Scotch whisky doesn’t just get better with age. By law, it has to be aged at least three years before you can even drink it. Software products are not the same - anything that’s older than a decade or so is considered long in the tooth. But some features that have been around a long time have persisted, and for good reason.

For most of our HCL Domino application development tools, it’s easy to explain what they do in a few words. Teamstudio Analyzer is one of our most successful products, but when it comes to explaining what it does, well, that’s more of a challenge. To do that, we start by giving a few examples of some of the things that you can use the product to do.

Humans are really good at doing certain things. Reading, for example, is one of them. But when it comes to finding differences between two different versions of something, we’re not so good at it. That’s why, when it comes to finding differences in code, we need a little help.

Humans make mistakes, it’s a fact of life. So what happens if you’re an HCL Domino developer and you slip up in Domino Designer? Not everyone wants to use a full-blown source code control system. Luckily, for those people, there is a solution.

There are many reasons you may need to create and distribute archives of your HCL Domino databases. Whatever they are, there are three steps you should take before you get started. These are things we’ve learned from years of experience of archiving and helping our customers with their archiving projects.