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Lotus Domino introduced the ability to use DB2 (aka NSFDB2) as an alternate data store in Domino 7. While the NSFDB2 capability offers some benefits for accessing relational data, we have found that the scaling aspects of NSFDB2 aren't up to the standards that customers expect from Lotus Notes & Domino.
There has been a significant investment in the NSF (Notes Storage Facility) data store, and NSF remains the strategic data store for Lotus Notes and Domino applications and data. The NSF store is optimized for use of storing and retrieving Notes & Domino data and provides the performance that our customers need and expect when accessing Notes & Domino applications. As a result, we are discontinuing further development efforts of the DB2 data store capability within Lotus Domino. This includes discontinuation of additional features, updated DB2 versions, and platform expansion for the DB2 data store. This change allows us to focus on the core NSF capabilities and customer requested capabilities that offer value to our customer and business partner community. As a result, we discourage new uses of the NSFDB2 feature within Lotus Domino. Existing NSFDB2 applications will continue to be supported but we encourage leveraging the use of NSF as the data store for Notes & Domino applications. Traditional connectors for relational database access (e.g. LEI, Decs, ODBC, etc..) are still available for Notes & Domino applications.
Can you provide more details on the current use of NSFDB2? We are looking into whether the use of Query Views will provide the desired functionality.
Feedback response number CMUY7NRHT8 created by ~Joseph Deswetexnivu on 01/29/2009
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