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 [...]
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May 22, 2012FileNet vwtimer restart
May 22, 2012On 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 [...]
IBM WebSphere MQ – [MSG]: Encountered a JMS error – MQJMS2005: failed to create MQQueueManager for ”
May 8, 2012I 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 <QMgr Name> -t tcp Check Queue Manager strmqm
Delete…forever and ever…Amen!
April 20, 2012A 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. [...]
SharePoint Batch Update
April 8, 2012Great 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.
April 4, 2012Good 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!
April 3, 2012Some 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 > [...]
IBM DB2 database restore in non GMT time zones
March 1, 2012One to watch out for when restore your IBM DB2 databases in non GMT time zones as you don’t want to restore your database to what you believe is a local time but is actually a GMT time. rollforward db user using to using local time and complete This is probably pretty standard for any [...]
SharePoint and launching Excel Spreadsheets Problems
February 23, 2012Working in SP I regularly get complaints about excel spreadsheets not opening and getting the following message: Turns out this is related to the default setting in the advanced settings of each library. Default is: “Use the server default (Open in browser)” Preferred option is: “Open in Client application” [...]
CM8 Increasing Attribute length
February 10, 2012I always thought it was possible to increase the length of a CM8 Attribute but not shorten it as it may impact existing data – that makes sense to me….. However, there is no easy way to increase the size of an attribute if it has been assigned to an Item type. Below a link [...]
