Has anyone had problems upgrading WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1/WebSphere Portal 6.1.5.3 Feature Pack.
On IBM i V7.1
You made a pretty vague question... However, consider the following: how high quality have the IBM updates been in the past? Yes, that's right. They might skin your cat, drink all your beer and rape your girlfriend while they spew out errors just for the heck of it.
To give you something more concrete and specific to 6.1->6.1.5 update: The 6.1.5 will add new libraries to the global classpath of your application server. One such library is Rome (the RSS parsing library). If any of your applications are using Rome then you should be prepared to change the classloader settings to "application first".
Other than that the 6.1.5 update should be more or less uneventful.
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I am currently working on USD 1.0 which is of-course a very old version of USD.
We are trying to move to the newest version of USD in my organization, which i believe is USD 4.0
I have tried searching the web but other than the MSDN article i have been able to gather much detail on this version.
I am trying to figure out my possibilities in trying to adapt to this newer version. In light of it, i have a few questions listed below,
Has Microsoft released only the preview/trial version of USD 4.0 yet? Or is it made available for general public which means we can access and start developing in our production environment?
Is the new version of USD, a web based version? I have heard that
this version is not the desktop application like it was before.
Will it be safe to migrate from USD 1.0 to USD 4.0?
Microsoft has also introduced Unified Client Interface, what is it?
Is it available only with USD 4.0?
Features comparison with USD 1.0?
If Microsoft have released the preview version only, then when will
they release the stable version? (any tentative date)?
Also, if they have released the preview version just then obviously they might change it in future. Therefore, it will not be wise enough to migrate to it if it is just a preview version.
Looking forward to your answers. Any sort of videos, articles, documentations, press releases, your personal opinions are welcome.
Thanks
Most 'manual' based MSDN information has been moved to Microsoft Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com
USD 4.x is still a desktop application that loads MSD components. You can upgrade to a more recent version 3.2 quite easily:
You can upgrade a Unified Service Desk 1.x or Unified Service Desk 2.0 sample application package to Unified Service Desk 3.2 by importing the Upgrade sample application package. The upgrade will not affect the configuration data associated with the existing solution.
Follow the steps here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/unified-service-desk/admin/upgrade-unified-service-desk-solution?view=dynamics-usd-3
From there on forward it is much more easy to compare 3.x with 4.x and answer all your remaining questions.
Neil Parkhurst also has a ton of information.
https://neilparkhurst.com/2016/06/20/usd-the-book/
Does anyone know what the latest version of WLP Runtime for ISVs is? The only thing I've seen is 8.5.5.9, but that looks like it is about a old. The WASDEV site talks about Wlp 16.x versions, but I do not think that is legally the same thing.
Thanks for any help on this.
The latest fix pack for WebSphere Liberty at the moment is 16.0.0.4.
This fix pack is now available on the Liberty Core for ISVs site. You can take another look.
This is not really a programming question, but 16.x is the (combined) maintenance stream for 8.5.5 and 9.0. The old 8.5.5.x and 9.0.0.x are dead ends from a versioning perspective.
You'll need to adress your legal/licensing concerns with someone you have a business relationship with at IBM.
I can't seem to find anything related to this so hopefully you guys can help me out.
I recently had BI Publisher installed for me by our company IT. Usually i would prefer to do this myself (I'm a software engineer who worked tech support before), but company policy dictates that IT needs to install all company programs.
Anyways in BI Publisher I now have the issue that if i double click on a field i don't get the BI Publisher Properties as I should (Word 2007), instead I get the standard 'text form fields' properties. Is there anyway to fix this without IT getting involved since whenever I give them my laptop I end up being unable to work for quite a while.
Thanks in advance
Make sure your security settings have macros enabled.
If you had any older versions of BI Publisher desktop, that were not removed before installing the new version, you may have to remove both, and reinstall the version you want.
Make sure the version you are installing is compatible with the version of Word you are using. Oracle is really bad at compatibility.
Make sure you have a compatible version of Java installed too.
Do you see the add-in tool bar in the ribbon?
I am mainly interested in the 'integration features' between the IDE and the application server.
One example would be GUI editors for various server specific deployment descriptors.
Another example, from the NetBeans IDE integration with GlassFish, is the ability to:
edit a java file that is part of a
web application,
save the file and
see the effect of the change that you
just saved in the browser (without a
bunch of reloading).
Please include a link to any reference to the feature in user docs, if you have it at the tips of your fingers.
Over my years using RAD, the feature I'd recommend everybody to use would be its uninstaller...
Seriously though, RAD's advantage used to be IBM's plugins for Web / J2EE development; over the years, though, the Eclipse community has been making great progress with WTP and JST, so for most J2EE development you should do fine using Eclipse+WTP+JST... which are free (comparing RAD with 5-10K USD licensing fees. Per machine, that is).
One person suggested that the 'Web site navigation' tooling was useful.
What is the significance of new cloud platforms and databases like Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2?
Is it a replacement for enterprise application platforms like .net or Java EE in a cloud environment?
Is it neccessary to use these or other cloud specific platforms, or can we implement .net or Java EE on a cloud based environment?
I think the comparison is not correct to some extent. Cloud is a deployment issue and J2EE Technologies is a development issue.
The idea of clouds was to take away the hardware costs for existing application which have been build on J2EE or .NET or any other application development framework.
Yes when you deploy your applications in clud, there are some changes and some deployment strategies which would enforce some change in your application but application would still be J2EE or .NET as was the case before
I see two kinds of clouds, those that offer their own programming model and those that host applications developed in an existing programming model. Give the choice I would prefer the latter, I don't want to redevelop my existing apps and I want to sure that I'm free to host my app on my choice of host.
As it happens I'm a Java EE developer and there are Java EE clouds, so I'm OK. So for me Azure has little immediate significance other that to reinforce the message that serious vendors see a future for cloud computing.
Now, what is Azure? Is it a hoster of .NET apps, or is it offering a different programmng model? Or Both? I'm finding it hard to determine from the various web sites and reviews. There's talk of .NET programming an C# and VB and maybe other languages and using existing tooling, so my current guess is that .NET developers will be at home, but perhaps need to adapt their style.
My tentative opinion: if I'm a doing .NET I'll keep doing it and expect to find a suitable cloud one day. If Azure is that cloud (and I'd want to find out) well and good, if not then I'll wait for something better.
In a serious enterprise space I don't need to back a winner in a market place that's still evolving. I probably will have sensitive apps that I'm not going to put in a public cloud anyway, so sticking to Java EE suits me fine, I've got private cloud capabilities if I need them.
EC2 is kind of a hybrid; at its root it's a hosted virtual machine service that lets you choose the operating system you want (most Linux distributions, Solaris or a couple of versions of Windows Server) and then configure them as you like without restrictions.
On top of that, Amazon has built services such as Simple DB, Simple Queue Service and Simple Notification Service that make it into more of a development platform, but it's important to note that these run cross-platform and can be programmed to in multiple languages.
A link to Windows Azure's Tomcat Solution Accelerator can be found on MSDN's "Windows Azure Platform" landing page where you will also find links to the following:
Windows Azure SDK for Java
Windows Azure SDK for PHP
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
AppFabric SDK for Java™ Developers
AppFabric SDK for Ruby Developers
AppFabric SDK for PHP Developers
As well as...
MySQL PHP Solution Accelerator
MediaWiki MySQL Solution Accelerator