IBM® Lotus® Domino® Object and Attachment Service (DAOS) is a feature introduced in Lotus Domino 8.5.0, aimed primarily at reducing disk space. This document is a detailed, stepbystep guide to preparing, planning, deploying, and maintaining a successful DAOS implementation.

Explanation: notes.ini FT_Index_Ignore_Attachment_Types debuted in Notes/Domino 5.0.5, and lets administrators specify additional file types to ignore in the indexing of attachments. For example, the

When it comes to configuring the Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS), you may be asking yourself and us in turn what's the right way to set it up? For example, is there an optimum “Minimum Size” setting? Should the repository go under the data directory or on its own drive? What's ...

Since release Domino 6 was launched, there have been several enhancements to Domino HTTP task. All Internet views (Design property) were indexed by the HTTP task. In fact, the UPDALL task does not reb

Network compression can improve performance in environments where bandwidth is a limiting factor. Network compression is enabled at the port level on both the client and the server and must be enabled on both sides of the connection. In testing, network compression has been shown to reduce the ...

Activity Logging and Activity Trends work together. They can be enabled via the Configuration Settings document / Activity Logging tab. Explanation: Activity Logging servers account for their time precisely, recording user activity by person, database, and access protocol. When summarized and ...

Explanation: In Notes Release 3 and earlier releases, Notes held deleted data-unencrypted-until empty space, or white space, was removed during a database compact. In Release 4, this functionality wa

Explanation: Lotus Notes/Domino 6 and above uses LZ1 compression for file attachments. LZ1 stands for "Lempel-Zev class 1"; it is a different method of compression from that of the Huffman algorithm,

Explanation: The 'Compress database design' database property will reduce the size of design elements in the database. Compressing design elements, especially those including rich text and graphics,

Explanation: The database advanced property 'Compress document data' reduces the size of all document bodies (non-summary item data) in the database. In Lotus Domino 8.0, this type of compression was

The ODS for a given database should be upgraded to the latest ODS version supported by the hosting Domino server. Explanation: Eventually, all active databases should be upgraded to the latest ODS version supported by the hosting Domino server. In general, the higher the ODS version, the better ...

As databases grow in size, they require increasing amounts of resources to maintain and use. The document count has a direct impact on the time required to build views, maintain internal document tables, and run maintenance utilities, among other things. In many cases, there exists business ...

CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 will enable ODS 48, which provides significant performance improvements. Explanation: When a new application is created in a Lotus Notes 7, 8 or 8.5 client or on a Lotus Domino 7, 8 or 8.5 server, the on-disk structure (ODS) remains at 43, which is the ODS version introduced ...