by Michael Urspringer
I had the following problem with external users in Connections 5. The customer used a function for the “displayName” instead of a LDAP property value like “cn” resulting in the following lines in “map_dbrepos_from_source.properties”: [codesyntax lang=”text”]
[/codesyntax] The function
As there already have been several updates and hotfixes for Sametime 9.0 released it is not easy to find out which the latest versions of the Sametime components are. To make that easier you can check out the summary on
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
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
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
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
While trying to install the fixpack for Tivoli Directory Integrator I got the following message:
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
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
If you are using a user from the LDAP for installing IBM Connections make sure that you are using the specified login name (e.g. “uid”) of that user and NOT the full distinguished name (DN). Otherwise you might have trouble
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