Book Review - To Come - Testing Cloud Services: How to Test SaaS, PaaS & IaaS
As part of an irregular series of book reviews, working in association with the British Computer Society (BCS), I've just received this: -Testing Cloud Services: How to Test SaaS, PaaS & IaaS by...
View ArticleDigital media processing in the cloud using IBM Business Process Manager
The purpose of this article is to describe some of the challenges inherent in building a cloud-based digital media processing factory, and how those challenges can be addressed using IBM® Business...
View ArticleWebSphere Application Server 8.5 - Just a Bunch of Links ....
8.5.5: WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5.0YouTube: WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 OverviewWhat's new in WebSphere Application Server V8.5IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 delivers a faster,...
View ArticleNew IBM Redbook - Configuring and Deploying Open Source with WebSphere...
Configuring and Deploying Open Source with WebSphere Application Server Liberty ProfileAbstractThis IBM® Redbook®s publication explains the capabilities of IBM WebSphere® Application Server Liberty...
View ArticleOoops, will I ever learn ? Problems with IBM Business Monitor 8.0.1.2 due to...
Saw this whilst starting the Support cluster as part of an IBM Business Monitor 8.0.1.2 installation ( a fresh install using Oracle 11g R2 instead of my normal DB2 LUW ): -native_stderr.log…JVMJ9VM135W...
View ArticleProfound - Oracle DB - Schema == User
I'm slowly getting my head around Oracle's DB product, and saw this earlier: -A schema is a collection of logical structures of data, or schema objects.A schema is owned by a database user and has the...
View ArticlePurging data in IBM Business Process Manager
This excellent developerWorks article has been updated to reflect the most recent fix packs for IBM BPM 7.5, 8.0 and 8.5: -IBM® Business Process Manager is a stateful product that accumulates data over...
View ArticleThe WebSphere Contrarian: Options for accelerating application deployment
This from developerWorks via Twitter: -Looking for ways to speed up application deployment in IBM® WebSphere® Application Server? In this installment, The WebSphere Contrarian outlines how applications...
View ArticleIBM Installation Manager - More on iFixes via the Command Line
Following my previous posts: -Applying an iFix to IBM BPM 7.5.1.1 using the Command LineUsing IBM Installation Manager to report on available iFixes for IBM BPMI wanted to further document the process...
View ArticleRecords exist in LSW_TASK table that are not associated with a BPD instance...
QuestionIs it safe to delete rows in the LSW_TASK table where the column bpd_instance_id is null? The subject column of the row starts with "Error executing."CauseWhen an undercover agent (UCA) or...
View ArticleThe placement of BPM runtime components in an SOA
Again, thanks to Twitter for alerting me to this: -The various runtime components within a business process management (BPM) solution have a subtle relationship with the SOA reference architecture....
View ArticleIntegration Throughout and Beyond the Enterprise
AbstractThroughout the history of the IT industry, integration has been an important part of most projects. Integration of transactional, integration of data or integration of processes, each has its...
View ArticleWebSphere Portal 8 - Unified Task List Portlet with BPM 8.5
It's been a while since I posted anything about WebSphere Portal.When I started this blog, seven years ago, I was working in the Technical Sales team, within the IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) Brand...
View ArticleIBM Installation Manager - What's actually installed ?
So I've blogged about this particular command before: -$ /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/imcl listInstalledPackageswhich returns:...
View ArticleIBM Business Monitor - Unable to delete BusinessSpaces
One of my clients hit an interesting issue with IBM Business Monitor 8.0.1.1, that'd likely affect any product using BusinessSpace, including Business Process Manager.This was a newly minted...
View ArticleIBM Flash - IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server CVE-2014-0160
From the article: -AbstractIBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server are not vulnerable to CVE-2014-0160 Heartbleed vulnerabilityContentCVE-2014-0160 - Heartbleed VulnerabilityThis...
View ArticleIBM Redbooks: using Open Source with Liberty profile
The IBM Redbooks publication, Configuring and Deploying Open Source with WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile was published last month and recently updated.For anyone new to the Liberty...
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Did you know Mac OS X helps you optimize your home Wi-Fi network? Here’s how...
This is a useful little article from @TheNextWeb Did you know Mac OS X helps you optimize your home Wi-Fi network? Here's how it works( Image from the article, not from my own home WiFi )
View ArticleIssues with BPMDeleteSnapshot and BPMSnapshotCleanup commands in IBM Business...
This Flash from IBM Support was released today: -Issues with BPMDeleteSnapshot and BPMSnapshotCleanup commands in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM)Because issues have been discovered with the...
View ArticleInteresting exception seen whilst starting IBM Business Process Manager 8.5.0.1
So I saw this exception: -[15/04/14 19:25:40:071 BST] 00000001 WsServerImpl E WSVR0009E: Error occurred during startupcom.ibm.ws.exception.RuntimeError: Exception while verifying the datasource...
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