If you are anything like me – you have probably ignored the Configuration Wizard capability in WebSphere Portal since it was first introduced in v6.x. It was a feature with much promise … yet it was pretty much unusable in most real-world installation scenarios. Over the years IBM made great strides to simplify base WebSphere Portal […]
Posts Tagged ‘aix’
Using PGP within MB/DataPower
With the ever growing need for external and cloud based integration I’ve seen more and more needs for PGP encryption/decryption. Also as DataPower nor Message Broker explicitly supports PGP as part of it’s processing we’ve come up with a ‘workaround’ using GPG – AIX’s open-source PGP tool, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnupg/ The script below combines MQ (for triggering […]
WebSphere Portal on IBM’s New Power 7 Processors
A few months ago Mark Polly and I did a sizing for Websphere Portal on IBM Power 7 processor. In less than 24 hours IBM’s Techline came back with a sizing that was about 60% of what we were expecting to see. In other words, using Power 7 processors caused 40% reduction in the number […]
WebSphere Portal on IBM's New Power 7 Processors
A few months ago Mark Polly and I did a sizing for Websphere Portal on IBM Power 7 processor. In less than 24 hours IBM’s Techline came back with a sizing that was about 60% of what we were expecting to see. In other words, using Power 7 processors caused 40% reduction in the number […]