I am not sure if everybody is aware of this great collection of Websphere scripts to simplify some of the IBM Connections configuration tasks. If not, you really should have a look: Connections Administration & Scripting 101 Thanks to Christoph for
IBM Connections 5.0: Assign Activity tasks to multiple people
Starting with IBM Connections 5.0 you can assign tasks within an activity also to multiple people at once. A task will be marked as completed once all assigned users have marked the item complete for themselves. An activity owner can
Installing 32-bit Oracle database client for IBM Connections (Cognos)
For the Cognos part of IBM Connections together with an Oracle database you need to install the 32-bit Oracle database client on your Cognos node. Cognos is only supporting the “Runtime-Client” and not the smaller “InstantClient”, so make sure you
Error starting Cognos server with Oracle as database
After installing the Cognos server for IBM Connections 5.0 together with Oracle JDBC driver, Cognos did not start up although there was no error message in the SystemOut.log. However looking into the Cognos error log (“/opt/IBM/Cognos/CognosBI/logs/cogserver.log”) I saw the following error
Tivoli Directory Integrator: Unable to install Fixpack
While trying to install the fixpack for Tivoli Directory Integrator I got the following message:
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"the installc executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library" |
The reason was some incompatibility with the network share where the installation sources were located. They were mounted via NFS from an EMC Isilon SAN
IBM Connections: Connection to LDAP is lost after some time
Customer has connected IBM Connections (means: Websphere Application Server) to an Atos DirX directory. The federated repository has been configured as “CUSTOM” type. After starting the Deployment Manager everything works, and the local wasadmin user and also admin users from the
Logviewer for Windows
If you work with products like IBM Connections, IBM Sametime etc. you need a tool to view all the Websphere logs without the need to manually open them one by one. I used Baretail if the log files were on
IBM Connections 5.0 CR1 just arrived
You can now download IBM Connection 5.0 CR1 from FixCentral. Some more information: Fixlist New functions included Database Upgrade Information Information on updating FileNet for use with IBM Connection Content Manager (CCM)
IBM Connections Search plugin for Google Chrome
Anybody using Google Chrome as browser to access IBM Connections? Then you might want to download QuickSearch for IBM Connections from the Chrome webstore: The IBM Connections QuickSearch plugin let you quickly search for users or content within IBM Connections,
Unable to launch “IBM Cognos Administration”
During configuration of IBM Cognos together with IBM Connections you need to launch “http://cognosserver.acme.com/cognos/servlet/dispatch/ext” and select the menu option “IBM Cognos Administration” under “Launch”. Although you are sure that you have logged in with your Cognos admin account you specified