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Sometimes FME Server (2013 SP3) loses connection to the License-server. Is it possible to get an e-mail when there is currently "No active engine" on an FME Server installation? This should be possible as now we have to manually check now and then to see if FMEServer is "up and running"!

After installing FME Server 2018.1.2 ( Build 18590 - win 64 ), I'm getting the following erro message wehn trying toreach the Webgui from the server ( http://localhost/fmeserver ). Where can I found a log to solve that issue ?

Hi everyone,I use FME daily in many crucial processes I have developed here and I am running into quite an issue.I have done some research here but don't think I found anything exactly the same as what I have so I will explain. I have just been moved to a new Win10 64bit Machine. I do a lot of processes to and from Smallworld and different types of ESRI environments as well as a lot of Database reading and writing.I find any process I am writing or using that has been written in the past that involves reading or writing from an Access Database is crashing especially on the writing to the database aspect. I get the following as it crashes:Microsoft Access Writer: Unable to find provider 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', falling back to 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'. Microsoft Access 2013 Runtime might be missing from your system; follow this link for more information:

You may recall that FME Server 2016+ has integrated a “Failover” mode. As a result, Safe Software has discontinued issuing the previous independent Failover license files in 2016+.  We still frequently receive failover license file requests from both clients and partners. Please be advised that anyone requesting an FME Server failover license via the new server licensing will receive a message stating, “Note: Failover license use is no longer supported with this version of FME Server. For up-to-date details, please contact your account manager, local partner or ." They will automatically receive a 60-day temporary license.  This notification was scheduled to appear Monday, February 11. Please note that this is only for FME Server 2016+ requests. Floating license server and desktop requests will continue to work without issue. If you have any questions, reach out to your Channel Account Manager or .

Hello, We have a server on which we have 4 engines installed. FME Version is 2016. In our setup on FME Server we have main workspace which is responsible for some preprocessing and then it submits child workspace using ServerJobSubmitter.  In some cases this child workspace also has ServerJobSubmitter because it processes huge data set and if we didn't split it into several runs then we woud get out of memory exception or have other problems. It looks quite nice but in some cases (probably when few jobs are executed also on other engines) in that child workspace we have an error:FME license system failure: The maximum number of concurrent FME instances specified in the license has been reached (-508)   What can be the reasson for that? ServerJobSubmitter is set to wait for jobs to complete

I have uploaded my python dependencies (various .py modules) to FME Resources as is described here. Resources are uploaded and updated using the rest api.My FMW's can then see the resources and use them. When I update or replace an existing module however the engines continue to use an older version of the module. Rebooting FME server resolves the problem but is obviously not a great solution.Any suggestions on how to get the engines to see the newly uploaded resources? Clear cached versions of python code? Ideally this would take place when the resources are updated.ThanksKevinFME Server Version: 2017.1 Build 17539 - Win64

I have several excel sheets that have same/similar structures, although some are missing their header names. I can migrate them to SQL Server one-by-one using FME. But I want to loop over the contents of my folder (i.e the excel files) and migrate them all in one go. How do I loop over them? I want to use the same header names for the files missing them as the ones that have them - the header names.

Hello everybody,please, Im trying to solve problem with FME license server. As I checked, there is possibility to restrict one floating license for specific usergroup (check there https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Restricting_Licenses_to_Users_or_Groups.htm). But, and its my question, is there any possibility to set exact usage time for specific usergroup?E.g. Just imagine FME License server with 2 floating licenses. I just wanna to restrict one license for usergroup called "GIS" only for daytime from 6PM till 6AM. From 6AM till 6PM, both licenses should be available for all users (doesnt matter of what usergroup). Is there any tool how to set it up please? Thank You so much for all ideas!Lubo

Hello, So I have an issue. I'm trying to run a workspace at work but there ar no standard arcgis licences avialable. So fme tries to use the arcpro licence. It gives this error: Unable to load a library in the folder: C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin. The error number returned from GetLastError is: 127Arcpro is set to work offline and there are plenty licences available. Anyone has an idea of what might be the issue. Also, arcgis 10.6.1 is installed with the right version of background geoprocessing and the version of arcpro is 2.3.0. Thanks,Simon

Was previously running Windows 10 Pro build version 1803, until yesterday when Windows decided to update me from build version 1803 to build version 1809. This update seemingly has deleted FME Desktop application, though the other FME application such as Data Inspector and Quick Translator are still present.I launched FME Licensing Assistant 2018.1 and tried to enter in my Home Use License serial number into the Single-Fixed-License field. But it returned this error.""Invalid trial activation codeThis trial activation code has already been used to generate a license. If you wish to obtain a new trial activation code, please visit www.safe.com/trial.""  The license if valid for one year from 09/07/2018. So my license isn't expired either. I also tried pointing the FME Licensing Assistant 2018.1 to C:\\ProgramData\\Safe Software\\FME\\Licenses since the license file still exists. That returned "License not valid o

Hi, I have a oracle database connection on the FME Server, the fme script runs fine from FME server if the connection is used for reading but when I try to write to it, it does not work. From SQL plus on FME server do not have any problem reading or writing. See the error log below: What could be the problem here?Thanks,VijayUsing Oracle Writer to write tables to database `', server type `ORACLE8I', server name `TAMSPROD.WORLD', user name `GEOMEDIA', password `***'Oracle Writer: Starting at transaction 0 with a transaction interval of 1000Loaded module 'OCI' from file 'OCI.dll'Unable to connect to Oracle database, because the database environment could not be initialized.Unable to connect to Oracle database, because the database environment could not be initialized.Destination Feature Type Routing Correlator(RoutingFactory): Unable to connect to Oracle database, because the database environment could not be initialized.=-=

We have a single instance of FME Server shared across multiple utilities (i.e, separate finances). We recently purchased an additional engine for one of our utilities, who has been consistently using the engine owned and paid for by another. Even though they now have their own, this utility's users continue to use the engine owned by the other utility, which hoses up that utility's jobs. Is there any way to limit engine access by user so that each utility's users can only see the engine specifically for them?

Hi!I'm in a university environment and we've installed FME in two computer labs. Since there are many computers that needs to be licensed through the licensing assistant (we're using floating licenses) I wonder if there is a way to do this process on several computers simultaneously instead of doing it one by one.Thanks in advance!/Henrik

Hello.I have a hard time with SLL configuration.I was following this Configuring for HTTPS I finish all steps without any error messages, however, when I try to open FMEServer by using HTTPS I receiving an unsafe window errorI have also edited all files as it was shown in the above-mentioned guidelines. Certificated also were added in the windows trusted certificates list. I am non-SSL guy but can the problem be that the installed certificate cipher suite "AES_128_CBC " is an old version and must be replaced with new "AES-GCM" cipher suite? I have marked the m

I cannot find what my current license serial number is to input into the upgraded 2018 FME Server license area. the temporary works for 7 days but want to use the license i had for 2015 server on 2018 server, 

Does anyone know if a "how to" article exists to instruct users how to setup and apply an FME Desktop FME ArcGIS Data Interop Edition licence? A description of how to add the licence to FME and then how to enable the licence over in ArcGIS as well as the requirements to ensure the ESRI Data Interoperability extension is licenced? It feels like something that 'should' exist but I can't find it. I've had a client ask for a reference document and I wanted to forward a link... It appears this might be an oversight from the docs and the KC. In Robyn's 2nd paragraph here she references it https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/21547/arcgis-data-interop-vs-fme-ext-for-arcgis.html.Thanks in advance, Dave

Need to get job run time.

HI,I use a FME Server 2016 to run different workbenches. For the update on FME Server 2018 I have to upgrade these workbenches, too.Therefore I upgrade all transformers, which are upgradable. With the dissolver I get some problemes:old workbench:new workbenchIn the new workbench I get less objects then in the old workbench, but the result must be the same.The new dissolver has the addional parameters: Connect Z Mode, Tolerance and Aggregate Handeling.Which are the correct configurations the get the same output like in the old workbench?  Thanks and best regards  

I have a workspace that runs on FME server and uses a HTTPCaller to call other workspaces. I haven't used FMEServerJobSubmitter because FMEServerJobSubmitter needs to be set to just one workspace which fixes the set of parameters and I have lots of options for which workspace actually needs to be ran depending on earlier results/settings . I'm using a JSONTemplater to put together instructions for the HTTPCaller to run whichever workspace is needed. The problem is that this uses two engines: the HTTPCaller starts another engine while the original workspace waits for it to complete. Is there any way to have the option of many child workspaces to run and only use one engine like FMEServerJobSubmitter does when there is only one possible child workspace?

I'm having some weird behaviour with my FME server in the Cloud that I could not explain.We are using a server that has three active engines and the following Queue-system:This morning we had a workflow in our production sync queue that took way to many resources and time to process and was aborted. Somehow the server had some problems after (or during/before?) this because all new jobs where not properly handled and all got queued in line. Only engine 2 took was able to start new jobs even tho the other two engines where free and not running. With a unstable and high load as result (20000ms response time and server load of 100) and two engines IDLE. To compare it: Normally our response time is 5ms with an average load of between 0.10 and 0.50.A reboot was needed for the server to stop the load en activate the other 2 engines.

Hello FME community,I’m developing a FME service that needs to process a JSON object, uses this JSON as upload body in a HTTPCaller that returns a ZIP file and emails the user a download link to the returned ZIP file.What is working is a POST to datadownload service with a JSON upload body and the email as request parameter:https://<fmeserver>/fmedatadownload/Samples/WritingZip.fmw?SourceDataset=&DestDataset=DownloadZip&opt_showresult=false&opt_servicemode=async&opt_requesteremail=test@test.comWith a subscription at the DATADOWNLOAD_ASYNC_JOB_SUCCESS topic I retrieve the desired mail with the download location using this template:https://<fmeserver>/fmedatadownload/results/{@getFileName(OutputLocati

Hi dear Is ist possible to get a list of used values in an Attribute?I have data in the inspector (100000 an more) and i will know which values are in one Attribute used.thanks for an answer. 

Hi all,after upgrading to FME 2018.1 we are not able to connect to MS SQL Server anymore. This seems to be due to an invalid connection parameter:Using Java Reader Interface Version 2.0 (Oct 31, 2000) with module MSSQL_JDBC_SPATIAL to read dataMS SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) Reader: Preloading JDBC Driver Class 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver'MS SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) Reader: Creating connection using connection string 'jdbc:sqlserver://************' and properties '{statementPoolingCacheSize=10, disableStatementPooling=false, integratedSecurity=false, user=************, encrypt=false, multiSubnetFailover=false, trustServerCertificate=true, applicationName=Safe Software FME, database=************, password=************}'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The disableStatementPooling value false is not valid.However, I don't see an option to control statement pooling on the connection or reader level.

Hi,Currently we are using FME on Win 2008 R2 server, we are planning to move to WIN 2012 R2 server. Please let us know if we can use the same FME license on WIN 2012 R2 server and if not please provide the contact from where we can get the updated license file.

Why do i have to specify the source en result data in the Jobsubmitter while that`s already in the workspace