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LotusSphere Opening General Session …Taking Notes

I’m blogging from LotusSphere today in the Opening Session. Here are some of the key highlights. Lotus Notes celebrates 20 years this week. IBM announced that Bluehouse is now LotusLive, a SaaS solution for Lotus Notes and Domino. RIM announced new Blackberry Application. The new app for Lotus Connections features access to all of Connections’ … Read more

LotusSphere 2009… Here I Come

Tomorrow begins the first day of IBM’s LotusSphere at Disney’s Swan and Dolphin resort in Orlando. Looks like I’ll be driving it each day. Its about 55 miles one way. I’m not looking forward to the drive, but its good to know that with gas prices coming down it won’t be that expensive. There’s just … Read more

8 Reasons You’ll Love Using IBM Lotus Notes 8

I wish I could present this to every customer I meet who has Exchange simply because of the features of Outlook (even though you can run Outlook with a Domino back end). 8 Reasons You'll Love Using IBM Lotus Notes 8 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ibm lotus) ©2016 Strongback Consulting

Understanding IBM’s “PVU” terminology

If you have ever purchased software from IBM, you know they license processors based on the concept of a PVU. A processor may have a different PVU based on its type. I found a good link that helps explain how many PVU’s you need based on the system you will be running the key solution … Read more

WebSphere App Server 7 Learning Resources

For those getting started with WebSphere App Server, I thought I’d refer you to some various sites for general information. All of these sites are also bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/klenny/was7 WAS 7 Infocenterhttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/library/ What’s New with WAS 7 (Tom Alcott is a great writer and a guru on WAS)http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0809_alcott/0809_alcott.html WAS fixpack 7.0.0.1 (a must have install)http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=WebSphere+portal+solaris&q2=install&uid=swg27014463&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en … Read more

Creating a Thread Dump in WAS

A thread dump in Websphere App Server is a log file that contains information about the currently running threads and processes within the JVM. A thread dump log is created if a process on an application server spontaneously closes. Thread dumps can also be triggered on command (forced). This is helpful when you have an … Read more

Rational HATS 7.5 Released

As I had mentioned in one of my previous posts, Host Access Transformation Services is now available. This is NOT just a upgrade. You will need one of the products from the 7.5 codestream of Rational Software developer products: Rational Application Developer Rational Business developer Rational Software Architect RDi RDz These are based on Eclipse … Read more