Often as an Admin we run into an error such as “database is being taken offline and cannot be opened“. This can be a pain to recover from sometimes, but with a few lines of code you may be able to recover without any server downtime. However, I have even seen times where this might not succeed.

Over the course of the years, I have been involved with many IBM Domino mail consolidation/migration projects. This could be in the form of an acquisition, data center consolidation, moving users to hosted servers, etc… I would like to share a few of the "little" things that I've learned or implemented that help these projects succeed. These are just some tips and the list is, of course, not an all-inclusive outline of steps.

I have blogged about new compact options with 8.5.x previously, and now I would like to point out some new options with Domino 9.0. First of all, from what I can determine the options available with DEBUG_ENABLE_COMPACT_8_5=1 are now available out-of-the-box with 9.0.