FME Flow

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!

Hi there, I have a problem to trigger FME job from url. The URL ask a login name and password. Can i disable it? Here are the URL http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/fmeserver/invoke/fmedatadownload/Automation/new_automation_07012013.fmw?  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  

I have a workspace using a "Swiss Interlis" writer that produces an XML file. The writer takes the full path of the file from a parameter. I have linked this destination parameter to a Python scripted parameter that generates the file names dynamically depending on user input.  That workspace works fine in FME Desktop and as a Job Submitter service on FME Server. If I publish the workspace as Data Download service it fails with the error message: "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" and also returning the source code of the Python parameter. It looks like the Python source code is used as a file path rather than running the script and using its result.  I changed the script to only return a filename instead of the full path, but I still get the same error message. If I enter a hardcoded file name into the writer destination parameter (instead of the Python script) everything works fine and the file name is used in the downloadable zip

Hi everyone,  I am pretty new with FME and I am using it to manipulate data that is delivered to my company on a quarterly basis. Because of this, there is a 'date stamp' on the folder name (for example "Current/Transport/Roads NOVEMBER 2012/Standard/") where NOVEMBER can have four different month names, depending on release date.  What I am trying to do is to 'generalise' the directory path in the readers with some wildcards if that's possible? I'd like to create a directory path that finds the files, no matter what's the date as long as the data is stored inside the 'Current' folder, for example 'Current/Transport/Roads */Standard/'  Hope I am being clear in this? Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you Gianluca

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

We are running FME Server 2013 Data Streaming which is driven from a MapGuide site and outputs PDF files. This is quite a complex workspace which generates logs up to about 2MB per request. I would like to be able to turn down the degree of logging to just ERROR if possible. Some of the other services seem to have the option in the .properties file to set the DEBUG_LEVEL = SEVERE. This does not appear to be an option in the Data Streaming config file. I tried adding it anyway with no success.  Anyone have any thoughts? Am I missing something basic here?  Thanks, J  

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