Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer ® Version 8.
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in "Notices" on page 197. Beta 3 Edition - Revised (May, 2007) This edition applies to IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8.0 and IBM Lotus Domino® 8.0, and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1994, 2007. All rights reserved.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes About this release................................................................................................. 1 Welcome to IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, and Domino Designer ................................................. Lotus Notes 8 Beta: Client overview .......................................................................................... Help - usage and availability ......................................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installing the Notes server client installer ............................................................................ Running the Domino-Portal Integration Wizard ................................................................... Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta using silent installation.......................................................... Shared network install not supported ...................................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Configuring Domino and Portal Server federated administration ........................................ Enabling Notes 8 single sign-on for Windows ..................................................................... Specifying the home portal account using policy................................................................. Specifying the home portal account using preferences .......................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes DB2: Update systems account password limitation ...................................................... Domino and DB2 - DB2 Access Views ......................................................................... Domino and DB2 - server enablement .......................................................................... Domino Domain Monitoring issues......................................................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Error sometimes occurs when performing certain actions ............................................ Issues when adding several Notes documents to Activities ......................................... Linux: Activities chat entries do not display embedded images .................................... Long user name within a Group will not have access to activities ................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes DB2 issues .......................................................................................................................... Do not upgrade Domino 7.x to Domino 8 DB2-enabled Notes database ..................... Domino and DB2 - error SQL0964C ............................................................................. Designer issues ..........................................................................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Arabic dictionary spell check fails ................................................................................. Arabic only displays a single character in Contacts Name ........................................... Attachment issues ......................................................................................................... Bookmark.nsf and desktop6.ndk cannot be upgraded from R7 ....................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Print issues ................................................................................................................... Redundant words remain on "User Security" page ....................................................... Regional profile is not set to OS locale as default language ......................................... RHEL 5: System hangs when scrolling a graphic .........................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Documentation updates ....................................................................................... 165 Notes Client Help ....................................................................................................................... No context help for programmer pane in Notes client ......................................................... Web Style Query .........................................................................
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes About this release Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server, Domino Web Access, Domino Access for Outlook, Domino Offline Services (DOLS), Domino for System i, Domino for System z Welcome to IBM Lotus Notes , Domino, and Domino Designer Welcome to the IBM® Lotus® Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino® Server family of software products.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Three innovative new capabilities in Lotus Notes 8 dramatically increase personal and organizational productivity: Composite applications - Composite applications combine components from multiple applications into a single, role-based work environment. With support for composite applications, Lotus Notes 8 offers greater flexibility to organizations seeking to rapidly respond to competitive markets.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z New Search Center UI for queries and results (Domain Search, Find People and Find Application, Web / Intranet Searches) z Multiple level "undo" command z On-the-fly spell checking Mail z Lotus Notes 8 Mail offers visual clues for linking messages with associated threads. Threaded e-mails can be gathered together and presented at the view level. Users can easily expand mail threads and see all messages related to a specific topic.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Composite applications z End users can access composite applications from within the Lotus Notes interface. z Organizations can deploy composite applications made up of only Notes applications or they can create composite applications using a variety of component types including Eclipse/Java applications. z Composite applications in Lotus Notes 8 can be used online or offline.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes You can access Notes Help in the following ways. z Click Help --> Help Contents from the menu bar z For context-sensitive help, press F1 (Ctrl+F1 for Linux users), click Help --> Dynamic Help from the menu bar, or click the "?" in the toolbar or in the top right corner of most dialog boxes Also see the Documentation Updates section of these release notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Reporting Notes 8 Beta issues and problems If you experience any problems installing or using Lotus Notes 8 Beta, we want to hear from you in the form of a software problem report. Information about what to include in the problem report and the process by which you can submit a problem report to IBM Lotus are provided below.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Note: On Notes 8 Beta, the files referencing \rcp are located in \framework\rcp. \rcp\plugin_customization.ini \rcp\rcplauncher.properties \rcp\deploy directory contents z z z Then zip them up and attach to the problem report. Please note in the problem report that these were manually collected.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes New in this release Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server, Domino Web Access, Domino Access for Outlook, Domino Offline Services (DOLS), Domino for System i, Domino for System z New features in IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta The following list represents an overview of the new features that are available in the IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta client.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z Support for multiple monitors (Windows only). z An Eclipse-based Help system that allows you to display context-sensitive help in a side panel while you work. In addition to help for Lotus Notes, this Help includes sections on Sametime Connect, Activities, the Composite Application Editor, and the IBM Word Processing, Spreadsheet, and Presentation tools, all of which you can choose to install as part of the client install.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Mail z An improved mail form, with easier-to-access menu bar choices, requiring fewer 'clicks' to perform desired actions. z Simplified Mail preferences. z Updated and additional Letterhead choices. z User settings to display additional information when composing or opening mail (From, Sent By, BCC, Additional Options). z Improved, simplified Action Bar buttons. z Within the Inbox, the ability to see all related messages in a thread.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Activities (limited availability in this beta release ) The Activities function lets teams of users achieve project objectives by participating in different activities. Activity-centric computing organizes tasks and projects by associating multiple types of communications and resources into a cohesive grouping. z Menu support for activities, and support for dragging-and-dropping from a Notes view to create an activity.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer z Support for Composite Applications, including the following: z Property Broker Editor to create Properties design element (WSDL file) for composite applications z Property broker support for using Personal Information Management (PIM) applications in composite applications z Support for using PIM components standalone in composite applications z Built-in view filtering z Ability to open views without a frameset z Portle
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Web Access z Domino Administrators can enable Domino Web Access security settings via policies using a Security Policy Settings document. For additional information, see the release note "Using Security Policy Settings" z Domino Web Access will have a new look and feel.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z Convert TNEF file attachments to Notes file attachments z Support Mail Threads when sending/receiving internet mail z Enable SMTP outbound authentication to relay hosts Domino and DB2 1 z Enhanced management of Domino Master DB2 Account (Domino server user account) z Move Container feature in UI z SQL updates/inserts/deletes are transactional z DB2 Query view setting row limits is supported z DAV/QV design elements supported in a
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z Policies - IBM Lotus Productivity Tools settings document z Policies - Window Naviigation settings in desktop policy settings document z Policies - Policy managment of Inbox cleanup on desktop policy settings document z Server command - Tell adminp process restart z Option to synchronize unread marks when creating replicas z Allow diagnostic data to be sent to IBM 1 Java z Java console enhancements, for example, auto-connecting multi
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Activities preview The Activities sidebar panel provides an entryway into the new collaborative world of activity-centric computing. Using Activities, you can collect and organize all of the content related to a particular project in a single place, including Notes documents and mail messages, chat transcripts, Web pages, To Do entries, and so forth.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Backward compatibility Lotus Notes, Domino Server Domino 8 Billing feature The Billing feature is included in IBM Lotus Domino 8 for legacy support. No bug fixes or feature enhancements are planned for the Billing feature, and you are encouraged to migrate to Activity Logging for the equivalent functionality.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Reverting back one ODS level To revert back one ODS level, use the compact -r command as shown here: compact -r Lotus Notes Forward Event to Tivoli Enterprise Console Forward Event to Tivoli Enterprise Console is only working on Win32 and AIX machines. Domino Server Using Notes/Domino 8 with BlackBerry servers Research In Motion (RIM) does not officially support Notes and Domino 8, as it is not officially released yet.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration information Hardware requirements Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server, Domino for System i, Domino for System z Notes 8 and Domino 8 Beta hardware requirements For a list of the Lotus Notes 8 Beta and Lotus Domino 8 Beta hardware requirements for each supported platform, please see the release note titled "Notes 8 and Domino 8 Beta platforms and system requirements" in the 'Software requi
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Use these values as general guidelines for minimum memory and disk space. The requirements for your environment may be different. For more information about sizing an iSeries or i5/OS server for Domino, use the IBM eServer Workload Estimator. The Estimator is available at the following Web site: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support/estimator See the System i Performance Capabilities Reference for more details on specific models. http://publib.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Smartcard Package Caveats : z The technique introduced in 7.0 to "Lock ID With Key on Smartcard" will be used with all tokens that support C_Sign for CKM_RSA_PKCS with input lengths up to k-11 bytes, in accordance with the PKCS#11 specification.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Caveats and Warnings : z An entry of "n/a" in the "Use pre-loaded keys and X.509 certificates" column does not necessarily indicate any incompatibility with the smartcard package, but simply means that we did not have a sample pre-loaded token to test against. z Current versions of the Entrust CA create non-compliant PKCS#11 attributes for certificates and keys.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 z z z z z Release Notes c:\Program Files\Gemplus\GemSafe Libraries Admin\BIN\gclib.dll (GemSafe Libraries 4.x) c:\Program Files\IBM ThinkVantage\Client Security Solution\csspkcs11.dll (IBM Client Security Software v6.01) c:\WINNT\system32\dkck201.dll (Rainbow iKey 2032) c:\WINNT\system32\Cryptoki22.dll (Rainbow CryptoSwift eCommerce Sever Accelerator) c:\Program Files\Common Files\SECUDE\itsecp11.dll (Secude v5.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Notes Client Platform Microsoft Windows Linux (Notes client only) Supported operating system versions Microsoft Windows XP Professional Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate with (SLED) 10 XGL Aero (see the "Windows system requirements " Release Note for Service Pack information ) (see the "Linux system requirements " Release Note for Service Pack information ) Processors supported Intel Pentium or higher and c
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Administrator Client , Domino Designer Platform Microsoft Windows Supported operating system versions Microsoft Windows XP Professional; Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate with Aero (see the "Windows system requirements " Release Note for Service Pack information ) Processors supported Intel Pentium or higher and compatibles RAM Windows XP - 512 MB minimum; 1 GB or more recommended Windows Vista - 1 GB minimum; 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 1 Domino Server - Table 1 Platform Microsoft Windows 2003 Supported operating system versions Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition; Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition; Microsoft Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition (see the "Windows system requirements" Release Note for Service Pack information ) Processors supported Intel Pentium or higher and compatibles (32-bit and 64-bit chips as appropriate) RAM 512 MB minimum 512 MB
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server - Table 2 Platform IBM AIX Supported operating system versions IBM AIX 5.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server - Table 3 Platform IBM System i Supported operating system versions IBM i5/OS, V5R4 5 (see the "System i: Software requirements" Release Note for additional information ) IBM System z Linux on System z IBM z/OS Version 1, Release 7 or later; IBM z/OSe Version 1, Release 7 or later Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 on System z (64-bit); Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 on System z (64-bit) (see the "Linux system re
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Platform Release Notes IBM System z Linux on System z No No No NetBIOS over IP (2) No No No NetBIOS over IPX No No No SPX No No No SPX II No No No TCP/IP Yes Yes Yes TCP/IP IPV6 Yes Yes Yes X.PC No No No IBM System i 5 Protocols supported NetBIOS (3) Footnotes 1 If you are running with DB2 as the Domino datastore then you must add additional DB2 install requirements. DB2 9.1 is supported in the current release.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes DB2 9.1, 32-bit is certified on MS Windows; DB2 9.1, 64-bit is certified on IBM AIX and Linux. DB2 9.1 can be installed on the following platforms: z MS Windows 32-bit and MS Windows 64-bit z IBM AIX 5.3, 64-bit z Linux (SLES10) 64-bit Note Shared mail is not supported for a DB2 server. The recommended method of installation is to create a new DB2-enabled Domino server and replicate to DB2.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Other requirements z Transaction logging must be enabled to run the DB2 Domino server. When you enable transaction logging on the Server document, set the log file size to at least 192 MB. z UTF-8 is supported for Domino and DB2. New databases are created as UTF-8 databases. No other database encoding is supported.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Lotus Sametime servers and available features You must have a Sametime server to use the Sametime features in IBM Lotus Notes 8. If you have a version 7.5.1 Sametime server, you must turn on the policy, "Allow all Sametime Connect features to be used with integrated clients" to make all Sametime features available. The default for this policy is "Off".
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Note 3: If Option 8 is not installed and JavaUseClassicJVM=1 is not specified in the Notes.ini file, then a JVM load failure will occur when the HTTP task starts.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes C and C++ Application Requirements ATTENTION: Any applications that use the Domino C or C++ API on i5/OS need to be reviewed to make sure they are properly enabled for use with Domino on i5/OS. There are two important considerations: 1. Bind to QNOTES/LIBNOTES Some applications incorrectly specify a library of *LIBL when binding to the LIBNOTES service program. This can result in incorrect operation in a multi-versioned Domino environment.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Individual PTFs The individual PTFs correspond to the version of Apache. The following IBM HTTP Server individual PTF is required. If you order the HTTP Server Group PTF, you will obtain the most recent version of Apache and plug-in PTFs that match that version. PTF SI19429 is included in the group PTF SF99114.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server, Domino Web Access Domino Web Access system requirements Client Hardware Requirements z Recommended for better performance : Windows -- Pentium IV 1 GHz with 512 MB of memory Linux -- Pentium IV 1 GHz with 512 MB of memory Macintosh -- G4 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Access for Outlook Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook requirements IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook allows Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP) or 2003 users to connect to an IBM Lotus Domino Server running Domino 8 Beta. System and Outlook requirements z Windows OS -- Windows XP Professional Service pack 2, Windows 2000 z Microsoft Outlook XP with SP3, or Outlook 2003 with SP2 z Domino Server running 6.5.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Windows 2003 Server and Server Enterprise Edition Oracle 9i and 10g DB2 v8.2.2, 9.1 and DB2 Universal Database for iSeries (System i) Sybase 15 MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Data Direct ODBC 5.2 z z z z z AIX 5.3 Oracle 9i and 10g DB2 v8.2.2, 9.1 (must be aix power 4 or higher for DB2 9.1) and DB2 Universal Database for iSeries (System i) z Sybase 15 z Data Direct ODBC 5.2 z z Solaris 10 Oracle 9i and 10g DB2 v8.2.2, 9.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Server Linux system requirements Notes client Before installing Notes 8 Beta on a Linux client, you must install a Mozilla GTK2 Web browser. The client requires a Mozilla 1.8 -based application (Firefox/XULRunner/Seamonkey) and will not support the earlier Beta requirement of Mozilla 1.7.12. For Notes 8 Beta, it is recommended that the latest updates for SLED 10 are installed.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Server Web browsers supported The following are the Web browsers supported, by application: Application 1 Notes Client Browsers supported z Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x (Windows platforms only) z Mozilla 1.5.x, 2.0 on Windows XP Professional z Mozilla 1.5.x, 2.0 on RHEL 5 Desktop z Mozilla 1.8 on SLED 10 XGL Web Mail and Web-enabled templates z Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 z Release Notes The filtering of PDF files by using either the file’s internal unstructured paragraph flow, or by applying a structure to the paragraphs to reproduce the logical reading order of the visual page. Logical reading order enables the filtered output of PDF files containing languages that read from right-to-left, in the correct reading direction.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Spreadsheet Formats: Attachment Type Applix Spreadsheets Comma Separated Values (CSV) Corel Quattro Pro (QPW, WB3) Lotus 123 for Smartsuite (123) Lotus 1-2-3 (WK4) Version 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 No specific version 5, 6, 7, 8 96, 97, Millennium Edition R9 2, 3 , 4 , 5 Lotus 1-2-3 Charts (123) Microsoft Excel for Windows (XLS) 2, 3 , 4 , 5 2.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Graphics Formats (Filter SDK) (cont'd): Attachment type Version Microsoft Visio (Extracts metadata 6 only) Tagged Image File (TIFF) 5 (Standalone: Extracts metadata only) Windows Meta File (WMF) 3 (Embedded and Standalone) Test results Not filtered. Autonomy error returned Not filtered.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installation notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server READ ME FIRST -- Products to install and order of installation Before you begin installing this Beta release, you should read and comply with all Lotus Notes 8 Beta requirements listed in these release notes. The following information lists the servers and products you need to install to use IBM(R) Lotus(R) Notes(R).
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server Notes 8 Beta pre-installation checklist This IBM Lotus Notes release includes both new and familiar functionality for mail, calendar, and contacts, with a new user interface capable of operating within a combination IBM Lotus Domino server and IBM WebSphere Portal server deployment. It also includes features such as the Composite Applications Editor, IBM Lotus Productivity Tools, and Activities.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 14. (Optional) Modify the Lotus Notes install media kit's install manifest, update site, and site.xml to specify which Lotus Notes features users can install and optionally how and if the features will appear on the Lotus Notes feature installation panel. For information, see "Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest" in the Domino 8 Administrator help. 15.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes For IBM Lotus Domino Designer and LotusScript requirements, especially relative to composite applications, see the Lotus Domino Designer 8 Beta Help. In addition, see the following information on developing application components on supported platforms: z z Lotus Notes component and application development -- See the "Application Design" section of the Domino Designer help.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta on Windows - single user This release note contains the IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta installation instructions for the Web client download for Windows, available at the Lotus Notes 8 Beta Downloads Web page. Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Lotus Notes 8 Beta, including traditional Lotus Notes basic functionality.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration remains available. z Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only. z The IBM productivity tools support the English US OS locale only. z The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $. z Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes If a Lotus Notes version is currently installed, the default path is the current Lotus Notes installation path. When you install Lotus Notes single user on a system on which Lotus Notes 6.5 or 7.x is already installed, the traditional Lotus Notes portion of the product is upgraded and installed to the same directory in which the existing Lotus Notes install binaries currently reside, for example C:\lotus\notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes f. Close the Mail tab. The new design will appear when you open Mail after client restart. g.Click Open - Contacts or the Contacts tab. h.Click File - Application - Replace Design. i. Select the Personal Address Book (pernames.ntf) template from the list. j. Disable the Inherit future design option. k. Click Replace and then click OK or Yes in response to any prompts. l. Close the Contacts tab.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Considerations before installing -- Read this first The following information is useful when installing or upgrading Lotus Notes 8 on a Microsoft Windows client. Note: See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware and software. z When installing for multi-user, you must be logged in as an administrative user. Once installed, users can open and use Lotus Notes 8.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 6. Locate and run the setup.exe installation executable. Note: If a user has the environment variables USERPROFILE, HOMEDRIVE, or HOMEPATH set to a network share, you must use special command line parameters to ensure that all data directories are installed locally, thus eliminating issues with network shares. You can check for these environment variables by typing "SET" at a command prompt.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Understanding what was installed After install, the Lotus Notes icon is visible by clicking Start - All Programs - Lotus Applications. z z After install, the IBM Lotus Productivity Tool icons, if installed, are visible by clicking Start - All Programs. z Desktop shortcuts are created for all users in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta on Linux This release note contains the IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta installation instructions for the Web client download for Windows, available at the Lotus Notes 8 Beta Downloads Web page. Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Lotus Notes 8 Beta, including traditional Lotus Notes basic functionality.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $. z Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time. z If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall the program using the instructions in Uninstalling Notes on Linux release note and reference the information in Cleaning a previous Notes installation from your client release note.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 12. Select the features to install and click Next. These options include the following: z z z z Activities -- Select this to install the Activities feature. An activities server is required to use this feature. Sametime (integrated) -- This option is not available for selection. Basic Sametime capabilities such as chat and livenames are automatically installed. A Sametime server is required to use this feature.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Installing the Notes server client installer An administrator can install the Lotus Notes server client installer on an IBM WebSphere Portal server. This is required for Notes 8 Beta users who will be using composite applications that contain portlet elements. It is available as a Web download at the Beta Downloads site.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installing the WebSphere Portal composite application support for Lotus Notes using command line parameters You can also install the Notes server client installer on the portal server using the silent or console install methods. Silent mode Use the following command line to install the Notes server client installer in silent mode: setup.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Running the Domino-Portal Integration Wizard Use the Domino-Portal Integration (DPI) Wizard to configure a WebSphere Portal server to work with your Domino-based infrastructure. You can use the DPI Wizard with the Domino 7.0 server, or more recent servers.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z If the document is called LtpaToken, check to see whether there are any copies of it on other Lotus Domino servers in your Lotus Domino domain that have different content (for example, with different servers listed in the document). The Web SSO document should always be created by replication so that its content is identical on all Lotus Domino servers.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Perform the following steps to run a silent installation. Notes silent installation on Windows You can specify command line options during silent Notes install on Windows. 1. Open a command window. 2. Change to the directory in which the IBM Lotus Notes install kit's setup.exe is resident. 3. Type the silent installation command. Example commands are provided below. Note that these examples do not illustrate use of a transform file.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes -P installLocation="" This sets the install location for Notes client. The value must not contain an ending slash symbol (\). -V selectInstallFeatures="" This sets the list of optional install features that can be installed. This argument overrides all install feature "default" attributes in the install manifest.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Installing and subscribing to preset feeds The deploy\extras folder in the Lotus Notes 8 install media kit contains a presetfeeds.opml XML file in which the following preset feed subscriptions are supplied. Note that the default subscriptions may have been updated since this writing; check the install media kit's presetfeeds.opml file for the latest preset feed subscriptions.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Uninstall Notes 8 Beta before reinstalling If you have installed an earlier, or the same, version of Lotus Notes 8 Beta, you must uninstall that Beta version before installing this Beta version. Attempting to install over an existing Beta version can leave the client in an unsupported state. See the uninstall release notes for details.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Do not attempt to install Domino data path under drive disk name Do not attempt to install the Domino data path under only a drive disk name, on the Windows platform. For example, do not specify an installation data path of "D:/" or "C:/". Lotus Notes Ending the Notes 8 installation process before completion Once you click "Install" on the Lotus Notes 8 installation panel, allow the installation to complete.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 5. Add the Domino server user account to the DB2DOM group or to whatever group you have designated as the SYSCTRL_GROUP. 6. (Instance owner)Update the DB2 configuration by entering these commands from the CLP window: DB2STOP DB2START 7. From AIX or Linux OS or from the AIX or Linux administrator tool, create three user accounts and add them to groups you created in step 2. 8.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installing and Setting up DB 2 1. (MS Windows administrator) Create an installation user account. 2. (DB2 Administrator logged on with Installation user account) Install DB2 on Microsoft Windows. 3. Restart the Domino server. Setting up the DB2 server environment 1. (MS Windows administrator) Create a DB2 administrator account. 2. Determine whether you have a SYSCTRL group 3.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Linux: Browse button does not appear in Directory panel The Directory panel's Browse button does not fully display during Lotus Notes 8 Beta installation on Linux. However, the area where it should display is functional. To install to a non-default directory, click near where the Browse button should display to invoke the Browse function.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes On a Linux system, default installation directories are as follows: z /opt/ibm/lotus/notes -- Lotus Notes 8 product and binary files installation directory z /{$HOME}/lotus/notes/data -- Lotus Notes 8 data files installation directory z /{$HOME}/lotus/notes/data/workspace -- Lotus Notes 8 workspace directory z /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework -- Lotus Notes 8 Java code installation directory Lotus Notes Notes 8 does not support Notes downgrad
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer Notes 8 .css overrides some Domino Designer mail properties Lotus Notes 8 mail users can customize views and columns using Domino Designer to edit view and column properties. However, some of these properties are controlled by the .css file (theme), thus some view and column property customization is overridden by .css.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Running Domino 8 server installations on UNIX platforms Running the silent server script install on Linux To create a response file for automating the Domino installation, complete these steps: 1. Create a local copy of the UNIX template unix_response.dat. 2. Modify the copy so that it contains your server's specific program and data directory paths, user and group names and any other applicable install options. 3.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Shared Node cannot install Multi -User through a transform Installing a Shared installation, and selecting a Multiple User Installation through a transform, is not supported. This is also documented in the Install documentation. Lotus Notes Some messages do not appear in the Linux install log file Some messages do not appear in the install log file when running Lotus Notes 8 installation or uninstallation on a Linux client.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i System i: Japanese system values required for install IBM recommends setting the following system values before installing Lotus Domino for System i on a System i Japanese edition (Language Feature 2962). Specifically, please verify that the system value for QCCSID is 5035 (the default system value for QCCSID is 65535).
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Mail Letterheads and upgrading from previous releases of Notes In Lotus Notes 8 Beta, the Mail Memo (and Reply) forms have a new 'look and feel'. There are also a number of new and redesigned letterheads. In the next release, there will be more redesigned letterheads and some new ones as well. There are a few caveats pertaining to letterheads: 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes It is suggested that organizations use a consistent setting across machines. Developers who will not be using JDK 1.5-specific language features are encouraged to keep the default Notes/Domino behavior as it will maximize backward compatibility. INI Setting z No INI Setting (default) z z z JavaCompiler Target=1.5 z z z z Effects on Notes /Domino Agents Notes/Domino will compile agents using the following compiler flags: javac -source 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Additional References : New Language Features in JDK 1.5 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html Compatibility Notes Between JDK 1.5 and JDK 1.42 http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/compatibility.jsp More information on the use of -source and -target with JDKs http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html Applies to: Notes/Domino 8.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Web Access, Domino for System i Sametime customization saved to STLINKS .SAV on upgrade The Domino server's data directory /domino/html/sametime/stlinks was added in releases 6.0.5/6.5.4, and also exists in Domino 7.x and 8.x, but did not exist in 6.5.3 and prior releases. This directory contains files that enable Sametime integration with Domino Web Access (DWA), and files in this directory may be customized to support tunneling.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Upgrade to Domino 8 sets 1K console logging limit Upgrading the Domino server to Domino 8 sets the console logging limit to 1K. The new default setting of 1K was introduced to improve product serviceability. Console logging is enabled with a 1K limit without user intervention or notification. This will not occur if you already have an entry in the NOTES.INI file to enable, disable or change the console logging size.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer Valid DAV fails with DB2-SQL or product limit exceeded Attempting to create/populate a DB2 Access View (DAV) from an existing DB2 database can fail with the following error message, although if you open the DAV, it will validate: DB2-SQL or Product limit exceeded.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes There are two XML Access scripts. One XML Access script adds a Domino server into the Portal administration UI; one XML Access script removes a Domino server from the Portal administration UI. Each XML Access script is a single XML-based configuration file used as input for the Portal XML configuration interface tool.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Enabling the Portal Server for Federated Administration Perform these steps from the WebSphere Administration console. 1. Select Resources. 2. Select Resource Environment Providers. 3. Select WP ConfigServer from the list of available resource environment providers. 4. Select Custom Properties, and then click New. 5. In the Name field, specify federation enabled. 6. In the value field, specify true. 7. Click Apply, and then save the changes. 8.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server Specifying the home portal account using policy To specify an IBM WebSphere Portal server as the home portal account server for Notes 8 Beta, you can set the following values using the Lotus Domino Administrator client. These settings affect fields on the Notes 8 Home Portal Account preference page.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes z If the Home Portal server specified is not available, an error message will appear when the periodic server update check occurs. z The standard portal URL is http://host:port/wps/myportal, where /wps is a standard portal context and /myportal is a standard personalized Home. Procedure: 1. Click File > Preferences. 2. Click Home Portal Account. 3. In the Name field, note the preset Home Portal Account value. 4.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes You can use composite applications to install or update custom or third party features in Notes, as described here. You can also use the Eclipse update manager, if exposed in Notes, to install or update custom or third party features in Notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Creating and preparing the updatesite.nsf 1. Create an update site application, for example updatesite.nsf, using the File > Application> New menu sequence, using the Eclipse Update Site (8) template (updatesite.ntf) installed with the Domino 8 server. The updatesite.ntf template is installed with the Domino server. The update site application (updatesite.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 3. The administrator modifies the composite application's .xml to point to a specific Domino update site. a. Open a composite application, for example MyCompAppabx.nsf, in Domino Designer on the Domino server. As the application is opening, do not click Cancel. Accept any security screen prompts. b. Click Composite Application > Application in the left pane navigator. c. Click the composite application name in the list and then click the Export tab.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes WebSphere Portal and Composite Applications WebSphere Portal composite application update is made available to the Lotus Notes 8 user through the Home Portal Account setting in Lotus Notes 8, as determined by the Domino administrator. In addition, the administrator must also have installed the Lotus Notes 8 server client installer on the same WebSphere Portal server to which the user's Home Portal Account points.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Note: The value specified in the plugin_customization.ini file acts as a default value when no policy has been set. If the Domino desktop policy specifies the user-initiated updates setting, the Domino policy setting overrides the plugin_customization.ini setting.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes The mechanism for overriding the default varies depending on how the Domino server is started. There are 2 basic scenarios: 1. Domino is started from a login session For this case, the default must be overridden by modifying the file /etc/security/limits.conf AND insuring it is respected by the login. Edit /etc/security/limits.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Kernel values modified by Domino In addition to the above, other Linux kernel value changes are needed for large scale Domino environments. Unlike the per-process filehandle limit, which must be modified before logon of the Domino user id, these values can be modified by Domino itself. At startup, a program named "tunekrnl" runs with root authority and sets these values in the /proc filesystem.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 4. Make sure the xpram swap has higher priority than other disk swap. 5. Note that these settings will disappear on a reboot. To keep them active, place these commands into /etc/init.d/boot.local 64-bit native environments, such as SLES9 (64-bit), should be configured with more than 2 gigabytes of real memory rather than dedicating the memory resource to XPRAM.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes The environment of the user who starts the Domino server must have the NOTES.INI setting DB2INSTANCE=db2inst2. The Domino server is started with transaction logging enabled. During server enablement, the Domino Administrator client creates a DB2 node on computer A, using the information supplied to the Domino Administrator client. DB2 nodename: Host name: Port number/ service name: nodeaa p5viper.notesdev.ibm.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 4. The first time that you start the DB2-enabled Domino server, the following occurs: The database that is created on the remote DB2 server B is named: ADOMINO The Domino startup process prepends the character A to the DB2 database name supplied to the Domino Administrator client The database is cataloged as DOMINO 5.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Web Access DWA: Configuring the new Sametime buddy list To configure the new Sametime buddy list: On the DWA server z Turn on Java servlet support 1. Open server doc and go to [Internet Protocols...] -> [Domino Web Engine] 2. Select "Domino Servlet Manager" in the "Java servlet support" field. z Create a file named servlets.properties and put it in the server's data directory z z Add the following content to the servlets.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 4. Restart the Sametime server Domino Server Error message displays setting up partitioned server When you set up a partitioned server with the nserver command, an error message window with "You must specify a valid data directory" will pop up. This pop-up, however, should be a Windows partition selection option. Workaround Directly load the Notes.INI pameter, for example, C:\Lotus\Domino\nserver.exe = C:\Lotus\Domino\data2\notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i Java JVM property settings on a per Domino server basis A property in the NOTES.INI file can be used to specify JVM Properties for the Domino server. This property, JavaUserOptionsFile, specifies a text file which contains the properties to add to the JVM. This text file can be either ASCII or EBCDIC and have up to 256 properties specified. Each entry must be in the form of "property=value" and be on a separate line.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Server Fast Restart What is Server Fast Restart ? When a Domino outage occurs, Fast Restart allows a new Domino instance to start while NSD diagnostics are being run on the initial Domino server instance. When diagnostics are completed the initial Domino server instance is automatically terminated. In the current beta release, Server Fast Restart is only available on AIX and Solaris versions of the Domino server.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Observations and known behaviors : 1. AIX: The new server will generate ipc keys with a new and unique ID, while the failed server instance's ipc keys will also be around for NSD to use. Once NSD is finished using the failed server instance's ipc keys, NSD will clean up the keys, as well as the processes. 2. Solaris: The new server will generate new and unique files in /tmp to support the new Domino instance, specifically the files titled ".
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Here is some pseudocode to demonstrate the use of SECManipulateSC. As always, real code should check for and handle errors. error = SECManipulateSC (SC_manip_GetVersion, NULLSCMCTX, NULL, &Version, NULL); /* SC_manip_PushKyrKey was added in Version 5 of this interface. If Version is not at least 5, then that operation will fail. */ /* Initialize the PKCS#11 context.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes /* Alternately, starting in 7.02 and the current beta release, push the keyring * private key and the corresponding X.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer Uninstalling Notes 8 Beta silently You can uninstall Lotus Notes 8 Beta silently. z Uninstall cannot complete if Notes is running during uninstall. z Each user's data directory and workspace will be left to preserve data. z Shut down the Lotus Notes 8 application before starting the uninstall procedure. z Run the uninstall as an administrative or root user.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Cleanup instructions for Windows -- Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 or earlier: 1. Delete the Lotus Notes 8 Beta \framework folder. 2. Remove C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Universal\ibm\notes8. Note: Subsequent installation may fail if you uninstalled the Lotus Notes 8 Beta, but temporary files were left in Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Universal\ibm\notes8.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes System on which a Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 version was installed : If after uninstalling a Beta 3 version of IBM Lotus Notes 8, you experience an issue re-installing, some troubleshooting suggestions are provided below. Cleanup instructions for Windows -- Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3: 1. Delete the Lotus Notes \framework folder. 2.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Ending the Notes 8 uninstall process before completion If you end the Lotus Notes 8 Beta uninstall program prematurely, you may be prompted to navigate though various error messages, then be prompted to restart your system. After restart, rollback begins. When rollback is complete, some files and empty folders may remain in your installation directory. To avoid this complication, be sure to let the uninstall program run to completion.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Known limitations, problems, and workarounds Limitations Browser issues Lotus Notes Vista: Web browser does not support applet if UAC is disabled On Windows Vista, if the User Account Control (UAC) is turned off by the user, the Notes client web browser will not support running applets within web pages.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Mail z Improved choices for "Reply to All," "Include History," and "Include Attachments." z Thread layout display when applying to a mail thread. z The ability to right-click operations for an entire mail thread, such as deleting a thread or moving a thread to a folder. z The ability to perform operations for an entire mail thread, such as deleting a thread, or moving a thread to a folder.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes To enable JIS2004 font linking, do the following: 1. Click Start > Run. 2. In the "Run" text box, type regedt32 to open the registry. 3. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink]. 4. Double-click on the "Tahoma" key in the right panel. 5. Add "msgoth04.ttc,MS PGothic", in a new line, in the edit box. 6. Double-click on the "Arial" key in the right panel. 7. Add "msgoth04.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Composite Applications issues Domino Designer Composite Application Editor saves application with no changes The Composite Application Editor saves an application when nothing has changed. There currently is no workaround, so care must be given when multiple users are editing an application on a Domino server.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer Only one page is made available in Launch tab In multi-page composite applications with child pages, only one page is made available for selection in the Page field drop-down box of the Database Infobox Launch tab. As a result, child pages cannot be opened directly when opening the database, because they do not show up in the Page field of the Launch tab of the Database Infobox.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Server Domino and DB2 - DB2 Access Views SQL inserts, updates, and deletes against a DB2 Access View should only be performed by one user at a time. Multiple users interacting with the data in one DB2 Access View at one time can cause the Domino server to crash.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Presentation tables cannot be displayed in OpenOffice 2.0 A presentation table cannot be displayed by OpenOffice 2.0 if the file has previously been opened and saved by IBM Lotus Presentations. Lotus Notes Save unsupported document type may cause data loss Unsupported document types can be opened by alternating their extensions, but this can cause data loss when the file is saved back. For example, changing a .HTML file into a .
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Mail issues Lotus Notes Cannot display Categorized Inbox in Notes If a mail template has the 'Pick Inbox Style' agent run, it will create an Inbox with some default categorized views. If you then replace the design of your mail application while a column is sorted, after the replacing the design, it will not create categorized views, and may have other column display problems.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes How-to-apply settings not applied to some Desktop settings The following User Preferences fields on the Notes client Basic tab are not under "How to apply" control via Desktop policies: z Enable Java Script error dialog z Show in-line MIME images as attachments z When text language is unspecified, use the forms z Invoke Notes on vCard files z Enable persistent breakpoints in LotusScript debugger z Do not prompt when forwardin
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server NETBIOS over TCP/IP not supported on Windows 2003 x64 NETBIOS over TCP/IP does not work on Microsoft Windows 2003 x64 Edition (64-bit) servers. If you enable a Domino NETBIOS port, the server will crash.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Multiple Java Server Console instances If you intend to use more than one instance of the Java Server Console on the system, the first Java Server controller that starts will bind to port 2050. Subsequent requests to start the Java Server controller for another Domino server will attempt to use that same port and will fail. Workaround To start more than one Java Server controller, manually create or edit the dcontroller.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer Multi-byte characters in WSDL documents WSDL documents are Unicode-based XML documents and, as such, may contain characters which are multi-byte in local operating system character sets. Because of file system dependencies, importing WSDL into a Java Web service or Java script library may not succeed for WSDL documents containing such characters.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer, Domino Server Web Services and Arrays By default, the WSDL representations generated by Domino Designer 8 for arrays in a LotusScript or Java Web service implementation are of the following forms: z XML "literal" form for Web service design elements that have rpc/literal, document/literal, or wrapped SOAP message formats: PAGE 131IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Fixed-Size and Dynamic Arrays Fixed arrays are supported only when they are used within a Type declaration.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Known problems and workarounds Accessibility issues Lotus Notes Clicking Details in Update Manager temporarily disables Tab key When the Update manager dialog is showing the progress of the current provisioning operation, clicking on "Details", and then using the Tab key to cancel, disables keyboard strokes. You can not then tab away or cancel; you must let the operation finish first. Note, though, that you can use the mouse to cancel.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Error sometimes occurs when performing certain actions An Error dialog sometimes displays when creating a new activity or adding an entry to an activity. Click on the OK button in the dialog to clear the error, and the transaction will complete successfully.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Calendar and scheduling issues Lotus Notes Drag-and-drop between Side and Main calendar not supported In this beta release, users are unable to drag-and-drop calendar items between the Main calendar and the Side calendar. Lotus Notes Invitees are not displayed in "bcc:" list When choosing the calendar Meeting option, and clicking the address book to add invitee names to the "bcc:" field, the chosen names are not displayed.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Client issues Lotus Notes Cannot add RSS feeds to reader On systems running a firewall, the feed reader may display the error "Valid feed not found". This indicates that there is no access to the network/feed, even when the feed is available but not parseable. The feed reader can also be blocked and display no error message. For example, you may be unable to add a new RSS feed but see no error. Restarting the client resolves this issue.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Empty window appears upon initial launch Lotus Notes 8 may open an empty window in the following situation: 1. Install and open Lotus Notes 8 Beta. 2. Click Launch. 3. Right-click one of the menu options, such as Mail. 4. Click Open. 5. Click Launch again and right click the Mail menu. 6. Click Open in New Window. A window with no content appears. Close the window, do not use it.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Grouped tab mode view display In the group tab mode, you should not close the root view (listed at the bottom of a group list under a separator) before closing all the view documents. Note that once the view is added back to the list, it is treated as a document in the list, rather than the anchor for the group. The view item moves down the group list as other documents are opened.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes 4. Select Message Box in the "Item" menu on the Advance Appearance dialog, then select "MS PGothic" in the "Font" menu. 5. Click OK on the Advanced Appearance dialog. 6. Click OK on the Display Properties dialog. Lotus Notes Location button is missing after switching from IBM Editors The location button on the bottom right will disappear when closing an IBM Word Processing, Presentation, or Spreadsheet tab.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Theme does not change after disabling high contrast If you enable the high contrast theme using the UI sequence Control Panel > Accessibility options > Display tab, enable the "Use High Contrast' checkbox, and apply the settings, then later return to the Display tab and disable the "Use High Contrast" checkbox, the visual theme does not change to the default Notes 8 theme. Colors and fonts change because they using the default native.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Composite Applications issues Lotus Notes, Domino Designer Applications not opened in the correct window Applications are not opened in the correct window when the Composite Application Editor has focus. This occurs when opening another database/composite application from the client while the Composite Application Editor is open.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Designer Component repositioning You can reposition a component in Lotus Notes 8 Beta, regardless of whether the "Allow user to reposition component" option is enabled or disabled for that particular component.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer Tab names for components do not display The tab name for components in composite applications may not display until selected. In other words, NSF components are not initialized until clicked. Workaround Select each component first in the Edit mode navigator of the Composite Application Editor.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Contacts issues Lotus Notes New Location added in PNAB does not display in Location Switcher If a new location document is created from the personal name and address book, it is not immediately available to be displayed in the location switcher. The location will be displayed after exiting and restarting the Notes Client.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Designer issues Domino Designer Java Reference tab cannot expand beyond Classes or Interfaces The Domino Designer Java Reference tab listings cannot be expanded beyond the Class or Interface level. If you click on the Reference tab, and expand the categories, you will see: java.applet Classes Applet Interfaces AppletContext AppletStub AudioClip ... but you will not be able to expand to see subcategories below this level.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes IBM Lotus Productivity Tools issues Lotus Notes Linux: No "Save as type" option available There is no "Save as type" combobox in the 'Save as' dialog for IBM Productivity Tools running on the SUSE platform. File extensions need be set specifically to save a file as a certain type.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installation issues Lotus Notes Avoid modifying or repairing Notes Standard client installation When attempting to Modify or Repair a Notes Standard client installation from the Control Panel you will receive a fatal error.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes To run the installation in graphical mode, enter: To run the installation in console mode, enter: To run the installation in silent mode, enter: ./install ./install -console ./install -silent -options The new ISMP installations can also be uninstalled in both graphical and console modes from the /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest//_uninst directory.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Java Console functionality is not available If you load a Microsoft Vista or Microsoft XP system with the latest Notes 8 client kit you will either not ga in Java console functionaility or, if you had it, you will lose it. When installation and setup are complete, launching the Java console from the Notes binary directory (c:\program files\IBM\lotus\notes\jconsole.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Renaming folder from "Database" to "Application" may fail In some cases, renaming the "Database" Folder to "Applications" does not complete on a new installation. It is not functioning as expected. Please look for a workaround to this issue in the Notes and Domino 8 Beta forum, the site from where you downloaded the Notes 8 beta client, and these beta release notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i System i: Domwzd missing System Database panel Register an additional Domino server, and then run the Domino configuration wizard to "Set up an additional Server". The panel "Provide System Databases for this Domino server" is not displayed. Note: This problem occurs only with the Domino configuration wizard launched from iSeries Navigator; it is fixed in the DOMWZD.EXE file that extracted from the Domino 8 Beta 2 Web kit.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Mail issues Lotus Notes Deleting messages may cause conversations to be out of order In Notes 8, you can view an entire e-mail conversation by selecting a member document and opening an in-line conversation subview in Inbox or All Documents. In the subview, messages are organized by the hierarchy of how they arrived. For example, all replies are shown under the message to which they are replies, and indented.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Errors after restarting Mail Application Occassionally, the error below will occur after the Mail application is closed and restarted.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes New window instance created each time Mail document is opened When you open a Lotus Notes 8 Beta client mail message from the Inbox, it opens in a new window, tab, or grouped tab, depending on your preference setting. If you return to your mail Inbox and double-click that same message, it opens in another new window, tab, or grouped tab. Instead, this action should redisplay the already open instance and give it focus.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Appearance issues The appearance of some items in the Notes client on Linux may differ as follows: 1. The Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts views have different appearances than other database views 2. The Notes windows on Linux have similar appearances as on Windows operating systems, but may have different styles than other Linux applications, especially in some advanced window manager systems, for example XGL.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Cannot paste chart from Productivity Editors to Notes Copying charts from the IBM Lotus Productivity Editors to Notes documents does not work. The menu item for pasting is grayed out in Notes. Lotus Notes Changing location to Online does not always send outgoing mail Notes does not always send mail after changing your location from "offline" to "online".
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Conversations checked/unchecked status cannot be changed The menu item "Conversations" (Actions -> Conversations or Show -> Conversations) check/uncheck status is not updated in your mail view after checking or unchecking it. Lotus Notes Copy/Paste French accented characters to "Starts with" fails Copying French accented characters from the OS clipboard , and pressing Ctrl+V in the Mail database Inbox view to launch the "Starts with..
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Duplicate icons in "Tab1(Workspace)" Clicking "Open -> Application -> Tab1(Workspace)", shows duplicate icons, as in the picture below: Lotus Notes Embedded editor does not display scroll bar in bi -di format The embedded editor will not display the scroll bar if the following two conditions are met: 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Exit/Launch issues Install Notes as a root user. Select an install path with a blank (for example, "/opt/ibm/lotus/notes test"). Log out as root and log in as a normal user. Notes will not launch and the error message "Failed to login" displays. Notes libraries are installed with incorrect SELinux labels on RHEL 5.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Frame should be invisible when deselecting Search , Launcher If you choose the "Create a new Home Page button", select "My Work", click "Next" and, on the Basic tab, deselect the "Search" and "Launcher" checkboxes, the Home page is created with a gray screen frame, and a message "Unable to load frame's content: Unable to display element, database does not contain design element".
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes High Contrast mode is not automatically detected by Notes client If a user selects a High Contrast theme in the System Control Center, the Notes client does not automatically detect and use the high contrast resolution when running on SLED10. To use the Notes client on Linux with high contrast, first select the high contrast theme in the System Control Center.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Launcher pane failure for language file name If you drag-and-drop an application with a language file name (DBCS) from the Linux desktop to the Launcher pane, the application is unable to be launched when double-clicking the application icon. Lotus Notes Linux: Can't drag/drop URL from external browser to open list Using Notes on SLED 10 and RHEL5, you cannot drag and drop a URL from an external browser to the Notes Open list.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Navigator colors are off when resizing Discussion application Open a discussion application, move the mouse pointer to drag and resize the navigator, and you will see the following: Lotus Notes No flag for misspelled words that contain an accented character An incorrectly spelled word that contains an accented character is not flagged, and does not display the Spell Check dialog for suggestions.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Notes crashes if Action Bar Height is set too high Switching to the Action Bar Size tab, choosing "Expand Bar Height", and putting a large value such as Fixed.Input 65533 into the 'Pixels' field will cause Notes to crash. Lotus Notes Notes embedded windows are white in XGL mode Using Notes with XGL enabled, open the TeamRoom application and go to the "Announcement" view.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Preferences dialog issues Following are the issues using the Preferences dialog in the Notes client on Linux: 1. Invisible port names "Serial 1" and "Serial 2" are displayed in Notes Ports 2. "Calendar and To Do" pane is not responding when switching from Notes Ports 3. Opening Calendar and To Do to resize the Preferences window is slow 4.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes RHEL 5: System hangs when scrolling a graphic Notes hangs when scrolling a document which contains a graphic. Lotus Notes Search Directory does not display type -ahead The Search Directory is not displaying a type-ahead pop-up.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Summarize and Show Time Slots are duplicated Duplicated menu items "Summarize" and "Show Time Slots" exist in the Calendar formatting drop-down menu. Lotus Notes Text alignment and cursor positioning issues When editing a document, tabbed text may realign itself with the margin temporarily, and then return to the correct position. Also, using the scrollbar may result in the text content of the note becoming unreadable.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes View design issues Following are the view design issues using the Notes client on Linux: 1. No message appears when switching style from "Standard Outline" to "Calendar" in View Properties. 2. Private View design displays incorrectly; for example, dragging a column to change its order, the Date and Topic column contents becomes disordered (see below). Restarting Notes will cause the private view to display correctly.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Roaming User issues Lotus Notes Roaming User issues and cleanup functionality There are outstanding issues with the Roaming User functionality in the Notes 8 basic configuration* which prevent new use instances of a Roaming User setup. Since the "Cleanup" functionality is dependent upon Roaming User, this functionality is also affected. * Please note that Roaming User is not supported in Notes 8 in its standard configuration.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes, Domino Server, Domino for System i, Domino for System z Search issues using Autonomy KeyView filters Following are the issues with Search ans the Autonomy KeyView filters: z AutoCAD (DXF) and Autodesk Drawing (DWG) files are not filtered properly z Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders and MIME attachments are not able to be filtered z PDF logical reading option block searches English words when English and Hebrew are in the same lin
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Problems using Entrust certificates on smartcards When using pre-loaded certificates and keys stored on smartcards, Notes/Domino follows the "PKCS#11: Conformance Profile Specification" for RSA Asymmetric Client Signing, which specifies a set of attributes that must be in the keys and certificates, and a set of functionality that must be supported by the smartcard and smartcard software.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes If you send encrypted mail to the group containing these MIME users, when the mail is created, encrypted, and the "Send" button is pressed, the following message appears: Note that the group is treated like a single user for finding certificates, instead of being expanded to show multiple users.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 on Linux for System z : The Automatic Server Restart feature after a crash does not work, due to Red Hat Issue Tracker 116193. There is currently no fix for this problem. The following workaround is available: Edit the startup shell script and change the first line to: #/bin/bash or to change to bash as the default shell script. Domino for System i CFGDOMSVR OPTION(*ADD) fails when NABSVR contains IPV 6 address.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i HTTP crash when same port used by IPV 4/IPV6 servers The HTTP task of a server that is configured to use IPV6 will crash if the HTTP port is already in use by another server that is configured to use IPV4. Workaround In the Domino Directory, specify the host name(s) with an IPV4 or IPV6 address, and then enable "Bind to host name".
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes As delivered, their original behaviors in LSXSD.LSS are retained for backward compatibility, however, the following new methods are added for Domino 8.0 in order to supply time zone handling: XSD_DATE -- SetValueWithZoneFromNotesDateTime XSD_TIME -- SetValueWithZoneFromNotesDateTime XSD_DATETIME -- SetValueWithZoneFromNotesDateTime If needed, the older, deprecated methods can be modified to call the newer, "WithZone" methods.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Documentation updates Notes Client Help Lotus Notes No context help for programmer pane in Notes client When creating a button that is a hotspot, a programmer's pane opens in the Notes client. There is no context-sensitive help (F1, or clicking the Help button) in this pane. For help with Designer commands or formulas, or for more information about creating a button, see the IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes You can also turn off web-style query from the UI. In the Notes client, choose File -> Preferences -> User Preferences, Basic tab, and make the change as shown below: There is also an "escape character" for web queries. If the user uses a forward slash (/), that parameter will not make it into a web query.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Administration Help Lotus Notes, Domino Server Allowing diagnostic data to be sent to IBM When the IBM Lotus Notes client (Basic configuration) or IBM Lotus Domino server is restarted after a server crash, diagnostic information about the crash is collected from the Notes System Diagnostics (NSD) and other files. This feature is enabled by default for the Notes client, and you can enable it on the Domino server.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Send to IBM feature Enabled ADC prompting Not configured Result A diagnostic report is not sent to the company administrator but the Notes client end user is prompted to specify whether to send a diagnostic report to IBM. Disabled Disabled or enabled with no prompting The Notes client end user sees no messages or prompts regarding diagnostic collection and reporting. A diagnostic report is sent to the administrator.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Domino server time settings This release note applies to the topic "Preventing incorrect system time changes" in the Domino 8 Administrator documentation. If the Restart_Time_Interval is set in the Notes.INI file and the difference between the OS Time and the Last_Domino_Time exceeds the Restart_Time_Interval, the Domino server will not restart. The following parameter will be added to the Notes.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Prior to this release, Domino supported two token formats (Domino-only format LtpaToken, and WebSphere-compatible format LtpaToken). The new token format, LTPAToken2, is a new type of WebSphere-compatible token. Similar to the classic LtpaToken, the new LtpaToken2 represents the logged-in user.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Installing the NSD service Use this command to install the NSD service: –svcinst Installs the NSD Win32 service. Once installed and started, Notes and Domino fault recovery will use the Win32 service for all attempts to invoke NSD.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Uninstalling the NSD service The uninstall command unregisters NSD as a Win32 system service. NSD -svcuninst does not remove any files from the system. Use the following command to uninstall the NSD service: –svcuninst Uninstalls the NSD Win32 service. Once uninstalled, Notes and Domino fault recovery will run NSD as a child process for all attempts to invoke NSD.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes keepPoolStats = 1 trackConnections = 0 availableMRU = 0 availableLRU = 0 henv = 1 connected = 1 pid = 5696 The pool entry structure is included in NSD output. There is one per allocated connection in the pool for this process.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Server Streaming Cluster Replication The current cluster replicator is awakened when something has changed in a database. For each cluster replica, the cluster replicator opens the source and destination databases, and determines which notes, if any, are worthy of replication, and then replicates the changes. It does the same for folder and unread operations. When complete, the cluster replicator moves on to the next database.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Designer, Domino Server Web Service element mappings - Java and LotusScript Domino Designer 8 includes mapping support for the XML Schema element, both during WSDL import to a Web service provider or consumer script library, and during WSDL generation from a Web service provider implementation. Java For Java Web service providers and Web service consumer script libraries, importing WSDL 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino Web Access Help Domino Web Access New Delegation and Calendar preferences You can set the following new user preferences: A new user preference provides an easy way to open another person's Mail, Calendar, To Do, and Contacts if you have been given permission to manage them. You can create shortcuts by setting a Delegation > Shortcuts preference. The shortcut you create appears as a tab menu option.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes For more details, see the following documents: Considerations when developing Domino C and C ++ API applications for i 5/OS: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21238494 Domino 7 for i5/OS Application Development Guide (Chapter 2 - Application Development Considerations) http://www.lotus.com/ldd/doc/uafiles.nsf/docs/i5osdom7/$File/apdev400.pdf For information on Domino 64-bit plans, see this document: http://www-1.ibm.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes The DAYSAVTIME keyword of the CFGDOMSVR command is modified to accept a new value *TIMEZONE. DAYSAVETIME Specifies whether the server time stamp should be adjusted for Daylight Savings Time. This value does not affect the actual system time. The possible values are: *YES Adjust the time stamp for Daylight Savings Time. *NO Do not adjust the time stamp for Daylight Savings Time.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Customers who run concurrent backups with Domino servers may already be minimizing the save time, if the servers consume approximately the same storage. For more information on this feature, refer to the BRMS Web page at the following URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/brms/domino.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Format name INPUT; CHARACTER(8) The name of the format used to retrieve different Domino server attributes. You can use the following format names: DATR0100, DATR0200 Error code I/O; CHAR(*) The structure in which to return error information. For the format of the structure, see Error Code Parameter. If this parameter is omitted, diagnostic and escape messages are issued to the application.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 DATR0200 Attribute Buffer (cont'd) Offset Dec Offset Hex 66 42 67 43 68 44 72 48 76 4C 80 50 81 51 82 52 83 53 84 54 90 5A 100 64 111 6F 112 70 113 71 116 74 120 78 124 7C Type Binary(1) Binary(1) Binary(4) Binary(4) Binary(4) Character(1) Character(1) Character(1) Character(1) Character(6) Character(10) Character(11) Character(1) Character(1) Character(3) Binary(4) Binary(4) Binary(4) 128 80 Binary(4) 132 84 Binary(4) 136 88 Binary(4) 140 8C Binary(4
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Field Descriptions Auto - Start with TCP/IP servers: This is a flag that indicates if the server will be started automatically when TCP/IP is started on the system. z z 0 - The server will not be started with TCP/IP 1 - The server will be started with TCP/IP Bytes available: The length of data that could be returned by this API.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Length of domain name : This is the length of the data in the domain name (1-32). Length of executable directory path : This is the length of the data in the executable directory path. Length of generic information : This is the length of the data in the generic information. Length of organization name : This is the length of the data in the organization name (1-64).
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Offset to domain name : This is the offset, from the start of the returned data, to where the domain name can be found. It will be somewhere within the variable data portion of the returned data. Offset to executable directory path : This is the offset, from the start of the returned data, to where the executable directory path can be found. It will be somewhere within the variable data portion of the returned data.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Secondary type of Domino server : This Domino server also has these additional capabilities. The possible values are: z z z z 0 - No additional capabilities. 1 - Also a QuickPlace server 2 - Also a SameTime server 3 - Also a QuickPlace AND SameTime server This field is only valid if the Primary type of Domino server field indicates a Domino server.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 EST Eastern Standard Time East of GMT CST Central Standard Time hours East of GMT MST Mountain Standard Time East of GMT PST Pacific Standard Time of GMT YST Yukon Standard Time of GMT ZW9B 9 1/2 hours West of GMT European Time Release Notes ZE10B 10 1/2 hours East of GMT ZE4B hours East of GMT 4 1/2 hours ZE10 10 ZE4 4 ZE9B 9 1/2 hours East of GMT ZE3B 3 1/2 hours ZE9 9 hours East of GMT ZE3 3 hours East ZE8 8 hours East of GMT ZE2 2 hour
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes TCP List Format Field Descriptions : IPv4 address: This is the IPv4 address for this Domino Server Port. It is blank if an IP host name or IPv6 address is available. Length of Network Name : This is the length of the Network Name data. Length of Port Name : This is the length of the port name data. Length of Remote system information : This is the length of the IP host name data, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i System i: System Value QLOGOUTPUT V5R4 introduced a new system value - QLOGOUTPUT (Job Log output). This affects Domino servers / jobs as follows: z Each Domino server runs in a separate subsystem. The subsystem name is specified on the CFGDOMSVR command; the default is DOMINOxx, where xx is a number. The WRKDOMSVR command shows the subsystem name.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i System i: Using iSeries Navigator tasks on the Web Overview iSeries Navigator is the user interface of choice for many System i administrators, system operators, and end users. This Windows-based GUI, which is a part of the iSeries Access for Windows product, gives administrators an easy-to-use, Windows-based interface for managing key iSeries resources.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Required PTFs: z z 5722SS1 Option 3 PTF SI24255 5722DG1 Group PTF SF99114 Level 6 or later Prior to applying the 5722DG1 SF99114 Level 6 PTF(s), the end the following servers: IBM Help Server ADMIN HTTP Server DDM Server LDAP Server ENDTCPSVR *IBMHELP ENDTCPSVR *HTTP HTTPSVR(*ADMIN) ENDTCPSVR *DDM ENDTCPSVR *DIRSVR Note: You do not need the Domino product installed on the same i5 system that has the iSeries Navigator tasks for the Web support in
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes You can also create your own URL that points to the Domino tasks on the Web, as well as other iSeries Navigator tasks on the Web, by using the URL Advisor. To use the URL Advisor, visit the following URL from a Web browser: http://:/webnav/WnServlet?task=home where: is the iSeries system name. is the HTTP port number set up with iSeries Navigator Web interface. Click Create a URL...
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Operations Stop Domino servers or controllers Special Authorities needed *JOBCTL Launch WebAdmin.nsf *JOBCTL Add a Domino Application *ALLOBJ *SECADM *IOSYSCFG Add QuickPlace or Sametime to a Domino server *ALLOBJ *JOBCTL *SECADM *IOSYSCFG Remove QuickPlace or Sametime from a Domino server *ALLOBJ *JOBCTL *SECADM *IOSYSCFG Release Notes Steps to follow To stop a Domino server, controller, or both on a system: 1.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Operations Release Notes Special Authorities needed Steps to follow To view the active jobs related to the Domino servers on a system: 1. Locate the system where the Domino servers reside. 2. Select Network. *NONE 3. Select Domino Servers. 4. In Select Action, select Domino Jobs. The jobs are displayed in a new window, sorted by subsystem. To see the version of the Domino plug-in that you are using: 1. Locate the system where the Domino server resides.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Domino for System i System i: WRKDOMSVR new options - 14, 15, 16 and F23 The following options were added to the CL command WRKDOMSVR: F23=More options Displays more options that you can use to perform operations on the Domino Servers in the list. 14=Work with support files Use this option to work with support files in '/ IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT/' IFS directory that is used by the Domino server.
IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes Lotus Notes Sametime Show Online Settings There are two settings to Show Online Users only for Instant Messaging. One is persistent, meaning that the setting is stored after the client session has ended, the other is not. Please see the graphics below for more information.
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