Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Uninstall IBM® Connections.
Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
Review the steps that are required to install IBM® Connections.
Complete the following tasks before installing IBM® Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Remove selected applications from IBM® Connections.
Uninstall a deployment of IBM® Connections.
Uninstall IBM® Connections in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not want to use the graphical mode.
Use the database wizard to delete databases.
Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.
After uninstalling an IBM® Connections application, you can drop any related databases by using the database wizard or by following this manual procedure.
The IBM® Connections Installation Manager program requires that you revert the Common and WidgetContainer applications the News cluster for uninstallation if you previously separated those applications to their own clusters.
You uninstall Cognos® by uninstalling the Cognos Business Intelligence server and Cognos Transformer and removing the powercube refresh scheduler .
Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.