Fw: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions about IBM WebSphere Portal Server for Multiplatforms February 2006

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03/14/2006 11:06 PM













This note contains links (URLs) to frequently used technical support 
documents (technotes) which answer frequently asked questions (FAQs) 
regarding IBM WebSphere Portal Server for Multiplatforms, along with 
several new guides to help you drive more value from your software 
licenses and administrate your Portal system more effectively.

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This list of links will also be added to the "Featured documents for IBM 
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms" page (
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg27006531), which we 
encourage you to bookmark because we update the collection periodically. 
The Featured documents list also contains links to previously distributed 
FAQ Responses.


Frequently Used Technotes & Guides:

Title: WebSphere Portal [Deployment] Best Practices
Link: 
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/redp4100.html?Open


Title: IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms Version 5.1 Performance 
Tuning Guide
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg27005771

Title: IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5.1.0.1 Tuning Guide
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg27006643

Title: Diagnosing Performance Problems for WebSphere Portal 5.1
Link: 
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&context=SSHRKX&q1=tuning&uid=swg27007059&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en


Title: Oracle 6550 Error - A resource manager error has occurred in the 
transaction branch
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21205839 

Title: MyPortal Page renders slowly when WebSphere Portal does not have 
Internet access
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21178023

Title: Sametime Awareness in Lotus Collaborative Portlets does not 
function consistently
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21174303

Title: Upgrade to WebSphere Portal Version 5.1.0.2 fails on Windows 
because of too long path names
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21223472

Title: Clustered WebSphere Portal startup fails with scheduler error
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21221941

Title: Installing Portal 5.1.0.1 to coexist with Portal V5.0.X (or above) 
and an existing external MQ installation
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21213420

Title: DB2 database-transfer without SYSADM rights
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&uid=swg21209396

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Lotusphere 2006

The Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida, in late January was a 
thundering success. If you were not able to attend, there is no need to 
despair. Now Lotusphere Comes to You! No less than 193 no-charge one-day 
events have been scheduled in over 180 cities (in 47 countries around the 
world) between the Orlando conference and mid-May. The events will feature 
two tracks - a business track for IT managers and a technical track for 
developers and administrators. Attendees will learn more about Lotus Notes 
and Domino, including the next generation Notes client "Hannover", 
WebSphere Portal, Lotus Sametime 7.5, and IBM Workplace. Customers and 
partners can learn more about Lotusphere Comes to You, including specific 
event dates and locations, and register at 
http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/lcty.

Read the interview with Surjit Chana, Vice President of Marketing & 
Partners, on Lotusphere Comes to You:
Title: Couldn't get to Orlando? Lotusphere Comes to You brings the 
excitement to a city near you
Link: 
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/nhan6lnl64?OpenDocument&Site=lotus


Read what the press had to say about Lotusphere 2006:
Title: The press sees the "Future in Sight" at Lotusphere 2006
Link: 
http://www.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/nhan6lfk7t?OpenDocument&Site=lotus



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Here are some other ways that you can access general self-help support 
information for WebSphere Portal on the Web:

1. Register for My Support, which allows you to build a custom portal of 
support information and to subscribe to email notifications for new 
technotes regarding your product:
(This is a great service. Tens of thousands of customers have signed up 
already)
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/einfo.html to learn more.

2. Visit the IBM WebSphere Portal product support page at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/

3. Participate in the user-to-user IBM WebSphere Portal forum at:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=168&cat=9

4. Access IBM WebSphere Portal Product Documentation, Release Notes, White 
Papers, Redbooks, etc at:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/WebSphere/library.jsp

5. Access the IBM WebSphere Portal DeveloperWorks page for downloads, 
learning resources and more:
http://www.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=499&lang=en&loc=en_US&r=10&cs=utf-8&rankfile=0&cc=&spc=&stc=&apar=exclude&q1=WebSphere&dc=D400&atrn=SWPlatform&atrv=all&tc=SWH30&go.x=7&go.y=10


6. Determine what problems are fixed in each release by viewing the IBM 
WebSphere Portal Fix List database:
http://www.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=493&lang=en&loc=en_US&r=10&cs=utf-8&rankfile=0&cc=&spc=&stc=&apar=exclude&q1=WebSphere&dc=D400&atrn=SWPlatform&atrv=all&tc=SWH30&go.x=11&go.y=9


7. Subscribe to the Lotus Collaborative Portlets support RSS feed:
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/rss/lotus/296.xml?rss=s296&ca=rsslotus
For help with RSS and for links to all the Lotus software RSS feeds, 
including the feed for the Lotus Collaborative Portlets, visit the URL 
above.

Kind regards,

The IBM WebSphere Portal Server team