Chad Scott

In response to: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?

The second "Total Duplicate Attachments found" line does precede the accurate statistic that was formerly labeled "Total DAOS Eligible Attachments." I've created SPR CSCT7PKM8R to correct this. The big thing to remember is that the data is still good. Just remember that the second line is the number of DAOS-eligible attachments.

I ran into an issue this morning where new and modified program documents are not recognized by the Domino job scheduler. If I added, deleted, or modified a program document, I saw no change in the output from "show sched" on the console, and the program documents never ran. It turns out that this is behavior introduced by the set of NAMELookup fixes documented in Technote 1254752. The various NAMELookup flags are enabled using the notes.ini parameter DEBUG_ENABLE_UPDATE_FIX, which has the following default/maximum value by release:

• 6.5.5 FP2 - 7.0.2: 0/8191
• 7.0.3: 0/16383
• 8.0 and 8.0.1: 8191/16383
• 8.0.2: 8191/32767
• 8.5: 32767/32767

These values enable flags that turn off unnecessary view rebuilds by functional area. For the program document issue, that flag is decimal value two, which means that if you are running any release of 8.x without the notes.ini parameter set or 6.5.5 FP2 or later with the notes.ini parameter set to a value that includes this flag, you will experience this issue. To work around the problem, you can remove the flag, which means subtracting two from the value of DEBUG_ENABLE_UPDATE_FIX in notes.ini. If the parameter is not there, you should set it to the maximum for your release minus two.

I wrote last week that you can run DAOS Estimator from your client to collect information from the server. Unfortunately, there's a problem with this approach. Estimator will iterate through the server databases without a problem, but it will attempt to open those databases locally. Obviously a client will not have all of the server databases local and in the same relative path, so these database opens will fail with 0x103 (File does not exist). SPR DANG7NPHYJ has been created to request additional functionality that will allow Estimator to open databases on the server instead of trying to open them locally.

Did you know you can run DAOS Estimator from your client machine? To do so, place the appropriate daosest executable in your Notes program directory, and run the following from a command prompt:

> daosest Server/Org!!

This is much safer than running daosest on the server, as problems should be limited to your client and not the server. This also has the benefit of far less administrative overhead, as all servers can be scanned from a single workstation. Note that when running in this fashion, daosest will run with the credentials of the active user ID instead of the server ID, so plan accordingly.