IBM System i Pre-Upgrade Verification Tool

On the next weekend i will upgrade our System i from V6R1 to V7R1 TR 6. One valuable tool for the upgrade preparation from IBM is the Pre-Upgrade Verification Tool. This tool runs on your windows workstation and checks if your system i meets all requirements and prerequisites to install the new release. To run the tool simply download and decompress the tool to a folder. In this folder run the "run_pruv.bat". An wizard opens, which will guide you through the process of the verification. After the wizard finishes the tool presents an overview with errors or warnings which could break the installation of the new operating system.

For every warning or error you will get a detailed description how to solve the problem.

So in my opinion a really cool tool to make your upgrade easier.

Gratulation Bayern München und David Alaba

Unvorstellbar, das erste mal in der Geschichte der Championsleague spielt ein Österreicher im Finale der Champions League mit und dann gleich ein Sieg. Da kann man sich sogar mit den Bayern mitfreuen. Jetzt hoffen ich nur, dass David auch in der Nationalmannschaft eine ähnlich gute Leistung abrufen kann.

Howto make regular expressions caseinsensitive

Regular expression are very useful for string operations, but one annoying thing is that regular expressions are normally case sensitive. But with a simple option you can change this default behavior. You only have to add the "(?i)" clause to your regular expression. Here is an example:

  
  String test = "The lazy brown fox jumps over the quick Dog";
  // The following command will not replace Dog, because the regex is not
  // case insensitive.
  System.out.println(test.replaceAll("dog", "cat"));
  // With (?i) added the regex will ignore case and Dog will be replaced
  // by cat.
  System.out.println(test.replaceAll("(?i)dog", "cat"));

But be aware, that the "(?i)" clause does only work for ASCII strings. If you have international characters in your regular expressions you have to add the "u" flag to your regex.

 
  String test = "Äpfel und Birnen";
  // The following command will not replace Äpfel, because the regex is
  // not unicode aware.
  System.out.println(test.replaceAll("(?i)äpfel", "Zitronen"));
  // With (?iu) added the regex is unicode aware and Äpfel will be
  // replaced by Zitronen.
  System.out.println(test.replaceAll("(?iu)äpfel", "Zitronen"));

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: