It is always a challenge when designing an ECM solution to group a business’ data effectively. Every business is different with every division having a variety of processes, workflows and mixture of operational and non-operational data. In many cases the ‘dream’ is to achieve Business Pricess Management, BPM or even the new kid on the [...]
Archive for July 2010
Data Modelling for your Business needs.
July 30, 2010Domino documents to DXL
July 30, 2010A developer colleague is currently working on some Domino to Exchange/Sharepoint migrations and needed to export Domino emails/docs to DXL. Below are a few links that may help if you have a similar project/task. HTH There are many options including Binary Tree’s Migration Tool Also came across this link which is a free alternative from tech-links [...]
Troubleshooting FileNet Applications
July 27, 2010So you are getting problems with your FileNet application? The Websphere SystemOut & SystemError aren’t telling you the whole story? You need to dig deeper and get more verbose information from your logs? Fear Not By simply editing the log4j.properties file to increase the log level from WARN to INFO then verbose logging is enabled. NB: logs [...]
Edinburgh Rat Race 2010
July 25, 2010My favourite adventure race. Orienteering round Edinburgh on foot and on bike with a complete mixture of activities for bonus points from karaoke to abseiling. The dream team of Mud, Sweat and beers came a respectable 16th out of 100 weekender teams! http://www.ratraceadventure.com/upload/docs/1923/edinburgh_rat_race_2010_weekender_results_sheet.pdf
Index Backup & Restore
July 25, 2010Backup: I would recommend everyone should read this article about indexing and what to avoid when running your indexer: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21323089 In short the following should not be running while your indexing is running: Anti Virus program on the same drive as your index or temporary xml files Windows Indexing Services on the same drive as [...]
Indexing Monitoring
July 23, 2010In a previous post we discussed the ICC indexer and how it is divided into 2 steps for indexing emails. When indexing 100,000′s of emails it always annoyed me that you couldn’t determine the progress of the second step were the NSE indexed the XML documents generated from step 1. It left you wondering if [...]
New Redbook: IBM Content Analytics: Discover actionable insight from your content.
July 20, 2010This draft redbook has just been released and has a complete section dedicated to the IBM Classification Module which is starting to raise a number of questions from a variety of companies: Draft Redbooks – IBM Content Analytics: Discover actionable insight from your content “This book is intended for decision makers, business users, IT architects [...]
MS Exchange Licensing, Journaling and Managed folders
July 20, 2010Licensing is always an important part of any enterprise solution and when designing a new system it is imperative to ensure the correct licensing is in place. Below are a couple of points to be aware off when considering an archiving / compliance solution for a MS Exchange environment: Journaling: The chances are if legislation [...]
DB2 9.7 Security Gotchas
July 14, 2010Just a short post about the new security model in DB/2 9.7. In this version that SECADM has been separated from the DBADM which means that the security administrators of your database can no longer view data. This caused a few issues on creating a new Library Server database installation today and so we had [...]
Roll up, Roll up!
July 14, 2010Updated dates of ECM/BPM Proof of Technologies at IBM Hursley! I fancy the eDiscovery one on the 14th September TEC Event Date Location Registration Discovering the value of IBM Information Server 3rd August 2010 7th September 2010 IBM Hursley TEC Click Here to register your customer Real-Time Data Integration for Data Synchronization, ETL and SOA [...]
