Architecture

I have an attribute "Address" from which I want to flag (and not trim) the left and right (Leading & Trailing) white spaces.  What I want exactly is, a new field is created automatically and if there are any leading and trailing white spaces in the attribute, just put 0s and 1s in that newly created field. Can we do that in FME?  Thank you in advance !

Is there a way in FME Server 2013 to email the entire log of a workspace job?  I setup the notification/topic/subscription to send an email after a job completes, but all the email says is success or failure.  I want the details on what happened right there in the email.  As far as I can tell the only way is to Python shutdown script that runs after the workspace closes.  It would read the logfile for the job, check if there was an error or warning messages, and if so use python smtblib to email the entire contents of the job log to me.  I guess the other benefit of this is I can provide the To: email address as a dynamic parameter of the workspace.  I plan to use the same workspace dynamically for different datasets. Based on which dataset its working on, email that dataset's maintainer directly.   Is there a more straight-forward out of the box approach?  The FMEServerEmailGenerator and FMEServerNotifier seem close, but I'd need the logfile after the workspace completes.  Tha

Hi,  I want to run multiple workspaces in a row on FME Server. I found this example (http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/FME-Server-Workflow-Management) and wanted to test it on our FME Server. But it doesn’t work. The child process always starts with the default parameters. It appears that the FMEServerJobSubmitter doesn’t send the parameter to the child process.  Has everyone experience whit the FMEServerJobSubmitter? I run FME Server 2014 build 14234 64bit on Windows Server 2012 R2.  Thomas

Just upgraded from 2011 FME ESRI edition to 2013SP1 x86 ESRI edition build 13450.  Had several workbench scripts that were working fine in the 2011 version, now the 2013 ones won't work. I've got ArcGIS10.0 SP1 installed, Win 7 x64, SDE server reading from is ArcSDE 9.3.1 SP something, writing to ArcSDE 10.1 SP something (no, not every server is the same). When I run the older script, it gives a fatal error of: The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220969'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Must be the owner to perform this operation.} I've changed nothing in the original script, nor have I changed the password or anything on the SDE databases and am using the data owners - as evidenced that I can access them both thru ArcCatalog. Is there something that has changed drastically with the new version and how do I get these to work?  Also, when writing a new script or adding a new writer, it was writing all of the data into new feature datasets rather than in

Transalation using Fme desktop 2012 fails error  - Oracle client libraries could not be loaded. Ensure the client is installed and properly configured. Check the System path Environment Varialble. The Path variable seems to be ok - the Client can connect to the Oracle database - Some issue between the Application and version of Oracle installed.

Hello,  Using the FME Server publishing wizard from FME Workbench, I configured my workspace to run whenever a topic was notified (subscribed to topic).  No errors were generated during completion of the wizard and the FME server web application shows no errors in the configuration of my subscription.  However, the workspace is never run when the topic is notified.  After hours of digging thru the logs, I finally found a warning in the '..\\logs\\notifier\\subscribers\\push\\push_XX.log' file:  WARN     802009     : Invalid target url for push notification: 'https://servername/fmenotification/UtilityStakingOperations/ProcessIncomingUtilityStakingEmails.fmw?opt_servicemode=async  I have no idea what's wrong with this url.  If I paste it directly into a new browser window and log in with the same credentials used in the subscription configuration, the job runs (although it fails as the FME Server Email reader recieves no content) and I can find it int he job history.  Als

Hi ...  How can I check the availablily of an FME license using python?  I want to make sure a license is available before executing a series of arcgis and fme steps.  I think I've seen it somewhere on fmepedia before but I can't find the thread now.  Ken   

Hello,  FME return me this message : Error - Cannot write out a file larger than 4.295GB. Split your data into two or more shape files   My configuration : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family Standard Edition 64-bit Service Pack 2 (Build 3790)   Version : FME(R) 2013 SP2 (20130605 - Build 13499 - WIN64)  if you have an idea to solve this problem because my project size is more than 25 Gb  jy    

Hi there, I'm wondering to get the output log for the success or failed transaction with my own convention name. How can I afford it?  thanks

Hi,  Does anyone know where i can get a list of fme error codes and reasons for them being raised?  I'm seeing quite a few "231047:Job cancelled." responses, with no obvious reason why, and they don't appear to be user cancelled either.  the job duration of these cancalled jobs appears to be from a few minutes to a few days, but they don't appear to be tying up the engine.  also, if I look in the fmeserver.log the process often looks like it has run and finished in 4 seconds or so, but the record in the db jobs table suggests it ran for a lot longer.  can and do jobs requests get orphaned or something?  Any ideas anyone?  Nick

I have several workspaces that work fine on the desktop version but doesn't work on FME Server mainly due to memory issues. (The Server version is installed on a virtual server with 10GB of RAM and my laptop has 8GB).  This is a huge dissapointment since we have invested in this software to automate our processes and now it seems FME Server is not able to handle the same workspaces that the desktop version does. Has anyone else had the same kind of problems?  Additionally I have run intio character set issues with FME Server that I didn't have on FME desktop.

Hi dears.  There is some documentation with the installation procedure FME Server 2013 for Linux?  Thank in advance.  Kind regards.  Ramon Rocha

When uploading a workspace to FMEServer and adding Resources I want to be able to NOT upload these when uploading another workspace to the same Repository. Ie I have some large LIDAR-files which several workspaces use. However I do not want to upload them once for each workspace. Is this possible?

Hello  FME 2013 was released Jan 15 with Build 13261  Now I find Build 13264 in the download area and FME Pedia  has the info that FME 2013 is Build 13264. see: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/FAQ/Build-Numbers-for-FME-Versions  I couldn't find any info about the difference between 13261 and 13264 ?!  We want to build on top of official FME 2013. This confusion is unexpected and not really helpful.  Michael 

Have anyone tried FME Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7? I see the official supported version is 5.

Hi,  Is it possible to figure out programatically what license FME is using?  i.e. if I have multiple versions of FME on a machine to check using Python if 'c:\\fme2013\\fme.exe' is using a professional or oracle license.  Cheers  -James

Hi, are there any plans to increase the number of formats supported on LINUX 64 server ?

Hi There,  I was just wondering can FME Server 2012 run an FME 2013 Desktop Workspace? We have a number of workspaces that we will be upgrading and we are unclear if they will still run with FME Server 2012.  We currently do not have the time to upgrade our server.  Thanks!

After much confusion we have a public 2013 fme server!:  https://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/fmeserver/login/end  It looks like in 2013 version the admin interface and the public interface have been combined? Wha's the public url for workbench so users dont have to login?

We have some queries presented to our Oracle database coming from the Fme Server - They run approx 40000 time an hour and cannot figure out how are they being run- the query are in this format:  Select owner, table_name from all_tables where ownner in 'PUBLIC, XXXXX' AND TABLE_NAME = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'. We found that there are 3-4 queries of this nature.  The question is how to find them and then stop as it is not producing any output.  Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Hi, I'm doing some test between FME 32-bit on a 32-bit machine and FME 64-bit on a 64-bit machine. Do you know if there is difference between transformer from 32-bit to 64-bit? or transformer are all the same between 32 and 64? Thanks!

Dear All,  Need your assistance.....  We run our FME Desktop 2012 64-bit PC using Safe Floating Licence. Due to the amount the data which we process on daily basis, it takes days to complete and the FME process used up all CUPs.  Going forward we are building Application Server (not FME Server) to run FME and other geo-spatial applications.  But the problem is: -           App Server will be built on Linux RedHat 64-Bit and as per my research FME Workbench is not available on Linux. http://www.safe.com/fme/fme-technology/fme-desktop/tech-specs/  So, we were thinking, we will configure windows VM on Linux and install all the FME components but not 100% sure this will work or not.  Could someone please share some knowledge or advise that would it be good to run FME on windowsVM which sits on Linux box.  Thanks in advance for your help. Regards Suvo  

Hi,  We are about to implement FME Server for our Organization...As the business owner for the application (we will likely also be the administrators), our preference would be to use the FME Repository database delivered with FME Server. Unfortunately our IT group has a policy for using Oracle for all applications. I am trying to defend our position of going with the default database. Does anyone have experience with and or recommendations about which FME Server repository to go with  between Oracle and the built in db?  Does anyone know why FME Server supports external database repositories...it seem to just complicate the installation and I can't see any upside?  The reference Manual simply states the following and there is not much more detail in the Admin Guide   "The FME Server Core uses the repository database to store job and repository information. The database should never be edited directly, although querying the database for job history and other statistical informa

Hi all, Less a question, more an answer. I know this came up on FMETalk, so I wanted folk to know that we added a "humouring" device to FME Server in 2013.  Whenever you run a data download/job submitter process, you get a spinny wheel thing with an elapsed time counter.    Hope this is useful  Cheers  Mark