mostly tech stuff

Moving django data between vendors

Sean — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:27:22 +0000

The out of the box tooling makes this pretty easy, just a few commands to get the data to a suitable serialized format, and one more to bring it into the new target. In order to prep for the new …

Monitoring the performance of your IBM Jazz servers

Sean — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:49:41 +0000

One helpful url for you to get a huge amount of data is the ICounterContentService service. https://<server>:<port>/rtc/service/com.ibm.team.repository.service.internal.counters.ICounterContentService/ More to come on actually making sense of the data…

Setting the DOORS default browser

Sean — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:36:04 +0000

For some reason the default browser is not taken from the OS and it is buried in DOORS configuration. Having searched for this a few times, I figured I put it out there. Tools > Options Settings Web Browser Reference: …

Silent installation of IBM Installation Manager

Sean — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:31:45 +0000

The old chicken and egg problem, when you are in a Unix/Linux environment and do not have access to X how can we get our software installed that is bundled with a graphical installer? IM actually makes this pretty easy …

Installing git from source on RHEL 5.8

Sean — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:42:10 +0000

No big thing just trying to install git since it is not in the default corporate yum repositories. First problem it fails missing zlib.h so go grab your zlib-devel package. The next one was more subtle, it configures and makes …

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. [code] [root@zahar-rhel64 IMinstallKit]# ./install bash: ./install: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory [/code] But in actuality when using CentOS 6 versus RHEL 6, it …

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, …