Integrating SAP ERP with WebSphere Portal

My learning curve continues, having (ahem) semi-mastered Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal together, I'm now looking to achieve my main objective of delivering a secure portal front-end to SAP.

To this end, I've download a trial version of SAP NetWeaver from the SAP site here, which is a VMware image that's integrated into another downloadable VMware image of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

I had a few challenges getting the server up and running, so followed a most excellent tutorial from Gregor Wolf here.

My journey onwards and upwards continues .....

Senior Lotus Executive opens restaurant near Kings Cross in London

with a review here.

Lotus Notes 8.5.1 - This has GOT to be the error message of the year

I'm not a Daily Torygraph fan but Matt's cartoons are awesome ....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5297361/MPs-expenses-by-Matt.html

Tivoli Access Manager for e-business - Problems with WebSEAL Reverse Proxy

Notes from the front-line ...

If WebSEAL Windows service fails to start ( Windows error 7034 ), open
a command prompt and run: -

webseald -foreground

If this returns an error

2009-05-11-20:07:16.272+01:00I----- 0x38AD541C webseald ERROR wiv
socket s:\amwe
b610\src\pdweb\webseald\http\server\WsListener.cpp 248 0x00000d58
DPWIV1052E Could not bind socket to port 80, interface 10.0.0.200
(errno 10049
)

or similar, edit: -

C:\Program Files\Tivoli\PDWeb\etc\webseald-default.conf

and change the IP address to one that is resolvable ( I used a
loopback adapter ).

Lotus Notes 8.5 - File -> Import / Export to Lotus 123 formats

Thanks to James for sharing this with me.

Apparently, Lotus Notes 8.5 no longer has the ability to import or Export data to/from Lotus 123 .WKS etc. files.

However, it's possible to re-enable this functionality by amending NOTES.INI. James has summarized the problem and solution nicely here.

According to this post, this was a deliberate change, which is now being reconsidered - which is nice.

WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.2 is out

Ooops, missed this

WebSphere Portal V6.1.0.2 hardware and software requirements

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.2: Documentation of updates

6.1.0.2 Download: WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management V6.1, fix pack 2

Found this because I was looking for support statements around Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory 2008 for a project on which I'm currently engaged....