Recent 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.

GDPR and IBM Connections / Docs On-Prem  

By Sharon James | 5/11/18, 4:52 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

At IBM Think back in March, the Connections Offering Management team promised us some information to help with GDPR compliency. The Connections Cloud information has been available for a while and the On-Premises docuemtation was on the way. Today my friend and fellow IBM Champion Roberto alerted me to the technotes that are available.

Think! - Back to the Future - SocialShazza  

By Sharon James | 3/26/18, 7:41 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Think is over and man that was full on. To say this conference was massive doesn’t actually do it justice. The show floor and think park took most of the ground floor of the Mandalay Bay conference centre. A wander around the show floor could easily take an hour without stopping by any booths.

You better Think!  

By Sharon James | 2/7/18, 5:44 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

It is early February .. and cold in the UK, normally we would be just returning or just preparing to go on the annual ICS exodus to Orlando for the beloved Lotusphere / Connect conference ..but not this year. This year IBM have boldly gone – in the way of the Starship Enterprise – to another world for their annual conference this year. BUT not just for us ICS people!

IBM Champion and the Domino Jam  

By Sharon James | 1/19/18, 9:50 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Friday the 12th of January was a busy day for me .. Off to London for the face to face #Domino2025 Jam. I was slightly dubious, not really knowing what to expect but what a worth while experience it was. Approx 35 – 40 of us slip up into teams discussing and prioritising what we would like to see for IBM Domino App dev, mail, apps support and sametime for version 10 and beyond.

Version 10 and beyond - I Aint Dead  

By Sharon James | 11/3/17, 9:37 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

You are a Connections / WebSphere admin what do you care about Domino? I hear people ask – well actually I care a lot .. I use these products every day – I can’t do my job with out Domino / Verse / Notes and Sametime. After what can only be described as a lack of love for the Domino/Notes stack IBM have made a HUGE announcement in partnering with the development team at HCL Technologies to bring a new version to the beloved Domino stack.

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 | - | 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 | - | 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 | - | 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

Sutol, Pokemon and an awesome time  

By Sharon James | 11/18/16, 10:08 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

As blogged over on the BCC page .. a round up of Sutol with some extra Shaz related bits. Last week we were in the beautiful city of Prague for the 8th annual SUTOL Czech user group. It was a small affair with approx. 100 attendees – making it more like an extended family gathering, which actually worked really well.

A new challenge ...  

By Sharon James | 7/5/16, 10:12 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

I have been a little busy of late – working on some exciting projects (which I will be blogging about shortly). The planning for ICONUK 2016 is in full swing too – don’t forget to register, submit your abstract or sponsorship over on the iconuk.org site

Speaking at Connect 2014 what an honor  

By Sharon James | 11/27/13, 12:27 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

It is an honor and a privilege to have been chosen with my friend and Christoph Stoettner to speak at this years Connect / Lotusphere conference.

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.

Social Connections V – coming soon  

By Sharon James | 2/6/13, 1:24 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The international and independent IBM Connections user group will be visiting beautiful Zurich, Switzerland on June 28th 2013! IBM Switzerland has graciously offered us the use of their IBM Client Center and it already promises to be a busy day.

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.

Announcing the keynote speaker for Social Connections IV  

By Sharon James | 10/4/12, 12:16 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We are pleased to announce the keynote speaker for Social Connections IV will be Chris Crummey. Chris is the World Wide Executive Director of Sales for IBM’s Social Business and Exceptional Web Experience solutions with in IBM Software Group.

Social Connections IV just 10 weeks to go  

By Sharon James | 9/21/12, 11:33 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Femke Goedhart

It is just 10 weeks until the fourth Social Connections Event and the countdown is on for abstract submissions. The call for abstracts closes on Thursday 4th of October – that is just under two weeks away. We have already had some fantasic sessions proposed in all three tracks – we are looking for more, the three tracks are: