Limitations of Product Aspect

This section describes known product aspect limitations and workarounds.

 

Admin console login fails when running in secure mode

If running a WebSphere v5 or v5.1 server in secure mode, you may not be able to log onto the WebSphere administrative console and receive the following message:

Unable to process login. Please check User ID and password and try again.

This may occur even though the server was successfully started in secure mode using the very same user id and password. This behavior is intermittent, and appears to be associated only with Microsoft Internet Explorer. To work around this problem, complete one of the following steps:

• From the main menu, select Preferences > Internet > Web Browser and add Microsoft Internet Explorer as an external Web browser by clicking the Add button. In the Location field, browse or type the external directory where Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed and click OK.

• If using Microsoft Internet Explorer externally fails as well, try first to clear the browser cache by clearing the temporary internet files.

• If you still can not log into the Administrative console with the external Internet Explorer, and you continue to get the message, select Preferences > Internet > Web Browser and add Mozilla, Netscape or Opera as an external Web browser by clicking the Add button. In the Location field, browse or type the external directory where Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed and click OK. When you are finished using the Administrative console while the server is running in secure mode, you can reset your previous preferences.

 

Error in the Tasks view for servers with DBCS name

After creating a server configuration with a DBCS name, an error similar to the message below will show in the Tasks view:

invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence (0x83)" at description "memento.xml" at resource "SERVER/defaultConfiguration.wsc" at folder "line 4 " at location

This task error can be safely ignored. The problem can also be avoided by manually editing the memento.xml file with the UTF-8 encoded DBCS name using a text editor.

Note: The SERVER/defaultConfiguration.wsc is the server configuration name. A server configuration called defaultConfiguration is stored under a server project called SERVER in the above sample error message.

 

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