Comments on: IBM OS/400 & Domino 8 Issues

By: David Vasta

David Vasta — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:28:06 +0000

There is a tech note. Walter had to back it up. I trust him but opinions are not allowed in IT without some base in facts. I will get the facts and post them.

By: Spitcher

Spitcher — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:01:41 +0000

That’s unfortunate. But if Walter says it’s the only option then I guess that’s it. He’s the master.

By: David Vasta

David Vasta — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:56:29 +0000

I will get the tech note this week and post it as well.

By: David Vasta

David Vasta — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:54:58 +0000

Walter is the one who made the recommendation to upgrade form V5R4 to V6R1 or V7R1. The OS problem is fried in these two releases.

By: Spitcher

Spitcher — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:25:45 +0000

David, I would hold IBM support’s feet to the fire on this one. I had a few servers on 8.5.X on V5R4 for a while and never experienced this problem. All releases of 8.5.X are supported on V5R4 so they’d best find a solution for this. Migrating to 6.1 or 7.1 is really unacceptable. I would pose this question to the Domino/400 mailing list on Midrange.com if I were you. A few IBM’ers who specialize in Domino on IBM i (Walter Scanlan, especially…he’s probably the most knowledgable IBM’er on the topic IMHO) help customers there. Send an email to domino400@midrange.com with a link to your post.

By: David Vasta

David Vasta — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:15:44 +0000

Going to have to look into that. ODS is always something I forget about but is rather important. Once the second server gets to V7R1 I am going to tune everything on it. Get the applications off to an application server and just let it do mail. We are also getting SMTP off the server but that is another post.

Is there a Lotus Doc you can point everyone too?

By: Berntrop

Berntrop — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:02:16 +0000

Phew. I guess were lucky to have transited to 7r1 almost a year ago… Although we recently diagnosed a networking problem.
A real kicker for Designer related performance is to make sure to upgrade ALL files which have an ODS (nsf, ntf, and mail.box) to the latest (must have Create_R85_Databases=1 in the server notes.ini. Then perform a Compact -ODS -* with the server down to convert all in one go. The ones that do not upgrade their ODS need to be made a new replica of: they where an .ns5 db whiche were renamed to nsf, but compact -c will not reset the bit that keeps the db at the older ODS. Made a huge diff in design refreshes, which had been really slow, and creation of new templates on the server (from +2 minutes to 8 seconds)