Auditing IRM Protected Documents

A colleague has been asking for some information about IRM auditing, so I thought I’d turn the response into a blog entry for the benefit of all. To summarise, a critical element of the Oracle IRM solution is the insight it provides into the usage of your sensitive information assets – even while they are [...]

A Couple Tips for Developers Working in the UPK Topic Editor

When I first began creating content with UPK, my more experienced colleagues shared some tips to help make navigation in the Topic Editor easier. They’re simple but effective – tricks no Developer should be without! Navigating frames: use the Alt + right and left Arrow keys. This combination can take you forward and backward through [...]

Protecting offline IRM rights and the error "Unable to Connect to Offline database"

One of the most common problems I get asked about Oracle IRM is in relation to the error message “Unable to Connect to Offline database”. This error message is a result of how Oracle IRM is protecting the cached rights on the local machine and if that cache has become invalid in anyway, this error [...]

Offline Access Management for IRM Encrypted Documents

Perhaps the most frequent of frequently-asked-questions about IRM was put to me recently by one of my Irish colleagues: If you have to get IRM decryption keys and access rights from an IRM server, how does that impact offline access to documents and offline creation of new documents? How do I ensure that business users [...]

Closed Loop RFID Systems

Some of you may have read about the Bloomingdale results, article here, it has been recorded that there is significant improvement in visibility of items within a store. The interesting outcome for me was that it also accounted for improvements in processes, in this case cycle counting. Cycle counting as you know is also a [...]

What Was I Doing Again?

I’m glad I finished my schooling back in the dark ages, when nearly everyone carried a notebook and wrote longhand notes. Sure, we had computers, but they weren’t terribly common. Plus, the World Wide Web (or “Internet”) was in its infancy and not available everywhere. I wonder how educators and students survive today with all [...]

Berkeley DB Java Edition Cleaner and Checkpointer Notes

My colleague Mark Hayes posted an excellent writeup of the JE Cleaner and how it relates to the checkpointer. It is cut-and-pasted below. The JE cleaner daemon thread(s) are enabled by default. Normally this should not be changed. Possible reasons for disabling the JE cleaner threads are: 1) You may wish to disable the JE [...]

How to split a time period into ranges based on the overlapping periods?

Hi Tom, There are three degraded service modes: – No Coin Mode – No Note Mode – No 10cents mode. Please note the overlapping of the degraded modes is possible. Service mode, start time and end time are stored in the following table. … Link to the original site