If you update IBM Connections™ 6.0 to
apply CR5, you must also update databases to accommodate new and changed features.
About this task
IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 requires the following
database updates, which you perform on the Deployment Manager:
- Note: Not required if you are updating from CR3 or higher: Create the XCC database for
the new Highlights app .
- Update the Communities, Files, Homepage and Wiki databases.
Procedure
- On the database server, download and extract the CR5 database update package 60cr5-database-updates.zip to a local directory.
- Note: Not required if you are updating from CR3: Create the XCC database for the new
Highlights feature by completing the following steps:
The Highlights app replaces the stand-alone Connections Engagement Center and is now integrated
into the Communities application. If you previously deployed the Connections Engagement Center then
the XCC database already exists and you can skip this task. The existing database will be used for
the Highlights feature and data will retained during the update; however the app itself will moved
from its previous location to the Communities server.
- In the directory on the Deployment Manager where you extracted the
60cr5-database-updates.zip file, change to the
Highlight_DB_Creation subdirectory.
- Edit the script for your database product so that the settings reflect your deployment.
The user name and password that you provide in this script will also be needed during the CR4
update's installation, later in this task.
- Run the script to create the XCC database as explained in the Connections Engagement topic,
Creating a database.
- Update the Files and Wiki databases by completing the following steps:
- Verify that you have the permissions needed for updating the database.
The user who is running the schema update script must have read/write access to the directory
that script exports data to. Make sure that the current user has permission to modify any existing
ixf and msg files so that the script can overwrite them if
necessary.
- In the extracted directory, change to the
\from-60CR4\database_type subdirectory.
- Run the scripts to update the Files and Wiki databases.
The package contains a readme file with the specific commands for running the update for each
database product.
For more information, see Update strategy for IBM
Connections 6.0 (Technote 1999492).
- Review the output from the scripts to verify that there are no errors.