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| Evaluate: IBM Endpoint Manager
Download a free trial of Tivoli Endpoint Manager V8.2,
which includes four products: Tivoli Endpoint Manager for
Lifecycle Management, Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and
Compliance, Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Power Management, and
Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Patch Management.
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Trial Downloads | 13 Jan 2013 |
| IBM Security Access Manager unboxed
Steve Herskowitz demonstrates how to get IBM Security Access Manager up
and running in a series of three videos.
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Video and audio | 11 Jan 2013 |
| InfoSphere Optim Query Capture and Replay for DB2 on z/OS
Testing of enterprise changes are costly and difficult tasks for IT
organizations. See how an IT team at a fictional outdoor equipment retailer, the Sample Outdoor company, can reduce costs and mitigate risks with realistic testing by using IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Capture and Replay for DB2 on z/OS.
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Demos | 11 Jan 2013 |
| DB2 10: Run Oracle applications on DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
IBM DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has out-of-the-box support for
Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL dialects. This allows many applications written
against Oracle to execute against DB2 virtually unchanged. In this article,
get a high-level overview of what Oracle compatibility means in DB2. Whether
you want to switch your custom application to DB2 or extend your DBMS vendor
support to DB2, now is your time.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM AIX system administration, part 1: Installation
This knowledge path series introduce how to install IBM AIX (using CDs or online), create a virtualized environment, and configure console management.
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Knowledge paths | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Tips for using SQL to query foreign key relationships
This article discusses how to write SQL queries to find foreign key
relationships in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows database. Given a
table with a primary key, you will learn how to return the children and
descendant tables, as well as the referential integrity (RI) relationship
paths from the parent table to these children and descendants. Also, you
will see how the query can be modified to return the results for all tables
in the database.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Tips and techniques for WebSphere eXtreme Scale DynaCache in WebSphere Commerce
environments, Part 1: General caching and WebSphere eXtreme Scale servers
This series focuses on the best practices for the integration of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale DyanCache in WebSphere Commerce Server environments. WebSphere eXtreme Scale is a distributed caching solution that is a popular provider of DyanCache in large WebSphere Commerce Server environments. WebSphere Commerce Server customers have successfully integrated WebSphere eXtreme Scale DynaCache in large and small production environments. While the configuration of WebSphere eXtreme Scale DynaCache in a WebSphere Commerce Server environment is simple, you need to pay special attention to the best practices for design, usage, operational patterns, and tuning.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Mask archived and extracted data directly into CSV, XML and ECM
formats using InfoSphere Optim Data Masking Solution
Learn how file format types that are now supported by IBM InfoSphere Optim
Data Masking Solution will help you to increase the interoperability of your data and
support data privacy and security requirements. This article describes options to convert your data
to XML, CSV, or ECM format types, and explains how various threshold limits can be
applied. In addition, you'll learn how to apply data privacy
modules for these file format types and how to manage LOB and XML data
types during this process.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise management, Part 4: Create images with ICCT
A software bundle is a collection of software installation files, configuration files, and metadata that can be deployed on a virtual machine instance.
In this final article, the authors describe the three mechanisms to create images using ICCT to capture a customized image and the mechanism to manually add a dependency between an image and a software bundle by updating the semantic topology file.
The ICCT performs bookkeeping tasks and provides a step-by-step process and a graphical
interface to conveniently create software bundles, customize virtual machine instances, and capture images.
This series shows how to use ICCT to create a software bundle, then register and maintain it on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Evaluate: IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
Download a free trial of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a true IaaS
solution that enables you to build a low-touch, highly scalable
cloud, reduces costs and offers near-zero downtime and automated
recovery. You can also download a trial of IBM SmartCloud
Provisioning V2.1 for Developers.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Trial Downloads | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM AIX system administration, part 3: Virtualization
This knowledge path series will introduce AIX virtualization.
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Knowledge paths | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM AIX system administration, part 4: Performance
Performance management is a vital part of any IBM® AIX® implementation. Learn how to diagnose and understand your AIX performance, and then tune and monitor your system to help you achieve optimum performance.
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Knowledge paths | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM AIX system administration, part 2: Management
This knowledge path outlines how to set up the IBM AIX storage, network and system management after you have installed AIX in your environment.
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Knowledge paths | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Evaluate: Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations
Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations simplifies the backup and recovery of valuable information on your employees’ personal computers. This centrally-managed solution reduces the risks of losing important information stored on thousands of personal computers across an entire enterprise. It captures every new and changed file as it is saved to disk, automatically and continuously, protects against file or system loss, and helps to meet corporate governance requirements by protecting important data distributed on personal computers.
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Trial Downloads | 10 Jan 2013 |
| Deploying DB2 pureScale with IBM Storwize V7000 6.4.0.1
A key aspect to the DB2 pureScale solution lies around the capabilities
of the underlying storage. In addition to that, DB2 pureScale takes advantage of
specific storage capabilities to enhance the solution. This paper will take you through
the value proposition of DB2 pureScale on IBM Storwize V7000 storage demonstrating a
solution that meets the needs of even the most demanding businesses.
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Articles | 10 Jan 2013 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise management, Part 3: Clone and modify an asset for customized provisioning
A software bundle is a collection of software installation files, configuration files, and metadata that can be deployed on a virtual machine instance.
In Part 3 of this series, the authors show how to use the IBM Image Construction and
Composition Tool (ICCT) to customize an image by cloning and modifying a Rational Asset
Manager (RAM) asset. The ICCT performs bookkeeping tasks and provides a step-by-step process and a graphical UI to conveniently create software bundles, customize virtual machine instances, and capture images.
This series shows how to use ICCT to create a software bundle, then register and maintain it on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 09 Jan 2013 |
| Exercise: IBM BPM in action
Use IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) V8.0.1 to model and run business processes in a
visual, code-free environment. Map your business processes with an easy-to-use web
dashboard. Change, analyze, and optimize processes using a seamless graphical environment.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Trial Downloads | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Error handling in embedded SQL for C/C++ on IBM z/OS systems
This guide to detecting SQL errors in C/C++ applications with embedded SQL on the z/OS platform includes sample code for performing simple error-checking and a more advanced technique for more in-depth error analysis. All material is based on and tested with IBM z/OS DB2 Versions 8 to 10 and z/OS XL C/C++ compilers V1R11 to V1R13.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Safety-related software development using a model-based testing workflow
Developing safety-related software, where failure can result in injury
or loss of life, such as in airplanes, automobiles, trains, or medical
devices, requires extra care and effort. The delivery of safe code that is
compliant with strict development standards and guidelines such as DO-178C,
DO-178B, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or IEC 62304, can result in increased time and
cost of the project. This article describes how to use the Rhapsody Reference
workflow included with the IBM Rational Rhapsody Kit for ISO 26262 and IEC
61508 for development of safety-related applications. You will learn about the Rhapsody Reference workflow, and how model-based testing with the Rational Rhapsody TestConductor Add On can be used to verify the model and the generated code. It reduces the time to deliver high-quality software yet still complies with safety standards.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Develop easy real-time websites with Meteor
Because of the ubiquity of the web, even small delays in the delivery of
data can be an irritant to users. They want data to update immediately.
Unfortunately, web technology has not quite caught up to this demand for
real-time access. While data access is being rapidly standardized into several
classes of Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), real-time communication has no
such solution. This article discusses Meteor, an exciting new JavaScript
framework that aims to solve this problem.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Three steps to rapid development of high-quality medical devices within regulatory norms
Medical device developers face challenges that are different from developing products in most other industries. Chief among these is the imperative of compliance with safety regulations and industry standards. Three IBM experts describe three steps that help accelerate development, yet still produce high-quality devices that comply with regulations.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Agile DevOps: Continuous software delivery in the cloud
When developers and operations work together in a collaborative manner, they often need one place to manage the software delivery process and pipeline of changes. A Continuous Delivery (CD) platform addresses this need. In this Agile DevOps installment, DevOps expert Paul Duvall lays out how you can use OpenDelivery, an open CD platform.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| HTML5 2D game development: Implementing Sprite behaviors
In this series, HTML5 maven David Geary shows you how to implement an HTML5 2D video game one step at a time. In this installment, you'll learn how to implement the essence of any video game: sprite behaviors.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| Use SAML assertions from an application server acting as an identity provider
With the advent of cloud computing, many companies
rely on third-party service providers that reside outside their
network. However, a company might want to integrate its existing single
sign-on (SSO) feature with these service providers but perform authentication with
their own identity provider. Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML) is the industry standard for identity propagation of an authenticated subject between
a company's identity provider and a third-party service. In this article,
learn how to enable SSO so an employee can log in to a third-party service provider using company
credentials.
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Articles | 08 Jan 2013 |
| The NIM cheat sheet
Have you ever had to install a large number of IBM AIX servers from scratch? Do you need a quick and easy way to create and store operating system backups? Would you like to know how to perform AIX operating system migrations on live servers quickly? Well, here is your complete cheat sheet for setting up and using the Network Installation Manager (NIM) tool in AIX. Learn how to set up the server and client components, perform a basic installation, use NIM to create mksysb backups, and perform alt_disk migrations over the network.
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Articles | 07 Jan 2013 |
| Best practices to develop SLAs for cloud computing
You can't rush the process of developing service level agreements (SLAs) between cloud consumers and providers. What service guarantees do consumers expect? What terms and conditions can cloud computing providers and consumers agree on? What terminologies will they use? Plus, the cloud provider must evaluate its relationships and SLAs with vendors, enterprise data centers, network providers, and content providers. There's much to consider. In this article, the author discusses some best practices and how SLAs can be standardized.
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Articles | 07 Jan 2013 |
| Develop Worklight adapters with AT&T mobile APIs
IBM Worklight provides an adapter framework
and tools to connect mobile applications to back-end systems
and web-based APIs. This article walks you through the process
of developing and testing a Worklight adapter, using the
Short Message Service (SMS) API provided by
AT&T as an example.
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Articles | 06 Jan 2013 |
| Bash by example, Part 2
In his introductory article on bash, Daniel Robbins walked you through
some of the scripting language's basic elements and reasons for using bash. In
this, the second installment, Daniel picks up where he left off and looks at
bash's basic constructs like conditional (if-then) statements, looping, and
more.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 04 Jan 2013 |
| Maqetta means mockup, Part 1: Design an HTML5 mobile UI
Need to prototype an HTML5 app? Forget coding.
Hand-eye coordination is just about all you need to
prototype with Maqetta,
a browser-based WYSIWYG tool for desktop and mobile applications.
This first article in a three-part series introduces this
free, open source project that runs in a browser and lets designers
drag and drop a rich set of widgets to build live UI mockups. In Part 1,
get to know Maqetta's major functions and features while prototyping a
realistic mobile application.
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Articles | 04 Jan 2013 |
| Decompose legacy systems on PaaS to build SaaS applications
Increasingly, businesses and government agencies find themselves in the position to replace components of a tightly coupled
legacy system with loosely coupled components of a Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Many
see Platform as a Service (PaaS) as a better option than using a mainframe for decomposing a
legacy system into components and building a SaaS application from them. A major drawback is that
dependencies between service components in a legacy system can be very complex. This
article provides
guidance on decomposing legacy systems in a PaaS environment.
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Articles | 04 Jan 2013 |
| Learning PHP, Part 3: Authentication, objects, exceptions, and streaming
This tutorial is Part 3 of a three-part "Learning PHP" series teaching you how to use PHP through building a simple workflow application. In this tutorial, you will learn about using HTTP authentication, streaming files, and how to create objects and exceptions.
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Tutorial | 03 Jan 2013 |
| Learning PHP, Part 2: Upload files and use XML or JSON to store and display file information
This tutorial is Part 2 of a three-part "Learning PHP" series teaching you how to use PHP through building a simple workflow application.
Take this tutorial if you have a basic understanding of PHP and want to learn about uploading files from the browser, sessions, or using PHP to process XML or JSON.
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Tutorial | 03 Jan 2013 |
| Configuring DB2 pureScale for backup and restore using Storwize V7000 V6.4.0.1
FlashCopy
The DB2 pureScale feature leverages the IBM Storwize V7000 storage system
FlashCopy services to mitigate critical requirements from the customer in an extremely
efficient manner. The FlashCopy function enables you to make point-in-time, full volume
copies of data, with the copies immediately available for read or write access. This
article describes the steps required to deploy a FlashCopy solution with the Storwize
V7000 storage subsystem.
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Articles | 03 Jan 2013 |
| IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management solution, Part 2: Using a column map procedure
Learn how to pass parameters within a script to mask data, and how to modify the output process report to include
information about the masking process.
Specifying
parameters within a script gives you more flexibility in
determining what records are masked and how your data is masked.
The demo also shows how to view before and after images of the data you masked to
ensure that the data was masked, as requested.
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Demos | 03 Jan 2013 |
| IBM Accelerator for Machine Data Analytics, Part
1: Speeding up machine data analysis
Machine logs from diverse sources are generated in an enterprise in
voluminous quantities. IBM Accelerator for Machine Data Analytics simplifies the task
of implementation required so analysis of semi-structured, unstructured or structured
textual data is accelerated.
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Articles | 03 Jan 2013 |
| Shuffling disk data around
Data maintenance on disks is a common task for any system administrator. A quite frequent task in my experience is data movement. This may be due to hotspots on your disk, a quick fix is to move some logical volumes off to another disk to ease congestion. The migratelp command is your trusted friend in this situation. When you are experiencing a failing disk or you are migrating data from one disk to another disk, you can use the migratepv command or create a mirror copy, and you are not restricted to just one method. For original volume groups (VGs), when adding a disk to the VG, you may run into a factoring issue. However, by understanding the characteristics of the VG, the factoring can be changed. These common disk maintenance tasks are discussed with examples in this article.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Tips for an IBM Connections 3.0.1-to-4.0 database migration
This article explains how to troubleshoot an IBM Connections 3.0.1 to 4.0 database migration, including the database transfer process, and provides solutions to common issues and advice that can help you avoid the issues in the first place.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Determining the best deployment topology for IBM Connections 4.0
Learn how to determine which topology is the best for your environment and what structure is recommended from a performance standpoint before deploying IBM Connections 4.0.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Introducing the IBM Connections 4 plug-ins installer for IBM Lotus Notes
Learn about the new IBM Connections 4.0 plug-ins installer for IBM Lotus Notes. This new installer is based on the Addon installer but has some differences from the existing Connections plug-ins for Lotus Notes installer.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Migrating from IBM Connections 3.0.1.x to 4.0: Best practices
Down time is a major concern for most users when performing a migration. This article summarizes the best practices for migrating from IBM Connections 3.0.1 to 4.0, based on our experience with customer support. We explain how to upgrade databases and the steps for Content Store and IBM WebSphere Application Server-side migration.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Performance tuning guide: IBM WebSphere Portal Express 8 on IBM i V7R1
This white paper discusses performance tuning recommendations that are specific to running IBM WebSphere Portal on the IBM i platform, focusing on the WebSphere Portal Express 8.0 and IBM i (i5/OS) V7R1 / V7R1M1 profile and platform versions. Our emphasis is on platform-level recommendations unique to the IBM i that are minimally discussed in the existing WebSphere Portal performance tuning guides.
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Articles | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Optimization and Decision Support Design Guide: Using IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager
This IBM Redbooks publication introduces you to the IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (ODM) Enterprise. This decision-support application provides the capabilities you need to take full advantage of optimization technology. Applications built with IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise can help users create, compare, and understand planning or scheduling scenarios. They can also adjust any of the model inputs or goals, and fully understanding the binding constraints, trade-offs, sensitivities, and business options.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| DB2 for z/OS and List Prefetch Optimizer
In this IBM Redpaper publication, we show DB2 10 for z/OS performance measurements using DS8000 R6.2 and R6.3 with DS8800 and solid-state drives. The measurements highlight both the reduction gained in synchronous I/O and the reduced dependency on data reorganization. This combination offers the opportunity for better performance to critical SQL applications that access large fragments of disorganized data.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| IMS 12: The IMS Catalog
This IBM Redpaper publication describes the IMS catalog, a trusted online source for both IBM IMS database and application metadata information, and its use by IMS Open Database and IMS Explorer. This paper targets application developers who can benefit from these simplification and integration functions when they are facing any large-scale deployment of the IMS Open Database solution.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Temenos T24 with IBM DB2 and AIX
This IBM Redpaper publication serves as a guide to help IT architects and other technical staff who are designing, configuring, and building the infrastructure to support Temenos T24. It shows how IBM software can deliver high availability and disaster recovery for Temenos T24 to meet a client's requirements. This software might run on IBM AIX, IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ Server, and IBM DB2. These IBM software components are typically used for a Temenos T24 deployment on an IBM middleware stack to ensure a highly available infrastructure for T24.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Customizing and Extending IBM Content Navigator
This IBM Redbooks publication has an overview of the functions and features that IBM Content Navigator offers, and describes how you can configure and customize the user interface with the administration tools that are provided. This book also describes the extension points and customization options of IBM Content Navigator and how you can customize and extend it with sample code. Specifically, the book shows you how to set up a development environment, and develop plug-ins that add new actions and provide special production imaging layout to the user interface. Other customization topics include working with external data services, using IBM Content Navigator widgets externally in other applications, and wrapping the widgets as iWidgets to be used in other applications. In addition, this book describes how to reuse IBM Content Navigator components in mobile development, and how to work with existing viewer or incorporate third-party viewer into IBM Content Navigator.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Powerful and Easy Content Management and Business Analytics with IBM Content Navigator
This IBM Redbooks Solution Guide provides an overview of the IBM Content Navigator, which is a ready-to-use, modern, standards-based user interface that supports Enterprise Content Management (ECM) use cases, including collaborative document management, production imaging, and report management. It is also a flexible and powerful user platform for building custom ECM applications by using open web-based standards.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| InfoSphere Data Replication for DB2 for z/OS and WebSphere Message Queue for z/OS: Performance Lessons
This Redpaper reports results and lessons learned from performance testing at the IBM laboratories, and it provides configuration and tuning recommendations for DB2, Q Replication, and MQ. The application workload and database characteristics studied include transaction size, table schema complexity, and DB2 data type.
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Redbooks | 02 Jan 2013 |
| Sharing physical volumes across logical partitions on IBM Power Systems servers
This article explains the process of sharing physical volumes (PVs) across multiple logical partitions (LPARs). This kind of environment is required for a cluster setup.
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Articles | 24 Dec 2012 |
| Sybase to DB2 migration, Part 4: Issues and resolutions
Information assets are key to day-to-day business. They are also a huge
source of institutional value and intellectual property that must be preserved,
extended, and repurposed as the systems underpinning them change. Given the current
business environment, migration has taken on strategic importance for a number of
reasons. This article helps you to understand and map various features and data types of
Sybase and DB2.
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Articles | 20 Dec 2012 |
| App Dev Throwdown at IBM Connect 2013
IBM will be holding its annual App Dev Throwdown at IBM Connect 2013 to showcase social business innovation from our partner community. Submit your social business application for a chance to compete on the main stage at Connect 2013!
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Trial Downloads | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Implementing a queue manager alias and cluster with WebSphere MQ
This article shows you how to set up queue manager aliases in WebSphere MQ V6 and V7, and describes their significance for clustered environments and load balancing. It then covers two load balancing scenarios -- a queue manager outside a cluster communicating with queue managers inside it, and a queue manager inside a cluster communicating with queue managers outside it.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| SOA governance using WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Service
Registry and Repository, Part 2: Authoring and enforcing custom policy vocabularies
Part 1 of this article series introduced the new message mediation
capability that WebSphere DataPower implemented in the 5.0.0 version of the
appliance firmware. This article, Part 2, will explain how to extend these
capabilities even further by enabling the use of custom policy vocabularies to
deploy specific proxy processing patterns not covered by built-in policy
domains.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Introduction to the WebSphere Message Broker global cache
The new global cache feature in WebSphere Message Broker V8.0.0.1 enables you to share an in-memory cache between processes and brokers.
This article describes the global cache, shows you how to use it, and answers some frequently asked questions about it.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Querying and creating objects in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository using XPath and REST
Several Websphere Service Registry and Repository APIs build queries using XPath. This article shows you how to use the syntax and build the queries into your applications,
and how to use REST to execute queries and create objects.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Interactive tool to run REST APIs of IBM Systems Director
This article covers the interactive tool to run Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs) of IBM Systems Director VMControl. This tool provides a command-line interface (CLI) interface to invoke REST APIs for IBM Systems Director VMControl.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Functional thinking: Laziness, Part 2
Implementing lazy evaluation is easy in a language that supports closures. This Functional thinking installment shows how to derive a lazy list using Groovy's closures as building blocks. Then it explores some of the performance and conceptual benefits of lazy evaluation, including the ability to initialize fields lazily in some languages.
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Evaluate: IBM Rational Software Architect
Download your free trial and access support resources here. Rational
Software Architect is an advanced and comprehensive application design, modeling
and development tool for end-to-end software delivery.
Also available in:
Chinese
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Trial Downloads | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Introduction to IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters (Standard Edition v1.0)
Learn about IBM Rational Lifecycle Adapters for HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA,
and Git. See how they integrate IBM Rational Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) tools (Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager) with non-IBM tools (HP ALM, JIRA and Git).
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Demos | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Tips and tricks for tailoring code generation with IBM Rational Rhapsody in Ada
See the range of techniques for tailoring Ada code generation using
Rhapsody properties. This demo highlights some additional ideas and best practices, such as use of UML profiles and stereotypes to convey code generation properties and touches on some of Rhapsody's extended capabilities such as the ability to add project-specific checks to Rhapsody's model checker. For ultimate control there is also a short demo of the Rules Composer Add On, an authoring environment for modifying and building code-generators for Rhapsody. With the exception of Rules Composer all the best practices covered here are equally applicable to the C, C++ and Java programming languages with Rhapsody.
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Demos | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Develop a CICS Java-based Axis2 web service
IBM CICS Version 4.2 introduced support for Java-based Axis2 web services, which enables services to be developed in Java and supported through an Axis2 pipeline to interface with CICS COBOL applications. Amy Silberbauer provides an alternative for web services development when starting with complex service definitions in WSDL, using Rational tools. She focuses on a meet-in-the-middle approach, whereby services interfaces are generated from the WSDL, and services implementation remains in the CICS COBOL business applications. This provides a complete, multiplatform solution to services development.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Simplify Rational Build Forge projects with an external control file
IBM Rational Build Forge is a web-based tool for automating build and deployment tasks. Build Forge projects that require too many steps, checkpoints, and exceptions can become tedious to create and difficult to maintain. This article explains how to simplify those types of Build Forge projects by using an external control file. We begin with a brief explanation of how Build Forge projects work and then present this solution as an easy way to simplify things.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Adapting agile requirements practices to ongoing enterprise improvement efforts: DevOps to the rescue
Although Development and Operations teams both face daily pressure for continuous improvement and shorter time to market, their respective priorities, needs, and methods can conflict. Cherifa Mansoura explains how to scale disciplined agile delivery and agile requirements practices in a DevOps environment for future maintenance and operations on existing products. She also discusses the role of a business analyst in ensuring good collaboration between the two teams.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Using Investment Analysis in Rational Focal Point: Part 2. Build an advanced financial model and compare results for two projects
This article describes how to build a financial model for a car manufacturing project and then reuse the variables for another project and compare the financial results.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Overview of IBM Integrated Solution for System z Development
Learn about IBM Integrated Solution for System z Development, some of it's capabilities, and it's constituent member products.
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Demos | 18 Dec 2012 |
| IBM PureSystems: Acquire skills
This knowledge path introduces skills necessary to work with expert integrated systems and virtual patterns; skills required to develop, deploy, and manage virtual pattern and PureSystems components.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Knowledge paths | 18 Dec 2012 |
| IBM PureSystems: Getting started with virtual patterns
This knowledge path introduces basic expert integrated systems concepts. It includes how to engage expert integrated systems and reusable patterns of expertise for deployment, development, integration, maintenance, and configuration. Learn about virtual patterns and how patterns can relate to cloud computing activities.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Knowledge paths | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Characterizing code for refactoring
The primary purpose of writing characterization tests is to protect
business functionality from inadvertent side-effects when difficult-to-change code
needs to be modified. Untested or poorly tested legacy code can be complex, difficult to read, and not injectible -- all of which makes it hard to change when you need to. This article explains how to characterize such code properly for unit testing so that you can refactor it safely.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| IBM@JavaOne 2012, Part 2: Roundup of the IBM sessions
IBM was active throughout JavaOne 2012, leading numerous technical talks and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions, participating in panels, and delivering an opening-day keynote. This article summarizes IBM's contributions to the conference. Get synopses of the IBM sessions you might have missed, and view the video or presentation slides for many of them.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Using Investment Analysis in Rational Focal Point: Part 1. Build a simple financial model for a software project
Rational Focal Point is widely used to manage product portfolios, IT portfolios, and application portfolios. One of the key features of this tool that can be used for analyzing the investments of any business is the Investment Analysis component. This two-part article explains how to use this feature, following two different scenarios as examples. Part 1 shows you how to build a simple financial model for a software project, and Part 2 describes a more advanced model that reuses the financial model from another project and compares results.
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Articles | 18 Dec 2012 |
| Use Apache Deltacloud to administer multiple instances with a single API
Become familiar with the core concepts of Apache Deltacloud, a web-based
framework that lets you use a single web application or API to administer instances on
many different cloud providers. Learn how to install and set up Deltacloud; discover
its API basic features that let you script provisioning for virtual machines on a host of different cloud providers. Explore examples of using Deltacloud to start instances on Amazon EC2 and get information about instances on IBM SmartCloud.
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Articles | 17 Dec 2012 |
| Understand and troubleshoot Websphere Commerce fix pack and ifix
installation
Develop a deeper understanding of WebSphere Commerce ifix
and fix pack installation processes in a runtime environment. Improve your ability to troubleshoot
problems during maintenance installation.
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Articles | 17 Dec 2012 |
| Debug those mysterious problems with your application's memory
Debugging heap memory problems within an application can be difficult on any platform. Fortunately, IBM i 6.1 and later releases provide support to help debug heap memory problems within the ILE environment. This article explains what heap memory is and illustrates the correct usage of heap memory from several ILE languages, including C, C++, RPG, COBOL, and CL. It also describes some of the common problems that occur when using the heap memory and how to use the support provided on IBM i to debug those problems.
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Articles | 14 Dec 2012 |
| Using InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server Java APIs
IBM InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server exposes several interfaces through which the
system can be customized - InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server scripting, and InfoSphere MDM
Collaboration Server Java APIs being the major interfaces. This article provides the
details of developing applications using InfoSphere MDM Server Collaboration Server Java
APIs in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Steps required
to set up the environment, create the Java API-based project, run the classes, and debug
using Eclipse IDE are highlighted in this article. Sample code is provided to illustrate
the steps used in the development.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Real-time transliteration using InfoSphere Streams custom Java operator and
ICU4J
With the ever growing importance of Internet monitoring and sentiment
analysis, there is an immediate need for identifying patterns (performing text analytics)
in big data. However, one of the challenges during this exercise is that countries can
have multiple languages that creates a challenge for effectively running the text
analytics, since rules are not available for all the languages. For example, in India,
the official language of each state is different and data is available in both English
and local languages. This article describes how to bring about consistency during the
transliteration process, and to use IBM InfoSphere Streams to prepare linguistic data
and apply text analytics or pattern recognition logic.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Perform trigger-based JSP cache invalidation using the Madisons starter store
JSP caching is used extensively in IBM WebSphere Commerce
to enhance the performance of the store. This article provides examples – using the Madisons starter
store – to show you how to create and use triggers to perform JSP cache invalidations. Create triggers by
inserting entries into the table that
records changes to product or category information in the database. After you create the triggers,
learn how to run a scheduled job to process database tables and assign cache invalidations.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Manage spatial data with IBM DB2 Spatial Extender, Part
2: Implementing typical spatial use cases
This "Manage spatial data with IBM DB2 Spatial Extender" series of
tutorials takes you through common tasks that work with spatial data in the
DB2/reg> Spatial Extender. These tasks include importing and creating spatial
data, constructing and executing spatial queries, working with IBM spatial
tools, working with third-party and open source software, improving
application performance, and taking special considerations in a data warehouse
environment.
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Tutorial | 13 Dec 2012 |
| POSIX and Olson time zone formats
This article helps you to understand various time zone formats, interpret the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) format, and understand the output of the zdump command with examples.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Understanding roles in IBM Connection 4.0 Metrics
The IBM Connections 4.0 Metrics application has four kinds of roles: "metrics-report-run", "admin", "community-metrics-run", and "metrics-reader". This article introduces these roles, including their purpose and default mapped user, and what they do within Connections Metrics.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Best practices for developing plug-ins for an IBM Lotus Notes standard client
At times the IBM Notes standard client's custom plug-ins can interfere with the product's startup, exit, or routine usage. If not used properly, the APIs provided by the Notes client can lead to problems. The article presents some of the best practices to avoid any impact to the core product as well as useful tips for plug-in developers.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Introducing IBM Connection 4.0 Metrics reports
Learn all about the many types of IBM Connections 4.0 Metrics reports. We begin by discussing some common terms that appear in many reports, and we then categorize the metrics reports into particular types and then explain each category and Metrics report.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Use developerWorks to engage with the IT community
developerWorks' podcast host, Scott Laningham, talks about how to put
your expertise out there where IT practitioners can take advantage of what you know and help establish your leadership credentials in the process. See how to use developerWorks to follow, amplify, and create knowledge and community.
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Video and audio | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Sybase to DB2 migration, Part 3: Test strategy
Information assets are key to day-to-day business. They are also a huge
source of institutional value and intellectual property that must be preserved,
extended, and repurposed as the systems underpinning them change. Given the current
business environment, migration has taken on strategic importance for a number of
reasons. This article helps you to understand various processes, verifications, and
validations of post database migration.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2012 |
| Creating a Decision Server Events runtime in WebSphere
Operational Decision Management V7.5, Part 2: Configuring a highly available and scalable environment
T>This two-part series describes how to create a Decision Server Events
environment in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5. Part 1 took you
through the steps for building a standalone environment. Part 2 walks you
through the steps for building a highly available and scalable
environment.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Deploying a BPM pattern on IBM PureApplication System
In this article, you'll learn how to use IBM PureApplication System to
deploy clustered IBM Business Process Manager V8 Advanced environments
using BPM patterns with all the functionality and security features.
You can connect this BPM cloud environment to other existing
on-premise software components.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Generate PDF files from Java applications dynamically
If your application needs to generate PDF documents dynamically, you need the iText library. The open source iText library makes PDF creation a snap. This article introduces iText and gives a step-by-step guide to using it to generate PDF documents from Java technology applications. We create a sample application to better understand iText.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Creating plug-ins for virtual application patterns, Part 1: An
introduction
Part 1 of this article series teaches you how to develop plug-ins for
virtual application patterns in IBM Workload Deployer and IBM
PureApplication Systems. The examples presented here are also
applicable to IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Services.
This article walks you through a simple example as it
teaches you key concepts necessary to begin developing plug-ins and pattern
types.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Configuring WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software to interact with SAP
CRM
This article explains how to configure the external interface adapter
within the Customer Relationship
Management - SAP CRM - to convert BDOCs
to IDOCs, which can be consumed by WebSphere Adapter for SAP
Software.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Integrating a mobile application to access SalesForce.com data with IBM
Worklight and IBM WebSphere Cast Iron
How can you build a mobile application that retrieves information from a
Customer Relationship Management system? Using IBM Worklight and WebSphere
Cast Iron solutions, you will learn how you can easily and quickly deploy a
mobile application for any type of smartphone or tablet that is connected to
WebSphere Cast Iron to handle SalesForce.com data.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Care process management: Using BPM tools and methodology in the healthcare environment
Historically, healthcare excellence has been achieved through
individual practitioners focusing on being best in their medical
discipline. The industry has evolved into a series of independent
providers and processes, focusing on intervention. Focusing within each
discipline does not provide consideration for the overall patient
experience. Today, the healthcare industry is marked by its poor design,
high fragmentation, and stunning inefficiency. Care Process Management
(CPM) uses best practices for business process management to improve
clinical outcomes without changing care processes or displacing the role
of health workers.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Creating a Decision Server Events runtime in WebSphere Operational Decision
Management V7.5, Part 1: Configuring a standalone environment
This two-part series describes how to create a Decision Server Events
environment in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5. Part 1 walks
through the steps for building a standalone environment. Part 2
will go through the steps for building a highly available and scalable environment.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Deploying process applications in IBM Business Process Manager V8
A business process developer designs an application based on certain assumptions.
The application can be developed using either one of the IBM Business Process
Manager tools - IBM Integration Designer
or Process Designer. When the application is ready, it can be deployed from either tool
to Process Server. This tutorial describes the options for installing,
deploying, and managing process applications. The process application life cycle includes
installing, administering, and un-deploying versions of the application.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: Solving an IBM Cognos 10.2 PowerCube Package Attribute and Measure Translation Issue
The purpose of this document is to outline the scenario in which IBM Cognos Business Intelligence(BI) reports fail after being deployed to IBM Cognos 10.2.X BI. The document will also provide the steps required to fix any report errors that are caused by this particular scenario.
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Articles | 12 Dec 2012 |
| Agile DevOps: Dynamic configuration
Between applications, environments, and individual instances, how much
time do you spend managing configuration values? Probably much more than you'd expect
or would like to admit. Configuration management doesn't have to be such a painful
experience. This time, DevOps expert Paul Duvall describes how to manage configuration data to reduce the duplication and misconfiguration that can lead to deployment errors.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: IBM Cognos BI - Freezing Headers in Report Studio Crosstabs and Lists
This document describes how to achieve freezing on Crosstab and List row or column headers in IBM Cognos Report Studio using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: IBM Cognos Insight - Sourcing Data from Macro-Enabled Spreadsheets
This document will illustrate steps to source data for IBM Cognos Insight from a macro-enabled Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| Using the HTML5 IndexedDB API
The Indexed Database (IndexedDB) API, part of HTML5, is useful
for creating rich, data-intensive, offline HTML5 web applications that need to
locally store data. It's also useful for locally caching data to make
traditional online web applications such as mobile web applications faster and
more responsive. This article demonstrates how to manage IndexedDB databases.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| Send system notifications to social media with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) easily integrates with a wide
variety of environments with minimal disruptions. Its plug-and-play nature
provides easy prototyping and implementation. In this article, learn how to
use the TDI framework to extend integration components and gain easy access to
a range of management tools. The tools help you perform system configuration
and send real-time notifications to external applications or to social media sites
such as Twitter.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| What defines success with public sector enterprise architecture
To ensure success, enterprise architecture programs in the public sector must be carried out in a somewhat different manner than in the private sector. This article looks at a series of successful enterprise architecture programs in the public sector from around the world and identifies the common characteristics that seem to have contributed to their outcomes. The findings point to the importance of political leadership, federated governance, and shared enterprise frameworks.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
| Improve your productivity by using the debugger in Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software features an integrated source-level debugger that helps you debug applications written in different languages and running on different platforms. The key feature of the debugger is that its user interface client connects remotely to a debugger engine running on a different machine. This article shows you how to use the debugger's core features, its advanced features, and its integration with the rest of Rational Developer for Power Systems and other IBM technology.
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Articles | 11 Dec 2012 |
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