A few days ago Vladislavs Tatarincevs sent me this email
Hi, Ulrich,
in your blog, you have posted some posts that relates to notes.ini,
Maybe we could join forces to create a set of Notes.ini for server and client, and post it,
I think many young administrators will benefit from this. 😉
I have opened discussion on my blog, but only few people responded and shared their notes.ini settings.What do you think?
vlad
I think, this is a good idea. There are already some sources, where you can find notes.ini related information.
“Notes.ini Entries” and even IBM’s “Lotus Notes/Domino Notes.ini settings” database are only two of these sources. All have one thing in common. You have to know the parameter or a part of it to find information about this parameter. None of the sources are able to answer questions like: “How can I force my client to create ODS48 databases?”. This is only a simple sample and can be easily answered with “Add CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 to your notes.ini and run compact -c”. But there might be also more difficult questions to be answered and sometimes adding a certain parameter can have side effects.
So we thougt that having a WiKi for this would be great and we would like to ask our Notes Community for some feedback. So please feel free to post your thoughs as a comment here or if you do not want to give your feedback in public, write me an email.
Looking forward to reading your feedback.
Hello Ulrich,
I started to transfer my content to the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Wiki…
I think this is the correct place for all the content. IBM started also to add notes.ini entrys there.
Way to go! Placing it out on a wiki is a great idea! Maybe IBM will include some of the NOTES.INI settings that are on a ‘need to know’ basis…
@Bastian: Absolutely correct. Instead of starting a new wiki, let us all contribute to the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Wiki
( http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/archive?openview&title=Notes.ini&type=cat&cat=Notes.ini&sort=I )
So true. I would also advise to use the IBM Wiki’s.
As otherwise the information gets to distrubuted and you could add an extra category in the IBM wiki psecialized for notes.ini parameters.
I just saw that a user from UK added 100-200 notes.ini entrys to the IBM Wiki … I know it for sure, because I added some more infos to them.
But these notes.ini entrys are now removed from the wiki… I´m unable to find them. So I would say… IBM will not have such notes.ini entrys in the wiki … or why should they remove them… adding 100-200 entrys is a LOT of work.