IBM now offers a new and much easier way to install IBM HTTP Server. You can now download IHS as an archive from IBM’s fix central. This is available for 9.0.0.6 and above, and is a super fast way to install/setup an HTTP server that properly front ends a WebSphere environment.Installing is as simple as: … Read more
If you are currently running IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on version 7, you have until April of 2018 to upgrade. After that, IBM will no longer offer you support (other than to tell you to upgrade). However there hundreds of custom ISV solutions that have not yet been certified for new versions of the … Read more
Manual deployments suck Lets face it, we’ve all had the “deployment weekend” nightmare. You plan for a half day of deployment, but it ends up turning into a day and half of wasted time because you’ve either missed something, deployed the wrong version, set the wrong environment parameter, or a late defect showed up that … Read more
If you are running WAS 7, be sure and check your fix packs today. We recommend you patch them to the latest of 7.0.0.17 or 7.0.0.15 at the latest. There is a cross-site scripting vulnerability you need to be aware of, as reported by Core Security Technologies Core Security Technologies Advisory – The administrative console … Read more
The build engine capability of Rational Team Concert is capable of doing anything you want to do with Apache ANT, Maven, or even a shell script via the command line option. On top of that it adds its own calls to so that you can get instrumentation on the status and history of your builds … Read more
I have a Kindle and am quite fond of it. I find it easy to devour books and my reading has certainly picked up since I got it for my birthday this summer. I’ve put several IBM Redbooks on it for reference whenever I go to a client site. Its nice to be able to … Read more
When you install WAS, you’ll probably also be installing IBM HTTP Server (you should if you use web apps). However, you may want that HTTP server to automagically navigate to your preferred WAS java app. Otherwise, if your users navigate to the default hostname (http://www.myhostname.com), they’ll see the ugly IBM HTTP Server welcome page with … Read more
WebSphere App Server on the i/OS does not come with a feature to automatically start and stop, and sometimes its best to use a CL command to stop it. I frequently see users doing an ENDSBS(WAS7), which wreaks havoc with the JVM. Please don’t just end the subsystem. When you do this, the JVM drops … Read more
If you have not used the Web 2.0 feature pack for WebSphere App Server, you might be missing out on a free and valuable tool. This feature pack is for WebSphere App Server 6.1 and 7.0. Web 2.0 Feature Pack Overview In RAD / RSA, there you have built in support for the Dojo toolkit, … Read more
If you like me, often want to know what the current status is of a particular product, check out this link and bookmark it for later. It gives you the product lifecycle dates of various Rational products and associated versions of those products. The site answers the questions: When did a product version get released? … Read more