Notes Domino 9 group 1 language versions are availabe now.

The first national language versions (Group 1) for example Catalan, Italian and German of Notes Domino 9 are available in passport advantage now.

So there is no more reason to postpone your upgrade to the greatest version of Notes/Domino.

The GA2 languages like Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch will be availabe on 04.06 and the remaining languages like Greek, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish, Russian, IB Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovakian, Hebrew, Kazakh, Polish, Czech should be available on 23.07

Improve File enumeration performance in the admin client

Since Domino 8.5 there have been many files in the data/domino directory on the server. So every time you refresh the files tab you have to wait while the server scans the whole data/domino directory. Although some contents like domino/js is not scanned this can take some time. Fortunatly there is a notes.ini setting which disable file scans in the domino directory.

To enable this feature you cann add ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1 to the notes.ini of the server or you can set this value with SET CONFIGURATION ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1 on the console.

I have tried this on my development server. Without ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1 the file enumeration runs 4 seconds and with this setting in the notes.ini of the server the enumeration has finished immediatly after pressing the F9 key.

IBM Redbooks: Installing and Deploying IBM Connections

IBM has published a new redbook about the installation and configuration of IBM connections. Looks very promising.

Tabris a cool way to reuse your Notes/Eclipse RCP skills in the mobile app development

Today the final version of Tabris has been released. Tabris is a native peer client for a RAP (Remote Application Plattform formerly Rich Ajax Plattform) Server. RAP is a mature technology to run SWT/Jface Applications and Eclipse RCP Plugins on a server and render the UI to different clients like a webbrowser or native clients. The RAP Server and the Webclient are opensource. With the Tabris SDK they first commercial native client to RAP Server for Android and IOS is available. So you can reuse your existing SWT/Jface skills and build native apps for Android and IOS right like you are building Plugins for Notes today. Demos of the Tabris functionality are availabe on the google playstore. I think this is really a very cool technology and every Eclipse RCP developer should try this out.

Demos of RAP for Webclients

Improve your Domino Server Performance on the System i

On Windows it is pretty clear that Domino Servers only perform well, when the admin regulary defragment the file system where the Domino data is stored. Unfortunatly many System i admins do not know that fragmentation of Domino databases is a problem on their system too. So they do not get the best performance possible and with every year of using the server the problem of framgentation gets bigger and bigger.

The defragmentation of the disks in a System i Server can be done with the command STRDSKRGZ.

So login into your System i with a 5250 Terminal client and execute the STRDSKRGZ command:

 STRDSKRGZ ASP(*ALL) TIMLMT(*NOMAX)

The ASP Parameter means that you want to reorganize all Auxilliary Storage Pools (Normally you have only one of this, but if you have more of them, then *all handles them all)

The Timlmt(*NOMAX) means that the System i should defragment the ASP till all data is complete defragmented. As an alternative you can specify a exact time how long you want do defrag the disk. Disk reorganization stop automatically when the timelimit is reached.

As the disk reorganization runs in the background and on a very small runtime priority, you do not have to stop your domino server or other system i tasks running.

When you want to stop the reorganization before it is finished or the time limit has elapsed you can use the ENDDSKRGZ command.

ENDDSKRGZ ASP(*ALL)

When a disk reorganization is started a CPI1470 Message is logged in the System i log and when the reorganization finishes a CPI1472 message is logged. You can find the reason why the execution hast stopped in the message details of CPI1472.

You can scan the System i log for this messages with the DSPLOG command.

DSPLOG MSGID(CPI1470 CPI1472)

So give your Domino server on the the system i a performance boost and execute the disk reorganization regulary. My suggestion is to add the command to the job scheduler of the System i.