User`s guide

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".

If this policy is off, only the text chat, rich text editor, emoticon, and availability (online) status features

are available. The following features are NOT available:

- file transfer

- screen capture

- voice chat

- video chat

- telephony

- multiple community

- Sametime Gateway

- Instant Meeting

- Alert me when

- Privacy - When I am online & Selective DND

- Location awareness

If this policy is turned on, all Sametime features are available.

Domino for System i

System i: Software requirements

Operating System Software

The following System i software is required for the Lotus Domino 8 Beta release:

IBM i5/OS

V5R4

MANDATORY PTF 5722SS1 SI24683 OSP-THREADS-PERFM FASTER THREAD LOCAL

STORAGE ACCESS METHOD must be applied. Without the PTF applied the product will install,

but virtually all Domino-related functions (WRKDOMSVR, CFGDOMSVR, UPDDOMSVR, and

anything that performs a NotesInit API call) will fail with messages that may refer to a missing

export from service program QLEAWI.

i5/OS - Host servers, 5722SS1 (option 12)

TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for i5/OS, 5722TC1

IBM Developer Kit for Java, 5722JV1 (*BASE option)

J2SE 5.0 32 bit, 5722JV1 (option 8, the default JDK used by Domino 8)

Java Developer Kit 5.0, 5722JV1 (option 7) may also be used if a Notes.ini variable is

specified to override the default.

Note 1: Domino 8 defaults to use J2SE 5.0 32 bit (option 8). This is an upgrade from the version

used in prior Domino releases.

Note 2: While the 5722JV1 option 8 JDK is recommended and the default for Domino 8, you can

choose to use 5722JV1 option 7 by specifying JavaUseClassicJVM=1 in the server's Notes.INI

file.