Category Archives: M3CE

CFT Agent

Posted on 2021/01/31 by potatoit

I’ve been pinged on several occasions to help out with issues with the Cloud File Transfer Agent (CFT Agent) over the last six months so I thought I’d pen an article around the CFT Agent, troubleshooting, observations and I’ll throw … Continue reading →

Posted in M3CE, Troubleshooting | 6 Comments

Business Engine Configuration Data – and CRS021 – Sorting Options

Posted on 2021/01/11 by potatoit

  How many of you have been stuck in that situation where you have to manage exported CMS005, CMS010, CMS015 configurations and you’ve struck that situation where you get a failure on the import of your configuration file?

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MNS209 – Getting Data From IDM

Posted on 2021/01/05 by potatoit

When I first started working with M3CE it was still under controlled availability and there were a few irritations that myself and other consultants were having around printouts, especially given we were working with configurable XML and there were some … Continue reading →

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Send BOD to IMS

Posted on 2020/12/21 by potatoit

This is probably the longest time that I’ve had a post that I’ve started (in July) but haven’t finished…but it looks like we’ve finally made it 🙂 Over the last 18 months there have been several times when I’ve wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, ION, IONAPI, M3CE, Misc | 3 Comments

EVS100 – Loading Data in to M3

Posted on 2020/12/11 by potatoit

For those of us that used to use MDIWS or other such tools, you’ll know that as of November 2020 certificate based authentication to the M3BE APIs was finally shutdown, this has put an end to several tools that people … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, M3CE | 3 Comments

Testing APIs with Postman

Posted on 2020/07/26 by potatoit

Back in the old days I’d use SoapUI extensively for testing soap based connections. With M3CE we now work leverage the ION APIs which are REST based so nowadays I use Postman for my testing. As I tend to work … Continue reading →

Posted in IONAPI, M3CE, Misc | 4 Comments

The Case of not being able to access M3

Posted on 2020/07/12 by potatoit

On one of my first M3CE projects (and not the only project I’ve encountered this on) I had a customer email me that they couldn’t access M3 within their tenant anymore, they would just get an error and infact, all … Continue reading →

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The Case of MEC Processing 3 Messages Every 10 seconds

Posted on 2020/05/09 by potatoit

I got called in to take a look at a really odd situation where a project team encountered an issue where MEC would only process 3 messages every 10 seconds. Looking at MEC, they were completely right, I could see … Continue reading →

Posted in FollowTheBreadCrumbs, M3CE, TheCaseOf, Troubleshooting | 1 Comment

M3CE

Posted on 2020/05/09 by potatoit

I’ve been pretty quiet for a while now but I felt it was time to dust off the wiki and share my thoughts about this brave new world… I’ve been working with M3CE as my focus for the last 20 … Continue reading →

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