Ed Brill once mentioned this guy on his blog and I go back and check it every once in a while. He’s been blogging about his company’s move from Notes to Exchange and the effects its had. There are some real eye-opening comments for both IBM and Microsoft fans. His last post was back in … Read more
For all IBM customers: I’d like to be sure you are aware that there are some pending changes to IBM’s partnering strategy that will affect you moving forward. In February 2009, IBM Software Group announced to its Business Partners the next step in its channel strategy. This announcement was in response to requests from IBM’s … Read more
In today’s world we often measure the worth of an item by its retail price or discounted status at a store while rarely contemplating the quality of the work, how long it may last, or even how much pleasure will obtain from the object. Certainly we have our budgets to maintain, but there are times … Read more
Another fixpack released. To update, use the IBM Installation Manger to upgrade. You no longer are required to use the old Eclipse style of update. Installation Manager is much faster and cleaner. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&context=SSXKAY&dc=D400&uid=swg24024964&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8〈=enCheck out the release notes here. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I had a recent event where after a fix pack, the Domino server would not start using Windows service. I could start it using the Domino console, but that would not work as the server would shut down as soon as logged out. I kept getting a cryptic error 2351 (0x92). The simple solution was … Read more
Currently the Rational Team Concert build engine does not include an init.d script for those running build engines on Linux. This is analogous to Windows services and allow the jbe to run automagically at startup. Instead, you must rely on system administrators having the knowledge of how to write these from scratch. Currently there is … Read more
It really amazes me just how simple it is to upgrade Ubuntu Linux. Can you imagine if Windows was really this simple. Everything worked fine after my upgrade BTW. Granted, I am not using this particular installation as much as my other machines. Still. Very nice. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I’ve just recently completed a server upgrade for a customer where they had a single R5 server and were ready to upgrade. Yes, R5. That version has been out of maintenance now since September 2005. The upgrade was a success, but I’d like to throw out a gotcha or two. In this case we added … Read more
No matter what version of Team Concert you are using, the following tips will apply. You can monitor the status of each step in your automated build using the following two ANT elements:startBuildActivity, and completeBuildActivity.These two should be treated like bookmarks to an atomic grouping of ANT tasks. For example, in your build file, you … Read more
If you prefer a hosted, cloud based messaging (email) solution for convenience, you need to be aware of the dangers of some of the offerings out there: “Yesterday, it was revealed that 10,000+ Hotmail accounts were compromised and all of the usernames and passwords of these accounts were posted online. It was a major security … Read more