User`s guide

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.

Domino Server

Using a subform multiple times on the same form on the web

The Domino Designer and Notes Client do not allow a subform to be used on a form more than once.

The web server was allowing this, which could lead to incorrect forms and possible crashes if the subform

were included recursively. With 7.0.3, this problem has been corrected, and an error page will be

generated if a form refers to a subform more than one time (whether recursively or iteratively).

It is likely that the only way an application can get into this situation is to use a computed subform, as the

Domino Designer will not allow a subform to be placed on the form if it is already on the form.

Product compatibility

Lotus Notes, Domino Server

Domino 8 defaults to ODS 43

IBM Lotus Domino 8 supports file format, on-disk structure (ODS) 43.

Upgrading from ODS 43 to ODS 48

To upgrade from an ODS 43 to an ODS 48 format database in Domino 8, set the NOTES.INI file

parameter Create_R8_Databases=1 in the NOTES.INI file on the Domino server or the Notes client.

When you set Create_R8_Databases=1, new databases are created using ODS 48. Use copy style

compacting to upgrade existing ODS databases to ODS 48. Use this command to run copy-style

compacting:

compact -c <database name>

Note In-place compacting has been changed. When a pre-ODS 48 database is detected, Domino does

not automatically convert to copy-style compact to upgrade your databases.

ODS 48 provides potential improvement for I/O and folder optimization. The following Domino 8 features

require ODS 48:

Enhanced Database User Activity

NSF support to optimize renames and deletes using the Administration Process

Enhanced Modified Notes Log for threaded views in IBM Lotus Notes 8

Design note compression

Defer index creation (IBM Lotus Domino 8 Designer)