IBM Infos

Received a Lotus Award for Outstanding Customer Satisfaction in Northeast IOT

As IBM told us some days before Matthias Knäpper received an award for 2011 for his training activies during the last years. Many thanks to IBM and Lotus for the last decade offering trainings and projects together with us that makes outstanding customer satisfaction possible.

We hope to be able to offer a lot of trainings in the future to help customers to enhance their skills all around Lotus Software.

And here comes the award......

IBM offers XPages Coruseware for free

IBM opens up to OCW (OpenCourseWare movement) and offers the material for their "Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages" course D8l55 for free @ Lotus Greenhouse. As Ed Brill, IBMs Director for Messaging and Colaboration, mentions this is IBM's step to support those, who want to start learn on xpages.

There are several other courses about xpages that might be interesting for you.

If you are interested in instructor lead courses contact us immediately!

macOS and Time Machine backup

After weeks of problems with Time Machine  - eg the calculation of the duration of a backup of just 1 Gb must be interrupted after three days - including an incident ticket at Apple which was not able to solve the issue (btw: Thank you for your help, time and assistance, even when you not found the root cause).

Each time when we attached a disk device to initiate a backup it starts to calculate the time and never came to an end. Today we found the root cause for this behavior:

 An application (Disk Drill) created a subdirectory on the harddrive and created a very huge number of small files in that directory. We analyzed this using 

 sudo fs_usage -w |grep -i backupd |grep -i fsctl

and recognized that a lot of files located in 

 /System/Volumes/Data/.cleverfiles

 where responsible for this misbehaviour. Excluding this directory from Time Machine solves the issue. Thanks to Mac O' Clock for the hints to solve this issue.

Native VPN and HCL Notes on macOS

We recognized a major Notes issue on macOS after upgrading to version 12. Each time we opened up a native VPN connection to our office infrastructure the Notes Client was unable to establish a connection to any Domino sever available. First we thought it might be a DNS issue in macOS which is indeed a bit more complicated than expected. But after some tests, we came to the result that it is a Notes problem.

HCL has published a workaround for this thing that might be helpful. You have to add the line

Network_Resiliency=0

to the Notes Preferences file on macOS. If you just have a few of such clients then it might be easier to do this manually (see more detailed information in Notes.ini on Mac OS). If there are a couple of macOS Clients out there or they are located around the world it might be more convenient to use a Desktop Policy to roll out this parameter.

When your Mac machines are back in one of your office networks again they will pull the policy and it will work after a restart of the Notes Client.

Have fun.

Where Do I Find NOTES.INI On My Mac

If you try to find the notes.ini file on your Mac you will not find one. All application specific properties will be stored in a file called

"Notes Preferences"

in each users home directory. If your user eg is called Keith then navigate to

/Users/Keith/Library/Preferences/

here you will find the file Notes Preferences which includes the same information and syntax as the notes.ini file.