Introducing Oracle 19c support

• Automating swap configuration (prereq for Oracle 19c)
• Automating Oracle 19c installation and configuration
• Supporting Oracle with Connections Wizards
• Connections and Docs updates to support Oracle
• Updating documentation and examples to support multiple database backends
• Connections MT updates and fixes
• SSO update - avoid doing it twice
• J2EE role refactoring and improvements
• Updated default Helm version
• WAS cleanup - fixing the order of execution to avoid running it multiple times or partial cleanups
• Make it optional to (not) create IIM cache

Cumulative update February 15

This release contains a couple of fixes and some new features:

• Adding uninstall support for Connections
• Adding ifix support
• Component Pack refactoring - supporting installing Component Pack into non default Kubernetes namespace
• Fixed self signed certificates, getting rid of the issues with Chrome
• Fixed plugin generation for a new type of environment (DMGR & IHS collocated but separated from the rest of environment)
• Refactored OpenLDAP module, support for MT environments
• Enabling oauth2 autoregistration for Kudosboards
• MT support work
• Support for Kubernetes 1.20.1 and 1.20.2

Deployment Improvements

• Enhanced examples inventory files (how to use Flexnet file names, how to overwrite IIM versions)
• Multiple playbook fixes (added NFS options to prevent race conditions, added a couple of new playbooks)
• Fix: using proper package for DB2 client
• Fix: database (re)creation using DB2 Connections Wizards module
• Support for TDI upgrade
• New feature: NFS is not mandatory for Connections and Docs anymore
• New feature: Installation sources can be now taken from local disk or NFS
• New feature for HCL Connections installation: ldap_user_mail_domain is now mandatory variable for installer. Used in combination with connections_admin variable. See this example for more explanation
• DB2 and TDI module refactored, removed what was hardcoded.
• Fixed automation for Metrics and Quick Results configuration
• Fixed automation for Kudosboards/ActivitiesPlus installation and configuration
• Improved Sharepoint Widget installation and configuration
• Added support for installing iFixes
• Adding IHS certificates to trust store
• Adding scheduler cleanup support as a part of DB2 maintenance tasks
• Documentation updates: added Frequently Asked Questions document and how-to for upgrading HCL Connections using automation

January 2021 fixes and improvements

• Added OpenLDAP indices
• Fix for LDAP OLC sufix
• Improve documentation about remote user configuration
• Refactoring of the way how boolean was used with Ansible after initial linting
• Added role for Containerd
• Added support for Kubernetes 1.20.0

Initial stable release of HCL Connections automation

This is the first release of HCL Connections, Component Pack and Connections Docs automation.