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mcnaughty79
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mcnaughty79Participant
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FME Service Account Privileges

We have a domain account setup to run the  3 services required for FME Server 2022 to function.  My question is simple, does this account need to be apart of the Administrators group? 

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hkingsbury
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yaxi
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yaxiContributor
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Questions about creating a LOD2 CityGML model for a neighborhood

HiI am currently looking to create a CityGML model of the buildings in a specific area using various spatial data. I have followed this tutorial Point Cloud to 3D Terrain Model with Buildings and obtained an Adobe 3D PDF model of the buildingsBut I now want to convert this model into a CityGML LOD2 model. Is this possible?Since I have just started using FME and am not very familiar with the software, what should my next steps be? Could you provide some useful references? Thanks for your advice😊

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AliAtSafe
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nicol.ricci
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nicol.ricciContributor
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Schedules more query to fme_node_health and fme_lock table

Hi allI have FME Flow installed in production environment with 2 nodes (Fault-Tolerant installation).I have now 4 workspaces that i have scheduled every 4 minutes.My DB Administrator see many query like this UPDATE fme_node_health SET modifieddate = :1 , expirydate = :2 , timeout = :3 , expiry = :4  WHERE process = :5  AND name = :6UPDATE fme_lock SET val = :1 , uuid = :2 , expiry = :3  WHERE lock_key = :4  AND (uuid = :5  OR expiry < :6 )They occours more time and and fill the disk space dedicated to Oracle logs.It's the first time it's happened to me and I don't understand if it depends on the scheduling or the Fault-Tolerant type installation.Can someone help me?Thanks a lot

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nicol.ricci
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zaneta.mark
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zaneta.markContributor
asked in Architecture
FME Server/Flow job logs saved as .json

Hi,Is there a way to configure FME Server/Flow, so that logs are  automatically saved not only to standard .log file, but also to .json file (containing JSON formatted data)? It would be very helpful when it comes to further log information processing.

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damiobasa
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virtualcitymatt
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virtualcitymattCelebrity
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404 not found from jobsubmitterservice

I’m trying to debug an issue with the Job Submitter Service (I haven't actually tried any of the other services) .I have a process which runs fine from the FME Server UI (FME Server 2021). I can fill in the parameters (also upload an input file) etc. The jobs runs.If instead I try and run this using the jobsubmitter service via REST call - e.g., http://Host/fmejobsubmitter/Repository/workspace.fmw?parametersThe response is a 404. What is interesting to me is that I’m able to use the URL without the parameters and get back a proper response - that is for example: http://Host/fmejobsubmitter/Repository/workspace.fmw. It seeeeems like the issue is somehow related to the input file, however, in that case I would expect the job to fail rather than return a 404. so to me it seems like there is a problem actually submitting the jobI’ve checked permissions and the user definitely has access to the repository where the workspace is, and in my testing removing the permissions returns a 401 ERROR

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virtualcitymatt
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missp29
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missp29Contributor
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Can I still run a workspace in command line on a separate distributed machine when the FME Flow Core server down?

Hi All,I am new to FME Flow. We are installing FME Flow 2023.1. We are setting up a two-tier distributed FME Flow environment with a machine which hosts FME Flow Core and Web server, and two separate distributed machines where the workspaces will be executed within the same network.  Let’s say I have an automated scheduled job which supposed to run at one of distributed machine at a certain time. For some reasons, the FME Flow Core machine is down at the time when the scheduled job supposed to run. When the FME Flow Core machine down, is the scheduled job still able to start to run at the scheduled time automatically? If not, am I able to start the job manually on the command line on the distributed machine without the FME Flow Core machine available?Your help is great appreciated. Thanks, -John

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keziaatsafe
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couch
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couchContributor
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FME Flow- File Size Limit

Is their a file size limit for loading data into the Resources folder?When the file reaches a certain size the file fails to load.Thanks Chris

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hkingsbury
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hkingsbury
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hkingsburyCelebrity
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Library was found but could not be loaded

Hey Team,We’re getting a really weird error on Flow/Server (2022.2), and unfortunately it seems to be one of those ones that we can’t really replicate!The Infrastructure setup is two hosts, with a mixture of standard engines and dynamic engines. We got the below errors across two (very) different workbenches, on the same engine/host (standard engine):  We had something similar a couple of weeks ago and resolved it by restarting the effected host. However, this time around it has seemed to fix itself (assuming it was restarted as part of the automatic engine recycling).Looking at the engine logs for that host, they don’t really give too much more info as to what has happenedTue-12-Mar-2024 10:37:00.923 AM INFORM Thread-13401 BANPRIFMESP01_Engine2 Translation Finished (service '7070'). Return message is '23001:Module 'SurfaceModelFactory' is unavailable for use with this FME edition|LogFileName=job_522412.log'Wondering if anyone has seen something similar or know what might be ca

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hkingsbury
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virtualcitymatt
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virtualcitymattCelebrity
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FME Engine in a docker container?

I’m looking at upgrading our internal automated testing of our FME tools/workspace. At the moment the way I’m doing it is with custom docker images of FME Desktop/Form and running the tests inside these. This works OK, I’m able to automate the licensing and do what I need to do. But obviously with FME Form comes a lot of uneeded GUI stuff. Plus it just feels clunky and I always need to create a new docker file anytime a new version of FME comes out which I want to test against. (we build our tools in older versions of FME to try and support more customers on various FME versions) I know that there are docker-compose files for FME Flow which work well, however, I don’t really need the whole stack, just the Engine with which I can feed my tests. Also the way that I’m working makes using docker-compose difficult/annoying.In light of that does anyone know if there is a way to just use the FME Engine image on it’s own. This would really save my bacon and make may testing pipeline much more

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virtualcitymatt
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jonathanklarup
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Running into this error when trying to restore 2022 backup file. https://community.safe.com/s/article/FME-Server-Restore-Unable-to-Import-Subscribers

I'm getting this known error - FME Server Restore: Unable to Import Subscribers (safe.com) When I try to restore my backup file.  Backup file is to large to upload ??  Hope you guys can help, thanks in advance.

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jorgensydfeldt
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garnet
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Failing to publish workbench to FME server.

HiI am trying to publish (update) a workbench to FME server. Not sure what the problem is. This workbench is called by another WB via FMEServerSubmitter.It failed with this:Connecting to '<a href="http://ags103a31:8080</a>'" target="_blank">http://a:8080">http://ags103a31:8080</a>'" target="_blank">http://ags103a31:8080</a>' (web connection, user 'admin')...Successfully connected to FME Server 2015.0 (build 15253).Connecting to '<a href="http://ags103a31:8080</a>'" target="_blank">http://a1:8080">http://ags103a31:8080</a>' (web connection, user 'admin')...Successfully connected to FME Server 2015.0 (build 15253).Accessing repository list...Successfully accessed repository list.Retrieving service properties...Successfully retrieved service properties.Retrieving service parameters for 'delta_region_updatechangeevent_runner.fmw'...Successfully retrieved service parameters.Uploading as 'delta_region_updatechangeevent_runner.fmw'...Publish 

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virtualcitymatt
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mryukzParticipant
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Esri Shapefile to LoD1 CityGML

Hello I`ve been trying to learn how to create a CityGML file using Esri Shapefiles. Is there any tutorial in there or workspaces I can get to know the workflow? Also any advice for a beginner would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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virtualcitymatt
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fmelite
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fmeliteParticipant
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FME Server and ArcGIS Pro License issue

Hello,We recently made the switch to ArcGIS Pro and have made a named user account for the Pro license on our FME Server Machine. This has tended to work but sometimes we will get a slew of failed jobs on FME Server because it wasn't able to acquire a license. In the morning, we would log into Pro again and things would be fine after that for awhile. We haven't been able to get a reliable connection to the license. The only hypothesis we have is that up to 2 admins can log into the FME Server machine using the same service account then the same named account for ArcGIS Pro. In the past we never had an issue because we had a concurrent pool but now it seems like we are confusing FME with the named user license and breaking connection between FME and Pro. Has anyone been experiencing this?

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ronnie.blair
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clang
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clangContributor
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Menu missing by default following installation

We've just upgraded a couple of machines to FME Form 2023.1.1.1 in preparation for a full rollout , however we're experiencing issues with the default layout of FME Form. The menu bar has not loaded?  When selecting transformers in the canvas or items from the tool bar I have to click below the item to select? Like there is a spatial disconnect between the clicked location and the item I'm wishing to select? Pressing F11 makes the menu bar appear and the issues of clicking directly on a transformer or tool bar icon a non issue. However the navigator, translation log and status bar windows all disappeared unless I make these visible again via selecting them from View>Windows. I have to keep repeating this process every time I return to FME Form. Same issue also occurred when I installed 2023.1 as a trail earlier last month. Any advice greatly welcome. Thanks,Chris  

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clang
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hakans
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hakansContributor
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Deployment Status

Bring the “Deployment Status” back!I really miss the overview of the distributed environment. Which core host is active? Are both of them alive?Let’s not look back, i’m not grumpy, but let’s still find ways to display this info.  Whats the reason to depricate the Deployment status? 

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TandraAtSafe
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adityabhuvanraj
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I am trying to deploy FME Flow Helm chart to AWS EKS. We also have an external DB in AWS RDS Postgresql DB which needs to be used along with AWS EFS for shared data directories and AWS ALB for ingress.

I'm have created a storage class and persistent volume according to their documentation (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/AdminGuide/Kubernetes/Kubernetes-Deploying-to-Amazon-EKS.htm) This is my helm install command: helm install fmeserver safesoftware/fmeserver-2023-0 --set fmeserver.image.tag=21821-20220728 --set deployment.ingress.general.ingressClassName=alb --set storage.fmeserver.class=efs-sc --set deployment.deployPostgresql=false --set storage.fmeserver.accessMode=ReadWriteMany --set fmeserver.database.host=mycluster.rds.amazonaws.com --set fmeserver.database.adminUser=user --set fmeserver.database.adminPasswordSecret=fmeserversecret --set fmeserver.database.adminPasswordSecretKey=password --set fmeserver.database.user=user --set fmeserver.database.name=fmeserver --set fmeserver.database.password=password --set fmeserver.database.adminDatabase=postgres --set deployment.startAsRoot=true -n gis-fmeserver Now my core pod is failing with the following details:All the oth

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alsherren
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alsherrenContributor
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Delay when querying cached features from transformer

When enabling feature caching, there is a 'considerable' lag when trying to interrogate the cached features from an output port: usually have to wait 10 -15 seconds to expand the table attribute fields or sort the attribute fields, for instance. When clicking elsewhere to do another activity and returning to the cached features output, the same lag time is experienced. I though the idea was that cached features would be stored virtually, so they wouldn't have to be re-loaded each time? The lag is even present when only interrogating a handful of features. Are there settings that can optimise this to reduce the lag/remove? I do use a VPN to access the workspaces from OneDrive (there workspaces are not stored locally). Version: 2022.2.3.0 (20230131 - Build 22789 - WIN64) 

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redgeographics
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j85824
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We have to update our FME Server Backend database, do i need to stop the fme server while the backend is offline?

Patching our backend oracle database should the FME server be stopped while the update occurs?

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p-chessel-vdg
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p-chessel-vdgContributor
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FME Form 2023.2 installed produce a memory Error at startup : "The instruction at 0x00007FFC9A16C1D0 referenced memory at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. The memory could not be read."

FME Form 2023.2 installed produce always a memory Error at startup : "The instruction at 0x00007FFC9A16C1D0 referenced memory at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. The memory could not be read."Click OK to terminate the program. The environnement is VMWARE Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, 16GB RAM, 4 CPU. This same machine runs FME 2020.1 32bits and 64bits with no issues.I have désinstalled ,reboot, reinstalled the FME product , same issue. If this is a know issue , is there a configuration to change ? How to troubleshoot ?  Thanks 

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p-chessel-vdg
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gabriel_hirsch
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gabriel_hirschContributor
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What does all the lines in the safe.lic file actually mean?

Perhaps just of curiosity, I would like to know what all the lines in the safe.lic license file actually mean. Not an answer like "they are needed" but more information why they are needed and what they correspond to. FEATURE FME (this might be the main license)FEATURE FME_GUIFEATURE nationalFEATURE basic_rasterFEATURE segy_readingFEATURE segy_writingFEATURE smallworld (this is the license level)FEATURE fmeobjects_reprojectFEATURE ssis_extensionFEATURE spatialbiz I've heard during my years as a FME expert that some of these lines correspond to "old licensing levels" or similar but now with FME Form, is that really true?

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mark2atsafe
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gvatin06
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gvatin06Contributor
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Silent uninstall for Windows

On the documentation website for FME Form, there is a section called "Installing FME Form from the Windows Command Prompt". However, I cannot find any documentation for uninstalling FME Form from the command prompt. Is there any way to do this, so that we can package the uninstall + install for updated processes? Thanks a lot.

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gvatin06
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onknows
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Error 126: The specified module could not be found

I am trying to install FME Flow 20.23.1 on a local MS Windows 2022 Server. I am using / trying to use the silent installer. The command that runs successfully is shown below. The install.logs shows no errors and end with message: "Installation completed successfully" I have an external Tomcat instance btw. I can successfully start the FME Server by using the bat file startCore.bat. After I use this bat file, I can go to http://localhost:8080/fmeserver/ and I can login with admin / admin. Everything looks fine. When I try to start FME Server using the MS Window service created by the installer, it fails with message Error 126: The specified module could not be found I think the service fails fairly quickly in the sense that no real FME processes are started and there is nothing in the log files.  It this is a known issue with running FME Flow on MS Windows 2022 server? I checked the documentation but there doesn't seem to be specific requirements mentioned for running FM

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bo
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boContributor
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Get the FME Form Release Info In Workspace

Hello there, I looked into FME system parameters and Python APIs to find a programmable way to identify release info, such as 2023.2.1, etc., in an FME Form session, to no avail. I would appreciate you sharing your approaches. Bo

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bo
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aarongeppert
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aarongeppertContributor
asked in Architecture
MS SQL Login Timeout Parameter?

QUESTION: Is there anyway to adjust the login timeout for MS SQL connections? Periodically, I've been logging an error from the SQLExecutor transformer which appears to be related to timeout issues when connecting to a MS SQL database. The error below seems to occur at random and is hard to replicate on demand.  'Provider error (-247467259) Unable to complete login process due to delay in opening server connection' I suspect that the connection, periodically, is talking longer then the timeout configured in FME. I know of the 'Command Timeout' parameter but as I understand it this is only applicable to the query length timeout, not the login connection timeout

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aarongeppert
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nucleogalicia
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Buenos días, tengo instalado FME en un equipo que va muy lento, ¿Podría desinstalarlo de este equipo lento e instalarlo en otro que acabo de comprar mucho más potente?

Buenos días, tengo instalado FME en un equipo que va muy lento, ¿Podría desinstalarlo de este equipo lento e instalarlo en otro que acabo de comprar mucho más potente?

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