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Friday, 26 February 2016
Monday, 22 February 2016
Configure the IBM Process Federation Server to give your IBM BPM process users a single point of access
I found this whilst preparing a deck for #IBM #InterConnect : -
Learn how to install and configure the IBM® Process Federation Server to work with two back-end IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) systems. Give your IBM BPM process users a single point of access to all their tasks.
With the different development paths for Business Process Choreographer and Business Process Designer in IBM BPM, varied deployment environments, and coexistence of multiple product versions, the demand for one user interface for interacting with tasks related to both business process definitions (BPDs) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is becoming more urgent.
With a single task list user interface, the users of your process applications can work on individual tasks, unaware of the different and complex back-end systems.
IBM Process Federation Server is based on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile server. It provides application programming interface (API) access to lists of resources that are federated across IBM BPM systems, such as the task list and launch list. It includes the distributed index for the federated environment that is based on an Elasticsearch service. The Elasticsearch service provides fast access to federated resources, and relieves federated IBM BPM systems from expensive queries.
With a single task list user interface, the users of your process applications can work on individual tasks, unaware of the different and complex back-end systems.
IBM Process Federation Server is based on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile server. It provides application programming interface (API) access to lists of resources that are federated across IBM BPM systems, such as the task list and launch list. It includes the distributed index for the federated environment that is based on an Elasticsearch service. The Elasticsearch service provides fast access to federated resources, and relieves federated IBM BPM systems from expensive queries.
Definitely worth a read …..
Friday, 19 February 2016
IBM BPM 8.5.7 Announced
IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) V8.5.7 is an update to the comprehensive and consumable IBM BPM platform that provides visibility and management of your business processes. This release includes:
• New responsive and federated Process Portal that includes:
• New customization and configuration options
• Ability to launch external activities and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) tasks
• Saved Search capability for individual business users and teams
• New responsive stock controls for mobile and desktop UI development that include the ability to transform Dojo-based stock controls into new responsive controls
• New and improved web-based editors in process designer
• Improved Client Side Human Service (CSHS) editor, which includes nested Client Side Human Services, and improved WYSIWYG coach editor with Grid Layout
• New Graphical Theme Editor for simplified coach and Process Portal styling capability
• Case capability as standard in all IBM BPM editions, which includes a converged Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) editor for process and case, unified playback, debugger and process inspector, and consistent use of OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)-compatible content repositories for process and case
• Essential operating environment updates to help enable your IT operations to keep your IBM BPM infrastructure current.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Develop Advanced Integration services for IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.6
As found by my IBM colleague, Tony Hickman
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
More on CTGSK3039W Certificate request “ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com" could not be created.
Following on from an earlier post: -
I saw the same problem earlier today.
This time around, the problem was simpler to resolve.
I'd previously created a Certificate Request: -
/opt/ibm/HTTPServer/bin/gskcapicmd -certreq -create - db /opt/ibm/HTTPServer/ssl/keystore.kdb -pw passw0rd -label ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com -dn "CN=ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com,O=middleware,OU=IBM,L=Hursley,S=Hampshire,C=UK" -file /home/wasadmin/ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com.req -size 2048 -sigalg SHA256WithRSA -san_dnsname ihs1.uk.ibm.com,ihs1,ihs2.uk.ibm.com,ihs2
Alas, I had to re-run the Cert. Req. process because the first certificate had failed validation, within a browser ( IE 11 ), because I'd neglected to include the Service Name ( aka VIP ) in the Subject Alternate Name (SAN) field.
For the record, this tied up with an issue I saw last year: -
So I re-ran the Cert. Req. process
/opt/ibm/HTTPServer/bin/gskcapicmd -certreq -create - db /opt/ibm/HTTPServer/ssl/keystore.kdb -pw passw0rd -label ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com -dn "CN=ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com,O=middleware,OU=IBM,L=Hursley,S=Hampshire,C=UK" -file /home/wasadmin/ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com.req -size 2048 -sigalg SHA256WithRSA -san_dnsname ihs1.uk.ibm.com,ihs1,ihs2.uk.ibm.com,ihs2,ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com
Alas, this failed: -
CTGSK3039W Certificate request "ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com" could not be created.
After some trial, a bit of error, and some success …. I found the solution.
The problem was that, whilst this was a newish Certificate Request ( I no longer had any Cert Reqs in the KDB ) : -
/opt/ibm/HTTPServer/bin/gskcapicmd -certreq -list -db /opt/ibm/HTTPServer/ssl/keystore.kdb -stashed
No certificate requests were found
No certificate requests were found
the label field used in the Certificate Request is more important than I'd realised.
In essence, the certificate that I added to the KDB as a result of the Cert. Req. was still in the KDB, with the same label - ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com.
I proved this by creating a Cert. Req. with a different label: -
/opt/ibm/HTTPServer/bin/gskcapicmd -certreq -create - db /opt/ibm/HTTPServer/ssl/keystore.kdb -pw passw0rd -label ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com2 -dn "CN=ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com,O=middleware,OU=IBM,L=Hursley,S=Hampshire,C=UK" -file /home/wasadmin/ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com.req -size 2048 -sigalg SHA256WithRSA -san_dnsname ihs1.uk.ibm.com,ihs1,ihs2.uk.ibm.com,ihs2,ibmbpm.uk.ibm.com
Having realised this, I removed the certificate from the KDB, re-ran the Cert. Req. process using the original label, and we're all good to go.
Saturday, 6 February 2016
IBM BPM - Process Federation Server Tutorial
This on developerWorks: -
Learn how to install and configure the IBM® Process Federation Server to work with two back-end IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) systems. Give your IBM BPM process users a single point of access to all their tasks.
With the different development paths for Business Process Choreographer and Business Process Designer in IBM BPM, varied deployment environments, and coexistence of multiple product versions, the demand for one user interface for interacting with tasks related to both business process definitions (BPDs) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is becoming more urgent.
With a single task list user interface, the users of your process applications can work on individual tasks, unaware of the different and complex back-end systems.
IBM Process Federation Server is based on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile server. It provides application programming interface (API) access to lists of resources that are federated across IBM BPM systems, such as the task list and launch list. It includes the distributed index for the federated environment that is based on an Elasticsearch service. The Elasticsearch service provides fast access to federated resources, and relieves federated IBM BPM systems from expensive queries.
With a single task list user interface, the users of your process applications can work on individual tasks, unaware of the different and complex back-end systems.
IBM Process Federation Server is based on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile server. It provides application programming interface (API) access to lists of resources that are federated across IBM BPM systems, such as the task list and launch list. It includes the distributed index for the federated environment that is based on an Elasticsearch service. The Elasticsearch service provides fast access to federated resources, and relieves federated IBM BPM systems from expensive queries.
Thursday, 4 February 2016
IBM BPM - General SSLEngine problem
I saw this earlier today: -
...
com.ibm.websphere.sca.ServiceRuntimeException: <soapenv:Body xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Fault><faultcode>soapenv:Server</faultcode><faultstring>javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem</faultstring></soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body>
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…
whilst trying to test a newly created IBM BPM component.
I'm using IBM Integration Designer (IID), which has a built-in Integration Test Environment (ITE), which is really just a standalone, single server BPM Process Server.
My BPM component, an SCA module, makes a call to a Web Service hosted on a separate, external, IBM ODM Rules Decision Server ( aka Hosted Transparent Decision Service ) : -
Given that I was making a call from one WAS to another, I worked on the assumption that SSL was the problem - yes, the message does kinda imply that.
I proved this by updating the binding of the BPM SCA Import component from the HTTPS URL to: -
This, of course, worked, thus validating my hypothesis.
I then retrieved the SSL Signer Certificate that the ODM Decision Server presented into the WAS trust store: -
AdminTask.retrieveSignerFromPort('[-keyStoreName NodeDefaultTrustStore -keyStoreScope (cell):'+cellID+' -host odm851.uk.ibm.com -port 9444 -certificateAlias ODM -sslConfigScopeName (cell):'+cellID+' ]')
AdminConfig.save()
AdminNodeManagement.syncActiveNodes()
AdminNodeManagement.syncActiveNodes()
and re-tried my BPM process.
This time, of course, it worked OK :-)
Easy when you know how :-)
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