Highly recommended free DAOS education module
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 3:56p Kim Greene A colleague and friend of mine, Amy Hoerle, has put together a comprehensive education module for DAOS. Amy works in the IBM Lotus support center at IBM Rochester, MN and is extremely knowledgeable. While the title of the education module is "Introduction to Domino Attachment Object Service (DAOS), it is definitely more than an introduction. Amy covers not only what DAOS is and how to set it up, she also provides insights into items that could easily be overlooked such as: ensuring all d [read] Keywords: domino
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Hotfix required for DAOS for 8.5.1 on IBM i (iSeries)
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 3:56p Kim Greene In working with a customer that is planning to upgrade their server this coming weekend to 8.5.1, there is some confusion regarding whether or not any hotfixes are required for 8.5.1 on the iSeries. The answer is YES if you are planning to implement DAOS. There is an issue with the catalog not remaining synchronized. The issue was written up in SPR #: AHOE7W5RTL There is also a knowledge base article detailing the issue, IBM i: DAOS catalog cannot stay synchronized If you are implemen [read] Keywords: domino
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Remember the program conversion when loading 8.5.x
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 12:58a Kim Greene I want to remind everyone that the Lotus Domino 8.5.x installations are saved to release V6R1 for the iSeries. I recently worked with a customer to upgrade their environment to 8.5 and installation of the Domino server code took over 3 hours. Their OS level is V5R4 and they have an older model 810. Once the installation was underway, the CPU utilization on the iSeries server hovered in the 70-95% range for the duration of the installation of the Domino 8.5 code. There were 3 jobs con [read] Keywords: domino
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ZendCon here I come!!
Sun, Oct 18th 2009 9:00a Kim Greene I am at the airport, heading to the ZendCon conference in San Jose, CA. I am expanding my companies' services into the PHP arena and had the opportunity to attend the ZendCon conference. I'm looking forward to meeting with the developers and hearing from the industry experts that are presenting sessions. [read] Keywords: php
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Code left in /qibm/proddata/lotus subdirectories
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 4:54p Kim Greene In working with a customer recently, we were looking for ways to free up some disk space on their iSeries server. This customer had this as their Domino upgrade path over the past several years: 6.5.0 -> 6.5.1 -> 6.5.2 -> 6.5.3 -> 8.0.1 -> 8.5 The older Domino code loads had all been removed, however the contents of the /QIBM/ProdData/Lotus/DominoXXX directories had not been cleaned up. We found code in the /Domino650, /Domino 651, /Domino652, and Domino653 subdirectories. [read] Keywords: domino
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Refreshing perspective from the MWLUG leadership
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 4:55p Kim Greene I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to speak at the Midwest Lotus User Group (MWLUG) conference a few weeks ago in Chicago. One of the things that really stood out to me was how humble the people were that came up with the idea to have a Lotus user group conference in the Midwest. At the opening session, Gregg Eldred and Richard Moy explained how they had come up with the idea for the conference. Both Gregg and Richard went out of their way to ensure that everyone who was in [read] Keywords: lotus
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Unique DAOS issues for IBM i implementation
Mon, Aug 31st 2009 12:58p Kim Greene If you have DAOS implemented on the IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) platform, you need to be aware of two issues you can run into. Both issues are referenced in tech note 1398097. The first issue is related to the 'tell daosmgr prune x' command. When this command is executed on the iSeries, it ignores the number of days passed in on the command and defaults to 0. The second issue affects reading of the daos.cfg file. If there are more than 40,000 .NLO files in a single DAOS subdirectory, t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Two new IBM i blogs
Wed, Aug 19th 2009 2:24p Kim Greene There are two new IBM i blogs I would like to share with you. The first blog, You and i, is a blog where the IBM i product manager (Craig Johnson) and chief architect (Steve Will), share what is going on with IBM i along with the technical details on how it works and what sets it apart. If you have ever wondered what Single Level Store is and why it makes the iSeries better, check out Steve's lastest blog post. The other new blog, iCan, is written by Dawn May. Dawn is the technical lead a [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Importance of DDM Probes
Thu, Aug 13th 2009 1:32p Kim Greene I have found DDM probes to be very helpful in analyzing Domino performance issues with agents without having to go to all of the work to manually instrument the code. I wrote an article for IBM System i magazine detailing how I have used DDM probes to help identify and optimize agents that are large memory consumers. Here is a link to the article "The Importance of DDM Probes". I hope you find the article helpful. [read] Keywords: domino
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Speaking at the Midwest Lotus User Group conference later this month
Thu, Aug 13th 2009 12:06a Kim Greene I have been fortunate enough to have two of my session abstracts accepted for speaking at the Midwest Lotus User Group (MWLUG) conference that will be held in Chicago, IL August 27-28. My two sessions are: Dust Off Your Servers with a Server Health CheckDomino Performance Best Practices on System i If you are looking for great Lotus education, I recommend you check out this conference. The opening session is being done by Ed Brill and there are three tracks: Administration and infrastructure [read] Keywords: administration
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LS2J memory leak
Mon, Aug 10th 2009 5:41p Kim Greene I was recently doing some performance work for a customer and noticed in analyzing their memory checks and memory dumps there was a memory leak. The application that was causing the memory leak was using LS2J. I contacted support, and they were able to confirm that the memory leak indeed existed when using LotusScript to call Java. I checked with another customer that restarts a couple of their application servers every evening. Sure enough, on those servers, they were executing LS2J cod [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Women in IT
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 5:50p Kim Greene Last evening I read a wonderful article about women in IT (Making the Climb Women in IT Team Up To Succeed). The article featured three different women and how they have been working to help other women succeed in IT. The three women are Carolyn Leighton, Dee Dee Lear, and Sandy Carter. Carolyn and Dee Dee made some great points that really struck me as I read the inserts about each of them. Carolyn Leighton is the founder of Women in Technology International (WITI). In the excerpt abo [read] Keywords:
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It pays to defrag
Tue, Jun 2nd 2009 2:43a Kim Greene I hadn't defragged my hard drive for a while. I used Power Defragmentor this evening (which I highly recommend, http://power-defragmenter-gui.en.softonic.com/). It has been over a few weeks since I ran my last defrag, I know, bad! Prior to running Power Defragmentor, I had 3.87 GB free on my hard drive. After running Power Defragmentor, I had 8.15 GB free. I really need to schedule this to run more frequently. Happy Defragging! [read] Keywords:
Extremely strange OOO agent issue solved
Thu, Feb 26th 2009 6:43p Kim Greene I have a customer that has about 550 users; of these 550 users, about 12 were reporting that they were receiving the OOO reminder email every morning, even though they had turned their OOO agents off. The document properties showed the messages were received every morning at 3:59 AM. About half of the users were using the iNotes6 template and the other half were using the Std6Mail template. The server level is 6.5.6 FP3. In trying to figure out why these handful of users were receiving [read] Keywords: agent
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It is a bug - TIMEZONE parameter ignored
Sun, Dec 28th 2008 8:30p Kim Greene In my most recent blog entry when I migrated a customer from Domino on Linux to Domino on iSeries ( Fun day tomorrow! ) I noted there was an issue with the CFGDOMSVR command not taking the TIMEZONE parameter. I did some checking and found this is a known issue with an open SPR. This issue is planned to be fixed in release 8.0.3. The TIMEZONE parameter is new in release 8 on iSeries (AS/400, System i, IBM i, ...). The parameter allows a Domino server to adopt the timezone of the iSeries [read] Keywords: domino
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Fun day tomorrow!
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 4:03p Kim Greene Tomorrow I will be working with a customer to migrate their Domino environment from Linux to the iSeries. Woo hoo!! [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino 8 requires less memory
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 5:15p Kim Greene In working with a customer to do some performance tuning of their Domino environment, it became very apparent that Domino release 8 requires less memory. This particular customer is running 7 Domino servers on one LPAR on a 550 (iSeries). Three of the Domino servers provide mail and calendaring services for about 1500 users, one server is a Sametime server providing instant messaging services, and the other three servers are used for development and testing of applications that integrate wit [read] Keywords: calendaring
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WRKDOMSVR Tricks
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 11:01a Kim Greene The Work with Domino Servers (WRKDOMSVR) command is a wonderful utility provided with the Lotus Domino server code for i5/OS. It provides an interface to work with Domino servers in many ways. The most commonly used features are starting, stopping, and displaying or working with the Domino console. There are some options on the WRKDOMSVR command that are seldom used, however they provide some very helpful features. These features aren't displayed on the main screen for this command, th [read] Keywords: domino
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Failed to allocate message queue resource
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 11:18p Kim Greene I came upon a strange situation with my test Domino server I have on an iSeries (ok, IBM i) server. When I configured this test server, I neglected to select the option to have the server automatically start when TCP/IP is started. The iSeries was IPLed over the weekend for some maintenance work. When I went to access my server today, I had to start it. Right after starting it, I thought, "I need to change the autostart parameter so this situation doesn't happen in the future".
I issued a [read] Keywords: domino
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Server Error Device is Busy In Use
Sat, May 17th 2008 12:27p Kim Greene I received a call from a customer this morning saying noone could access their mail files. The really strange thing about the situation was that the log.nsf, names.nsf, ... could be opened. It was just a problem with the mail files. When users tried to open their mail files, they received the following error message.
"Server Error: Device is Busy/In Use"
The console showed messages like this for mail files the router was trying to deliver mail to:
"Error delivering to servername/domain [read] Keywords: domino
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i for Business
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 2:18p Kim Greene This is one name change that went over extremely smoothly, in fact, I think it is the only name change for the operating system that has gone over so smoothly. For a little background, the System i (AS/400, iSeries) has always had a different name for the operating system associated with the hardware platform. When the System was known as the AS/400, the operating system was called OS/400. The OS/400 name was kept when the system was renamed to iSeries. Then along came the name change to Sys [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Power Systems
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 1:11p Kim Greene It's official, at the COMMON conference last week, Mark Shearer and Ross Mauri announced the new IBM Power Systems. Both the System i and System p have shared the same hardware for a number of years. What's great about this announcement is what Ross Mauri explained to the COMMON attendees at the IBM Town Hall session last Wednesday morning. Ross Mauri is the General Manager for the Power Systems Division at IBM.
The big news Mr. Mauri shared with the crowd is that there will no longer be s [read] Keywords: ibm
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AS400 forever
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 11:01p Kim Greene I just tried to log into a System i server that is currently not available and had to laugh at the message I received from my Mochasoft client.
They can try to rename it, but it will alway be 'AS/400' : ^)
Check out the title of this blog, notice it isn't AS/400? Yeah, the '/' character isn't allowed in the title . [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Impressed with 'Compress database design'
Mon, Mar 10th 2008 11:33p Kim Greene I am very impressed with the new database property 'compress database design'. I recently upgraded my test Domino server from 7.0.3 to 8.0.1 and played around with the 'compress database design' database property. After doing a compact -c on the database to switch it to the new ODS, level 48, I saw this on the console:
Compacted mail/dadminis.nsf, 9472K bytes recovered (54%)
Here is a bit of a precursor to explain my test. The mail file (dadminis.nsf) was using the Standard Mail 7 templat [read] Keywords: document
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V6R1 Program Conversion on System i
Mon, Mar 3rd 2008 6:00p Kim Greene If you are looking for information related to the program conversion on System i that happens when upgrading to V6R1, you may want to check out some recent articles I wrote. The intention was to have one article, but it ended up being too big to fit in the space available in the magazine. The compromise was to split it into the main article included in the magazine and two web exclusives. Here are links to all three articles:
"Preparing for V6R1, What to Expect During Your Conversion"
"Th [read] Keywords: domino
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Misunderstood multi-versioning
Fri, Feb 22nd 2008 12:42a Kim Greene In a conversation with a new customer this afternoon, I heard a common theme come through; multi-versioning is not well understood. I have had similar conversations with a number of customers over the past few years. The net is that customers do not understand what multi-versioning is and how it can benefit their Domino installations.
Domino on the System i (iSeries, AS/400) has had multi-versioning since releases 6.0.3 and 6.5.0. This support allows more than one version of Lotus Domino to [read] Keywords: domino
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I have entered the blogging world
Thu, Feb 21st 2008 3:59p Kim Greene I finally did it, entered the world of blogging. As a frequent writer and speaker at a number of technology conferences, I have been contemplating starting a blog for some time now. My good friend, Chris Whisonant, provided me with enough encouragement (and a little arm twisting) to finally make the jump. Thank you Chris, I owe ya!! [read] Keywords: blogging
