IBM Connections 6.0 CR2 has just been released. It combines many previous fixes into one installable package and thus makes upgrading a new Connections 6.0 environment much easier.
You can find the download package here on FixCentral.
You will need to update the databases of Communities, Files, HomePage, Metrics and Wikis using the scripts found here.
A guide for updating Connections to 6.0 CR2 can be found here.
The CR2 for Connections 6.0 contains the following fixes (also found here):
| APAR# | Component | Problem Description |
| LO93300 | Activities | Corrected the problem when an activity entry is moved that has a To Do with a single assigned user to another activity, the assigned user was being removed from the To Do. |
| Activities | Fixed the problem in the Connections Mobile app where Activities OAuth Follow would return a 403 | |
| LO93677 | Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar | Fixed an issue where the timezone settings were reset when accessing a Community Blogs with the Chrome browser |
| Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar | Implemented a change where the time zone in a Community blog could not be updated when using the Chrome browser | |
| Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar | Enabled “follow” atom api in Blogs for Mobile OAuth Support | |
| LO93726 | Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar | Fixed the problem with the encoding of special characters and @mentions displaying incorrectly in Blogs comments in the Activity stream |
| Common UI | The To Do widget now displays the bizcard when hovering over a name. | |
| LO93624 | Common UI | Implemented localized strings used in the navbar component for selecting new or classic homepage as the user’s default. |
| Communities | External users can now follow a community | |
| LO93575 | Communities | Fixed a problem with the Community service url where it was not properly set on the Community’s edit page |
| LO93785 | Communities | Fixed the problem where the Community card was not working on external site |
| Communities | The title of Rich Content widget will displayed for community members. This change requires a Gatekeeper Key to enable it. Contact Connections support for instructions | |
| Community | Italic text will now display in the Community description | |
| LO93235 | Community | The H2 heading in the Rich Content widget will now be visible to community members |
| Core – Common services | Corrected the problems associated when a customized context root is used for the Connections Applications | |
| LO93535 | Integration/Filenet CCM | Fixed the problem with the FileNet Library widget where it would display encoded characters in the Library Titles |
| LO92136 | Files | IBM Docs event notifications are now correctly sent to users |
| LO90652 | Files | Implemented sorting of Files by ‘shared’ |
| Files | Implemented searching for File names in nested shared folders. | |
| LO93538 | Files | Fixed a problem where the Community File Icon would not download a file when clicked |
| LO93592 | Files | Wiki pages now print |
| LO93696 | Files | Fixed an issue where anonymous users with access to a public/ moderated community. Previously they could see the files list in the “Overview” tab but would not see any documents after clicking on “All Document” |
| LO93712 | Files | Corrected the behavior of navigating back from a Community Search to the Community |
| LO93853 | Files | Implemented a detailed message when attempting to access a Private File |
| Forums | Documented the LCC Setting for retrieving topics and replies in Forums | |
| Forums | Updated the Knowledge Center with additional Forums Events | |
| Global Search | Implemented the option to add third-party search | |
| LO93577 | Global Search | Fixed a problem when the Search UI would not work when the Forums application was not installed |
| Global Search | Corrected a problem in the Search Typeahead OAuth API that would return a 401 in Connections Mobile | |
| LO93875 | Global Search | Fixed a problem where the background Extracting file content would fail |
| Global Search | GDPR support for Search | |
| LO93516 | Homepage | Corrected translation errors in German and French |
| LO93756 | Homepage | The Search icon now is correctly displayed on the Homepage when using the IE 11 browser |
| LO93792 | Infrastructure/Configuration issues | Implemented customized context root support for Tours |
| LO93903 | Infrastructure/Configuration issues | Fixed the problem where Groups would not be correctly sorted in Type Ahead |
| Metrics – Cognos | Fixed the problem in Metrics where Files views would always display 0 in the top content reports | |
| Metrics – Cognos | GDPR: Sync personal files library’s name in Metrics if a user’s name was changed | |
| LO93873 | Metrics – ElasticSearch | Corrected DB2 errors when migrating to ElasticSearch Metrics |
| LO93917 | Mobile | GDPR Support for Connections Mobile |
| LO93791 | Mobile | Implemented OAuth Support to Connections Mobile |
| News | Corrected an issued with the Impersonator ID which caused events to be skipped | |
| LO93743 | News | Fixed the behavior when adding a custom widget using wsadmin support resulted in it appearing on MyPage. |
| LO93584 | News | Adjusted SQL statements to match the updated data types in MSSQL 2016. |
| Profiles | The “Next” and “Previous” links from the Profiles Search results work correctly | |
| LO93594 | Profiles | Fixed a problem where Inactive Profiles were returned in the Profile feed |
| Share Box | Corrected the problem where a certain sequence of steps would corrupt the Share box when using IE 11 | |
| LO93527 | WidgetContainer/WidgetFramework | Expanded the default rule to allow widgets to talk back to the server they were loaded from |
| LO93543 | WidgetContainer/WidgetFramework | Corrected an issue where timing could have resulted in a Promise not getting resolved in certain case related to loading resources |
| Widget | Corrected the behavior of a custom widget where it was not checking if a user had permission to customize the widget settings before sending save request | |
| LO93287 | Widgets | Corrected the problem where External Users would be displayed in the Do You Know Widget |
| LO93628 | Widgets | Fixed the problem when Edit Linked Library setting would display two widgets when it was loaded first time |
| LO93994 | Widgets | Fixed the problem where additional <br> tags are added to the Rich Content Widget on Save |
| Widgets | The Rich Content Widget can successfully be saved when containing an iFrame | |
| Wikis | Fixed the problem where the Document Bookmark icon would disappear after saving a wiki | |
| Wiki | Saving a Wiki page would add empty lines via additional < /br> tags | |
| LO93481 | Wikis | Fixed a LinkToWiki attachment issue in Wikis |
| LO93876 | Wikis | Corrected a navigation issue with Comments and permalinks |
| Wikis | Fixed a problem where Wikis crawling was causing the Search crawler to loop |
A word of warning be very careful one of the requirements is to upgrade WAS to 8.5.5.13 the problem is that this version has an issue when using Domino as the LDAP source or using root as the base DN with AD. There is an iFix that is required as well as WAS FP13 or you will get login issues to WebSphere after the upgrade. it is now listed in the installation guide as from today but was not in the original document so don’t get caught out.
Thank you for the warning!
Another one that has caught me out if you are running CR1 and you updated the LotusConnections_Config.xml file to add the parameter the CR2 install will fail with an error in the Connections\_install.log such as this :-
– copy [directory.services.xml] from [C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\CONNECTIONSCell01\LotusConnections-config] into [C:\Users\ADMIN_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmp0LotusConnections-config]
Upgrade XML files in [C:\Users\ADMIN_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmp0LotusConnections-config] from [60CR1] to [60CR1] …
– [C:\Users\ADMIN_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmp0LotusConnections-config\LotusConnections-config.xml]
Invalid – [C:\Users\ADMIN_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmp0LotusConnections-config\LotusConnections-config.xml] invalid according to [C:\IBM\Connections\xkit\LotusConnections-config\LotusConnections-config.xsd]
– [C:\Users\ADMIN_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmp0LotusConnections-config\communities-config.xml]
You need to remove the parameter from the xml file and then sync the node and try again should then work. I figured this out off the back of a technote roll back document IBM sent out :- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22017100
I am happy to say that I have now finally got CR2 running and all looks good 🙂