In JQL, you can find issues that have values in a custom field or not by using: "<customfield_name>" IS EMPTY "<customfield_name>" IS NOT EMPTY But what if the issues has no such custom field? For example, we recently added a new custom field that is called 'division' to help us to understand where the work … Continue reading How to find Jira issues have no certain custom field
2 Weeks Challenge of ‘Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator’
Early this year I was thinking to get the ACP - 100 Jira Administrator certificate. Now it is close to the end of this financial year, and I still have not done it yet. May be it is the time for another 2 weeks challenge like the one I did last year. Exam Topics Advanced … Continue reading 2 Weeks Challenge of ‘Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator’
Time Zone in ServiceNow API Request
I found out that the time zone settings (e.g for due date) in ServiceNow API call is a bit tricky when trying to automate the change request creation in ServicerNow. Here is the rule that I figured out: If the account that is used for making the API request has time zone settings, then the … Continue reading Time Zone in ServiceNow API Request
Jira takes long time to restart after upgrade
We noticed that Jira startup time increased from 3+ mins to 20+ mins after a recent upgrade (7.10 to 7.12). After analysed a few restart relevant events in the logs, I found that there are some messages related to DB row migrations which were not there before the upgrade. Here is a example: 5/3/19 9:43:14.816 … Continue reading Jira takes long time to restart after upgrade
AWS Summit Sydney 2019
Another year, another AWS Summit. As always I attended AWS summit in Sydney this year. If I only can summarise it with one sentence, then it would be "It is AWS age 2.0 now". I started my AWS journey about 6 years ago, and these were all the products AWS offered at that time. I … Continue reading AWS Summit Sydney 2019

