Issues with IBM Connections 5 / 5.5 and Chrome 60

There is a known issue with Connections 5 CR4 and all versions of Connections 5.5 when using Chrome version 60. It affects events not being displayed and errors relating to events in the UI. It has also been reported that comments can be affected also. After multiple BP’s and Customers reported this IBM Support have […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 3

In part 3 of the series we will actually attempt to migrate the data.   Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 In my experience the database migration is always most time consuming, so I always do the database first Use the text file of Commands that we created in part 2. Back up the […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 2

In part 2 of this series we will cover preparing the system and the commands and files required. There is a fair bit of file creation to do and configuring of the Database Transfer Tool (DBT)   Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 Step 3 – Prepare a system to recieve the data As […]

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 1

For those of you that follow me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have posted a number of tweets relating to a fun project I am working on. I have been working with a customer to move them from Connections 5 to Connections 5.5 – Not a massive issue – EXCEPT they are […]

Is Verse on prem the end of Connections Mail?

A technote has come to light – marking the end of life for Connections Mail https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993196 The content states November 2016 is the end of support for the following versions of ICM V 1.0 (for Connections 4.0), and version 1.3 (for Connections 4.5). End of support for ICM 1.6 (for connections 5.0) will be one […]

IBM Connections 5.5 and Docs 2.0 announced

At last what we have been waiting for the latest versions of IBM Connections and IBM Docs are available this Friday the 18th of December.   There are over 100 new features included nested folders, there is a new cleaner look continuing the trend that we have seen over the last two releases.     […]