IBM Connections - Time to Update Your APNS Certs

 Posted on May 1, 2019  |  1 min.  |  119 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

IBM has announced that iFixes are available to update IBM Connections with the latest versions of APNS certificates used by the mobile app for Push notifications. Fixes are available for the latest CRs for 5.0 and 5.5 and both 6.0 CR3 and CR4. Please follow the link below to the IBM Technote which has links to the different downloads. The current (or most recent) APNS certificates expire on July 21, 2019, so you’ve got about 90 days to get these downloaded and installed. [Read More]
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Note to self: Host name is case-sensitive when deploying Sametime servers

 Posted on February 1, 2019  |  1 min.  |  192 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

Working on a Sametime install for a client and it’s been a little while. I created the Community server deployment plan and started the install on the Community Server. The hostname is kindly populated for me from the OS. It’s got some letters in upper case, but no worries. I click the Next button to get the list of available deployment plans and nothing, zip, nada shows in the window. Hmmm. [Read More]
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Observations on Upgrading to v10.0.1 - Domino, Traveler, Verse on Prem

 Posted on December 21, 2018  |  1 min.  |  154 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

I spent a little time this morning upgrading a Domino server from 10.0 to 10.0.1. Upgrading Domino, Traveler and Verse on Prem took about 15 minutes. Got to love those simple upgrades. Only wish some other products were that simple. That isn’t to say there wasn’t any issue. This was a Windows box and when the Domino service started, it failed with an error. Event viewer said the error number was 7024, but didn’t offer any help at all. [Read More]
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IBM Notes 9.0.1 on MacOS and Java 8 Update Higher Than 152 Not Working

 Posted on January 21, 2018  |  1 min.  |  170 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

An IBM Technote was published last week regarding IBM Notes 9.0.1 for MacOS and the Java 8 update 152 or higher. After this update, the Notes client on Mac doesn’t respond to mouse or keyboard input which is less than helpful and almost not useful. The workaround for the moment is to downgrade to Java 8 update 151, which appears to be the highest level that doesn’t fail with Notes. To get the Java update, you need to go to the Oracle Java download archive site and choose the update 151 for Java 8 Runtime. [Read More]
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IBM Notes 9.0.1 Java patch and IF1 installation tip

 Posted on October 13, 2017  |  1 min.  |  121 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

Earlier in October, IBM released JVM patches for Notes and Domino for both the 1.6 and 1.8 versions of the JVM. Here’s a link to the Interim Fix page with the download links. This week, Interim Fix 1 for the 9.0.1 Notes client was released as well. If you have previously installed the JVM patches for the Notes client, you will want to re-install the JVM patch as the IF puts the previous version back in place. [Read More]
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IBM Notes and Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 9 available

 Posted on August 18, 2017  |  3 min.  |  636 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

Looks like IBM Domino and IBM Notes 9.0.1 Feature Pack 9 are available for download from Fix Central Link to all Domino downloads Link to all Notes downloads Here’s a quick hit of new features available in each: Domino: The documentation in Knowledgebase will be updated with these new features to coincide with the ship date of 9.0.1 FP9 Enhancement Request To Be Able To Increase The Amgr Queue Beyond 100 (SPR #RSTNA4SL7C APARID: LO87242) The Agent Manager’s Eligible queue is now able to change from the lowest value possible at 100, to 255 which is the highest value possible via an INI AMGRMaxQueue. [Read More]
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One More Setting to Force Tlsv1.2 in Connections 6.0

 Posted on August 17, 2017  |  1 min.  |  87 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

It appears that there is one additional setting that is needed to force IBM Connections 6.0 to use TLSv1.2. In each Application Server go to Process Definiition > Java Virtual Machine and add the following setting in the Generic JVM arguments: -Dcom.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultTLS=true Save the changes and after applying to all application servers, restart the servers. Note: IBM Technote that this post was originally based on (and I referenced) is no longer available, but it appears to have been added to the HCL documentation for Connections 6. [Read More]
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IBM Technote: Customizing Default Navigation Order of Apps in Connections 6.0 Mobile App

 Posted on July 18, 2017  |  2 min.  |  297 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

A technote published today outlines the ability to customize the default order of the apps displayed in the IBM Connections Mobile app. This does require IBM Connections 6.0 and the June 2017 update to be installed for the new setting to work. See this technote for the details on configuring the new setting. 📰 9 Aug 2019: As IBM has sold Connections and their support site may not show this permanently, I’ve added the text from the technote below [Read More]
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