Changing default command for “Customer is viewing a catalog entry”

When using the marketing trigger “Current page” with “Customer is viewing a catalog entry”. The template you use is actually saying look for a specific productId on a command called ProductDisplay. If you look in the dmeletemplate table you could find all the templates for the different triggers and other elements used by marketing. In…

Log4J your application server

We’re looking into a solution using log4j to consolidate our logs in an third-party system using Application server and IBM has disabled the support for log4j in the application servers logging framework. I tried to reverse this process and check what was needed to enable this feature again. First of we need the log4j framework…

Precompile JSP files

If you’ve added the JSP performance enhancements I’ve discussed in an earlier post. Then I talked about a flag that disabled JSP compilation. In order to run without compilation enabled you need to precompile your JSP files. This could be done with the JspBatchCompiler command found inĀ {WAS_ROOT}/bin This command has multiple parameters but only a…

Optimization jsp handling

I was looking into an performance issue the other day and came by some small interesting changes you could do to your Websphere Application Server to increase performance and remove locks. The first was located in the fileĀ Stores.war/WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xml a file that I’ve never looked at. Seems that the WAS developers enabled support for handling the…

Webservice connection timeouts

I had a problem with some webservices connections timing out in our environments and I thought that the timeouts where a bit long. Most of our webservices run inline with a user request and some of the default timeouts didn’t make the cut. com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.connectionTimeout=300 com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.maxConnection=50 com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.SocketTimeout=300 The settings above is the onces set in Websphere…