LO43704: HOW TO AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE THE ODS ON A LOCAL DATABASE ON A NOT ES 6.X CLIENT WORKSTATION

APAR status

• Closed as suggestion for future release.

Error description

• After migration to Notes V6.5.4 Personal address books still
  have older
  ODS-versions (in some cases ODS17 or ODS20). Customer Would like
  to know how to
  upgrade the ODS on the Local database, preferable without the
  users
  intervention.
  
  Applying the  Workaround suggested in the following Technotes
  1181946,  the
  problem is fixed but the Workaround is not practical for the
  Customer.
  For the Customer Using ncompact via command line or batch leads
  to (at least) 2
  problems:
  1) the client must be closed
  
  2) I have to know the passwords of about 2000 users
  
  And because that feature does not exist in Notes , The Customer
  would like to
  see if the following  could be consider for later release.
  *Having a notes.ini parameters that could  perform "scheduled"
  
  compacts/cleanups for locked databases at startup or  shutdown
  of the client
  to  run the compact task on a Local database to update the
  database ODS.
  

Local fix

• When a Notes Client is upgraded, the Compact task is not ran
  against the local
  databases.  Therefore, any database that was created locally
  prior to the
  upgrade will remain at that ODS.
  From the Windows command prompt, path out the program directory
  and then issue
  ncompact or ncompact.exe followed by the name of the database or
  run it against
  the entire data directory.  After hitting [Enter], user will be
  prompted for
  the password to the USER.ID file located in the specified path
  as seen below:
  
  
  Once compact has completed, go back to the database properties
  and view the
  "Information" tab and the ODS will be updated to 43.
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# PBAO6GAKCV.
  The record does not describe a programming error but recommends
   a change to the code.
  

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