Recent by Dave Hay 

A Portal to a Portal: Installing IBM DB2 on Linux using IBM Installation Manager - Fun and Games  

By Dave Hay | 11/8/17, 6:27 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I've installed DB2 a million (!) times over the past 17 years, since I joined what was then IBM Software Group. However, I've almost always installed it using the DB2 installation binaries and response files.

NFS, Linux file permissions and IBM Installation Manager  

By Dave Hay | 11/26/12, 12:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this post, I describe how I overcame an issue with IBM Installation Manager, observed when attempting to install IBM Operational Decision Manager v8 ( based on WebSphere Application Server v8 ) on Linux.

Using wsadmin to script the creation of a JDBC data source - using input parameters  

By Dave Hay | 11/21/12, 11:51 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this article, I explain how I was able to create a wsadmin script, using the Jython language, to automate the creation of a JDBC data source, to allow WebSphere Application Server 8 to connect to DB2 UDB 9.7. I also highlight an exception that I kept on seeing ( for hours and hours and hours ) and how I resolved it ....

Using wsadmin to enable an LDAP Federated Repository in WebSphere Application Server 8.5  

By Dave Hay | 11/19/12, 11:44 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This article is somewhat of an aide memoire for me, allow me to remember how to enable WebSphere Application Server to talk to an LDAP server, without needing to use a GUI :-)

IBM Worklight Server - Installation via a response file  

By Dave Hay | 11/2/12, 1:38 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this post, I briefly outline how I installed an IBM Worklight Server in about 10 minutes, via a small number of commands :-) For my server, I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 ( what else ) and the Enterprise version of the Worklight Server product.

WebSphere Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux  

By Dave Hay | 10/30/12, 12:34 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this post, I briefly mention how I was able, with assistance from an IBM Technote, overcome an issue with the installation of IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.

Everything you ever wanted to know about IBM's Cloud solutions …. but were afraid to ask  

By Dave Hay | 10/29/12, 12:46 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This post heartily recommends a series of articles about IBM's SmartCloud offerings and solutions, with particular focus on IBM PureApplication Systems and IBM Workload Deployer.

Lotus Domino - For a change ….  

By Dave Hay | 10/26/12, 12:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This article outlines a couple of potentially useful tips for Lotus Domino administrators. Whilst helping a friend debug a problems with the import of a WebSphere LTPA token into Domino, I "discovered" two useful (to me) things: -

WebSphere Portal 8 - Community articleCommand-line interface to update Portal v8 response files  

By Dave Hay | 10/13/12, 2:58 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

This article references an article from the WebSphere Portal 8 Wiki showing how to augment the response files used to install the product silently, via IBM Installation Manager.

Getting Started with Your Web Experience  

By Dave Hay | 10/12/12, 10:17 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

This post links across to a nice new set of resources from IBM focused on the design and delivery of an Exceptional Web Experience, using WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager etc. The site is still evolving, but it's definitely worth bookmarking.

Achieving Dojo loading optimization across various IBM WebSphere Portal themes  

By Dave Hay | 10/9/12, 8:38 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

This article shows how to achieve Dojo loading optimization across various IBM WebSphere Portal themes to improve performance of Portal applications.

IBM WebSphere - Support technical exchanges  

By Dave Hay | 10/9/12, 8:37 AM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

IBM support wants to help you take full advantage of your product. Join us as technical experts share their knowledge and then answer your questions. The sessions are designed to address specific technical issues and provide in-depth but narrowly focused training in convenient, live 1-2 hour seminars.

Silently installing WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 8.5 - no GUIs here  

By Dave Hay | 10/4/12, 12:27 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In this article, I'll add to my knowledge of response-file driven silent software installations by installing the newly released WebSphere Application Server 8.5 product. As almost always, I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux rather than, say, Microsoft Windows.

Managing and Replacing WebSphere 6.1 SSL Certificates  

By Dave Hay | 9/29/12, 3:42 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

This post makes reference to an issue that a friend of mine saw recently with expired self-signed SSL certificates.

My first foray into mobile application development and delivery with IBM Worklight  

By Dave Hay | 9/25/12, 1:45 PM | - | Added by Cn=Bruce Elgort/O=Notesoss

In this post, I'm looking at the newly announced "bundling" of IBM Worklight with IBM WebSphere Portal, as I begin my Worklight journey.

IBM Connections 4 - Manually populating the Profiles database - and learning lessons on the way  

By Dave Hay | 9/14/12, 1:07 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by

In this post, I describe how I resolved an issue using IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.1 to populate the Profiles database for IBM Connections 4, using IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 FP2 as the source. There's a large amount of trial n' error involved, but I wanted to show my working ( and the tips and tools that I applied ), rather than simply jumping to the solution.

IBM WebSphere Portal V 8.0 Performance Tuning Guide  

By Dave Hay | 9/13/12, 9:50 PM | - | Added by

This white paper provides a basis for parameter and application tuning for IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatform, for Linux on System Z, and z/OS V8.0. Remember that both tuning and capacity are affected by many factors, including the workload scenario and the performance measurement environment.

IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 - Firing the Firewall  

By Dave Hay | 9/13/12, 10:19 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by

In this article, I describe how I hit a problem connecting to an IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server, via web browser, and, more importantly, how I was able to diagnose and then resolve the problem.

IBM WebSphere Portal Cache Viewer  

By Dave Hay | 9/13/12, 6:27 AM | - | Added by

In WebSphere Portal, caches are used to store entries of key-value pairs in main memory for faster access. As the size of the main memory is limited and is cleared after system restart, the WebSphere Portal caches hold only copies of data stored elsewhere, for example in a database or directory server.

Tuning IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager for best anonymous page performance  

By Dave Hay | 8/29/12, 6:48 AM | - | Added by

IBM WebSphere Portal (hereafter called "Portal"), with or without IBM Web Content Manager (hereafter called WCM), performs well only with effective caching. There are multiple levels and types of caching within Portal/WCM, including HTTP caching, DynaCache caching, and other custom JavaTM caches.