Here are some topics I learned during my last IBM Connections upgrade project from vesion 3.0.1 to 4.5.
IBM Connections 4.5 version confusion
I had several requests by customers about the version naming of IBM Connections 4.5 so I decided to explain it here: The Connections code base you can download from Passport Advantage is version 4.5. For this version, several fixpacks have been
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IBM Connections 4.5 Metrics: Changing user profile attributes for report dimensions
By default IBM Connections Metrics reports can be displayed in three different dimensions: Geography, Department and Role. If you want to change this to other profile fields you can do that as described in this link: http://ibm.co/1dnNgug However you need to
IBM Connections 4.5 CR3 has been published
More information can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21637542 Step-by-Step directions for applying CR2 or CR3 for Connections 4.5 with Connections Content Manager: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655425 Updating the IBM Connections 4.5 databases to the required schema versions for Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3): http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655480 New
IBM Connections 4.5: Blog comments not displayed in IE after migration from 4.0
After migrating IBM Connections 4.0 to 4.5 it can happen, that Blog and Ideation Blog comments for migrated Blogs are not displayed in Internet Explorer. You will just see the small turning wheel but nothing more happens. By tracing with
IBM Connections: Request to IBM HTTP Server fails with Response code 400
After migrating to IBM Connections 4.5 with SPNEGO-SSO some users were unable to connect to the Connections system. The browser showed an Error 400 message and the users were not logged in to Connections. In the Websphere log files several
IBM Connections 4.5: Search Index does not finish
We currently had the problem that the creation of the search index of IBM Connections 4.5 never came to an end. In the log file you saw the following error messages: [codesyntax lang=”text”]
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CLFRW0957W: The seedlist url https://server.acme.com/activities/seedlist/myserver?Action=GetDocuments&Range=100&Start=1&Source=com.ibm.ilel.seedlist.retriever.connections.activities.ActivitiesRetrieverFactory&Format=xml&Locale=en_US&State=MTM0NjkyMjc3NTI3MDsxMTA0NTM0MDAwMDAwOzEzODMwNDE3NjAzODY7ZmFsc2U7MDswOzA7dHJ1ZTs%3D&useLocalFS=true has been requested more than twice in the same crawl.The application will now attempt to delete the seedlist pages persisted during this crawl activities. If this warning repeats on successive crawling or indexing jobs, there is a problem with the seedlist for the activities application. In this scenario, please contact IBM support. CLFRW0303E: Search has encountered a problem while crawling activities. The final seedlist page could not be reached. The crawl of activities could not be completed successfully. CLFRW0283E: Search has encountered a problem while crawling. CLFRW0294I: Search has finished crawling the activities component. CLFRW0962E: Some of the entries for activities were not indexed successfully. |
[/codesyntax] Because of these problems
IBM Connections – Migration from 4.0 to 4.5 – Some findings
Here is a short summary of what issues I saw during my last migration from IBM Connections 4.0 to 4.5:
Step-by-Step Applying CR1 for IBM Connections 4.5 with Connections Content Manager ( CCM )
Ok, now it is officially published. With these instructions an update of IBM Connections 4.5 including Connections COntent Manager to CR1 should no longer be a big problem 🙂