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Report Indexing / Floating trigger + PDF Graphical Indexer

« on: April 15, 2024, 01:28:11 PM »

Hi All,

I have a requirement to index a file using the PDF graphical indexer.

I need to capture line by line some fields, that are normally easy to grab using a floating trigger in the ACIF world.

Using a floating trigger now, it creates the green box for the trigger, however when I run the loader - it only picks up the first trigger/field defined.

Is there a way to make this work? I get that the pdf indexer is a bit "out dated" but theres no other solution unfortunately.

Thanks

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MP Server / Globally disable Annotations?

« on: April 05, 2024, 07:22:44 AM »

2600 AG's
100 Groups
100-some users

All have access to annotations. The customer does NOT want this.

Is there a way to globally disable this? Or should I get started on my script.

Thanks!

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Content Navigator / Combine documents, view as one

« on: March 27, 2024, 09:47:01 AM »

In the current thick client that my customer is using, in the thick client, they would select numerous reports/hits in the hitlist.

Options - > View Combined documents, view all. So now all documents open as expected in a "bundle". They can then export them to their desktop. It creates a single text file that the user can then open with notepad and do all of their work.

Is there a simple way to do this in ICN or am I overlooking something?

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MP Server / Operations issue with LDAP

« on: March 26, 2024, 08:58:44 AM »

We just got LDAP implemented, we verified all of the correct settings (that we can see..) We were getting return code 49, which pointed us to invalid credentials. We resolved that, or so we think.

We are now seeing this error message "LDAP Error: Operations error -- ldap_rc=1,  -- extended_rc=0,  -- ldap_errno=1, extra_rc=0, File=arsldap.c, Line=2662"

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks!

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MP Server / Disable users ability to change passwords

« 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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Content Navigator / Issue connecting to ICN Repository

« on: February 22, 2024, 01:03:15 PM »

Fresh install of ICN / WAS / DB2 / CMOD /etc - on a windows 2022 environment

We try linking a CMOD repository, and are seeing this error in the websphere log.

2/22/24 12:47:35:858 MST] 00000095 SystemOut     O CIWEB Error: [admin@server] com.ibm.ecm.struts.actions.od.ODLogonAction.createODConnection()
com.ibm.edms.od.ODException: Failed to initialize the GSKit. Ensure proper installation of the GSKit and configuration of the environment.
at com.ibm.edms.od.ODServer.logon(ODServer.java:1032)
at com.ibm.edms.od.ODServer.logon(ODServer.java:934)

But, when we look in the system log - We see a login from ODWEK/The user we're trying to use for the repo.

Has anyone seen this? We verified classpath/path/java/etc

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MP Server / Issue with stash file - New install of V10.5

« on: January 31, 2024, 07:19:20 AM »

Hi All,

Working on a migration from Win2012/V9.5/DB2 V10.5 to Win2022/V10.5/DB2 V11.5

I installed DB2 V10.5/CMOD V9.5 on the new windows 2022 server, and setup the instance via the configurator. The next step I did was I took a full offline backup of the V9.5 database, and imported it into the V10.5. That part looks good.

The issue is, When I go to start the instance , or even after I delete/recreate the instance - The application does not start stating that it cannot find the stash file. I verified that the stash file exists, and that the user, odadmin - has rights to access it. I also tried re-creating it and I am seeing issues. Also when I try to update/re-create the instance in the configurator, it still says that it cannot find the stash file.

Ive tried-

Deleting the stash file
Recreating the stash file
Updating the stash file with the proper credentials
Deleting the instance/recreating
Importing updated registry settings from the V9.5 -> V10.5 server (I have this working in my homelab..)
Creating a new instance

all of the above yield the same results. When I use

No idea whats going on here - has anyone seen this? I've opened a case with IBM regarding this.

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MP Server / Active / Passive setup - Who's doing what?

« on: January 24, 2024, 02:56:31 PM »

Hi Folks,

I saw some posts around here regarding HADR + CMOD, which were very old. I am wondering - Is anyone using HADR with the product?

My thought was-2 servers, \arscache mounted to both - then a primary and standby node. Data center 1 goes down, takeover on data center 2, and the data will be right there too.

I'm not a db2 dba and unfortunately i dont have access to one for this project.

I think that this might be a viable solution as long as replication is done properly, and only one arssockd is touching the database at the a time.

Dual loading is also an option I've seen many of the customers I've worked with do. My only concern is inconsistencies between data centers. Data center 1 goes down, docs queue, there's no recon process, things get messy - etc. I've usually seen custom coding put around it. I think overall the best solution probably is dual loading - especially since they mentioned their daily backups of the database, OS images, and cache

Unfortunately - zookeeper/purescale is not an option.

wondering what everyone thinks. Thanks in advance

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MP Server / I need a sample file + overlay

« on: January 23, 2024, 08:35:31 AM »

Hi Gang, Let me preface with this is new to me and came out of the blue.

I have a requirement to load a line data file - with an overlay.

At some point in the process, the file will get converted to afp, followed by - afp2pdf via ICN

Does anyone have a sample overlay that I can use, as well as a corresponding line-data file?

I would appreciate it and owe ya one!

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MP Server / Wintel : Moving Data - OnPrem SAN > AWS

« on: December 21, 2023, 08:04:04 AM »

I am working on a migration from windows 2012 to windows 2022.

I've successfully implemented V9.5 + DB2 V11.5 on a new server. I've taken a full offline database backup from the windows 2012 server, via the OnDemand scheduler.

I then successfully restored the database:

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db2 "deactivate db archive"
db2 "restore db archive from e:\ replace existing"
db2 "activate db archive"
I used robocopy within windows to move around 10GB of test data.

I restarted the application via configurator, and the database looks good, metadata/objects/etc - All seem perfect and as expected.

when I go to retrieve a document.. I get

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OnDemand is unable to determine the link for the file >f:\arscache1\retr\CBA\2FAAI<. The error number is 22
I ran arsmaint -rsv thinking that could tidy things up - and that did not work so far either.

Anyone have any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

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MP Server / PreReq - Installation in a Windows Environment

« on: December 14, 2023, 09:02:07 AM »

Hi All,

I'm beginning an installation of CMOD on a Windows environment. It has been 10+ years since I have done this in a production environment, so it has been quite some time.

I am used to doing RHEL implementations - and I always install packages such libstdc, libaio, libpam - Things that are a pre-req to db2. Is there anything else that is specific to DB2/CMOD that I have to install?

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MP Server / Unable to ping arssockd / load

« on: December 07, 2023, 09:21:33 AM »

Hi Gang,

We're using CMOD V10.5/Redhat/Oracle. We are having issues issuing :

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arssockd -I instanceName -P
arssload -I instanceName -g AppGroup -u user -p password -g AppGroup -nvf fileName
Its failing with connection cannot be established.

We're able to successfully ping arssockd via -I serverName / localhost -P. We can also load via the same. Also - ICN is configured to hit this library server with SSL, and I see a successful login using SSL.

When I turn off SSL, we can issue arssockd -P -I instanceName, as well as load fine, client, etc.

Has anyone ever seen this? We're on 10.5.0.7 with the latest GSK.

Thanks all!

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MP Server / Windows: Migrating Data

« on: November 26, 2023, 08:05:48 PM »

Hello All,

Working with a client that is running:

Windows 2016
CMOD V9.5
DB2 V10.5

End goal, is everything running on 2022 Server + Latest versions of everything.

On the target server, I setup a CMOD environment that mimics that of the existing one (config settings, db2, etc..). I then took a backup of the database and restored it to the new CMOD instance running on 22 Server. Looks like that part worked.

Data on the old server is stored on F:/arscache1. I copied the data across the network and I am getting link errors, unable to retrieve the object.

Is this the best approach as far as the objects? Or, should I just mount the drive as F:/ ? Something I am missing?

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MP Server / Issue Loading to S3 (EMC)

« on: October 27, 2023, 09:29:47 AM »

Hi all,

Working on loading to EMC via S3.

Within ars.s3 - We have defined-

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ARS_S3_VENDOR=EMC
ARS_S3_REGION=...
ARS_S3_SERVER=...
ARS_S3_SERVICE=S3

The message after trying to load -

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S3 Interface (AMAZON) Error: Message=Couldn't resolve host name, Resturn Code=6
One thing to note, we can ping the S3_SERVER from our desktops, but not from the server we are trying to load from.

Not sure if this is an S3 configuration issue or a CMOD config issue. The one thing that is wondering me is since its trying to resolve AMAZON, yet EMC is defined as the provider..?

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z/OS Server / DSNT408I SQLCODE = -804, ERROR

« on: August 15, 2023, 09:46:22 AM »

Hello all,

CMOD 10.5.0.6
Z/OS 4.28.0
DB2 12.01.0005

We are working with IBM on a case related to this. I am wondering if anyone has seen something such as this.

We have a folder that has 6 application groups - One of the application groups has around 160 tables associated with it.

There's a field named "AcctNo"

Via the client - when we run "Account Number" in then in the search box for example 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555, we get the following:

The same happens when I try via arsdoc get or query.

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DB Error: {DB2 FOR OS/390}{ODBC DRIVER}{DSN12015}   DSNT408I SQLCODE = -804, ERROR:  AN ERROR WAS FOUND IN THE APPLICATION PROGRAM            INPUT PARAMETERS FOR THE SQL STATEMENT, REASON 07                       DSNT418I SQLSTATE   = 07002 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE                                 DSNT415I SQLERRP    = DSNXECP SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR                      DSNT416I SQLERRD    = -202  0  0  -1  262124  0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION       DSNT416I SQLERRD    = X'FFFFFF36'  X'00000000'  X'00000000'  X'FFFFFFFF'                  X'0003FFEC'  X'00000000' SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION                      ERRLOC=5:10:2 -- SQLSTATE=07002, SQLCODE=-804, File=arsdoc.c, Line=3526