I installed the Rational application developer(RAD) 9.6, and find that there is no WebSphere Application Server 8.5 in the option list when config the new server.
Define new server options
WebSphere 8.5 traditional is available with RAD 9.6. I have it here. You do have to select it during the installation process. Or you can use Installation Manager to Modify and add it:
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Our product will support IBM MQ7 and MQ8 based on client requirement. Now, we like to know latest client jar version that we may use for our application?
We would like to use JMS 1.1 specification. I have found following link for MQ 7.5 JAR-
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_7.5.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q120070_.htm
Is it sufficient if we use above mentioned client jar to connect MQ 7 and MQ 8 server?
Application will use JRE 1.7 and WAS liberty 8.5.5.9.
If you are using WebSphere Liberty as your application server, then you will need to the MQ JCA Resource Adapter (MQ-RA) to make use of MQ JMS messaging. Liberty (unlike traditional WebSphere Application Server) does not ship a copy of the MQ-RA, but you can download and install one pretty easily and then link to it from within the Liberty server's server.xml configuration file. Here's a link to explain how to do this:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633761
Now, Liberty can use a copy of the WebSphere MQ V7.5.0.5 (or later) Resource Adapter, which only supports the JMS 1.1 API, and the Liberty feature you will want to enable with that version is "wmqJmsClient-1.1".
However, I would suggest you consider the latest version of the IBM MQ-RA (at the time of writing this is V9.0.0.0). The MQ V8.0.0.3 and V9 RAs support both the JMS 1.1 "classic" API as well as the newer 2.0 "simplified" API. Therefore you can use the newer MQ-RA levels but your JMS 1.1 application will still work perfectly fine. If using a V8 or V9 IBM MQ-RA, then the Liberty feature to enable to is "wmqJmsClient-2.0".
The V7.5, V8 and V9 MQ Resource Adapters can connect to any MQ queue manager version; the major or maintenance versions between the JMS client and the MQ server do not need to match.
For reference, here are a couple of links I recommend reading over as well:
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q031610_.htm
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.nd.doc/ae/twlp_dep_msg_wmq.html
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_restrict.html
I hope this helps!
I am using Java JMS client to connect to Websphere Application Server 8.5.5.0 and 7.0.0.13. I using following set of jars in classpath of client:
ibmorb.jar, ibmorbapi.jar, com.ibm.jaxws.thinclient_.jar, com.ibm.ws.ejb.thinclient_.jar, com.ibm.ws.sib.client.thin.jms_.jar.
It works fine with Oracle Java 7. But with Oracle Java 8 it gives java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/io/MalformedInputException during JNDI lookup. The ibmorb.jar is using sun.io.MalformedInputException class which is no longer shipped with Java 8. I also tried using com.ibm.ws.orb_.jar in place of ibmorb.jar but got same exception.
What is the suggested approach to solve this problem?
I tried with ibmorb.jar from optional IBM Java Developer Kit 7 provided with 8.5.5.3 and it worked. I did not find standalone installer for IBM Java 7 and I don't want to upgrade the AppServer on server side. If using jars from IBM Java 7 is the only option then how can I get the standalone IBM Java 7 installer or IBM Java 7 for 7.0.0.13?
You can get IBM JDK from here - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/index.html
I'm trying to migrate an EJB application from WAS 6 to WAS 8.5.5 and seems to not work entirely, doesn't respond correctly to the message-selector filter I'm using in ejb-jar.xml.
Can somebody tell me the version of MQ server supported in WAS 8.5.5 ?
The version of the MQ client (in the MQ Resource Adapter form) in WAS 8.5.5 is MQ 7.1. This page provides the list of the exact version of the client for each WAS level: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg21248089
The MQ server supported can be any currently supported version i.e. you can use MQ Server 8/7.5./7.1/7/6 etc with a MQ 7.1 client. However, there are features that might not be available if you are using a certain combination client/server.
For your issue it is probably best to post a new question with the actual error you are seeing.
If you have a Websphere MQ full installation, MQ 8.0 is already out but please check the following information about WAS 8.5 and MQ 7.5: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/prodconn_1.0.0/com.ibm.scenarios.wmqwasmig2v85.doc/topics/ts_mqv7cons.htm?lang=el
There are two alternatives depending on what you want to migrate before the other : MQ or WAS.
On the 6.1 server I run...
$AdminTask exportWasprofile {-archive c:/tmp/my.car}
On the 8.5 server I see...
$AdminTask importWasprofile {-archive c:/tmp/my.car}
WASX7015E: Exception running command: "$AdminTask importWasprofile {-archive c:/
tmp/my.car}"; exception information:
com.ibm.wsspi.configarchive.ConfigArchiveException
com.ibm.wsspi.configarchive.ConfigArchiveException: fail to deploy application isclite
Is there something special I have to do to properly migrate profiles? Is there a place I can look to get more info as to what is going wrong?
From IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit's website:
The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Migration Toolkit is a suite of
tools and knowledge collections that enables your organization to
quickly and cost-effectively migrate to WebSphere Application Server
V7, V8, or V8.5, whether from a previous version of WebSphere
Application Server or competitive application servers including Apache
Tomcat Server, JBoss Application Server, Oracle Application Server,
and Oracle® WebLogic Server.
You should use it as it's bundled in WebSphere Application Server 6.1 (and higher) and offers two scripts that help you in the migration: WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade.
WASPreUpgrade "saves the configuration of a previously installed version of WebSphere Application Server into a migration-specific backup directory." while WASPostUpgrade "retrieves the saved configuration that was created by the WASPreUpgrade command from the backupDirectory that you specified." (quoting their pages).
Although they might be using wsadmin/Jython, I think you may have more success with these two command-line utilities.
My task to monitor the IBM Websphere through pmi client.Pmi client is an agent provided by the IBM to get MBeans and is running under IBM Java. I tried it to run under Sun java. But, it fails to create the Pmiclient. Did Anyone come across this issue?
The IBM JRE has slightly customized classes. This is unfortunately not uncommon with PMI (and also JMX by the way) when working with different WebSphere Application Server versions.
There are hacks around involving copying the relevant IBM implementations and running them with the Sun/Oracle JRE but I don't think that is valid according to the licensing terms. What you really should do is to use the IBM provided JRE.
If you want a riskless shortcut you will build an applicaton (perhaps EJB or servlets) that runs on the WebSphere Application Server and exposes the results from PMI via custom interface. For instance web service.