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I have a customer who is archiving data using IBM DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino, and have recently upgraded their environment. There are some things to know as you may not easily be able to glean advice from the IBM support portal. Analysis and Planning Setting up a corporate email archiving solution can be a … Read more
What sparked this blog entry was a couple of blog entries by Ivar Jacobson. For those who do not know, he is one of the three amigos that founded Rational Software, along with Jim Rumbaugh and Grady Booch. He had a couple of posts on Rational Unified Process and how it came about, and what … Read more
I was installing the latest round of Host On Demand (HOD), and could not for the life of me figure out why the emulators would not load. I’m installing it for a customer and while, it works perfect on Linux with Apache, it craps out on Windows with IIS. Turns out that IF you use … Read more
Some have contacted me that they have been unable to find my presentation on the conference web site. I would have sworn I posted it (more than once), but the conference organizer website was considerably different than last year, and not necessarily better. That said, for those who would like to view all the ooey … Read more
WebSphere App Server on the i/OS does not come with a feature to automatically start and stop, and sometimes its best to use a CL command to stop it. I frequently see users doing an ENDSBS(WAS7), which wreaks havoc with the JVM. Please don’t just end the subsystem. When you do this, the JVM drops … Read more
Lotus Domino and Notes fix pack 3 for 8.5.1 was released 3 days ago and already you should be considering patching your environment for these 10 reasons. Here are 8 fixes that apply to the server, followed by two that apply to the clients that you should not miss out on. The server fix pack … Read more
Now that the latest is out in the wild, I’d like to show off some of the new features. This release includes a few new very high priority features that customers and business partners have been asking for. There are more features in the works (which I am well aware of but cannot disclose due … Read more
Just a few weeks ago Ubuntu launched Ubuntu 10.4 codenamed Lucid Lynx. Now, the Fedora team has launched Fedora 13. If you run and experiment with Red Hat type software, Fedora a is a good platform to play around with. It is the experimental playground of Red Hat and most of the guts of Red … Read more
I rarely work with storage systems – I’m a software guy. But on occasion I need to manipulate storage arrays for either performance tuning, or new installations. IBM has a new product group of storage called their “D-series”, which is geared toward mid-sized businesses and they’ve put out a training site to help customers get … Read more
The Jazz team announced that RTC will support VS2010 in RTC version 2.0.0.2 iFix3, which is currently at milestone 1 build. This includes full client support on Windows 7. This build is primarily for developers that work with VS – if you don’t work with VS, then you can/should ignore the build. The interim fixes … Read more