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MP Server / Disable users ability to change passwords

« Last post by jsquizz on March 22, 2024, 06:55:26 AM »

Hi All, have a bit of a strange request.

I am working on a migration - And lots of best practices/basic practices arent being followed.

Currently - users are accessing CMOD via the thick client. They are using ONE account between multiple people which is very bad obviously.

One of their users questioned if its possible to "disable the ability to change passwords"

Our goal is to get them on to LDAP ASAP, so I am not sure if its worth pursuing much - but, I looked all over and I could have swore years ago i saw this setting.

has anybody ever done this?

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MP Server / Re: Use of external filesystem for the Archive storage manager

« Last post by Darrell Bryant on March 20, 2024, 02:08:27 PM »

Which platform are you using?
Archived Storage Manager (ASM) is the native storage manager used by Content Manager OnDemand for i.
ASM supports NFS mounted drives for long term archive storage.

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MP Server / Re: Use of external filesystem for the Archive storage manager

« Last post by Justin Derrick on March 20, 2024, 12:24:31 PM »

Hi.

It's best to use local storage for CMOD functions - database, transaction logs, cache filesystem, and temporary space for indexing and loading -- having these filesystems remote means that a network issue can bring your server down in ways that are hard to recover from.  I'd only use NFS for long term "secondary" storage.

-JD.

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MP Server / Re: Relation between CMOD Library Server and CMOD Object Server

« Last post by Justin Derrick on March 20, 2024, 12:21:24 PM »

That's a big question. 

First, let me start with an unpopular truth:  Object servers are an obsolete idea. 

The architecture of CMOD was designed in the early 90's, when storage and bandwidth were exceedingly scarce and expensive - there were also very hard physical limits on how much storage you could connect to a single server.  The first CMOD server I was responsible for had 4 112Mhz CPUs, 512MB of RAM, 24GB of hard drives, and a 100GB tape library -- and it was one of the most powerful midrange systems in the company -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS/6000#Type_7013_and_7016 .

What should you do instead? 

Run a single CMOD server, and use any of the cloud-ish storage tech or Cheap and Deep filesystem storage.  Storage, CPU, Bandwidth...  All are relatively cheap.  The only remote loading you should be doing is PDFs on a Windows server.

-JD.

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MP Server / Relation between CMOD Library Server and CMOD Object Server

« Last post by obaltus on March 20, 2024, 07:11:13 AM »

Hello

I was reading some documentation regarding distributed CMOD architecture where you have a library server and one or more object servers.
And a few questions came to mind for which I found no answer. Where should storage sets be defined? On the library server? Or on the Object Server? Or both?

I suppose that the main purpose of this type architecture is offloading the library server from the the load activities? And ARSLOAD is then executed on the Object Server? Am I right?

Thanks for your help,

Olivier

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MP Server / Use of external filesystem for the Archive storage manager

« Last post by obaltus on March 20, 2024, 06:26:26 AM »

Hello,

I am planning an installation, and I'd like to know if external storage basically a NFS mount on the CMOD server can be used as storage for the Archive storage manager?

Thanks for your help

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MP Server / Re: Manually retrieving a document?

« Last post by Mattbianco on March 15, 2024, 04:21:19 AM »

Still curious about the 2nd and 3rd parameters: 148456,36678.

They are the offset and length of the decompressed document within the compressed document block.
The 4th and 5th parameter (976552,243727) are the offset and length of that compressed block within the 801FAAB object (DOC) file.

So, first decompress the 243727 bytes starting at byte 976552 of 801FAAB, and then take the 36678 bytes starting at 148456 of that decompressed output, for the actual document.

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OD/WEK & JAVA API / Re: ODWek REST API 10.5.0.4 - response ask me to logoff and log on

« Last post by rjrussel on March 14, 2024, 10:08:38 AM »

Yes

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OD/WEK & JAVA API / Re: ODWek REST API 10.5.0.4 - response ask me to logoff and log on

« Last post by Andreas Baaserud Hauge on March 14, 2024, 12:50:28 AM »

Thanks for reply rjrussel.

So because it is a connection pool - we need to restart the odwek-rest when we make these admin changes in OnDemand?

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z/OS Server / CMOD has surfaced the following Db2 APAR

« Last post by Ed_Arnold on March 12, 2024, 09:52:30 PM »

PH57851: ABEND0C4 MAY HAPPEN AT DSNXOGP:0AB44 FOR QUERY WITH MULTI-INDEX ACCESS.

Error description
ABEND0C4 may happen at DSNXOGP:0AB44 for query with multi-index
access.
The abend happens during choosing access path for query.

ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS:
ABEND0C4 MIDX DSNXOGP OFFSET0AB44 OFFSETAB44 0AB44 AB44
Local fix
BYPASS/CIRCUMVENTION:
Please try adding OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW to discourage optimizer
from using multi-index.
Problem summary
****************************************************************
* USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
* All users of Db2 12 and Db2 13 for z/OS who                  *
* has queries whose access path contains                       *
* multiple index access.                                       *
****************************************************************
* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
* ABEND0C4 at DSNXOGP offset 0AB44 may                         *
* occur for an SQL statement whose                             *
* access path contains multiple index                          *
* access.                                                      *
****************************************************************
* RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
* Apply corrective PTF when available                          *
****************************************************************
ABEND0C4 at DSNXOGP offset 0AB44 may occur for an SQL statement
whose access path contains multiple index access.
The abend is intermittent depending on the availability of
certain storage.
Problem conclusion
Db2 has been modified to correctly process the aforementioned
SQL statement.
Additional Keywords ABEND0C4 SQLEXPLAIN SQLINDEX MIDX
                    SQLACCESSPATH
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