IBM Connections search problems with ccm Hi folks, one of our daily jobs (ok, that`s a bit overdone 😉 ) is to handle IBM Connections search problems… No to be honest, it happens quite often that customers upload files and data that contains “bad data” – or “bad, non readable entries”. Normally I would expect […]
IBM Connections – SDI (TDI) Sync problems During our work with IBM Connections, we often get customer requests where users in IBM Connections were deactivated or cannot be on boarded successfully. I want to share my knowledge in this area with a kind of knowledgebase and errors that often occur 1) Users do not get […]
Introduction The last few weeks we were involved in a customer project which led us to develop IBM Connections pattern for IBM PureSystems. The goal of these pattern was to create a fully automated installation process of an IBM Connections 5 environment which works with / depends on the official IBM pattern for WAS and […]
IBM has published a new cumulative hotfix for Sametime 9 Video Manager. This cumulative fix updates solidDB to 7009 and fixes the following Video Manager issues: 1. External SIP Peer cannot use ports 80 and 443. 2. 503 Response to SIP Invite (due to a problem in plcm-site API default value). 3. SIP Vicious attack […]
High DB2 activity of IBM Connections Homepage database Hello friends, during the last week we experienced a extremely high log processing of the homepage database in one of our IBM Connections 4.5 environment. The values were all configured by default like this: Log file size (4KB)                        (LOGFILSIZ) = 1024 Number of primary log files               (LOGPRIMARY) […]
IBM Connections 4.5 CR5 released A lot of things happen this week 😉 One highlight is that IBM Connections 4.5 CR5 was just released (direct download at FC): Download Link Here you can find the fix list: Fix List Database and Cognos (only from CR3 or below) Updates are required: Database / Cognos Updates Here […]
Several security vulnerabilities in all IBM Connections versions IBM Connections makes use of the Apache Struts framework. The version that is used for IBM Connections contains security issues… Just 2 days ago, a technote was released: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21680848 IBM released APARs for the different versions: IBM Connections 5.0 Apply APAR LO80688 IBM Connections 4.5 Upgrade to […]
My Experiences with IBM Connections 5 – Part 2 So far that the first installations have been completed, I started looking at the new functionality of IBM Connections 5. I found some really cool things… Let`s start by looking at the new feature list… Communities / External feature – Trash bin for Communities – GREAT! […]