[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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 feature more annoying than practically functional.

Messed up our home grown perl scripts to convert tables to csv files.

Since patched up our perl code.

Sometimes I think that R & D need to do reality checks with a larger client base before implementing “features” to satisfy a single client.

Think of the impact to the larger community here.

Enjoy.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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.

[Bob Richardson]

Thank you Max.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings Max,

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 Global Monitor 6.1.0).

Thanks.

[Bob Richardson]

Terry,  thank you.

We will check out the links.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings Max,

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 finder script (combo of ksh/perl/awk).

Please post your response.

And, thank you.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings Ross,

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 information of host server, make sure the following are in the server.ini

             [logging]

             cloverleaf_server_category=DEBUG

             cloverleaf_server_level=VERBOSE

             host_server_category=DEBUG

             host_server_level=VERBOSE

             ticket_server_category=info

             ticket_server_level=brief

             log_rmi_calls=true

             debug_ssl=false

Be sure to back up your server.ini first to restore.

Also: our jvm args is set high:

jvm_args=-Xmx1024m

Hope this helps.

Good luck, good hunting!

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings Rob,

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.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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:

    if {$mode == “start”} {

         catch {msiAttach}

    } elseif {$mode == “run”} {

       set threadstats [msiGetStatSample $url_thread]

       keylget threadstats OBDATAQD pend_count  ;#get the pending count for the requeue thread

Hope this helps.

Enjoy.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetubgs,

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 the Release Notes between 5.8.4 thru 6.1.0.

That is what we do and make note of ANY SMAT related changes.

If it is true that SMAT started to contain message metadata then you have to convert your SMAT files – I think INFOR supplied some conversion tools.

Good luck, good hunting!

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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 those somewhat cryptic “cpp” lines that point to the logic that failed?

And, thanks. for asking the community here on its feedback!

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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 bells and whistles to work with SMAT as well.   We need to evaluate them – it is a recent implementation with our Integrator 6.1.0.

I would like to know what INFOR plans regarding Global Monitor and 6.2 around SMAT files.

Thanks.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

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 showcasing the 6.1.1 (3/25).

I urge other customers to check if INFOR is planning a showcase event near you!

Thanks.

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