I'm now using IdeaJam a lot more... »
PHILIP STORRY - FEB 10, 2010 (01:08:02 PM)
IdeaJam rocks.
Not only is it great software, but the idea of hosting a free version so that people can suggest improvements for Domino & Notes is a cunning way of testing the software to death, too!
I've decided that I'll submit a few ideas over the next few months. I have loads of them, but will have to trickle them out. I'll highlight them here when I come to them.
However, when browsing the various Ideas that others have submitted, I often find myself thinking "good idea, wrong way to do it". It felt, at first, a little rude to turn up to someone's party (well, Idea) and say that I had a better one somewhere else... But I'm over that, and will be doing it with gay abandon from now on.
The first candidate is this idea from Criag Wiseman:
It's an excellent idea. But I wondered - why is the database unavailable, yet the server still responding? Craig wants to address this from the client end, but can we improve this on the server side to help?
Yes, we can:
I'm not planning on discussing all of my IdeaJam ideas here. That's why IdeaJam has comments, after all! But I may pimp out some Ideas from time to time, or just comment on the background of an Idea.
It's all grist for the mill, after all...
Comments: 3
COMMENT: CRAIG WISEMAN
FEB 10, 2010 - 05:39:12 PM
COMMENT: CRAIG WISEMAN
FEB 10, 2010 - 05:42:37 PM
As noted in my comments on your idea... The idea is good and I have voted for it, but doesn't cover all the situations where issues/errors occur.
Because in the end, the point is for the user to be able to read his/her mail or work in this or that database, not just that the "server's up - see!". «
COMMENT: PHILIP STORRY
FEB 11, 2010 - 08:40:28
No doubt that this isn't the whole solution - but it's likely easier than re-writing the client code for failover, and covers 95% of the situations where failover doesn't happen automatically.
The last 5% is on the client, and is much harder to do. It doesn't mean that your idea is bad - I voted for it - just that it's a lot more work for IBM.
To cover both situations, we need both ideas.
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