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For those customers who have not seen this, its time to upgrade. If you don’t upgrade you will find you won’t get the software support you need for applications running on these OS versions. Calling IBM support and getting PMR is hard enough, don’t let this become an obstacle in the future. IBM Global Technology … Read more
A little hokey, but has some interesting tidbits. http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/maxpress/websphererevolution/ ©2016 Strongback Consulting
For those who are running WAS 7, IBM released the latest fixpack yeserday (March 24th). This is a highly recommended fix. You can get the fix from IBM’s FTP site. This is the easiest way as you don’t have to rat through their support web site. For Windows 32 bit (about half of you out … Read more
IBM just confirmed my speaking role. I’m speaking with Alisa Morse, Product Manager for IBM Rational HATS, SCLM AE, and HACP. We’ll be presenting an introduction and case study for HATS for one of my large customers. Here is the synopsis below (subject to change). The Rational Conference has typically been more technical that some … Read more
In IBM Rational’s HATS product, you will often see reference to the cursor position, or absolute cursor position. The simple cursor position is simply the row (comma) column number: i.e. 4,67. The absolute cursor position is a single number that is a calculation of the row and position. The formula is as follows: [(actual rows-1) … Read more
Lotus Notes 8.5 version to version comparison View more presentations from Ed Brill. (tags: ibm notes) ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This post is really for the Linux newbies. Most sys admins are already familiar with Windows services to automagically start and stop an application. Frequent readers know that I am a Linux advocate, so here is a tip for those who may be interested in moving to a Linux platform for their WebSphere or Lotus … Read more
I’ve been running VMware on my openSuse box for several months now. It has been rock solid and reasonably easy to use. This week, I took the liberty of upgrading to VMWare server 2.0. WOW! What a difference! The new console is SOOOO much better. I was able to move my old WinXP laptop to … Read more
I just figured out a problem that has been bugging the bejeezus out of me. I could not for the life of me start of WAS7 in my RAD 7.5 dev environment. The startServer.log file always showed a port conflict, but I could not find the cause of it anywhere. I had shut down all … Read more
I’ve taken notice of the number of Macs at this year’s LotusSphere conference. Lots of IBM’ers now have them as well as customers and partners. Several presenters were switching between their Mac desktop and their Windoze virtual machines. Another nicety is the strong presence of Canonical and Ubuntu here. There is such an irony in … Read more