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Saving Bletchley Park by Doctor Sue Black
Recently, I've been reading about Bletchley Park and the role that it played during World War II, especially in terms of the team of cryptanalysis ( including crossword puzzle solvers, mathematicians,...
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WebSphere Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In this post, I briefly mention how I was able, with assistance from an IBM Technote, overcome an issue with the installation of IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.In...
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VMware Workstation 9 and Ubuntu 12.10
I have blogged about VMware and Linux in the past, most recently ( in 2010 !! ) here.Well, things have moved on since then, and I'm now running the shiny new Ubuntu 12.10 ( aka Quantal Quetzel ) and...
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WebSphere Portal 8 - NOT Installing as non-root
In this post, I outline an issue that I've seen most recently with WebSphere Portal v8 whilst attempting to install as a non-root user. Thankfully, I also outline the solution - and how I found it...
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IBM Worklight Server - Installation via a response file ( of course )
In this post, I briefly outline how I installed an IBM Worklight Server in about 10 minutes, via a small number of commands :-)For my server, I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 ( what else ) and...
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IBM Business Process Manager - Defining the Environment
In this brief article, I outline how an IBM BPM cell ( nodes, clusters, Service Integration bus, databases etc. ) can be built using a Deployment Environment.The Deployment Environment is, in effect, a...
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Live Demos: IBM Operational Decision Manager
Live Demos: IBM Operational Decision Manager - Interactive Web demos every second Wednesday of the monthJoin us for our monthly interactive Web demos. See the new face of business rules management in...
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BPM = Blogs Pour Me // Business Process Management
In this article, I make reference to a new (to me) blog for the IBM Business Process Manager tool, as I continue to discover and, more importantly, bookmark / share resources for my new role in IBM...
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Curing the Curly Cable Conniption
Thanks to the kind recommendation of a colleague, Mr Andy Barnes Esq., I've now made a good attempt to tame the rats' nest of wires that I typically carry around - along with a spoon and fork.I picked...
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Creating a Remote Messaging, Remote Support and Web pattern (RMRSW) based...
I'm in the midst of an IBM BPM implementation at the moment, working to deploy a combined Process Center / Process Server environment using IBM BPM Standard 8.0 ( as 8.0.1 isn't yet available )....
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WebSphere Application Server - Security is EVERYTHING
This is an excellent set of articles from two of my IBM colleagues, Martin Lansche and Keys Botzum.Summary: Security consists of more than just some firewalls at the edge of your network protecting...
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Using wsadmin to enable an LDAP Federated Repository in WebSphere Application...
This article is somewhat of an aide memoire for me, allow me to remember how to enable WebSphere Application Server to talk to an LDAP server, without needing to use a GUI :-)I pulled this together...
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Using wsadmin to script the creation of a JDBC data source - using input...
In this article, I explain how I was able to create a wsadmin script, using the Jython language, to automate the creation of a JDBC data source, to allow WebSphere Application Server 8 to connect to...
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NFS, Linux file permissions and IBM Installation Manager
In this post, I describe how I overcame an issue with IBM Installation Manager, observed when attempting to install IBM Operational Decision Manager v8 ( based on WebSphere Application Server v8 ) on...
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IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management 8.0.1 - Looking for JDBC drivers
In this post, I outline a problem that I saw when installing a new instance of IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM), now known as IBM Operational Decision Management (ODM) v8.0.1.Having...
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DB2 UDB and Linux - Start Me Up - AGAIN
In this article, I run through the steps that I took to allow a DB2 UDB 9.7 instance to auto-start on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.So I've blogged about DB2 autostart on a number of occasions,...
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IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Manager - Beans and Roles
In this post, I describe an issue that we saw with IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM) 8.0.1, when attempting to use the Rules Execution Server (RES) Console.We accessed the RES...
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Using sed and awk to manipulate files
In this post, I describe how I used two of the most useful of the Unix tools to manipulate a text file.The file in question is the configuration file for IBM HTTP Server - httpd.conf, and I had a...
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A tcpdump tutorial and primer
I saw this on Twitter earlier, posted by a friend - Jon Machtynger - A tcpdump Tutorial and Primertcpdump is the premier network analysis tool for information security professionals. Having a solid...
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Problems with non-unique InstallationGUID in IBM Business Process Manager v8
ProblemWhen you attempt to deploy an application, you cannot select your runtime environment because the user interface keeps changing between each of your environments. For instance, it displays the...
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