Posted tagged ‘tip’

SharePoint and launching Excel Spreadsheets Problems

February 23, 2012

Working 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, 2012

I 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 [...]

Automating ICM Event & Monitor Handlers

December 22, 2011

The ICM Event Monitor and Handler can be used for a variety of tasks from automatically creating workitems in FileNet to generating email notifications when new documents are added to the repository. However these tasks are manually trigger from the command line and do not have a password switch making an automated restart tricky. Well [...]

EDM Performance tuning…

December 7, 2011

Worth a read if you are an eDM customer: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/email/v2r2m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.edc.doc%2Fedccc025.htm

WAS Admin Console probs

October 22, 2011

Useful link if you have inherited a dodgy WAS server and cant access the admin console for various reasons. Of course explorer the other alternatives before falling back on this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21228143        

Knowing your way round WAS ND

August 2, 2011

Recently, we have being doing a lot of work around scalable ECM environments and WAS ND plays a key role in this. To get a better handle on how WAS ND fits together I would recommend reading this blog on how WAS ND works and a definition of cells, profiles, nodes, nodesagents, servers…etc.. http://itdevworld.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/websphere-concepts-cell-node-cluster-server/ Some useful [...]

IBM DB2 STMM

July 22, 2011

Great article over at Werner Schuetz blog on setting up IBM DB2 STMM. http://www.db2ude.com/?q=node/83 The Db2 Self Tuning Memory Manager came in with DB2 9 I believe and save a lot of hassle and admin of having to manually manage tablespaces, bufferpools …etc It’s a big hit with the DBA’s and definitely something you should consider enabling if you have [...]

IBM DB2 db2pd tool

July 22, 2011

Here is a great DB2 tool to help you troubleshoot and monitor what your DB2 databases/instances are actually up to. Details of the tool and its switches in DB2 Infocenter: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/core/r0011729.htm Following article discusses further use cases: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0504poon2/ Some useful switches that we use regularly are: db2pd -interactive = runs clients in interactive mode db2pd [...]

ICC & Transparent Retrieval

June 30, 2011

Transparent retrieval is a new feature delivered in ICC 2.2 which I had totally overlooked until now. In short this functionality means a users can open an archive email stub in their mailfile and as the stub is opening it recalls the complete email from your archive repository to display it fully on screen. To [...]

Is your website working for you?

June 7, 2011

I cant find the article I was reading on this but a high level summary on how to get the most from your stats for your website below. In short make sure you are reviewing more than just your website hits! Activity Stats: Standard statistics gathered from websites – number of visits Engagement Stats: Effectiveness [...]


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