IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 : Transferring ownership of user files

One of the new features of the IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 is the  availability of a new admin command to move the file ownership between users.

As usual this feature has no GUI and you have to use it from  wsadmin prompt   .



the first step is start files admin

execfile("filesAdmin.py")

than get the future ownerd ID with the following command

FilesMemberService.getByEmail("matteo.bisi@factor-y.com")

the id needed will be written after the "id="

{

directoryLastUpdate=Wed Dec 19 18:20:38 CET 2018, 

directoryGroupLastUpdate=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019, 

name=Matteo Bisi, isOprhan=false, 

lastVisit=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019, 

id=62a06326-04ef-4541-ae9f-ad816e6c4045, 

email=matteo.bisi@factor-y.com, 

createDate=Fri Jul 20 11:19:02 CEST 2012, 

communityLastUpdate=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019

} 

now create a file inside Connections DMGR with the ID of the files you wish to transfer between the users like the following

[root@connections~]# cat file-da-trasferire
8f17e1b3-797d-4253-b90e-6101edf11423

158c9cc8-1bb1-4582-bc2f-9e288655c2f0
3fe52bde-ffa7-418c-9f71-d1cee4f3c4aa

now enter the following command using as argument the path of the file with the file ids, the id of the user that will receive the files and a tag to identify the files transferred

FilesLibraryService.transferPersonalFiles("/root/file-da-trasferire", "62a06326-04ef-4541-ae9f-ad816e6c4045", "file-ex-dipendente")

The personal file with the id 8f17e1b3-797d-4253-b90e-6101edf11423 was transferred successfully.
The personal file with the id 158c9cc8-1bb1-4582-bc2f-9e288655c2f0 was transferred successfully.
The personal file with the id 3fe52bde-ffa7-418c-9f71-d1cee4f3c4aa was transferred successfully.

inside Connections the new owner of the files will receive a notification about the modification of the file trasferred from System_admin user

now the files are transferred and checking the about tab of a file the new user is listed as creator and the file is updated by System User.

The file is also tagged with the tag "file-da-ex-dipendente" that I've used to trasfer the files

IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 available !!!

IBM has released on fixcentra  the new CR5 for Connections 6.0 and this will be probably the last major update for Connections branded IBM.

This CR5 comes our with a a huge fixlist and some nice new features anticipated during Engage 2019 like the following:

• administrators can transfer the ownership of the files
• new widgets creation and preview for ICEC
• support for the new Tiny MCE V5 

Some useful links

• download databases schema update (files and wiki) 
• download Tiny MCE V5 editor
• download FP15 WAS 8.5.5 , download Java SDK 8.5.0.27 
• IBM Connections 6.0 update strategy

After the upgrade of WAS to FP15 and of the SDK it's required also the  iFix  IFPH09407 but right now while I'm writing this post the ifixes looks not available on fixcentral  for offline setup.

This is the link of the related technote where you could find the direct fixlink..
During next days I'll start to upgrade several environment !

IBM Connections 4.5 CR5 available on fixcentral

Today IBM has released new CR5 for IBM Connections 4.5

Download is available on   IBM fixcentral and  on this technote you could find the huge fixlist and some info about the upgrade.
CR5 as previous CR is cumulative so following correct steps indicated on technote you could upgrade from any release of 4.5.

Happy upgrade !