More on IBM Integration Designer 8.5.5 - "Unable to get property isExists of...
Following this post from last year: -IBM Integration Designer 8.5.5 - "Unable to get property isExists of undefined or null reference"in which I write about the issue of installing IBM Integration...
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Microsoft Active Directory - SSL Certificate Request - And what I forgot
I was trying to generate an SSL certificate, signed by Active Directory ( on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ), using the certreq command: -certreq -submit -attrib...
View ArticleFun, Not With Flags, but with Passwords in IBM Installation Manager
I'm installing IBM Integration Designer (IID) 8.5.6 into a Windows VM, as I prepare to write some BPM Advanced SCA/BPEL code ….However, I hit a pesky password problem with DB2, upon which the IID test...
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IBM Global Security Toolkit - CTGSK2041W An unsupported modulus size was found.
I'm still tinkering with different ciphers and signature algorithms in IBM HTTP Server, as per this: -IBM HTTP Server, Global Security Toolkit and CTGSK3039Wand hit this today when attempting to create...
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Bulletproof SSL and TLS
This time, it's not a book review, it's a book purchase …I signed up for a free one-week introduction to SSL/TLS, partly to help me cement my understandingSubscribe to my free crash course about...
View ArticleProblems installing IBM Integration Designer - I *MUST* read my own blog
I was trying to install IBM Integration Designer 8.5.5 via a response file, and kept finding that the installation failed to complete, and that DB2 Express ( part of the IID WebSphere Test Environment...
View ArticleAnnounced - IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0
Saw this today: -IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0 delivers the next-generation application infrastructure for modern applications to support seamless portability across hybrid cloud...
View ArticleWebcast - Using IBM UrbanCode with IBM WebSphere to Accelerate Business...
As found on Twitter today: -Great news for WebSphere Application Server Administrators, IT Managers, Directors and anyone with challenges associated with deploying applications and configurations to...
View ArticleAchieve your API strategy with IBM API Connect
This from a former colleague of mine, Carlo Marcoli: -To thrive in the API economy, you need to strategize your API approach and create, run, manage, and secure your APIs. With this dedicated focus on...
View ArticleIBM BPM - Process Center and Unit Test Environment Together
This article from 2014: -Creating a stand-alone Process Center profile in IBM BPM, Part 1: Configure a profile for IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 on Windows platformsA stand-alone Process Center...
View ArticleF5 Load Balancing - My first few forays
I'm currently working on a situation whereby HTTPS load-balancing is inconsistently not working against IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5.To help me help the client's network team debug this, I've been tinkering...
View ArticleWebSphere Plugin and the Case of the GSK_ERROR_BAD_KEYFILE_PASSWORD
We've seen a few instances , where the WebSphere Plugin fails to communicate, via SSL, with WAS.This manifests itself as Error 500 / HTTP500 when accessing WAS via IHS, using hostname OR service...
View ArticleF5 BIG-IP - More learning, more tinkering, more blogging
I'm continuing to learn more about the F5, in my quest to really understand how it all works, in the context of solving a tricksy little SSL handshake problem between an LTM and an IBM HTTP Server...
View ArticleMy Cognos has fallen AGAIN and can't get up
We saw this problem: -CAM-CRP-1280 An error occurred while trying to decrypt using the system protection key. Reason: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded again...
View ArticleWebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.8, TLS 1.2 and DB2
It's been a day for old blog posts helping to fix new problems.Today, we saw this: -CWSIS1593I: The messaging engine, ME_UUID=E997A9EFA09498FC, INC_UUID=6DC2A53AD19710D7, has failed to gain an initial...
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Ubuntu Linux and the growing file-system
A friend asked me how to resize a disk partition ( virtual disk ) in an Ubuntu VM on VMware.This is what I did: -Look at the existing disk layoutdf -kmhFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted...
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager ( LTM ) - Scripting It, Baby
Following on from my earlier posts: -F5 Load Balancing - My first few foraysF5 BIG-IP - More learning, more tinkering, more bloggingI've made yet more headway with this fascinating product.I'd...
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IBM Integration Bus - The names, they are a-changin'
So I still struggle to remember that, with IBM Integration Bus 9, the naming conventions inherited from WebSphere Message Broker ( and it's precedents ) have CHANGED.Here's a useful crib: -Name changes...
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Disable desktop notifications for a site
I was getting slightly cross ( hey, I'm British, what can I say? ) with Firefox 47's insistence on asking me whether I REALLY wanted notifications from a site, each and every time I opened or refreshed...
View ArticleMQJCA1011 and the story of the missing IBM MQ JMS Provider permissions
We saw this problem earlier this week: -Failed to load the WebSphere MQ native JNI library: 'mqjbnd'. The JVM attempted to load the platform native library 'mqjbnd', which was mapped to the filename:...
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