Kenny Smith When you first start Portal 6 up (or Portal 5.1 for that matter), no matter what gear you are running it on, its going to seem slow. If you are doing an install, or planning on doing one, add this to your post-install task list: wpsconfig action-precompile-jsp This will precompile all JSPs within Portal. It … Read more
In looking at the troubleshooting section of the Portal 6 infocenter, I ran across a good troubleshooting article. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&context=SSHRKX&q1=enable-security-wmmur-ldap&uid=swg27008792&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en To reiterate one of the key points in the LDAP setup, you MUST disable global security before running the enable-security task.“wpsconfig disable-security” Then validate your LDAP setup with“wpsconfig validate-ldap-wmmur” (the wmmur is for realm support) Once … Read more
I knew that IBM would not support IE7 on existing platforms (RAD/RWD/RSA 6, etc.), but now they have stated that they will not support IE7 on the upcoming RSDP 7 (codenamed Caspian). The product is not even released and yet IBM is behind the curve! http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21248158 IE 7 has been in Beta for nearly a … Read more
This is a very informative article on how WebSphere Portal security works. It also does a great job of explaining WebSphere app server security, and how external security managers can hook in. It was written by the guys who architected the whole Portal security, so it is from the horses mouth, so to say. http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/wes/pdf/0611_buehler-WP60-SecurityOverview.pdf(note: … Read more
I’m slowly dismantling each rickety pier holding up Windows on my laptop. Our VPN was a big one. I’ve found some great articles on installing, patching and setting up the VPN client on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). Check out the following links:http://www.popey.com/node/62http://www.victortrac.com/cisco_vpn_patch You can also find the links on my del.icio.us site:http://del.icio.us/klenny ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This is a question I get frequently from new customers running WebSphere Application Server, and its a good question as its not well documented anywhere (or at least anywhere convenient). Every shop will need to IPL their iSeries at some point, and subsequently you want to bring down the Application server and HTTP servers gracefully … Read more
Portal installs out of the box using Cloudscape (a.k.a. Apache Derby). Needles to say, this is not a scalable database, but is appropriate for demos. A RDBMS is very CPU and disk intensive and often memory intensive as well. Separating the db from the Portal is the first step in scaling a Portal environment up. … Read more
Neat little catch 22 I’ve discovered in setting up Portal 6 on our iSeries. Both of these statements are from the InfoCenter. It appears that there is no clear way to install the Process server components in a clustered environment (or a managed) on an iSeries from an initial or scripted install. i5/OS users: Installation … Read more
I signed up for the Beta program, but am still waiting. I don’t see the downloads available yet on the partner site yet. I am hoping that RSA/RAD 7 is going to be like what we saw at JavaOne in May from Eric Gamma et al. That demo blew me away. I think it makes … Read more
HATS 6.0.5 is now out. This release supports version 6.1 of WebSphere, and addresses several minor issues. In particular portlet messaging was broken in prior release (i.e. click to action). If you plan on doing any Java 5 type coding (generics, auto-boxing, varargs, etc.), then this is your baby. WAS 6.1 is not fully JEE … Read more