Enterprises both large and small need to process various types of files and connect them to disparate and distributed applications spread across enterprise data centers. As the underlying infrastructure gets more dispersed and complex, it becomes a challenge to gain end-to-end visibility of transactions that involve files, data transformations, connectivity logic, protocol conversions, and final data posted to different applications.

This article addresses the situation in which the look and feel of an IBM WebSphere Portal page is designed by a User Interface (UI) design expert, and the actual productization of these styles are done by the another developer. 

The UI design expert prepares the styles---like Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS) or a sample HTML)--- per the UI specification and design, and these styles or sample HTML are then consumed by the developer to develop an actual, functional UI for a product. 

The developer takes into account all the specific requirements of...

This two-part article series focuses on a practical approach for a standard-based, cross-tooling, and cross-vendor business process management lifecycle that implements ARIS Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) models in the IBM Business Process Manager suite, as they were created within its own repository. Part 1 describes two ways of importing process models from ARIS into IBM BPM Process Designer via a standard BPMN2.0 import as as well as in the ARIS XML format. Part 2 shows how to merge a newly imported ARIS model version with the already extended and executed process in Process...

This article shows you how to use Ant scripts and Java classes to customize WebSphere MQ FTE to automatically transfer new and modified files from a source folder to a destination folder, and ensure that files in source and destination folders are always synchronized as efficiently as possible.