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What the Lifecycle Vector Is
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2. Disposition, what to do with it. Within each direction, iDNA adds what the application needs:
| Label | Meaning | What to do |
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| Keep/Modernize | Kept, and in considerable use: at least medium usage in the last 90 days. | Make it ready for the target platform. These applications come first in modernization. |
| Keep/Qualify | Kept, but used little in the last 90 days. | Look at the application before investing in it: is it worth modernizing, or on its way to sunset? |
| Sunset/Archive | Ready to retire, but some replica still holds documents within your retention period. |
| Consider putting the application |
| on a read-only archive server. | |
| Sunset/Delete | Ready to retire, and no replica holds documents within your retention period. |
| Application can be deleted if reducing the number of databases is relevant. | ||
| Sunset/Qualify | Would be retired, but something prevents a safe decision, for example no retention configured, or replicas that disagree. | Resolve the named issue first. Until then, iDNA recommends neither archiving nor deleting. |
Both Keep dispositions continue to modernization: every kept application gets a modernization vector (see Modernization Vector: The Route to Ready). Sunset applications get none, because an application you retire needs no fixing.
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- Sunset/Delete and Sunset/Archive: before you retire an application, check who used it last, so nobody loses something they still need: [App Lifecycle] → [Top User Lookup] and [Department/Location Activity Lookup]. Archive where the vector says so, then remove the application in your Domino environment; iDNA identifies the candidates, the retirement itself happens outside iDNA.
- Sunset/Qualify: resolve the issue the label names, for example configure retention for the application or bring its replicas back in sync. The next nightly run re-evaluates it.
- Keep/Qualify: decide per application whether it is worth keeping. Low but steady use by a key department can justify it; a slow decline points towards sunset.
- Keep/Modernize and Keep/Qualify: continue with Modernization Vector: The Route to Ready to see how each kept application gets ready for the target platform.
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