mostly tech stuff

IBM Product Compatibility Reports v1.0 (Clarity)

Sean — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:38:35 +0000

This super-helpful system is buried in the IBM site and after the acquisition of another product names Clarity is pretty much lost to all search engines, including the embedded one on ibm.com. The Software product Compatibility Reports v1.0 (Clarity) site …

Increase IE concurrent connections = increase performance, well for Jazz it does

Sean — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:26 +0000

Unfortunately the Internet Explorer default settings are not very friendly to AJAX heavy applications. Microsoft provides a Knowledge Base article with the exact settings for IE 7 & 8, the instructions for IE 9 are the same for 8. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282402 …

What is the largest max heapsize for a 64 bit IBM JVM?

Sean — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:03:11 +0000

Looking for something like a technote I found for 32 bit Windows [1]. But I was hoping for a more generic answer that I could reference to clients at when I offer WAS JVM settings to give them a sigh …

CentOS 6 install the 32 bit compat libs for IBM stuff

Sean — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:51:37 +0000

Based on this technote, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21459143 , I was expecting this type of output. But in actuality when using CentOS 6 versus RHEL 6, it comes out a bit different, but ultimately the recommendation from IBM is valid, below is my …

Compacting Windows VirtualBox virtual disks

Sean — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:46:57 +0000

Common problem that everyone using desktop virtualization has, you setup a basic image, install your basic software but you want to share it and you realize that your basic appliance/image is 15G, boo! Assuming that you pick dynamically allocate space, …

Getting at the RTC timesheet data in 3.0 and 3.0.1

Sean — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:35:43 +0000

Lots of questions about how to pull your time back out once you go ahead and add all your time tracking data into RTC. Working on tracking down more details but at first glance it looks like this is fairly …

Quick Unix helper for updating Jazz profile*.ini files

Sean — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:18:45 +0000

When you are deploying to WebSphere there are a number of paths that need to be configured as fully qualified or absolute paths, since the JVM is now running from the WebSphere directory instead of the local Tomcat install. One …

Running WAS 7 and IHS 7 with SSL on OpenSuse 11.x

Sean — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:37:20 +0000

Problem running apache when you enable SSL, I noticed an error that is documented here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21451021 Turns out, my gsk7 libraries were not being picked up by ldconfig so I ended up adding a new file to /etc/ld.conf.so.d/gsk7.conf Then just …

Improve Rational Team Concert import user search dialog results from a complex directory

Sean — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:33:21 +0000

In our company we have a hella corporate directory that provides company wide access to all kinds of great information as well as group memberships and corporate password system. The implementation is exposed via a few helpful representations but from …

local LAN mirror for CentOS

Sean — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:10:49 +0000

I find myself needing to setup RedHat like environments more and more these days and after install 4, 5, and 6 using CentOS it seems like I could get more economy if I had a simple OS level mirror on …