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A customer askme last week if the we separate WCM code from content has impact  on WCM/Portal performance.

My answer was No, there is no impact but the customer need an official response.  I opened a PMR and receive the response today :

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As noted, the WCM best practices are to separate the content from the design.
For example, see the following link:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/How_to_separate_WCM_Content_from_Design

Multiple libraries does not incur additional performance penalties since references are by UUID, which is independent of library.
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The IBM Notes Traveler client for Android devices allows the end user to connect to their Traveler server over HTTPS (using SSL) or the open HTTP standard. At present, the client application does not explicitly warn the end user if the Traveler administrator has chosen the insecure HTTP variant as the transport medium.

See the complete information on this IBM TechNote

IBM Notes and Domino 9.0.1 Fix Pack 2 as well as 8.5.3 Fix Pack 5/Fix Pack 6 fixes are available for the Java issues disclosed in the Oracle July 2014 Critical Patch Update.

Read more details in this TN

This technote contains questions and answers pertaining to installing and running IBM Notes on Apple’s OS X 10.10.x Yosemite.

You only need to download Notes 9.0.1, as mentioned, if you will install a fresh yosemite.

I upgraded my Mavericks yesterday and only need to install the legacy Apple java. My Notes was on the FP2 level.

Last monday a customer reports the error SRVE0190E and 404 errors appearing sometimes for some users. After reading lots of trace the error was caused by the following:

The customer has one IBM HTTP Server in front of two cells. One cell is WAS Cluster and another is Portal Cluster.  The websphere pluging-cfg.xml is merged and then deployed on the HTTP Server.

Reading the trace i discovered that the customer has two applications with the same context root installed.  

Solution:  Change the context root of one application.

Last month i migrate a from Portal V7.0.2 to V8.0.1.

Today i receive a task to integrate some applications using WAB (Web Application Bridge).

When i launch the Administration interface the Virtual Application Manager portlet was not there.

I search for a solution but at the end i opened a PMR.

This kind of problem was reported and to fix just run the following tasks:

ConfigEngine.sh action-create-library-wp.vwat.engine
ConfigEngine.sh action-create-resource-environment-provider-wp.vwat.engine
ConfigEngine.sh action-create-resource-environment-provider-custom-property-wp.vwat.engine
ConfigEngine.sh action-deploy-portlets-admin-wp.vwat.manager
ConfigEngine.sh action-create-ear-wp.vwat.servlet/ear
ConfigEngine.sh action-deploy-portlets-wp.vwat.webdock

Restart the Portal Server

I am using my MAC book as principal machine (i was a Windows user). Every day i need a ssh connection with servers to do admin tasks.

On windows i use Mobaxterm the best tool i used to do things using ssh.  My favorite feature is X Window to use graphical interfaces via x11 forward.

There is no Mobaxterm for Mac, so i installed XQuartz  http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/.

To use the X Window start your connection (after setup XQuartz) using ssh -X  user@server

In some cases, after an Apple device is upgraded to iOS 8, some or all of the Calendar entries in the Notes Traveler account no longer appear on the device. It is important to note that although the Calendar entries do not appear on the device, the entries are NOT permanently lost. The missing entries, in fact, still exist in the user’s Domino mail file, and they can be resynced to the device via this workaround

A few months ago I heard that it was possible to download files from Passport advantage using wget on a linux terminal.
Never needed to test this until yesterday when I needed to upload 3 GB of files  to a server (home office to datacenter) that had no possibility of using a browser to download from Passport Advantage.

What I did was the following:

1 – Log on passport advantage (using my laptop) and looked for the desired software
2 – I changed the download option for https
3 – When I started downloading the file I copied the URL
4 – The URL is complex like this one: (i changed some characteres)

https://serverfromibm/sdfdl/v2/fulfill/CITI7BP/Xa.2/Xb.ll8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Xc.CITI7BP/Do_9.0.1_LP_AIX_Lix_BP.tar/Xd./Xf.lPr.D1VK/Xg.7745353/Xi./XY.sm/XZ.HqgSzFYH2FWAhesMjfomXW-uLQk/Do_9.0.1_LP_AIX_Lix_BP.tar#anchor

I type wget on linux terminal and pasted the url
The download was done smoothly.

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