Gone are the days when the DB2 Control Center was part of the DB2 install. In comes IBM Data Studio to replace and expand on the capabilities once provided by the DB2 Control Center. What can make this even better? This tool is entirely free and can go beyond just connecting to DB2.   To obtain and install IBM Data Studio, see this Technote: Download and install IBM Data Studio Version 4.1.x   Connecting to a Database: Upon launching IBM Data Studio, in the left hand "Administration Explorer" you will find the... [More]

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  Do you have applications that need to communicate with each other?  Would you like to implement a microservices architecture in the cloud? Message Hub is now available as a beta service on IBM’s Bluemix Cloud platform, so you now have a scalable, distributed high throughput message bus that can unite your cloud applications. Using the Message Hub service in Bluemix, application developers can create composite applications from loosely coupled components. As an application grows it can be scaled by leveraging the elasticity of... [More]

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  What is Workspace: Whenever a user logs into the administrative console, or uses wsadmin scripting to make a configuration change, the changes are stored in the workspace. When a user uses the ConfigService configuration service interface of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs), the user specifies a session object that is associated with the workspace in order to store the changes. Only when the user performs a save operation under the administrative console, wsadmin scripting, or the Java APIs are the changes propagated... [More]

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  The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) is now deprecated. By default IBM Business Monitor no longer monitors events from CEI. But some people migrate from an old WPS/BPM + Monitor pair version like WebSphere Process Server V6.2 + WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2, to IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.6 + IBM Business Monitor V8.5.6, and they don't want to use Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) to configure IBM Business Monitor 8.5.6 to receive events from IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.6 and they continue want to use Common Event... [More]

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If you are an existing IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) user, using the Business Rules service on Bluemix is pretty straightforward . Just deploy your existing ruleset and XOM to the Rule Execution Server (RES) of the Business Rules service instance, et voilà!   Yes, but not quite ...   If you work with a Java XOM, objects are instantiated using JAXB during rule execution on Bluemix. This means that default constructors will be used to instantiate the objects, and the code in the non-default... [More]

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  Problem: Selecting the WebSphere datasource test connection button results in a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError This exception typically results when using a type 2 JDBC driver and one or more of the following conditions occur: Cannot locate the driver's required native libraries The loaded version of the native libraries do not match the version of the driver WebSphere Application Server's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) cannot load the drivers native libraries Each of the above conditions is listed below. Note the DB2 type 2 JDBC... [More]

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  When it comes to troubleshooting native memory issues , typically where WebContainer transport is concerned, two troubleshooting methods are quite popular:   1) Disable AIO 2) Setting the WebSphere Application Server WebContainer to synchronous mode   Both troubleshooting steps aim to avoid the large native memory footprint that may occur when using AIO or Asynchronous data transfer.  Much of the underlying native memory consumers in the WebContainer I/O are the... [More]

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  It's been over five months since I last analyzed trends for the PMR issues that we see most at Level 2. My last blog entry seemed to have some positive effect on alerting people on what to avoid. Now, I'll take a look at some interesting new problems IBM MQ has helped resolve as we close in on the end of Summer and look forward to what the 4th quarter will bring.   On z/OS For the z/OS platform, the System SSL features ship with the Operating System (synonymous with the GSKit shipping with the distributed platforms). Made... [More]

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  When examining the threads that use CPU, you may find that the JIT threads continuously use the majority of CPU:   Example of high CPU in JIT from the sleep.prof output (collected as part of the " MustGather: Performance, hang, or high CPU issues with WebSphere Application Server on AIX " for WebSphere Application Server-  aixperf.sh script in the section "Collecting Data Manually")     Process      Freq  Total Kernel   User Shared  Other  ... [More]

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