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Yesterday a custommer complaint about the performance of one application.  I found several views using date calculations

This is a know problem and this TN explain the solutions for date calculations in views

As an administrator you want to enable LZ1 compression on databases by default.

 In previous versions of Domino you used the parameter COMPRESS_LZ1_CREATE=1. Since upgrading your servers this parameter no longer works

This  parameter was implemented for initial testing and not designed or ever intended for general release. Development deliberately removed the parameter in 8.5.2 .

 There is an enhancement request SPR DPBE8TVN2F requesting that this functionality be implemented again in a future release

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IBM File Viewer provides a high-fidelity viewer for IBM Connections files and community files in the web user interface.

 You can view files directly within the IBM Connections Files and Communities applications. Supported Open Document files include word processing documents (.odt), spreadsheets (.ods), and presentations (.odp). You can also view Adobe PDF and the Microsoftâ„¢ equivalents of these file types – Word (.doc and .docx), Excel (.xls and .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt and .pptx).

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Bookmarks is a set of social bookmarking tools that you can use to save, organize, and share Internet and intranet bookmarks.

If you have not done so already, install the Add Bookmark browser toolbar button from the Bookmarking Tools link in the footer of the Bookmarks window.

Visit a web page that you want to bookmark and click the Add Bookmark toolbar button to create a bookmark.

Every year we have problems with DST. Scheduling, messages.

 It´s common here in Brazil administrators setup the OS (windows or linux) to not observe DST  but some companies observe DST.

On the Notes Client  “The “Use the Operating System’s Timezone Settings” should always be set to Yes for all Notes client versions

Setting this parameter to “No” may cause unpredictable results in currently supported versions of Notes software.

This setting is considered obsolete and is not recommended in any current version of IBM Notes software.  Notes is designed to use the time and time zone settings provided by the client operating system (including the installed JRE), regardless of which operating system is in use.  

A corresponding ini setting “UseNotesTimeZone” is not supported for Notes 6.0 and later.

Using either of these settings may cause errors in the Notes client.

Best Practice:  Remove these settings from user’s clients before troubleshooting time or time zone issues.  The Notes client relies on the Operating system Time settings, and the use of these obsolete settings may cause errors under certain circumstances. ”

Because of changes to Websphere Application Server architecture, it is not possible to perform a straight migration from Sametime 8.5.x (based on Websphere 7.0.0) to Sametime 9 (based on Websphere 8.5.5). Instead, you must deploy Sametime 9 separately from your 8.5.x deployment and then reproduce any custom configuration items the Sametime 9 deployment. A key area of concern is the migration of user based data stored in DB2 such as your Sametime Meeting Rooms, Chat Rooms and Broadcast communities. This article describes you can migrate that data.

Link to the TechNote

It´s available today.

Heidi Ambler, director of IBM Social Business, offers these tips to help your organization devise a successful social media strategy.

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What is the recommended maximum number of active HTTP threads for a Lotus® Domino® server? You set this value in the “Number active threads” field on the Internet Protocols – HTTP tab of the Server document.

This TN can answer your question

IBM Sametime 9 was launched a few weeks ago.  When i saw this video i  do the upgrade of my embedded Sametime client on Notes 9

The process was very easy, just download the package, shutdown the Notes Client and run the installer.

Just finish the integration between our Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 and IBM Connections.

This guide is a excellent material to get started. My environment is not the same, but with few modifications, i got Sametime and Connections working together.

On the page 208 the author show hot to display connections photos ins Sametime web client instant messages.

If you have a few users it is easy to fill the PhotoURL field but if you have a lot of users you need the power of Domino Agents and @Functions.

This single line agent do the job (I schedule this agent to run once a day)

FIELD PhotoURL :=”https:///profiles/photo.do?email=“+InternetAddress;

I have several servers with Centos running Domino, Sametime etc. I need to setup Sametime Proxy just to use with IBM Connections and Mobile Devices.

We are a small deployment but need more disk space to setup the Proxy on the same machine of the community server

This command above show the hard drives installed

# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda   /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2

After instal a new one i get this

# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda   /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb

dev/sdb is the new hard disk

Create a new partition

# su –
# fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xd1082b01.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won’t be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It’s strongly recommended to
        switch off the mode (command ‘c’) and change display units to
        sectors (command ‘u’).

Command (m for help):

Switch off DOS compatible mode and change the units to sectors by entering the c and u commands:

Command (m for help): c
DOS Compatibility flag is not set
Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to sectors

In order to view the current partitions on the disk enter the p command:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 34.4 GB, 34359738368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4177 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd1082b01

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help): n
Command action
  e   extended
  p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4):

Partition number (1-4): 1
First sector (2048-67108863, default 2048):
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-67108863, default 67108863):
Using default value 67108863

Now that we have specified the partition we need to write it to the disk using the w command:

If we now look at the devices again we will see that the new partition is visible as /dev/sdb1:

# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdb1

Create the file system

# /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -L /proxy /dev/sdb1

Mounting the filesystem

mkdir /stproxy

# mount /dev/sdb1 /stproxy

Configuring Centos 6 to Automatically Mount a Filesystem

Edit /etc/fstab

add the line

LABEL=/proxy           /stproxy               ext3    defaults        1 2

This link helps a lot