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Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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.
Uninstalling
Uninstall HCL Connections.
Uninstalling databases in silent mode
Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.

Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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.
- What's new in HCL Connections
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing Connections
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  HCL Connections 7.0 now supports the latest Component Pack based in Harbor, an open-source container and Helm registry hosted by HCL for the Component Pack build. Deployments that are new or carrying Component Pack 7 will use this approach for a simplified installation/upgrade process, while releases prior to 7.0 will first need to upgrade to Component Pack 7 using a zip file and a local Docker registry.
- Post-installation tasks
  After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
- Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
  The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for HCL Connections™. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
- Optional post-installation tasks
  Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- Uninstalling
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
  - Removing applications
    Remove selected applications from HCL Connections.
  - Uninstalling a deployment
    Uninstall a deployment of HCL Connections™.
  - Uninstalling in console mode
    Uninstall HCL Connections in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not want to use the graphical mode.
  - Uninstalling in silent mode
  - Uninstalling: delete databases with the database wizard
    Use the database wizard to delete databases.
  - Uninstalling databases in silent mode
    Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.
  - Uninstalling: Manually drop databases
    After uninstalling an HCL Connections application, you can drop any related databases by using the database wizard or by following this manual procedure.
  - Reverting Common, Connections-proxy, and WidgetContainer applications for Uninstallation
    The HCL 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.
  - Uninstalling Cognos® Business Intelligence server
    You uninstall Cognos® by uninstalling the Cognos Business Intelligence server and Cognos Transformer and removing the powercube refresh scheduler .
- Upgrading and updating
  Upgrade HCL Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or cumulative fixes. Refer to the What's New in HCL Connections to review the features in the latest release and gather download links or links to the latest fix list and update strategy information.
- Administering
  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.
- Customizing
  Customize HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL Connections™ and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your HCL products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your HCL products, including HCL Connections™.

Uninstalling databases in silent mode

Remove databases with the database wizard in silent mode.

Before you begin

Ensure that the wizard has created the response.properties file in the user_settings/lcWizard/response/dbWizard directory.

Note: To create a response file, run the wizard in standard mode and specify that you would like to create a response file. You can modify the existing response file or create your own, using a text editor.

About this task

To remove databases in silent mode, complete the following steps:

Procedure

(DB2® on Windows™ OS.) You must perform DB2® administration tasks with full administrator privileges.
1. Logged in as the instance owner, open a command prompt and change to the DB2® bin directory. For example: C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN.
2. Enter the following command: db2cwadmin.bat. This command opens the DB2® command line processor while also setting your DB2® privileges.
From the command prompt, change to the directory where the wizard is located.
Launch the wizard by running the following command:
- AIX®: ./dbWizard.sh -silent response_file
- Linux®: ./dbWizard.sh -silent response_file
- Microsoft® Windows®: dbWizard.bat -silent response_file
where response_file is the file path to the response file.
Note: If the path to the response_file contains a space, this parameter must be enclosed in double quotation marks (").

What to do next

After the wizard has finished, check the log file in the Lotus_Connections_set-up_directory/Wizards/DBWizard directory for messages. The log file name uses the time as a postfix. For example: dbConfig_20101228_202501.log.