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We’re so close to sunsetting our Connections environment at work. I figured I would document this here showing how we’ve been monitoring activity in the ailing environment. Our Cognos is disabled, so I have been having to pull this information manually. Twice weekly, I pull the the most recent activity in Communities and Activities, coupled […]

These are snippets of code I’ve used recently for finding data in our Connections environment at work. Considering IBM’s wikis and other online publications are going down starting after the new year, I thought I’d post here in case they’re needed again. I was tasked with finding a list of the most active activities and […]

Wow, this month has been a real rollercoaster. On the upside, I attended the IBM Connect 2016 conference referenced in my last post. Wheee! Fun and tomfoolery! On the downside, men suck and I’m sicker than I thought. Blurgh? I broke it off with the guy I had been seeing the day before Valentine’s Day. […]

It dawned on me today that I’ve been back almost a week and hadn’t posted anything about my trip. I went down to Orlando again this year for work. Five of us headed down to attend IBM’s Connect 2016 conference (formerly known as Lotusphere). It was FUN! This year’s was held at a new venue, […]

Update: There is a POODLE fix (APAR LO82478) for Connections CR5 that will resolve this. Ran across this issue recently at work and sharing here in case anyone else runs into this. Our Connections environment is currently running 4.5 CR4. We have the IBM Connections Mail plugin installed. Our users LOVE this plugin. What’s it […]

I wanted to share this in case it’s helpful to someone else. I had been tasked with finding out what was the last date and time a user had logged into our Connections environment. I was already familiar with the EMPLOYEE table, but I knew I would need a way to cross reference with the […]