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Domino R5 on iSeries Version 2.0

Domino R5 on iSeries Version 2.0. Introduction. Domino on the iSeries Work Management and performance Security considerations Save/restore considerations Automating and monitoring Domino backups Handling new versions and fixes Differences to look out for

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Domino R5 on iSeries Version 2.0

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  1. Domino R5 on iSeriesVersion 2.0

  2. Introduction • Domino on the iSeries • Work Management and performance • Security considerations • Save/restore considerations • Automating and monitoring Domino backups • Handling new versions and fixes • Differences to look out for • compared with Domino on NT platform • Options for integration with DB2 • Hints and tips • Questions and AOB

  3. Domino on the iSeries • iSeries as a Domino server platform • Libraries and IFS locations • Subsystems and jobs • Working with, starting and stopping Domino servers • Configuration of Domino servers • TCP/IP considerations, SMTP and HTTP servers • Java considerations

  4. Domino on iSeries: strengths • Scalability • Up to 150,000 NotesBench mail users • Easy addition of disk space • Flexible use of resources • Domino partitioning • Multiple workloads • Resilience and manageability • Automatic restart following errors • Notes Admin client, green screen and iNav interfaces • Full CL command set for scripted configuration and management • Availability • Save-while-active (if BRMS installed) • Security • Domino security + OS/400 security • DB2 integration • without ODBC Probably the perfect Domino mail server

  5. Domino on iSeries: challenges • Domino applications • Calls to DLLs • Lack of platform awareness among vendors • Potential for performance problems • Applications that write a lot to the file system • Integrated Filing System not as fast as NTFS • ASCII<->EBCDIC translation • Issues with code pages – see later • Use of capped partial processors (e.g. on ‘slugged’ entry level system without Accelerator) Not always the perfect Domino application server (or Web server)

  6. Integrated Filing System • One integrated structure • QSYS.LIB = libraries, objects and members • QDLS = traditional 8.3 folder/document tree • QNTC = Windows Network client – sees contents of your NT servers • QFILESVR.400 = Remote IFS – sees contents of other iSeriess • QOPT = your iSeries’ CD drive • Qxxx used by other IBM products • Other root folders • use Unix naming conventions, e.g. case-sensitive • used by Domino on iSeries • Save with SAV command • Restore with RST command

  7. Libraries and IFS locations • QNOTES library • IBM-supplied licensed program objects • QUSRNOTES library • Configuration objects • Subsystem descriptions, classes • Created for you by CFGDOMSVR • IFS • One tree per server • Typically /<myserver>/notes/data • Specified on CFGDOMSVR • Names are case sensitive • notes.ini will be in the data directory • WRKLNK, iSeries Navigator or mapped drive • But be careful … see later

  8. Recommendation • You’ll need it one day in an emergency … so make sure you configure, and know how to start and use, NetServer to map network drives to the IFS • Configure through iNav • Set it to use ‘normal’ iSeries host name to avoid DNS problems – this is not the default, for some unknown reason • Set up share for each Domino server (or root share if security policies allow it) • Start NetServer with STRTCPSVR *NETSVR or through iNav • Map drives from Windows in the normal way • Use normal iSeries user profile/password

  9. Subsystems and jobs • One subsystem per Domino server • Typically DOMINOnn • Name can be specified on CFGDOMSVR • One job per Domino task • SERVER, HTTP, SMTP, AMGR, … • May be started, and should be stopped, only from Domino • Resist the temptation to end Domino tasks from WRKACTJOB • End Domino using ENDDOMSVR (unless you enjoy waiting for consistency checks) • QNNINSTS is the autostart and controlling job

  10. Working with, starting and stopping Domino servers • WRKDOMSVR • STRDOMSVR <myserver> • Automatically starts the relevant Domino subsystem • ENDDOMSVR <myserver> • N.B. this does not usually end the relevant Domino subsystem

  11. Configuration of Domino servers • Create • CFGDOMSVR • Change • CHGDOMSVR • Remove • CFGDOMSVR OPTION(*REMOVE) • N.B. deletes the data directory!!

  12. Some CFGDOMSVR hints and tips • If you don’t specify ADVSRV(*PARTITION) you will never be able to create a second server • Specify MAIL(*NONE) (even if you want to use SMTP) if the iSeries native SMTP server is running, otherwise CFGDOMSVR will fail • You can configure and run Domino SMTP in the normal way later – all the code will be present – and each can be bound to a specific IP address to avoid conflicts • Never use SMTP(*MSF), as this option will be withdrawn in a later Domino release

  13. More CFGDOMSVR hints and tips • If you don’t want synchronisation with the iSeries system directory, specify DIRSRV(*NONE) • Otherwise you will have additional, pointless, work to do whenever you upgrade Domino • If *SYSVAL QTIME is routinely changed when the clocks change, and if *SYSVAL QUTCOFFSET is kept set to +00:00, then, if you use TIMEZONE(GMT) and DAYSAVTIME(*YES), you should be OK • Make sure all country-specific system values are set how you want them before you run the first CFGDOMSVR • Changing them later will result in code page problems

  14. Code pages • All iSeries jobs have a CCSID attribute • DSPJOB to see it • All iSeries *FILE objects and IFS files have a CCSID attribute • DSPFD for *FILE objects, WRKLNK option 8 for IFS files • If they match, or *FILE CCSID is 65535, no translation occurs • If they do not match, automatic translation occurs • Automatic translation = unnecessary processing • US EBCDIC (37) and UK EBCDIC (285) count as a mismatch just as EBCDIC and ASCII do • Domino’s rich text handling is particularly badly affected by translation related performance problems • So … get it right for all Domino databases you deploy • If you want to get optimum performance, also check and fix notes.ini and all IBM-supplied databases and templates • If Domino jobs have the wrong CCSID • Check the LOCALE on the QNOTES user profile • Check the CCSID of the user profile used to start Domino

  15. Editing notes.ini • Recommended: • Option 13 from WRKDOMSVR • Alternatively (harder): • iSeries Navigator, or • map drive and use WordPad

  16. Populating the data directory • FTP or restore from another iSeries • If from non-iSeries platform, should use replication, to avoid code page problems • Remember that this means none of your indexes will have been built! • Alternatively, FTP or use mapped drive and then run special program (e.g. as shipped with IFSTOOL freeware tools) to change code pages

  17. TCP/IP considerations • Recommendation: • Use of separate IP address for each Domino server • Should also be different from that/those used for other applications • Configuration: • Allocate IP address and add to DNS • Use CFGTCP to add and start new IP interface • Add line like this to notes.ini: • TCPIP_TCPIPADDRESS=0,172.17.1.9 • Restart server

  18. DNS • iSeries systems are frequently configured without DNS • If routing and replication don’t work, check your hosts table (CFGTCP option 10) and try a ping • Domino+physically remote DNS+*REMOTE lookups before *LOCAL=appalling performance

  19. SMTP listener • Watch out for clashes with iSeries SMTP server (outward SMTP Domino mail routing not affected) • Can run both listeners simultaneously: • Via iSeries Navigator, bind iSeries SMTP listener to single IP address • Domino SMTP listener automatically picks up its parent Domino server’s binding to a specific IP address

  20. HTTP • Watch out for clashes with other iSeries-based HTTP servers (e.g. Apache server within licensed program 5722DG1) • Existing non-Domino HTTP server will need to be bound to a specific IP address • Method depends on the type of server • Domino HTTP server will need to be bound to the IP address of its parent Domino server • This is done in Domino

  21. Java considerations • Take advantage of the iSeries’s high performance Java Virtual Machine: • As far as possible, install all jars in the iSeries IFS • Pull only those Java classes into the Domino Java agent that are essential for it to compile • Add the jars to this line in notes.ini (note colon separators): • JavaUserClasses=/<path1>/<myjar>.jar:/<path2>/<myjar2>.jar • Optimise the jars to level 40 with CRTJVAPGM • Together these steps will make a gigantic difference to the performance of Domino Java agents

  22. Work Management and performance • Domino likes memory and disk • Unless running HTTP, Java or a very complex app, CPW is not normally a big issue, because the majority of the processing usually happens in the client • Typically, if Domino goes slowly, it is lacking main storage • However … • There is no alternative to careful sizing using the Workload Estimator • Domino does not run well on a capped partial processor (e.g. ‘slugged’ entry level system without Accelerator) • Note that the ‘percentage consecutive users’ in the Workload Estimator will almost certainly be 100, because this is the percentage of users concurrently connected to the server, whether they are doing anything or not • iSeries work management is in charge • Do not fear - run as many AMGR’s as your application will let you

  23. Recommendation • Run each Domino server in a pool of its own • Don’t let the pool start too small • Only the memory available at startup will be used optimally • Private pool can be a good option, or (better) use WRKSHRPOOL to set shared pool minimum size appropriately (Domino should not be a reason to switch off QPFRADJ)

  24. Also… • Check code pages are correct • The only symptom of incorrect code pages is bad performance • Usual Domino performance rules apply, e.g. • Limit number and size of full text indexes • Don’t run unnecessary Domino tasks • There is an excellent and essential IBM Lotus Domino for iSeries Performance and Tuning document • http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp3843.pdf

  25. Security considerations • All Domino IFS objects must be owned by QNOTES • Public *RWX access will not do • If you copy Notes databases around using FTP or NetServer, ownership will be wrong unless you use QNOTES user profile to do it (not really recommended) • If ownership wrong, use CHGOWN command, or WRKLNK option 9 then F19 • QNOTES user profile password expiry should be switched off • Otherwise one day Domino will not start … and it will be very hard to work out why • Set INLPGM(*NONE) INLMNU(*SIGNOFF) to prevent misuse

  26. Backing up Domino • QNOTES is licensed program code – doesn’t need regular save • QUSRNOTES requires saving only if Domino configuration changes • Domino IFS trees require regular backup via SAV command

  27. Save considerations • Unless BRMS is installed, must end Domino server to back up • Name and Address Book and log database (possibly others) will not save cleanly otherwise • Always safest, and recommended, to end server even if just saving selected mail or application database(s) • BRMS does allow save-while-active

  28. Restore considerations • RST command • When restoring over existing directories/files, you will get cleaner results if you delete the existing ones first • It is recommended that you restore to original location (rather than restore elsewhere and then move/copy across) • Otherwise you are in danger of upsetting the file’s ownership and/or authorities, and therefore preventing Domino from accessing the file properly

  29. IFS save/restore examples • Save/restore (IFS directory, restored to different place, using savefile): • SAV DEV('/qsys.lib/shawm.lib/testifssav.file') OBJ(('/intranet')) OUTPUT(*print) • RST DEV('/qsys.lib/shawm.lib/testifssav.file') OBJ(('/intranet' *INCLUDE '/shawm4')) • To save to tape, example DEV parameter is • DEV('/QSYS.LIB/TAP02.DEVD')

  30. Automating and monitoring Domino backups - example /* End LEAD DOMINO server */ ENDDOMSVR LEAD MONMSG CPF0000 DLYJOB DLY(900) /* In case not closed down properly-wait and zap.*/ ENDDOMSVR LEAD *IMMED MONMSG CPF0000 DLYJOB DLY(300) /* GIVE IT TIME TO CLOSE FULLY.*/ /* IFS save - replace tap02 by appropriate device */ SAV DEV('/qsys.lib/tap02.devd') + OBJ(('/lead')) CLEAR(*AFTER) /* + Lead */ MONMSG CPF0000 EXEC(CHGVAR &NOTESERROR '1') /* Start LEAD DOMINO SERVER */ STRDOMSVR LEAD

  31. Handling new versions and fixes • Check the prerequisites • If it says Java 1.1.8, it means it – if only 1.3 is installed, it will not work • New Domino versions do not require an IPL, but their prerequisites may need one • Follow the installation instructions explicitly • If running directory synchronisation, switch it off before the upgrade, and remember to switch it on again afterwards

  32. Differences to look out for • File system syntax • Forward slashes • No drive letter • ODBC and LC LSX considerations • Notes client ODBC applications use ODBC as usual • But server-based ODBC uses DRDA • Web applications • Server-based agents • WRKRDBDIRE to configure • Server-based code can only talk to non-DB2 databases if either • a DRDA gateway is available, or • you use Java instead of LotusScript • Direct modem attach to Notes server • Only supported via PPP using iSeries comms cable • Not recommended

  33. Miscellaneous useful information • iSeries DB2 integration options • Dedicated Server for Domino

  34. iSeries DB2 integration options • Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) • Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) • ODBC and LC LSX • JDBC and iSeries Toolbox for Java

  35. Lotus Enterprise Integration (LEI) – What is it? • Previously called NotesPump. • Allows synchronisation of data between Domino databases and a relational database (either may be the master copy). • Synchronisation may work on a schedule or may be real-time. • Configured via a point-and-click interface from a Notes client. • RDBMS access uses an SQL Interface, allowing joins, row and column selection, etc. • Data may be processed automatically during synchronisation, using a Notes agent at the Domino side or a stored procedure at the RDBMS side.

  36. LEI – Where is it useful? • Presentation of iSeries data to the user via a Notes application. • Download of iSeries data into Notes applications (e.g. sales force automation). • Upload of Domino data into an iSeries application, with appropriate iSeries processing of information transferred (e.g. order posting).

  37. LEI - Example • Population of Logicalis’ DB2/400-based data warehouse from our Domino-based CRM system, on a schedule and with some transformation of data.

  38. Business intelligence from Domino data Lotus Enterprise Integrator Domino applications LEI Slice-and-dice analysis DB2 UDB Point-and-click administration Management reporting

  39. LEI – Comments • Separately chargeable product • Suitable for many applications • Very easy to configure • Requires no special Domino coding techniques • Connectivity from Domino server to iSeries works as for LC LSX, below

  40. Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) – What is it? • Allows a Domino application to access a relational database transparently to the Notes programmer and to the user (rows fetched from the database simply look like Domino documents). • Documents may be ‘virtual’ only, or may be copied at run time into the Domino database so that the latest version is available even when the connection is inactive (i.e. allows offline use). • DECS is configured using a point-and-click interface from a Notes client. • Key limitation is need for ‘stub documents’ – making it considerably less useful than LEI in practice.

  41. DECS – Where is it useful? • Applications where the number of documents, and the values to be taken by unique key field(s), are always known, so that ‘stub documents’ with only the key field(s) populated can be created in advance • Applications where Domino simply needs to write new records into an iSeries database table

  42. DECS - Example • Used by Logicalis in an customer application that reformats an iSeries spool file and presents the values to users via a Domino application – values are predictable enough to allow pre-creation of the stub documents by a Domino agent.

  43. DECS - Comments • Not chargeable, shipped with base Domino • Suitable in a limited range of applications • Very easy to configure • Requires no special Domino coding techniques • Connectivity from Domino server to iSeries works as for LC LSX, below

  44. ODBC (formula language, LC LSX) – What is it? • ODBC calls programmed into the Domino application • ODBC from formula language, or LC LSX from LotusScript

  45. ODBC – Where is it useful? • Transactions and/or enquiries into legacy applications from Web browser client or Domino server-based agent. • NOT recommended for use from Notes client application, for desktop maintenance and security reasons related to necessary presence of ODBC driver on desktop.

  46. ODBC - Comments • Not chargeable, shipped with base Domino • Use of formula language ODBC calls not recommended – complex to code and very difficult to debug • LC LSX is used from LotusScript, very similar to Visual Basic SQL CLI coding • Performs very well • Functionality limited compared with JDBC (see below), so ODBC is not recommended for new implementations

  47. ODBC and LC LSX - Connectivity • If using Windows-based Domino server, Web browser clients and server-based agents use ODBC running on the Domino server • If using iSeries-based Domino server, ‘ODBC’ connectivity in fact uses DRDA and can thus run over either SNA or TCP/IP (connections local to this iSeries are of course also supported). Use of DRDA support does impose some design limitations

  48. JDBC – What is it? • From Java agent or servlet. • JDBC calls programmed into the Domino application.

  49. JDBC – Where is it useful? • Transactions and/or enquiries into legacy applications from Web browser client or Domino server-based agent.

  50. JDBC – Example 1 • B2B Domino Web application developed by Logicalis for online ordering, interfaced with the customer’s existing iSeries back end application using stored procedures written in RPG

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