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1 Frank Paolino     http://blog.maysoft.org/ 6/16/2010 11:50:18 AM  
Pizza and Soda works

Denny,

This happened to us, too, and it was painful.

I ended up going to the Westford support group with pizza and soda for 40 people and explaining what we do and wht our product does.

Now I have some informal contacts if there is this type of problem.

Not exactly the answer you wanted, but my point is the group is flexible and willing to work with BPs.

2 Ulrich Krause      http://Http://www.eknori.de 6/16/2010 11:54:42 AM  
Another way IBM can help the Developers/Business Partners

You can use ls2capi to retrieve the physical size of a database. Will postt an example ad soon as I'll be back at the office

3 Ulrich Krause     http://www.eknori.de 6/16/2010 12:03:30 PM  
Another way IBM can help the Developers/Business Partners

Here is the code:

'Declaration

Declare Function NSFDbOpen Lib "nnotes.dll" Alias "NSFDbOpen" (Byval dbName As String, hDb As Long) As Integer

Declare Function NSFDbClose Lib "nnotes.dll" Alias "NSFDbClose" (hDb As Long) As Integer

Declare Function NSFDbSpaceUsage Lib "nnotes.dll" Alias "NSFDbSpaceUsage"_

(Byval hDB As Long, retAllocatedBytes As Long, retFreeBytes As Long) As Integer

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim dbHandle As Long

Dim usedBytes As Long

Dim freeBytes As Long

Dim ServerName As String

Dim dbName As String

ServerName = "serv01/singultus"

dbName = "mail/ukrause.nsf"

Dim db As New NotesDatabase ( ServerName, dbName )

If ServerName = "" Then

Call NSFDbOpen ( dbName, dbHandle)

Else

Call NSFDbOpen ( ServerName + "!!" +dbName, dbHandle)

End If

If dbHandle <> 0 Then

Call NSFDbSpaceUsage(dbHandle, usedBytes, freeBytes)

Msgbox "Logical: " &_

Cstr(db.Size) & " Bytes || Physical: " &_ 'logical

Cstr(usedBytes + freeBytes) & " Bytes || DAOS: " &_ 'physical

Cstr(db.Size - (usedBytes + freeBytes)) & " Bytes" 'DAOS

End If

NSFDbClose dbHandle

End Sub

The example is winows only, but when you change the declaration of the api calls, you can run the codeon any supported platform.

6 Ulrich Krause      http://Http://www.eknori.de 6/16/2010 12:19:30 PM  
Another way IBM can help the Developers/Business Partners

Just saw that i already blogged this bach in november 2009

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8 Frank Paolino     http://www.notesappstore.com/ 6/16/2010 1:56:22 PM  
Another way IBM can help the Developers/Business Partners

Denny,

I wasn't joking in my post.

Navigating the maze of IBM is not easy. Each of us has our own "cheat sheets".

I'd be glad to introduce you to the Westford support group.

Or maybe I could post a shared "cheat sheet" on my blog?

However, I think people guard these relationships.

I proposed paying a BP fee for access to this group at Lotusphere. I don't think Ed Brill and Brent Peters thought we would really pay money for that. We use MSDN and pay about $2,000 per year. In return, they answer almost all questions in 24 hours.

So maybe IBM is hearing "more free requests"?

Would they respond better if you, I and 50 other BPs signed up for a fee?