Taking Notez – Island Pond Consulting

Now that the catalog is available for WebSphere Portal v8 it’s time to put it to work.  For an excellent article on installing the catalog see the entry at Base22

Don’t be fooled into thinking your sandbox server is up to the task when it comes to updates.  My sandbox was crushed by the IBM Installation Manger. Fortunately it is a virtual machine and adding CPUs helped enormously.  In my first try I waited over four hours before abandoning the update. Once the resources were increased the update took about 45 minutes.