Connections Engagment Center coming to Connections Cloud
IBM have announced (see announcement here), that Connections Engagement Center will be coming to Connections Cloud from the 30th of Novemember. Having used CEC On-Premises for sometime I know this is going to be a massive enhancement for Connections Cloud users. As with the On-Premises version it will be a seperately priced add-on for Cloud […]
Connections 6 CR1 is now available
As promised by IBM we have got it in November (so thanks Connections Team ) … The full Fix list can be found in this technote here – IBM Fix List for Connections CR1 You can download it from Fix Central here – IBM Connections 6 CR1 download Included in CR1 are all the day […]
Version 10 and beyond – I Aint Dead
You are a Connections / WebSphere admin what do you care about Domino? I hear people ask – well actually I care a lot .. I use these products every day – I can’t do my job with out Domino / Verse / Notes and Sametime. After what can only be described as a lack […]
IBM Docs 2 CR3 is here – and with some cool new features
So at last IBM Docs 2 CR3 has been released and with it some awesome new features that the community have been asking for (thank you IBM). What’s new in Docs 2 CR3? LOADS of new features and fixes including … The most exciting is probably the ability to deploy the Conversion server on […]
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 […]
Connections 6 migration observations
I am sure that lots of you have installed or started migrations to Connections 6 by now .. but I have found a couple of gotchas across the installs and updates that I have managed so far. I am listing them here for sanities sake as I know when we google an error – this […]
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 […]
Connections 6 system requirements are available
thanks to my friend and co-speaker Roberto Boccadoro for sharing these .. you can find the system requirements for Connections 6 here The basic info is: WAS 8.5.5.10 IBM install manager 1.8.5 DB2 11.1.0 / Oracle 12.1.0.2.0 (enterprise) / MS SQL 2016 TDI 7.1.1 fix pack 6 Connections 6 is going to […]
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 […]