James Allen

FileNet fn_edit

James J Allen — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:28:35 +0000

Recently, the team has been working on load balancing FileNet CE & PE services and the situation occurred that the FileNet servers IP address needed updated in FileNet.

Below is a useful tool carried forward from the FileNet IS days: fn_edit (run from FNSW/ directory)

fn_edit is the old FileNet IS System Configuration tool. I am not sure what all it is capable off and it seems some of the commands/fields are redundant but handy to know about in case you need to make an update to your FileNet IP address possibly during a migration.

FileNet vwtimer restart

James J Allen — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:56:49 +0000

On occassions vwtime.exe fails and our alerting tool notifies us. Rather than restarting all of PE you can just start vwtime from the command line as below:

The following command can be used to manually restart this process if it fails:

vwtime -r -m 1

NB: To determine the region # open the Process Task Manager (router.cmd on the relevant AE server)

Browse the Regions view in PTM:

IBM WebSphere MQ – [MSG]: Encountered a JMS error – MQJMS2005: failed to create MQQueueManager for ”

James J Allen — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:31:50 +0000

I thought the following maybe useful to anyone troubleshooting MQ Series after spending a bit of time on this today

The clue was in the…failed to create MQQueueManager for ” <—- empty string value

Useful Troubleshooting links:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21226703

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21249782

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21227679

Useful IBM WebSphere MQ Commands:

Check Listener:
- runmqlsr -m -t tcp
Check Queue Manager
- strmqm

WeWebU & Case Management

James J Allen — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:34:40 +0000

This recent youtube video from the WeWebU team is worth a watch:

Delete…forever and ever…Amen!

James J Allen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:39:20 +0000

A challenge that many Government / Financial / Legal / Healthcare companies face is deleting a files forever! This scenario is usually enforced by US wiping schemes such as DoD or DoE.

FileNet caters to these needs by providing the following delete options.

Below a short description of each option from the help files. The purge option provides the highest level of deletion and is generally suited to most scenarios for companies.

Delete Methods:

Non-recoverable: Renames the deleted file, making it irretrievable by its original file name. You may still recover the deleted file using a file system utility (such as Norton Utilities) if the space in which the renamed file resides has not been overwritten with another file.

Destructive: Overwrites document content with zeros before deletion. Provides the deletion level recommended for clearing and sanitizing media that is less than top-secret.

Purge: Overwrites file content three times before deleting the document. Provides the highest level of deletion recommended for purging top-secret documents

SharePoint Batch Update

James J Allen — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:15:02 +0000

Great feature which is from Codeplex – I am guessing this will come out of the box in next version of SP.

http://sp2010batchedit.codeplex.com/

Troubleshooting IP routing problems.

James J Allen — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:08:43 +0000

Good link recently tweeted by WAS App Server support to help troubleshoot network related issues:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21175744

To fiddle or not to fiddle!

James J Allen — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:53:14 +0000

Some of you may have used Fiddler (A great free http proxy debug tool) to help troubleshoot http connection / performance problems.

The following is a tip to help you sort the logged information by time of execution which is always useful when users are providing times when issues were encountered.

1.) Turn on Rules > Performance > Show Response Timestamp

2.) Now when recording http traffic you will see the time stamp

Dyeing the Chicago River green for St Paddy’s Day

James J Allen — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:23:34 +0000

Top day out in Chicago with the Chi-rish!!!

WAS & Federated repositories

James J Allen — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:24:52 +0000

Good IBM Technote on configuring federated repositories in WAS. Something I have recently been looking at for an AD project.

Worth a read, especially the ‘limitations’ section of the article.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0701_ilechko/0701_ilechko.html