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IBM Integration Bus and Cloudant - Baby steps ...
I'm starting to explore the possibilities of integration between IBM Integration Bus ( and thus IBM AppConnect Enterprise ) and IBM Cloudant, both of which are running on the IBM Cloud Platform ( nee...
View ArticleCloudant - Continuing to tinker
I'm importing data from a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file into Cloudant, using the most excellent CouchDB tools provided by my IBM colleague, Glynn Bird.Having created a CSV: -vi cartoon.csv...
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macOS - Windows are off the screen ...
I had an issue earlier where my chosen Twitter client, Tweetbot, somehow wandered off the screen, lurking off to the right.Whilst I could see Tweetbot when I hit the F4 key to open Mission Control, I...
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Munging data - removing duplicates from CSV files
Whilst fiddling with Cloudant yesterday: -Cloudant - Continuing to tinkerI hit an issue whereby I was trying / failing to upload data that contained duplicates:...
View ArticleBuild REST APIs using Swagger and IBM Integration Bus – IIB v10
I've been teaching myself more about IBM Integration Bus (IIB), in the context of creating RESTful APIs.This tutorial was immensely useful: -Build REST APIs using Swagger and IBM Integration Bus – IIB...
View ArticleCloudant - Backups
Having invested a fair bit of time populating databases into Cloudant: -Cloudant - Continuing to tinkerI wanted to backup my databases, for safety's sake.My IBM colleague, Glynn Bird, came to the...
View ArticleIBM Operational Decision Manager 8.9 - Tuning Guide
This was recently published to the ODMDev space on IBM developerWorks: -Get under the hood with the new tuning guide for IBM ODM V8.9.xIBM ODM performance architects, Pierre-Andre Paumelle...
View ArticleIBM HTTP Server (IHS) Performance and Tuning and Some Docs
I was having a useful chat with a colleague about threading and concurrency in IBM HTTP Server, which is based upon Apache.I provided him with a few pertinent URLs: -For IHS 8.5.X ( based upon Apache...
View ArticleUsing IBM App Connect enterprise capabilities with IBM MQ on Cloud
A requirement similar to this: -Your company wants to expose a custom JSON-based REST API to their developers for sending messages to a stock control application through an MQ queue that is hosted in...
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Cloudant - Fun with Indexing and Querying
So I was trying to resolve an issue for a colleague, who needed to use an $or operator.He found that his query would take a very long time ( minutes ) and fail to return any results, searching through...
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Note to self - setting AND keeping alternate boot device on macOS
Having added a shiny new 256 GB SSD drive to my Mac Mini ( this is a USB3 device as I didn't fancy opening up the Mini and replacing the in-built Fusion drive ), I needed a way to make the drive...
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Doofus Alert - Using Cloudant queries via cURL
I'm continuing to tinker with Cloudant, and am looking at how I can use indexes ( indices ? ) via the command-line using cURL.This is what I'm sending: -curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json'...
View ArticleIBM API Connect V2018.3.1 is available
This just in: -IBM API Connect V2018.3.1 is now available. This update includes important internal development fixes and support for the API Designer as part of the toolkit.ContentIBM API Connect...
View ArticleIBM AppConnect and DB2 and SQL0530N
I'm fiddling about with IBM AppConnect Professional ( formerly known as CastIron ), looking at the integration between a flow running on AppConnect, hosted on the IBM Cloud ( nee Bluemix ) and a DB2...
View ArticleIBM BPM and Oracle - Bootstrap challenges
So, whilst running the bootstrap command: -/opt/ibm/WebSphereProfiles/Dmgr01/bin/bootstrapProcessServerData.sh -clusterName AppClusterI saw this: -…java.lang.Exception:...
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Microsoft Excel - Generating test data
We had a requirement to generate some test data within a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.similar to this: -This was the magic invocation: -="Subscriber Reference #"&ROW()We merely needed to copy that...
View ArticleIBM Cloudant - Another useful source
I've referenced Glynn Bird here before, as the author of the most excellent couchimport, couchbackup and couchrestore tools.Here's Glynn's personal site: -https://glynnbird.com/including even more...
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Learning something new every day .... Where's my WAS Admin Console stuff for...
So today I'm working with a client to deploy IBM BPM Standard 8.6 alongside IBM Master Data Management 11.6, to leverage the Data Stewardship capabilities that the BPM/MDM tie-up offers.In brief, this...
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WebSphere Application Server - Testing JDBC connections via Jython and the...
As part of a recent engagement, I'd written a simple Jython script to test WAS -> database connections: -cellID = AdminControl.getCell()cell=AdminConfig.getid( '/Cell:'+cellID+'/')for dataSource in...
View ArticleDB2 - Moving databases
This is definitely a Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) post.If in doubt, please check with IBM Support *BEFORE* following the steps outlined here …So I had a requirement to rename some IBM BPM databases...
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