Issues with Oracle with Connections 2.5 RESOLUTION

as posted by me on the Connections Blog earlier today : IBM have now released new trigger code to resolve this issue. The steps are simple * Stop the application * Backup the DB * Run through the code to remove the Trigger * Recreate the Trigger * Start the primary server and test * […]
Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5 – UPDATE

After some testing with the SPARC version of this fix – which actually did work we were pleased to find out that Oracle had released a version for x86. We applied this – this morning, and I am sorry to say it doesn’t work. If you try to delete a file from the DB directly […]
Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5

There is an issue when running Connections with Oracle on Solaris Symptoms of the problem are you can not delete certain files and / or the files widget from communities The error in the logs is – table FILES.MEDIA is mutating 08/02/10 00:01:00:569 GMT] 0000005d Library E EJPVJ9166E: Unable to delete the library with id […]
Changing the title on the Connections 2.5 Homepage

Changing the title on the homepage is a bit of a pain .. The steps are as follows : Make a back up copy of the COMPRESSED homepage.ear file from the deployed application config ND – < was ROOT >profiles< profile> configcells< cell Name >applicationsHomepage.earHomepage.ear StandAlone – < was ROOT >profiles< profile >configcells< cell Name […]
Connections 2.5 – WebSphere Tips

WebSphere Tip : 1 When clustering Connections you may encounter issues when the wizard attempts to federate the node into your deployment manager. This is a known WAS issue as the JVM suffers out of memory errors (is you delve deep in the add node log file / dmgr log you will find them). There […]
Connections 2.5 Clustering – how to avoid some pain

All was going exactly to plan when I installed my primary node – federated correctly worked as expected and I even managed to change it fairly easily to point to a different DB and shared content store I was a very happy bunny UNTIL I decided to add node2 – then it all went “pear […]