Author: <span class="vcard">kenio.carvalho</span>

Published June 22, 2016 by

Updating an old laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10

Yesterday i start to format my old Samsung RF511 laptop. I restore the Windows 7 from Samsung recovery utility. Windows 7 was outdated and i try to update to Windows 10.

The update hangs on 99% . I leave the laptop turned on overnight and this morning it was on 99%.  I google a bit and found some solutions for the problem like disable antivirus, administrator permissions etc.

I start the process again, recovery from Samsung utility, but this time i start the Windows update to get some updates for Windows 7.

It was a good decision but with a big headache :-). Windows update looks for updates forever and not stop to search.  The solution for this problem was WSUS Offline.

I ran WSUS offline and update the Windows 7 and after several reboots i start the update to Windows 10 with success.

Windows Update

Published June 22, 2016 by

Five years since the first IBM Champions Class

Five years ago IBM announced the first class of Champions. I was on that list.

This year I am on the IBM Champions for Middleware list for the first time.

Congratulations to all IBM Champions.

The first fifty list :

Adam Brown
Bill Malchisky
Bruce Elgort
Carlos Casas
CC Liew
Chris Miller
Chris Toohey
Daniel Recio
David Leedy
David Stephens		 Declan Lynch
Eileen Fitzgerald
Eric Mack
Femke Goedhart
Francie Tanner
Gabriella Davis
Giuseppe Grasso
Handly Cameron
John Head
Julian Robichaux		 Kenio Carvalho
Lidia Vikulova
Lisa Duke
Marie Scott
Mark Leusink
Mathew Newman
Matt White
Mikkel Heisterberg
Mitch Cohen
Mitsuru Kato		 Nathan T Freeman
Paul Mooney
Paul Withers
Rob Bontekoe
Rob Novak
Sanjaya Kumar Saxena
Serdar Basegmez
Sharon Bellamy
Simon Vaughn
Sjaak Ursinus		 Steve Pitcher
Stuart McIntyre
Theo Heselmans
Thomas Duff
Tim Tripcony
Ulrich Krause
Warren Elsmore
Yancy Lent
Yoshihiro Matsuo
Yoshio Maruyama

The announcement from Ed Brill’s  blog 

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Published June 8, 2016 by

WebSphere Application Server V9.0

From announcement letter:

Will be available on June 24

WebSphere® Application Server V9.0, with its traditional and Liberty run times, continues to offer industry-leading, production-ready, standards-based Java™ EE 7 compliant architecture.

Highlights of Version 9.0 include:

  • Certification to the Java EE 7 Web Profile and Java EE 7 Full Platform for WebSphere Application Server traditional, which provides assurance that applications leverage standards-compliant programming models. WebSphere Liberty was certified to Java EE 7 Web Profile and Full Platform in June, 2015.
  • Ease of connecting existing on-premises applications with Bluemix® services, which include IBM Watson™ cognitive for optimal business outcomes.
  • Enhanced support for creating, documenting, and discovering APIs, and also integrating with API platforms, such as IBM API Connect™.
  • Significant improvements in software delivery lifecycle times through seamless integration into DevOps workflows. This enables continuous delivery and removes cross-team dependencies for deployment.
  • Accelerated pace of development and deployment by taking advantage of container technology that includes IBM® Container Services and Docker container with support for Docker Data Center. This enables seamless deployment of WebSphere applications to best meet business needs.
  • Increased flexibility to deploy WebSphere Application Server workloads with speed and agility on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft™ Azure, and Openshift, in addition to IBM Bluemix.
  • New WebSphere Application Server on Bluemix, single-tenant offering, which provides an option for deploying WebSphere Application Server applications on an isolated, single-tenant hardware.
  • New option to enable VMware customers to quickly provision new or scale existing workloads to the IBM Cloud. This enables clients who start locally and scale globally with cloud capabilities to scale more easily and also comply with data residency and other regulatory mandates.
  • Updated WebSphere Extreme Scale that provides ease-of-use enhancements for caching to help improve response times for the most demanding applications and dramatically speed configurations.
  • Use of Liberty App Accelerator to provide a quick start development of Java microservices. Spring Boot, Watson™ services, and other technologies can be used with Liberty App Accelerator to easily deploy projects to Bluemix.
  • Best practices for creating new Java microservices by using Game On!, an exemplar application, which helps explore microservices concepts.

WebSphere Application Server V9.0 continues to offer the leading, open-standards-based application foundation for traditional workloads and also modern applications that tend to be delivered as services. It enables accelerated delivery of innovative applications with unmatched operational efficiency, reliability, administration, security, and control.

WebSphere

Published June 7, 2016 by

Disable iptables on CentOs 6.x

When you setup a lab machine you will need this 3 command lines to disable iptables (firewall) on linux.

# service iptables save
# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off

Linux

Published June 3, 2016 by

Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 – White Paper

“The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal8.5. Learn about which tool to use for
which task and about the new capabilities of WebSphere Portal 8.5, and understand differences from previous versions of WebSphere Portal. We take you through exercises for
each tool so you can learn hands-on how to use them.”

 

WebSphere Portal

Published May 28, 2016 by

Libraries to install on CentOS 6.x and setup WebSphere Portal 8.5

I now CentOS is not supported. For several years i use CentOS without problemas with IBM Software. The information bellow is the list of packages to install on CentOS and run WebSphere Portal and Db2 on the same machine. This is a Lab machine it’s like  all in one box.

This list i got from Enio Basso wiki. and i want to get a copy 🙂

Install the following libraries on CentOS 6.x linux:

  • ksh.x86_64
  • rpm-build.x86_64
  • elfutils.x86_64
  • elfutils-libs.x86_64
  • libgcc.i686 gtk2.i686
  • PackageKit-gtk-module.i686
  • libcanberra-gtk2.i686
  • compat-libstdc++-33.i686
  • compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64
  • compat-db.x86_64
  • compat-db.i686
  • libstdc++.x86_64
  • libstdc++.i686
  • libXp.x86_64
  • libXp.i686
  • libXmu.x86_64
  • libXmu.i686
  • libXtst.x86_64
  • libXtst.i686
  • pam.x86_64
  • pam.i686
  • libXft.x86_64
  • libXft.i686
  • gtk2.x86_64
  • gtk2.i686
  • gtk2-engines.x86_64
  • gtk2-engines.i686
  • compat-libstdc++-296.i686

For CentOS run:

yum -y install ksh.x86_64 rpm-build.x86_64 elfutils.x86_64 elfutils-libs.x86_64 libgcc.i686 
yum -y install gtk2.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module.i686 libcanberra-gtk2.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686
yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 compat-db.x86_64 compat-db.i686 libstdc++.x86_64 libstdc++.i686 
yum -y install libXp.x86_64 libXp.i686 libXmu.x86_64 libXmu.i686 libXtst.x86_64
yum -y install  gtk2.x86_64 gtk2.i686 gtk2-engines.x86_64 gtk2-engines.i686
yum -y install  compat-libstdc++-296.i686 libXtst.i686 pam.x86_64 pam.i686 libXft.x86_64 libXft.i686

WebSphere Portal

Published May 27, 2016 by

Liberty and Eclipse: Installing the development environment

Tutorial from Developerworks

“WebSphere Liberty is the next generation application server. Liberty and Eclipse make a great local development environment for developing Java EE applications. To develop Java EE applications to deploy to Liberty, you’re going to need a Liberty development environment. You’ll also need an integrated development environment (IDE) for editing your code. While any Java EE IDE will work, the Eclipse IDE is one of the best, if for no other reason than because IBM has developed plugins for Eclipse for developing Liberty applications and for working with Bluemix.”

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Published May 26, 2016 by

From Lotus KB to the New IBM Knowledge Center

Since 1997 i work with Notes/Domino.  In that time i receive every quarter a set of CD’s with the Lotus KB on it.

 

Things have changed for the better, LNN was launched and i was able to replicate the LotusKB on daily basis, no more CD’s, no more delays.

I start to work with WebSphere, Portal  and other IBM products in 2005 and the support is only from “google” and the software manuals were called Infocenters.

IBM changed again, in my opinion, not for the best, several manuals are only on wikis.

A few years ago IBM changed again to the Knowledge Center. I think it is a better version of the old Infocenter.

Today i was reading some iformation about Watson and a alert show a message “On May 29 the Knowledge Center will change for a new version….”

More information here -> https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/techcontent/date/201605?lang=en_us

Go to the new version (beta) -> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/beta

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Published May 26, 2016 by

Overview of known issues affecting users after upgrading to Verse 9.4 for Android

This technote provides information on common issues affecting users who have upgraded to IBM Verse 9.4 for Android.

 

Domino verse

Published May 18, 2016 by

IBM Notes Traveler Administration must read docs

Domino

Published May 17, 2016 by

Keyboard shortcut (cmd + M) not working on Notes 9.0.1 64 for MAC

I use the cmd + M keyboard shortcut every time i need to create a new memo on my IBM Notes. Yesterday this keyboard stopped working.

I looked at the status bar while pressing cmd +m and saw he message :

“You must first add your mail file mail/kcarvalho.nsf to the workspace”.

Screen Shot 2016-05-17 at 20.29.09

But my mail box icon was on the workspace.

Screen Shot 2016-05-17 at 20.30.41

The solution:

Yesterday i moved my mail box from mail folder to mail2 folder and add the icon to the workspace, but  the location was not updated.

Change the location to mail2\kcarvalho.nsf the keyboard shortcut works fine again 🙂

Screen Shot 2016-05-17 at 20.33.09

 

 

Domino Notes

Published May 16, 2016 by

Google plans to start blocking Flash in Chrome this year

Flash’s death has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow. Google has detailed plans to start blocking most Flash content with Chrome, with the change targeted toward the end of this year.

Under its current vision, nearly every website would have Flash content blocked by default. Visitors would still be able to enable Flash content on a site-by-site basis, but they would have to specifically choose to do so. Chrome would display a prompt offering to enable Flash; if chosen, Chrome would remember to run Flash on that site for all future visits.

See the full article here

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