Connections by Sharon James 

Connections migration DB issues  

By Sharon James | 2/12/19, 1:55 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Posted on 11th February 2019 by sharon Connections migration DB issues I thought I had already posted this but was remided by our slack chat today that I hadn’t. When migrating the Connections meetrics database from V5 to V6 there is an error that is thrown when the DB2 restore tries to run the upgrade command.

IBM Docs 2 CR3 is here - and with some cool new features  

By Sharon James | 10/31/17, 7:52 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

So at last IBM Docs 2 CR3 has been released and with it some awesome new features that the community have been asking for (thank you IBM). What’s new in Docs 2 CR3? LOADS of new features and fixes including … The most exciting is probably the ability to deploy the Conversion server on linux (finally)!!

So Docs 2 CR1 and iFix 1 is not playing ball  

By Sharon James | 11/28/16, 8:41 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

I knew that some of our community had seen issues with applying Docs 2 CR1 and the accompanying iFix, so I purposely held off applying it. But low and behold on Saturday afternoon when I did attempted to install CR1 I had problems.

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 2  

By Sharon James | 11/25/16, 6:33 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

In part 2 of this series we will cover preparing the system and the commands and files required. There is a fair bit of file creation to do and configuring of the Database Transfer Tool (DBT)

Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 1  

By Sharon James | 11/23/16, 6:01 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

For those of you that follow me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have posted a number of tweets relating to a fun project I am working on. I have been working with a customer to move them from Connections 5 to Connections 5.5

Connections 4.x search – well that was a weird problem  

By Sharon James | 10/7/13, 12:29 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

If you have migrated or moved an IBM Connections instance from 3.0.1 > 4.x (either 4.0 or 4.5) or moved data between 4.x servers you may have noticed a weird issue with searching, especially around communities.

Mastering metrics and coping with cognos  

By Sharon James | 12/12/12, 11:56 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Here are the slides from out Cognos session from social connections iv – given with the mighty Greg Kutinov.