Happy Halloween. Here is my WebSphere Integration Developer costume I sported two years ago. I’m a java component featuring fly over feedback and a busted attempt at a build.

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Mapping logic between two business objects or the secret plans for the next Intel Processor?

Simply follow path ‘A’ from the Business Object on the left to the destination ‘B’ on the right. Pack a lunch, you may be there a while.

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The marketing says that it’s WebSphere’s 10th birthday on Tuesday. To celebrate, IBM is asking for revised lyrics to the well-known Birthday song. Never being one to pass up on a free chance at bizarre creativity, I’ve shilled-out and submitted:

WebSphere *IS* big blue
What Can it not Do?
We praise you, Dear WebSphere
Ten more years for you!

Thats the clean submitted one, I give you the tongue-in-cheek one:

WebSphere makes me blue
Ten years of stack spew
Fix my PMR, Please WebSphere?
"It will be in version 9.2"

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From the IBM Innov8 game. Premonition of the future? (Both sides??)

Damn, she stole my gimmick should I ever be back on the job market. I’m not sure if a panhandler should be dressed better than the people she’s begging from though. The collared shirt probably has to go.

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Sometimes you have to chuckle at the titles of PMRs. I came across this one today:

“Information not included in the user guide for IBM WebSphere Adapter for FTP V6.0.2”

Where they admit they forgot very minor details like the fact you have to create all the directories manually or the ftp location where inbound events will actually get picked up from.

More interesting, it looks like you can expect an outage once every four years:

The default parser provided by Commons Net API v1.4.1 fails to handle files with Feb 29 as the creation date.

and of course, you know when WebSphere Integration Developer tells you that it aborted something? Oh, you should just ignore that:

4. When using the enterprise service discovery wizard, the following informational message is displayed in the log: ‘Aborting DataBinding Generation type specified is not a DataBinding Generator: com.ibm.j2ca.ftp.FTPFileDataBinding’.
You can ignore this message and continue working.

If it’s an ignorable warning, why is it generated in the first place?

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Go figure,

I was googling for “WebSphere Process Server” and came across an AlphaWorks project:
SCA Component for Ruby with IBM WebSphere Process Server. Unlike the article that ‘integrated’ the two via Web Services, this project will give you the ability to run Ruby from inside a component.

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The developerWorks article titled “Create a Web service with Ruby on Rails for integration with WebSphere Process Server makes it sound like it’s some cool new functionality that would allow a Ruby Component inside of process server.

Alas, the “Integration” between Ruby and Process Server is done via a yawn-inducing boring old web service. I’d suggest re-titling the article: “How to invoke a Web Service using Ruby on Rails” and drop the whole Process Server buzzword.

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On a migration project, you sometimes come across a system that’s been around for a long time, does a pretty small task and hasn’t been touched in years. The question that arrises is “Should it be migrated to the new platform?”

Now. You could solve this problem by phoning up stakeholders and try to find someone who is actually using it. You could read the documentation… You could try and find the documentation in order to read it. You could even attempt to monitor the flow of traffic on the system to determine usage.

I say, forget all that time wasting due diligence . The best way to determine if a system should be migrated should be based on the number of complaints that occur when you shut it off.

If the number is above, say 5, you’ve found a system still in use and needs migration. You should also be aware that you may have to filter your number of complainants. You could snare some poor support guy monitoring general server heath. He’s just following his checklist, doesn’t count. If you land up snagging a VP (or better) complainer who questions why the system is down, you can just mutter something about the flux capacitor needed to be re-ionized and not worry about the method of your madness being questioned (VP: “Oh yes, the fax appropriator.. of course”).

If no one complains, you’ve just performed the fastest migration project in the history of IT.

Pat yourself on the back.

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I’ve been on a small kick about performance testing/administration and I was directed to the Rational Performance Tester. It sounds like it would be a nice tool to use to tune systems, until I read the first bullet point:

I mean damn.. No code testing, no point and click wizards, no report readability, no usability and no customization. So I guess this product is a dos command-line based, random hard-coded binary report generating tool that doesn’t do anything.

It’s refreshing to see that sometimes, a product description page can be so honest.

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IBM is a highly acronym-ized environment, so it doesn’t surprise me that sometimes things like this slip through the cracks. I was alerted by a colleague as to a new editor for Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal..

Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce to you the FCKEditor

Now, for anyone who has ever used an IBM UI I think it’s safe to assume that class is actually inherited by all thier editors

Disclaimer: I was a WID/WSAD-IE UI guy for about 4 years, so blast away.

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