 Support and be on his way? Find the answer to this and learn how to use Technical Support Chat to get quick answers from L2 Support about technical documentation in this fun, animated video!     Check out previous Ben and Allie videos: Tips on Using dW Answers to... [More]

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