Domino Diva

There are two new IBM i blogs I would like to share with you.  The first blog, You and i, is a blog where the IBM i product manager (Craig Johnson) and chief architect (Steve Will), share what is going on with IBM i along with the technical details on how it works and what sets it apart.  If you have ever wondered what Single Level Store is and why it makes the iSeries better, check out Steve's lastest blog post.

The other new blog, iCan, is written by Dawn May.  Dawn is the technical lead and business architect for IBM i.  The focus of her blog is to share features of the operating system.  I know from working with my customers that it's really hard for most customers to keep on top of all of the new enhancements added each release.  Dawn's blog will shed light on various features the system offers.

I hope you find these blogs helpful.

In my most recent blog entry when I migrated a customer from Domino on Linux to Domino on iSeries ( Fun day tomorrow!  ) I noted there was an issue with the CFGDOMSVR command not taking the TIMEZONE parameter.  I did some checking and found this is a known issue with an open SPR.  This issue is planned to be fixed in release 8.0.3.

The TIMEZONE parameter is new in release 8 on iSeries (AS/400, System i, IBM i, ...).  The parameter allows a Domino server to adopt the timezone of the iSeries it is running on.  The value for this parameter can be set to *SYSVAL or a specific timezone setting.  If *SYSVAL is specified, the value in the iSeries system value, QTIMZON, will be used by the Domino server when setting it's timezone.  The problem is this parameter isn't working correctly.  The result when configuring a release 8.0, 8.0.1, or 8.0.2 server is that the Timezone variable in the notes.ini is set to 0.

Until this issue is addressed in release 8.0.3, your options are to either enter the correct timezone (GMT, CST, CET, ZE4, ...) when configuring the Domino server; or if you choose to specify the value *SYSVAL, you will need to edit the notes.ini of the Domino server and change the value of the Timezone variable as appropriate.  

I just tried to log into a System i server that is currently not available and had to laugh at the message I received from my Mochasoft client.

 

 

 

They can try to rename it, but it will alway be 'AS/400'  : ^)

 

Check out the title of this blog, notice it isn't AS/400?  Yeah, the '/' character isn't allowed in the title <grin>.