After installing the Sametime 9 Media Manager components I had problems to connect from the System Console to the Video Manager. E.g. you were unable to edit the default media manager policy as you got the error “AIDSC#####: Could not
IBM Connections Search plugin for Google Chrome
Anybody using Google Chrome as browser to access IBM Connections? Then you might want to download QuickSearch for IBM Connections from the Chrome webstore: The IBM Connections QuickSearch plugin let you quickly search for users or content within IBM Connections,
Unable to launch “IBM Cognos Administration”
During configuration of IBM Cognos together with IBM Connections you need to launch “http://cognosserver.acme.com/cognos/servlet/dispatch/ext” and select the menu option “IBM Cognos Administration” under “Launch”. Although you are sure that you have logged in with your Cognos admin account you specified
Lessons Learned IBM Connections Upgrade 3.0.1 to 4.5
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
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: 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: