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Report Indexing / Re: COLUMN DELIMITER ERROR

« on: September 29, 2020, 05:40:05 AM »

Hey Dave...

Yeah, I've seen my fair share of problematic vendors and lines of business sending bad data through systems.  Sometimes we catch it early, sometimes we have to back-pedal to fix things.  I always try to impress upon management that, as an archive, the more things you do to tweak bad data, the worse it looks to a judge in the midst of a lawsuit.  Having to admit that you alter data before or during load, or change records after they've been loaded, or selectively delete data...  that's just terrible for an organization's credibility. 

...but we do the best we can. 

-JD.

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Report Indexing / Re: COLUMN DELIMITER ERROR

« on: September 28, 2020, 11:35:30 AM »

Yup, stuff like this needs to get sent upstream for resolution.  As archivists, we shouldn't be manipulating data on its way into CMOD.  It calls into question the authenticity of the archive.

-JD.

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Content Navigator / Re: AFP2PDF Plus Permission errors

« on: September 28, 2020, 09:57:35 AM »

Yeah, this is the tricky thing.  Umask settings are 'inherited' from the environment - you'll want to work with your UNIX system administrators to have the umask set in a configuration file, so that it's set early enough to be in effect when websphere/ICN starts.

-JD.

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Report Indexing / Re: COLUMN DELIMITER ERROR

« on: September 28, 2020, 09:51:52 AM »

The field delimiter is usually the tab character (Hex 09).  Check the file for tab characters inside the index.

-JD.

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Content Navigator / Re: AFP2PDF Plus Permission errors

« on: September 24, 2020, 11:43:36 AM »

It's the umask setting on the server's userid where the transform is running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

-JD.

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iSeries / Re: Backing up CMOD on iSeries

« on: September 24, 2020, 10:48:38 AM »

The only snag is, that specific Redbook is 15 years old.  Ouch.

-JD.

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Report Indexing / Re: Character translation

« on: September 21, 2020, 07:53:34 AM »

Heh...  You two were up early this morning. 

I'm glad to see it was as simple as changing the codepage...  +1 to Darrell!

-JD.

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MP Server / Re: CMOD UUID for Existing Records

« on: September 18, 2020, 07:02:14 AM »

The easiest is to copy your AG, add the Globally Unique ID field definition and make any other configuration changes you might want (CMOD Encryption, Document Hashes, segment sizes, compression types) and reload everything.

I've got an amazingly fast CMOD extraction & migration utility that will make this process very simple.  Send me an eMail to discuss.

-JD.

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Report Indexing / Re: Character translation

« on: September 18, 2020, 06:57:13 AM »

Can you give us a run-down of the whole process?  Where the file is produced, how it's transferred, your Application definition (codepages, user exits), is it transformed on the way out of CMOD, which client are you using, is there any translation on the client side, etc, etc...

Codepages are like timezone libraries...  We do our very best to avoid scratching the finely polished exterior to see the horrors just below the surface!

-JD. 

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MP Server / Re: CMOD File Size Limit

« on: September 14, 2020, 06:31:50 AM »

PPD in this case means Page Piece Dictionary, a way of indexing PDFs in CMOD.

Check out Bud Paton's amazing presentation:  http://www.odusergroup.org/forums/index.php?topic=1724.0  (For non-registered visitors or ODUG, you need to register to get access to our webinar replays.)

-JD.

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General / Re: Failed Loading AFP to OD server

« on: September 10, 2020, 08:33:00 AM »

Ask the CMOD team to send you the log from the load.  It's difficult to impossible to start diagnosing the problem without the error messages! 

You can paste the error message in here to share, but PLEASE remove any private information - server names or IP addresses, user ids, passwords, and the like before submitting it to the forums! 

-JD.

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MP Server / Re: Monitoring CMOD Windows Service using PowerShell or other Scripting?

« on: September 10, 2020, 08:30:33 AM »

I've never used it on windows, but maybe the CMOD arslog logging exit could be used to detect a database error, then check on CMOD after a short delay and restart it?

-JD.

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MP Server / Re: CMOD File Size Limit

« on: September 09, 2020, 09:13:01 AM »

I'd stick with 2GB.  And tax forms are usually quite small, so that should hold several thousand forms each.

-JD.

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MP Server / Re: CMOD File Size Limit

« on: September 09, 2020, 08:47:54 AM »

If these are things like customer statements or letters, you should aim to have each individual document be less than 50MB, just for performance reasons. 

The 50MB limit is more of a warning than an error, simply because retrieving tens or hundreds of megabytes is a slow process, even today. 

I think the limitation of a a single PDF is 2GB (although I suspect newer versions have increased that limitation).

One of the Unicom / IBM folks should probably chime in here and give us the official answer though. 

-JD.

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Report Indexing / Re: Graphical Indexer

« on: September 01, 2020, 06:41:50 AM »

Can you provide the actual arsload command you're running?  Or is arsload running as a daemon?

Both errors seem like they might be related to problems with having spaces in file paths or AG names.

-JD.