Version 11 of WSCP

Updated 2002-05-22 17:07:22

"WSCP" is the WebSphere Control Program--WebSphere's Java-coded "console". Structurally, it's similar to OEM. Since version 3.5 of WebSphere, WSCP has shipped with a (modified?) Jacl 8.0 (1.2.5, in fact) (for WS 4.0, and maybe for 3.5) that permits Tcl-simple scripting of administrative actions. WSCP is available only with the Commercial Version of WebSphere, NOT any of the Single Servers or such.

The "Admin Console" is what WSAS users regard as the more traditional, GUI-based administrative utility.

"IBM Websphere Control Program" [L1 ]

Faults reported for the WSCP Jacl:

  • artificial limit on effective [exec] line length (?)
  • [file copy ...] misbehavior
  • maybe lots of [exec] defects in WSCP for WS 3.5?
  • ...

IBM published an article entitled "Tcl for WebSphere Application Server Administrators" [L2 ]. IBM's rather weird about the product, though; public relations staffers in the US repeatedly have told CL that there's no product manager who can speak about WSCP.