Escape from boredom

I am now allowed to call myself “IBM Certified Deployment Professional on Rational Automation Middleware Solutions“.

The Deployment Professional has extensive product knowledge of some or all of the IBM WebSphere family of products, IBM Rational Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere and can independently perform configuration, training, and mentoring tasks on these products for deployment projects, with limited assistance from peers and vendor support services.

Extensive amount of RAFW usage the past few months and about two hours of preparations reading the Infocenter did the trick

Test Title: Test 000-055, Rational Automation for WebSphere
Start time: 10/14/2010 10:51:32 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
End time: 10/14/2010 11:21:41 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
Passing Score: 70%
Your Score: Pass (90%)

If you are using Xterm I assume that every once in a while you get annoyed by the colors. Today I just had to do something about it and I found the script provided at http://www.steike.com/code/xterm-colors/ … lovely!!

Every once in a while I get the error
SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /KillerApp has not been defined
This is most often caused by me typing either the wrong port number (if no web server is configured) or a type in the context root of the web application. Currently following an internal course where I was supposed to deploy an app and find the url to it. According to what I know it should be http://localhost:9080/KillerApp since the WC_defaulthost of server1 was 9080. But after many minutes of struggle I kept getting the error again and again…so then Google…

IBM Redbook to the rescue, “WebSphere Application Server V6.1: Web Container Problem Determination“. It turned out to be a very simple, and also stupid solution on the problem. Stupid, since I had caused the problem myself. Some time ago I must have altered the default_host virtual host settings, so I had changed the host alias from 9080 to 9089.

This post at coderanch.com helped me find the info, see the last comment to the issue. It references the redpiece, not the redbook, so use my link instead.

Use the code *#7370# to format your phone, resetting it to the fabric settings. Tried it on my Nokia E72 when the email application that comes along with the phone, and which my employee demands me to use in order to sync with Exchange, screwed up. Formatted and reconfigured, now it works as it should again. Nokia Support Forums to the rescue

Did also try out the Emoze messaging client http://www.emoze.com/. Works as a charm, but since the Exchange integration is based on Outlook Web Access (OWA) and not a directly Exchange-server integration, it is a violation of my employers email rules – and therefore not an option for me (it is blocked).

Had to create a shell script that is looping through a set of XML files in a given directory. For each file it checks if the file has the attribute “CCSID“. It it does not have the attribute, it inserts the attribute just after the opening tag MQQueueConnectionFactory using Perl, and if it is there already it will update the value using a SED-command with a simple REGEX-pattern. Ok, I know that I could have used either SED or Perl for both, but I just borrowed from some other scripts I had, so that is the reason.

The REGEX-pattern ain’t no rocket science, but since I use REGEX only once in a while I find it quite hard to crate patterns, could not have done it without http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

  FILES=/path_to_directory/my-files*.xml
  for file in $FILES
  do
    # CCSID attribute present or not
    grep CCSID $file  >> /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq 1 ]
    then
      # Not present, insert
      perl -pi -e "s#<MQQueueConnectionFactory\s#<MQQueueConnectionFactory CCSID=\"1208\" #g" ${file}
    else
      # Present, update
      sed -i 's/CCSID="[0-9]*"/CCSID="1208"/' ${file}
    fi
  done