Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Limitations of FIPS mode
The following limitations exist in the support of FIPS mode for Service Manager (SM).
Service Manager initialization might be slow in Linux/Unix environments
This issue may occur when fipsmode:2 is specified in the SM Server's sm.ini file. It is caused by a lack of entropy (randomness) available on the system used for random number generation and can commonly occur on systems that are not receiving much direct user input, such as virtual machines.
As a workaround, you can direct the JVM to use /dev/urandom with the following directive:
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Add the following line to the Server's sm.ini file:
JVMOption0:-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom
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Alternatively, you can add the following line to the jre/lib/security/java.security file:
securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom
For additional information, see the following important third-party information:
http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6521844
http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
Minimum required versions for WebSphere Application Server and IBM JDK
If you are using WebSphere Application Server and IBM JDK for SM, be sure to use WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 (8.5.5.2 or a higher) and IBM JDK 7.1 (7.1.3.10 or higher). If you use an earlier version of WebSphere or IBM JRE, Service Manager runs in partial FIPS mode because random generation is not compliant with the latest FIPS standards.
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