Since about 5.8.5 and up the encoding feature was added to allow table entries to be encrypted.  Some customer back in the past (gleaned from conversations with then Lawson R & D support) wanted to encrypt provider ids and names.  Well, the encryption is merely Base64 anyway which my mother could hack in her sleep.

To me a useless…Read more

However, other gui features like the NetMonitor Daemon status indicators disappear!   We are running Integrator 6.1.0 and decided NOT to add that “hookloop” jvm arg due to NOT knowing exactly what other widgets may disappear too.

We are living with it – rose tinted glasses help.
Enjoy.

Is there a complimentary tool to READ these SMATDB files like the old hcismat for the flat file version?

Or do we need to create TCL scripts and code up such a tool?

Looking to provide a means to find/extract data messages behind the scenes versus IDE or Global Monitor – no save options at this time.
(We have Integrator and…Read more

Running Integrator 6.1.0 on AIX 6.1 TL9 SP04 and Global Monitor 6.1.0

Question:  is there documentation available on how to access the SMATDB databases from Tcl?  or other language?

We are looking to convert from our current legacy flat files (idx/msg)
to SMATDB.   We would like to crank out a tool to replace a home grown message…Read more

You might want to enable debug mode for your hostserver.
Sometimes the drag on the hostserver is due to problems in the IDE like
Xlate editing errors (bad structure) and it hangs while waiting for the IDE to just end itself or get killed by the end user.
Here is what we have documented on how to do that:

To turn on the debug…Read more

Another quick way to verify that at least the structure of the TCL program is ok:   start up a TCL shell from a command line (Unix): >tcl
Then within this shell do:  source tclprogram.tcl

If any structure errors exist you get this message:

Error: missing close-brace

Try it out.
Enjoy.

Running Global Monitor 6.1.0.

How about adding an export function for Global Monitor audit viewer log as well.   Yes, we can print it or screen scrape it but export would be preferable.

Thanks.

We are currently running CIS6.1.0 on AIX 6100-09-03-1415
two production servers and one test server just recently patched to SP4.

We did upgrade from CIS5.8.7.

I do recall some wrinkles between 5.7 and 5.8.
Check the release notes about migration from 5.7 to 5.8.

Hope this helps you out.

Running CIS 6.1.0 on AIX 6 TL9 (HA virtualized).

Russ, our Tcl programs that invoke the msiAttach comannd surround the call with a catch.  For a site we find that you can only call msiAttach once in a TCL instance (running program).  Otherwise you get an error but it is not fatal.  Keeps the return values “clean”.

Sample code:

   …Read more

Just for the record here – we have had a smooth upgrade from 5.8.7 to 6.1.0 recently.  Runing on AIX 6 TL9 SP3.

Ok…

Not sure when in the 5.8 series this happened but you may be running into the new formatted SMAT files that contain message metadata in the .msg files now.   May have popped up around 5.8.6.  

I urge you to read all…Read more

Rob and company, my favorite to suppress is:

Engine idle — 02/26/2015 08:00:32

It is always comforting to know that Cloverleaf is taking a break from doing any work and still getting paid (like some humans I know).

On another note:  how about setting up a knowledge database on how to interpret panic dump error messages?  Especially…Read more

I cast a No vote for much the same reasons as other shops here who are advancing forward but never given the time to just take a breather and evaluate where we are and what can be re-designed/improved to make our support lives easier (or more manageable!).

Ok…

We have the Global Monitor 6.1.0 application implemented and it has…Read more

Max, is there a published general availability for 6.1.1?  We are now running 6.1.0 on AIX but kept on the legacy option for SMAT files for now pending an evaluation of the SMAT DB option.

We are signed up for the Winter Showcase in March to be held locally in St. Paul, Minnesota (3/23 thru 3/26).   At that event you will be…Read more

Received and deleted – not a typical email from Infor.
Unsolicited PDF attachment.

Beware!

Integrator at 5.8.7 soon to be upgraded next month to 6.1.0.

We are now running HA failover on AIX Unix 6 TL9 (two production servers).   Hosts are virtualized. We engaged INFOR support for our HA project – paid huge dividends as we tested several scenarios:  doing ACTIVE-ACTIVE.  Very complex.   Also:  Global Monitor in the mix -…Read more

One and All,  INFOR is sponsoring a Winter Showcase this Spring in St. Paul Minnesota to review among other products the next Integrator 6.1.1.
We plan to ask about the new SMAT database functionality as we are still using the legacy method (idx/msg pair).

I suggest that you ask INFOR about any such showcase opportunities coming…Read more

Just upgraded to GMX 6.1.0 on Windows 2008 server.

We have been using the Global Monitor application since March 2010 now.   A worthwhile investment:  our Data Center Operations staff monitor and respond to alerts.   The thread notes contain support information used by Operations (and us).

We have team members who are not Cloverleaf…Read more

Just a caution here on Integrators 6.0 thru 6.1:  the R & D fix to pass a string now instead of a list at Xlate time for a COPY action on a field containing components may come back to bite you.

We have had to fix some of our Xlates inline code (Tcl) to bypass this fix.
We are testing/evaluating Integrator 6.1.0…Read more

We are running 5.8.7 on an AIX Unix server (6.1 TL9) and when deleting routes or threads in a process you need to coordinate a cycling (and refresh) of the memory regions used by the site’s monitorD program (daemon).

Sequence:  
(1) Do the NetConfig edits to remove routes/threads/ or add.
(2) Shut down the process.
(3) Apply the…Read more

I go get concerned about fixes in earlier releases that may not be passed along in a later release.

Thanks for the confirmation here.

Have you tried testing against the temporary xlate variable @active_null?

Let us know.

We played with the AND alert under 5.8.7 and found that the alerts have to be stacked in the exact order that you want them tested BEFORE the AND alert.   The AND alert resets every 2 minutes.  And echoes an entry into the alerts.log file (under 5.8.7) but is now supposed to just dump that echo into the hcimonitord.log file instead…Read more

We are running the 6.1.0 Integrator on our Test server right now and a bit puzzled that they will patch the base 6.0 Release?

No mention of 6.1 currently available?
With its planned patch of .01?

Thanks.

Would it be possible to post an example of the Xlate or tclproc code
that you are using in 6.1 and 5.8?  that is, of the sub-component problem?

We are going to be migrating from 5.8.7 to 6.1 very soon now and are compiling a list of items to test/evaluate.

Thank you.

Jim, you are correct from what we see here regarding HL7 standards and enforcing the rules.  The 2.6 variants now include deprecated fields that are INSERTED (!) in several segments throwing off our field alignments.

We fixed them by creating the segments under 5.8.7 (like the IN1) and then migrating to 6.1 to avoid dragging in the…Read more

Well,  looks like they may have introduced a new problem!
Please submit an incident at Infor’s website.
Maybe they can fix this in the planned .01 patch!

Thanks for reporting this issue to us.
Enjoy.

We are running 5.8.7 and now 6.1 clients on Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit and have good experiences with the client.  It may start to hang due to inherent leaks like too much editing of thread notes for example.

Ok…

When installing these clients, the Release Notes do specifiy certain C++ libaries be installed.   We check for that and…Read more

According to the Release Notes for Integrator 6.0.1 the sub-comonent problem is fixed.  We are planning to upgrade from 5.8.7 to 6.1.0 hoping to get the .01 patch beforehand.

I have found that one must read ALL the Release Notes from the base release version (in this case 6.0) thru whatever level you plan to upgrade to in order to…Read more

Thanks for your explanation and confirmation on port limits.
Just another point here:  the engine itself uses the ephemeral range
to assign its hcicmd port for a process too.

A very dangerous place to allocate a fixed port assignment in a thread.
Enjoy.

Looks like my attachment had an illegal extension (sh)?
Renamed to .doc and attached.
It is a KSH script.  Rename as you wish.

My apologies.
Enjoy.

Check me here other Clovertech folks but there are no ports above 65K for the OS?

Ok..  for the Integrator the only hard ports used to my knowledge are 13000+ and have been assigned incrementally as the releases appear.
These are documented in their Release Notes for each version.
For special firewall settings like the tunnel port in…Read more

Another point with the Ephemeral port range is that Cloverleaf uses it for assigning ports on multi-connect server connections.  For us we have developed a script that we run on our test/production servers which creates a csv file that we merge and sort on port to find available ranges.
We have AIX as well and do not assign ports below…Read more

One and All,  a colleague (Shane Farney) discovered the following to at least help make the NetConfig background look like the old 5.8 color:

(1) NetConfig configurator
(2) Select client preferences
(3) Uncheck option = Use uniform colored background
Note: “colored” here is a bit oxymoron IMO.
(4) OK

You now get the old 5.8 gradiant…Read more

We have also submitted an enhancement request via the INFOR website
to provide options to set the background to other than artic white (as expressed in this post).

Maybe make it into the planned .01 patch?
Thanks.

I have submitted an enhancement request on the INFOR support website to add skins to the 6.1 IDE NetConfig and Netmonitor tools.

Yes, I agree: the bleached white reminds me of a total Minnesota blizzard white out!

Maybe make it for the 6.1.1 patch?
We will see.
Enjoy.

We just installed 6.1 on our AIX Unix platform and am in the process of requesting new licenses.   I notice that there is a new add on module called XML Adaptor Daemon.  I have asked our account representative what this add-on is used for as we have some XML interfaces ourselves.

May or may not have a thing to do with your problem -…Read more

Yes, we just installed 6.1 and the GUI is pure as snow which in this part of the country (Minnesota) may or may not be a blessing.  

Suggestion:  as a patch is in the works 6.1.1 to fix among other things an Xlate name limitation problem (44 characters) how about posting an enhancement request on INFOR’s website to add the skins…Read more

Though we run on AIX UNIX here I do recall some details about the Windows platform where there is NO cloverleaf lockmanager.  Perhaps the scripts you use assume you are on a Unix platform and tries to start up the lockmanager.

You can always open up an incident on INFOR’s support website.
We use it often and has proven effective in…Read more

Another logic practice that I follow is to test for argument existence:

if {! [info exist variable]} { set variable {}}  ;#create with null value

Just to interject here.
Enjoy.

Max, the post history does not include exactly WHAT the bug is here.
Please post what SMAT cycle bug is being discussed in this forum.

Thank you.

Maybe too simplistic here:  why not just tack on a post xlate TCL to pop off the DRG segments?   We have a simple TCL program called “tps_rem_segs_fr_msg” that takes an argument list of what to drop
as some customers come up with exactly what you describe.

Ok… too simple?

Beats changing hundreds of configurations.

Back to my…Read more

AIX 6.1 TL9 shop.

We are running CL 5.8.7.0 IDE (clients) on Windows 7 Enterprise edition (64 bit) and the host engines on AIX and have Exceed Open Text Version 14 installed (64 bit).  Our desktop support maintains this version.  However, we do use the Putty software – but a word of warning:   it is officially BETA and unsupported.…Read more

Here are my replies to your questions – as always, you can contact INFOR support via their website and post questions regarding Global Monitor.

(1) We installed the GM on its own virtualized Windows server.  No other applications are installed or running on this server.  Clients run on Windows 7 Enterprise laptops/workstations.

(2)…Read more

Currenty running CIS 5.8.7.0 on AIX 6.1 TL9.

Since 5.8.5 (at least) if you add or relocate or remove interface threads
while the monitor daemon program is running, it can hang or crash.
This appears to be caused by the monitor’s shared memory region for processes not being updated.

We follow this procedure:

(1) Add/remove/relocate…Read more

We run the Cloverleaf Integrator on an AIX UNIX server 6.1 TL9 (virtualized) and our clients on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 laptops/desktops (X64).

Our Global Monitor (GM)  runs on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (virtualized). And with no other applications in its “slice”.   We did install the GM on a virtualized volume (E: for us) other…Read more

Update:  after doing a WebEx with INFOR support, we determined that our problems were similar to a reported incident from another customer running an earlier version of Global Monitor.

Cause:  too many processes in a site where the GM was unable to refresh its site statistics for a view and timed out.  Had a default behavior of…Read more

See your dilemma!  Yes, all the data is converted to list elements.
Tcl Pre Proc will work here – we have the same problems on 5.8.7.

Have fun!

Suggestion:  copy the entire field to a temporary variable
and then in your Pre Proc regsub the contents of the temporary variable
and map that to the output field.

Don’t forget to set the output as a list:
set xlateOutVals

Good luck!