Solving an issue with DB2 Control Center no longer starting

I had the issue that the DB2 control center did no longer start. You just saw a command windows and the splash screen appearing and both disappeared after a few seconds. The solution was to cleanup some files.

On Windows go to “c:\documents and settings\allusers\application data\ibm\db2\db2copy1\db2”. Now delete the following files:

db2cache.prf
db2dbamr.prf
db2misc.prf
db2tools.prf

Go also to the “c:\documents and settings\allusers\application data\ibm\db2\db2copy1\db2\tmp” directory and delete the temporary files which are there. Afterwards you DB2 control center should start again.

Error installing FP2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1

As I tried to install Fixpack 2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 today the installation failed with the message “Error encountered while installing Notes Core Hotfix component.”.

After some investigation I found that the JQS.EXE process (Java Quick Starter) seems to conflict with the installer (or has one of the Notes processes in use, although I cannot explain why).

As soon as I killed JQS.EXE with the Windows task manager the installation succeeded. Maybe this will help others with the same issue …

Upgrading my Virtualbox server to Ubuntu 9.10

I have a Ubuntu-based server where I do host several Virtualbox images for test and demo purposes. This server was still running on Ubuntu 9.04 and EXT3 as file system.

Although I do not have too much experience with Linux I successfully upgraded the filesystem on both disks to EXT4 and the operating system to Ubuntu 9.10.

Just for my reference for the next time and for anyone else who wants to do that, here are the steps (and links to the more detailed description) to do this without access to a graphical environment, just from the command line:

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Quickr (Domino) Customization Samples

I know, the stuff is already some time available. But I am often asked if there are any samples how to customize Quickr (Domino). Although I collect all kind of links about that subject on this wiki page, I want to highlight two very nice examples today:

The Quickr Domino Customisation Samples Template on www.OpenNTF.org

Lotusphere 2010 – SHOW202 – How to customize Lotus Quickr Using HTML, Javascript & CSS

If you know about other cool links about Quickr (Domino) customization which I haven’t already listed, let me know!

Quickr (Domino): How to modify members in a placetype?

If you create a placetype you can inherit the member list of the master place. Every new place created with this placetype will then have all the members of the master place included.

However there is no official way to change the member list later. Refreshing the placetype from its master place will NOT change the member list of the placetype even if you have changed it in the master place itself.

This is currently working as designed and should prevent unwanted access to new places.

Although there is no official way to modify the member list of a placetype later, I have described an unofficial and unsupported workaround in that article.

Copy file instead of a link with Quickr connector in Notes

As I was already asked several times:

If you drag and drop a file from the Quickr connector in Lotus Notes into a mail, just a link to this file is created. The same is true if you select “Copy” from the context menu in the connector.This is a nice thing if the recipients of your mail have access to the Quickr place.

Copying the attachment itself into your mail is not so obvious.

To do this, you select the attachment in the connector and then choose “Edit -> Copy as attachment” in the “Edit” menu of the Notes client. Then you can just paste the attachment from the clipboard into your mail.

Caution: If you select a large document it could take some time until the attachment is available in the clipboard. You cannot paste the document to your mail before it was fully copied!