14 Years Ago: Shared Success in the Pairing of AS/400 and Lotus Domino

I came across a few great articles from years gone by that really help highlight the importance of the IBM AS/400 in the history of Lotus Domino and vice versa.  Below are a few points that may be of interest to you.

At Lotusphere 1999, only 11 months after IBM supported Lotus Domino on the AS/400, IBM sold "$500 million dollars in AS/400 hardware with Domino running native on it, and more than 20,000 licenses of Domino (server) on the AS/400."

In the Wheelhouse: Setting Fire to the Rumor Mill

Here's a link to my latest article.  We're talking about IBM i install base numbers, Connections 4 Beta in the Greenhouse, new ThinkPad tablets and rumors of IBM buying a piece of RIM.

http://www.mcpressonline.com/analysis-of-news-events/in-the-wheelhouse-setting-fire-to-the-rumor-mill.html

Anybody Want a Free Lotus Domino Replication Utility?

First off, the code in this NSF is certainly not up to par to those who program LotusScript 10 hours a day for the last 10 years.  However, this program works just fine for me.  Would I've liked to have written it better and more readable?  Absolutely.

With that being said, here's what it does:

Similar to what you can do with CL Copy on a command line, it will create a replica on another server, but it does it with full directories and a bunch of options you can turn on.

In the setup document, you specify target servers and what directories to scan.  You also set the following options:

• Create replicas (via AdminP or immediate) of all databases in the directory if they don't already exist
• If your target replica database quota is different from the source, make the target quota the same as the source
• Turn on LZ1
• Turn on Document Compression
• Turn on on DAOS
• Turn on Transaction Logging
• Upgrade ODS (you need the appropriate notes.ini file changes made)
• Create full text index if one exists on source

Java issues while upgrading Sametime 8.5.2 to IFR1 on IBM i

A few weeks ago while upgrading my IBM Sametime servers to 8.5.2 IFR1, I ran into an issue upgrading the Sametime System Console.

ADMC0016E: The system cannot create a SOAP connector to connect to host hostname at port 8881.

After a bit of searching I came across the following IBM Technote that outlined the problem was due to me having IBM i 7.1 PTF Group level 8 installed, which contains JDK6032 SR10 (PTF's SI45555 and SI45463).  Due to a Java incompatibility problem, these PTF's will cause an upgrade to Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 to fail.

What I had to do was remove those two PTF's (using command RMVPTF) and three other dependant Java PTF's on my system (SI30318, SI45340 and SI45339), upgrade all the Sametime servers to IFR1, then load and apply those PTF's again after the upgrade.

It might sound like a pain, but I upgraded all Sametime servers (Sametime System Console, Community Server, Proxy Server and Meeting Server) in about 4 hours total.  That's pretty good time.