Migrating from SmartCloud Notes and Connections Cloud  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/30/19 10:58 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by John Oldenburger

As you all know, or should know, IBM will discontinue its cloud offering for Mail and Connections in July 2020. This has raised a lot of questions from customers and partners about what to do, where and how to migrate, etc. Today HCL hosted a webinar where they explained their strategy to address this concerns.

Community written guides on OpenNTF wiki  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/10/19 4:42 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

In the collaboration community, a.k.a yellowverse, the need for step-by-step product guides, installation, tuning, etc… has always been present, not because the official documentation is bad, but because if you follow it, you have to jump from a place to another in order to finish the installation of a product. See for example the installation of Connections where the Knowledge Base tells you “install DB2” and points you to the DB2 KB, then “install WAS” and points you to the WAS KB, and so on.

IBM Connections change file owner. How to get the list of all the files of a user  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 6/21/19 9:37 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Matteo Bisi

In Connections 6 CR5 there is the possibility of changing the owner of one or more files. To do that you need to build a list of file IDs and put it in a text file that then will be used by the wsadmin command to change ownership of those files. The problem is to find a quick way to get the list of all the files owned by a user. Here is a quick way to do that. Thanks to Adam Gartenberg for the tip.

I will be speaking at ICONUK 2018 and Social Connections 14  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/26/18 10:59 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I will speak with the lovely Sharon Bellamy James at ICONUK 2018 which is in Birmingham Sept 13-14. Our Session will be on troubleshooting IBM Connections. I will speak with my friend and guru Martti Garden at Social Connections 14 which is in Berlin Oct 16-17. We will show how to install step-by-step IBM Connections Component Pack, i.e. the Pink components.

Enabling Track Change in IBM Docs 2.0 CR3  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/31/17 7:59 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM Docs 2.0 CR3 introduces a new feature, Track Change, that lets you see all the modification to the document made by other people who edited it. To enable it, when editing a document go in the menu Team and select Track Change.

OrientMe in a test environment. How to make it work  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 4/13/17 10:47 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

For all my test systems I do not use a real domain name, I usually go with something like server.roberto.local or the like. This is a problem when you try to install the new OrientMe component that IBM has shipped with Connections 6.

IBM Verse on Premises 1.0.0.1 integration with Connections Files. How to make it work  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 2/15/17 10:43 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I installed Verse on Premises 1.0.0.1 in my environment but when I tried to add a link to a file in Connections when composing an email I got an error “Sorry we cannot retrieve your files at the moment”. After a chat with my excellent friend and IBM Champion Christoph Stoettner, he found the problem and the solution.

Integrate IBM Connections Docs with BOX  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/21/16 12:23 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

This is a very useful integration, once set up you will be able to use IBM Docs to edit your files stored in BOX. What I found is that is not so easy to set up, requires some fiddling with json files and this can be tricky, at least for me it was since I am not that familiar with json. But with some attention in editing the file it can be done.

IBM Connections 5.5 fix installation – a moment of panic and how to solve it  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/7/16 10:53 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I installed the required fixes ( 5.5.0.0-IC-Multi-IFLO87330, 5.5.0.0-IC-News-IFLO87487, 5.5.0.0-IC-Common-IFLO87469, 5.5.0.0-IC-Multi-UPDI-20151224 ) in my Connections 5.5 installation.