by XTIVIA | Aug 31, 2011 | Blog, Portals
When you write your blog entry, you usually don’t think about things like colons (:). It turns out that Liferay at least as of 6.0 SP1 has issues with colons in blog entry titles, which is especially noticeable in the RSS feeds. How to fix these? Thanks to Open...
by XTIVIA | Aug 24, 2011 | News
08-24-11 XTIVIA, Inc. will be attending the Liferay fifth annual West Coast Symposium in Anaheim, California on September 21-21, 2011. Be sure to visit with XTIVIA during the conference to see how XTIVIA can help you develop and deploy Liferay Portal-based...
by XTIVIA | Jul 18, 2011 | Blog, Databases
This is part two of lessons learned during a recent DB2 SQL Replication engagement. After registering a source table for replication and creating an Apply Control server, you need to create a new Subscription set under that Apply Control server. This is on the...
by XTIVIA | Jul 12, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Registering an existing DB2 source table for CCD (Consistent Changed Data) replication using the DB2 Replication Center: This blog entry is from lessons learned on a recent engagement in which the client wanted to replicate several large tables from a Linux system to...
by XTIVIA | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Portals
While enhancing our blogs portlet functionality, I came across what appeared to be a few interesting oversights while editing blogs. While editing and publishing (or submitting for publication) a blog entry worked entirely as expected, if one selected the “Save as...
by XTIVIA | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Databases
I’m posting some useful DB2 SQL replication troubleshooting utilities and how to use them. These will work with any version 9 replication environment. ASNANALYZE Use the asnanalyze command to generate reports about the state of the...
by XTIVIA | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Today, 2011 Jun 07, RSA admitted that a hacker was able to break into a Lockheed Martin computer system because of a data breach at RSA. This is a huge problem for RSA, since their business model is pretty much defined by preventing exactly this situation. ...
by XTIVIA | Jun 4, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Is your company considering using CommVault’s Simpana Backup software to backup your database’s and other applications? I am a certified CommVault Software Engineer and also an Oracle Certified (OCP) 10g Database Administrator. Having previously worked for...
by XTIVIA | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog, Databases
11gR2 Upgrade: Recently, I had a customer who needed to upgrade their database to 11gR2 from 10.2.0.3. The upgrade needed to move the database from a cooked file system to Oracle’s ASM. Additionally, the customer wanted to have Oracle Enterprise Manager...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2011 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Which BI tool is right for us? Every organization faces this decision when they are looking to build a BI solution. We have had a lot of customers ask this to us. Without going into too much detail, I will outline the process I like to use. Price is almost always a...
by XTIVIA | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Recently, I handled a client who is using CommVault for their backup and recovery application that was having issues with the agent installed on their DB2 database. My background as an Oracle DBA and a CommVault Certified Engineer allowed me to quickly identify the...
by XTIVIA | May 9, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Recently, I had a customer who was importing a long running Data Pump import job. The client needed to go home and still have a way to monitor the import job. Starting with Oracle 10g Data Pump there is a useful feature in situations in which you start a job at...
by XTIVIA | Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, Portals
In this blog entry I provide an introduction on how you can start to leverage a business rules engine in your portal implementation. Liferay Enterprise Edition 6 comes with a drools web portlet that allows you to use the Drools rule engine with minimal effort, and...
by XTIVIA | Apr 23, 2011 | Blog, Portals
We developed a data driven application within Liferay 6.0 for a client recently utilizing JPA, and everything was running quite smoothly. So smoothly, that the client wanted to template the application for a second tenant, with the potential for additional tenants....
