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IBM Connect 2017, geen einddatum Notes in zicht, ondersteuning blijft

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Het was al eerder bekend gemaakt, maar op IBM Connect is nogmaals bevestigd dat er geen einddatum gepland staat voor Notes en Domino 9.0.
De normale ondersteuning van deze versie gaat door tot minimaal 2021 en de extra betaalde ondersteuning tot minimaal 2024.

Er zijn nog steeds klanten die af en toe horen dat ondersteuning stopt, Notes dood is, en dat soort verhalen.
Wij zien dat mede door dit soort geruchten dat bedrijven bang zijn om te investeren in hun Domino omgeving.
En daardoor neemt het aantal gebruikers in Nederland wel af.
Toch is het onterecht om zo’n mooi product te laten vallen, zeker als IBM het product blijft verbeteren en moderniseren!

Bron: Ed Brill op https://www.ibm.com/blogs/social-business/2017/03/09/ibm-notes-domino-product-update-connect-2017/

Extended Support:

Notes/Domino 9.0 shipped in 2013, and IBM’s normal five-year support model meant that mainstream support could have ended in 2018. However, we know how important these products are to your business, and we are continuing to invest in new functionality. For IBM Notes/Domino 9.0, we have announced that product support will be extended through at least 2021, and extended support through at least 2024. There is no end of life planned for Notes and Domino, and we will continue to update the timeline for support as appropriate based on future releases and market requirements.

Domino / Notes support contract?

 

Fixpack 7 voor Domino/Notes 9.0.1 is uit

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Let op!
08-10-2016:
Na de installatie van FP7 op de Notes client kan het voorkomen dat bijlagen verstuurd vanuit de Windows Explorer (rechtermuis menu> Send to > mail recipient) zowel in de body als boven in de header van de mail komen.
Een tijdelijke oplossing is om bijlagen toe te voegen vanuit de mail met de bijlage toevoegen knop.

Fixpack 7 voor Domino en Notes 9.0.1 is beschikbaar op de IBM support sites: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037141

 

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IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 Release Notice
September 13, 2016

9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 is a collection of new features and low-risk, high-impact fixes to help customers safely avoid known issues. IBM strongly recommends that customers running Notes/Domino 9.0.1x upgrade to this latest Fix Pack since it adds new features and addresses a small percentage of defects that impact the broadest set of customers. Fix Packs are released periodically to provide a greater level of stability for customer environments. They go through the same level of fix, regression and interoperability testing that occurs with Maintenance Releases. Fix Packs are always cumulative and contain all of the fixes from previous ones. All Fix Packs are language independent and may be applied on any language version of Notes/Domino 9.0.1x.

Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 addresses defects in the Client, Server, Notes Browser Plug-in and Domino OpenSocial component.

Supersedes
9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 includes all of the content and supersedes the following deliverables:

Domino: 9.0.1 FP6 IF1, IF2, IF3

Important Notes

9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 updates the embedded Notes/Domino JVM to 1.6 SR16 FP30 to address security vulnerabilities.
9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 adds support for Citrix XenApp 7.7.
9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 adds the new features listed in technote 1990268 – New features and enhancements in Notes and Domino Fix Pack 7

Known Issues

If running IBM Traveler or IBM mail support for Microsoft Outlook on Linux 64-bit, you should upgrade those products to the latest releases available prior to upgrading to Domino 9.0.1 FP7. See technote 1990034 for details.

SPR XXLI9RNB7U – Windows Domino Server: JVM version is reverted to 9.0.1 gold’s version when un-installing/downgrading from a 9.0.1 Fix Pack to a prior Fix Pack. This will not impact most customers, as downgrading to a prior fix pack is not a common operation. This issue also does not affect future fix pack upgrades. DETAILS: On Windows, the Domino server installer gives you an option to downgrade to either a prior Fix Pack level or to the gold release. If customers want to downgrade to an earlier Fix Pack level, it is recommended that you un-install the Fix Pack, which will leave the server at 9.0.1 gold, then proceed with the Fix Pack install of your choice. This will ensure the correct JVM level is installed. This issue is documented in technote 1980538.

Download Options

For download options see technote 4037141 – “Download Options for Notes & Domino 9.0.1 Fix Packs”. Note: Fix Packs will not be distributed on physical media (DVD/CD). Active Subscription & Support is required to download Notes/Domino from Fix Central (see technote 1990043).

If you have Notes 9.0.1 Basic Configuration or Notes/Admin/Designer (Basic edition) 9.0.1 installed, use the Notes 9.0.1 FP7 Basic install.
If you have Notes 9.0.1 Standard Configuration or Notes/Admin/Designer (Standard edition) 9.0.1 installed, use the Notes 9.0.1 FP7 Standard install.

Note: IBM Notes Mac 9.0.1 32-bit is superseded by Mac 9.0.1 64-bit. Customers looking for a Notes Mac 32-bit client fix pack are encouraged instead to download and install Notes 9.0.1 Mac 64-bit. Passport Advantage part numbers can be found in this document: Supportability Q&A about IBM Notes and OS X 10.11.x

Decision to upgrade
Customers unable to upgrade to later Releases should install Fix Packs to benefit from later fixes made to the product. By providing a small number of fixes, customers are able to accept fewer code changes with lower risk, allowing them to “patch” an older Maintenance Release until a more extensive upgrade to the current Release is possible.

While Fix Packs provide important fixes and IBM strongly recommends applying the latest Fix Pack available for a Maintenance Release, IBM still recommends that customers upgrade to the latest Release + Fix Pack combination to receive the broadest set of fixes available. You will receive more overall fixes with a later Release + Fix Pack than with a set of Fix Packs on top of an earlier Maintenance Release. For more information, see technote #1368141-“Differences between Notes/Domino Maintenance Releases, Fix Packs and Upgrade Packs.”

Fixes contained in this Fix Pack
A plus symbol (+) before the SPR number indicates a fix for a regression bug. A regression bug is an issue that was introduced in a Maintenance Release but did not exist in previous releases of that code stream. For example, a bug that appears in 9.0.1 but did not exist in 9.0.0 is a regression.
If an APAR exists for the corresponding SPR, the APAR number will appear in parentheses next to the SPR number. For example, SPR #nnnnnnnnnn (LO12345).

What follows is a subset of the most important issues addressed in this fix pack. For the full list of fixes, visit the fixes by release view for the description of each fix in this Fix Pack, including platform specific information.

9.0.1 Fix Pack 7 Fix List descriptions:

Client

GTONAABGV7 (LO89121) – Client: Fixed a Client crash issue when setting up IMAP
SFIK86WR26 (LO52999) – Fixed an issue where launched programs do not get focus (technote 1593140)
SSSS9GACRK (LO80115) – Allow “Advanced Menus” option to be controlled via Policy (technote 1990186)
+RGAU9XUMQP (LO85491) – Fixed an issue that would cause corrupted attachments when using the Notes API to export data. This was reproducible with the Archiving-API sample code from the API Toolkit. This was a regression in 9.0.1
TMDS8U5R2K (LO69308) – Fixed a Notes Client delay issue when performing a copy/paste from IE using a proxy server
RREN9DEFWW (LO77885) – Enable location roaming for roaming users

Server

FABN9WMMW9 (LO85019) – Addressed a potential Domino server hang condition caused by a deadlock between compact and update tasks. (technote 1979912)
FABNA3BQDM (LO86717) – Fixed a potential Domino server crash when DBMT is processing soft deletions.
JSSI7PD47Q (LO37811) – Fixed intermittent crash caused by 3rd party doing Ole to LSXBE
HSPR9UN6V7 (LO84214) – Fixed a potential Domino Server crash due to a null string passed in to OSGetEnv. This issue commonly would occur if there was no carriage return at the end of Notes.ini file.
PALT9ZLMA6 (LO86150) – Fixed DXL Export crash occurring on certain documents with bad data,
KBRN9Q7EZW (LO81185) – Fixed a Domino Linux 64-bit server crash or instability caused by duplicate thread ids. This is described in technote 1976013 and previously required a special Domino Linux 64-bit build to be provided. Now applying this Fix Pack on Domino 9.0.1 will address the issue. Customers who previously received the special Domino Linux 64-bit build should uninstall it, re-install 9.0.1 Gold, followed by 9.0.1 FP7 or higher.

iNotes

RDSRAAWQ6U (LO89339) – Updated the time zone table for Libya, Chile and Georgia (Tbilisi)
NNAI9FV6KW (LO78889) – Fixed an issue where we now keep the recipient name in the internet style when replying to a message. (technote 1979965)
MLEY9R9HWC (LO82956) – Fixed error when using Google Calendar in iNotes
KMOAA6LDVX (LO88282) – Fixes iNotes mail or calendar create failure when using Firefox 44/45. (technote 1978919)
THIOA56QXD (LO87392) – Fix an issue where the phrase part will remain after closing the namepicker.
TOGA9Q3GG5 (LO82425) – Fix a message display issue in IE
+CSAO9XJAFD (LO85349) – Fixed the arrow icon of vertical scroll bar. This is a regression in 9.0.1.

 

 

IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 ondersteuning door IBM is verlengd tot minstens 2021

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Today IBM announced that support for IBM Notes and Domino, Traveler, and IBM Enterprise Integrator (formerly Lotus Enterprise Integrator) V9.0.x are being extended through at least September 2021.
Support will also be extended through at least Sept 2021 for the associated entitlements to IBM Sametime 9.0 Limited Use, IBM Domino Designer 9.0.1, IBM Mobile Connect 6.1.5, and IBM Domino Global Workbench 9.0.1.

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Bron: IBM
Auteur: Morgan Provost

IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 is extending support through at least 2021 and now includes social capabilities from IBM Connections V5.5.

The latest version of the Notes and Domino 9 Social Edition delivers enhanced value to power social businesses with improved collaboration, mobile and application development capabilities. With IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 Social Edition, you get a series of quality and usability enhancements to help power social businesses, additional accessibility support for IBM Domino and enhancements from IBM Notes Traveler V9.0.1.

IBM Notes and Domino 9.0.1 can help you:

  • Increase productivity by eliminating the need to switch to other applications to take action.
  • Improve mobility by supporting “bring your own device” (BYOD) with full-featured mobile collaboration on an extensive range of devices.
  • Integrate, develop and deploy business applications faster and more easily than ever. IBM Domino 9.0 supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Open Standard for Authorization (Oauth).
  • Reduce total cost of ownership with tools to simplify administration and support.
  • Provide a security-rich environment while enabling a more effective workforce.

In addition, IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 now includes social capabilities from IBM Connections V5.5, an integrated, security-rich platform that helps people engage with networks of experts in the context of critical business processes. IBM Connections enhances the social toolset of IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1, enabling you to quickly locate the people and content you need through integrated access to your collaboration applications. Also note that IBM Connections V5.5 is the certified version for use with IBM Verse On-Premises, which is expected later this year.

The IBM Connections 5.5 entitlement included with the licenses below lets IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 customers deploy and access the Files and Profiles features of IBM Connections through all clients, browsers and mobile devices, at no additional charge.

  • IBM Domino Enterprise Client access license
  • IBM Domino Messaging Client access license
  • IBM Domino Collaboration Express® license
  • IBM Domino Messaging Express license

The Files feature helps users easily share content with other people and removes the need to send large files through email. Users can socialize content, allowing people to easily find it, make recommendations and share with other people. The Profiles feature helps users find the people they need by searching across the organization’s content using tags to identify expertise, current projects, and responsibilities and socializes skills, interests, and organizational structure for others to discover and benefit from the information.

IBM also announced today that Notes and Domino, Traveler and Lotus Enterprise Integrator V8.5.x are being withdrawn from marketing on December 13, 2016. While service and support for V8.5.x will be available through September 13, 2018, this is the perfect time to start your upgrade to Notes and Domino V9.0 if you haven’t already.

Over the past few years, we have been incrementally delivering much of the value that you expected to come out in new versions of IBM Notes and Domino through fix packs, with things like TLS 1.2 and Windows 10 support, interim releases such as 9.0.1 for 64bit Macs, and adding support for Microsoft Outlook as well as features to improve application performance and usability.

Going forward, we intend to continue leveraging this incremental delivery model to ensure that our on-premises customers are able to experience the latest features, such as support for Java 8 and the Microsoft Edge browser, in line with more-agile cloud releases. As such, fixes and features will be delivered together and will continue to be accessible through IBM Fix Central.

Fixpack 6 voor Domino/Notes 9.0.1 is uit

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Fixpack 6 (FP6) voor Domino en Notes 9.0.1 is uit.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037141

IBM-Notes-901FP6
Notes/Domino Fix List

IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Fix pack 6 Release Notice

9.0.1 Fix pack 6 is a collection of low-risk, high-impact fixes to help customers safely avoid known issues. IBM strongly recommends that customers running Notes/Domino 9.0.1x upgrade to this latest Fix Pack since it addresses a small percentage of defects that impact the broadest set of customers. Fix Packs are released periodically between Maintenance Releases to provide a greater level of stability for customer environments. They go through the same level of fix, regression and interoperability testing that occurs with Maintenance Releases. Fix Packs are always cumulative and contain all of the fixes from previous ones. All Fix Packs are language independent and may be applied on any language version of Notes/Domino 9.0.1x.

Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Fix pack 6 addresses defects in the Client, Server, Notes Browser Plug-in and Domino OpenSocial component.

Supersedes
9.0.1 Fix pack 6 includes all of the content and supersedes the following deliverables:

  • Notes: 9.0.1 FP5 IF1, IF2, IF3
  • Domino: 9.0.1 FP5 IF1, IF2
  • JVM Patch: 1.6 SR16FP15

Important Notes

9.0.1 Fix Pack 6 updates the embedded Notes/Domino JVM to 1.6 SR16 FP20 to address security vulnerabilities.
9.0.1 Fix Pack 6 adds support for IBM i 7.3. For more information, see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21977077

Known Issue

SPR XXLI9RNB7U – Windows Domino Server: JVM version is reverted to 9.0.1 gold’s version when un-installing/downgrading from 9.0.1 Fix Pack 4 to a prior Fix Pack. This will not impact most customers, as downgrading to a prior fix pack is not a common operation. This issue also does not affect future fix pack upgrades. DETAILS: On Windows, the Domino server installer gives you an option to downgrade to either a prior Fix Pack level or to the gold release. If customers want to downgrade to an earlier Fix Pack level, it is recommended that you un-install the Fix Pack, which will leave the server at 9.0.1 Gold, then proceed with the Fix Pack install of your choice. This will ensure the correct JVM level is installed.

Download Options
For download options see technote 4037141 – “Download Options for Notes & Domino 9.0.1 Fix Packs”. Note: Fix Packs will not be distributed on physical media (DVD/CD).

If you have Notes 9.0.1 Basic Configuration or Notes/Admin/Designer (Basic edition) 9.0.1 installed, use the Notes 9.0.1 Fix pack 6 Basic install.
If you have Notes 9.0.1 Standard Configuration or Notes/Admin/Designer (Standard edition) 9.0.1 installed, use the Notes 9.0.1 Fix pack 6 Standard install.
If you have Notes Mac Client – IBM Notes Mac 9.0.1 32-bit is superseded by Mac 9.0.1 64-bit. Customers looking for a Notes Mac fixpack 32-bit client are encouraged instead to download and install Notes 9.0.1 Mac 64-bit. Download links can be found in this document: Supportability Q&A about IBM Notes and OS X 10.11.x

Decision to upgrade
Customers unable to upgrade to later Releases should install Fix Packs to benefit from later fixes made to the product. By providing a small number of fixes, customers are able to accept fewer code changes with lower risk, allowing them to “patch” an older Maintenance Release until a more extensive upgrade to the current Release is possible.

While Fix Packs provide important fixes and IBM strongly recommends applying the latest Fix Pack available for a Maintenance Release, IBM still recommends that customers upgrade to the latest Release + Fix Pack combination to receive the broadest set of fixes available. You will receive more overall fixes with a later Release + Fix Pack than with a set of Fix Packs on top of an earlier Maintenance Release. For more information, see technote #1368141-“Differences between Notes/Domino Maintenance Releases, Fix Packs and Upgrade Packs.”

Fixes contained in this Fix Pack
A plus symbol (+) before the SPR number indicates a fix for a regression bug. A regression bug is an issue that was introduced in a Maintenance Release but did not exist in previous releases of that code stream. For example, a bug that appears in 9.0.1 but did not exist in 9.0.0 is a regression.
If an APAR exists for the corresponding SPR, the APAR number will appear in parentheses next to the SPR number. For example, SPR #nnnnnnnnnn (LO12345).

What follows is a subset of the most important issues addressed in this fix pack. For the full list of fixes, visit the fixes by release view for the description of each fix in this Fix Pack, including platform specific information.

9.0.1 Fix pack 6 Fix List descriptions:

Client

  • DSCK9TUNDR (LO87200) – Fixes Notes Windows Client issue: No more handles java/lang/OutOfMemoryError when in High Resolution mode. This is a regression in FP4. (technote 1977626)
  • JFCG9J3USJ (LO79962) – Fixes a potential Notes crash on very specific email addresses when a delivery failure notice is resent.
  • MBLTA4SEFK (LO79586) – Installing 9.0.1 FP5 Notes Windows Standard Client on top of another 9.0.1 FP/ or 9.0.1 FP4IF2, fails. This is a regression in 9.0.1 FP5. (technote 1972353)
  • RHOE9LUCJ7 (LO81184) – Fixes issue where the wait cursor can continually displayed after Notes is started.
  • WHAM7ESERK (LO29769) – Fixes issue where temporary attachment files from the system temp directory were not deleted when Notes was closed/restarted. Additionally, an optional new Notes INI variable to delete files from the Notes temporary attachments directory upon Notes close/restart: AttachmentsDirectoryDelete=1 has been provided. This is off by default. (technote 1100416)
  • YSAI9HDEFK (LO87259) – Fixes issue that prevented the Notes Client printing to a Xerox printer. (technote 1903022)
  • GMAA9BGEGS (LO77014) – Fixes Windows Notes Client installation failure with error: “XPD: 09.09.2013 12:40:26 CActionsCommon/GetProperty: DEBUG – Retrieved property: RCP_INVALID_EXTERNAL_JVM_ERROR, Value: External VM is not valid – it must be a 1.5 or 1.6 Sun or IBM VM.”. This only occurs on machines that have had JVM 1.5 & 1.6 removed from the OS.
  • JKEY9ZKJYR (LO86136) – Creating a new calendar entry on Windows 10 Norwegian locale leads to blank start date/end date.

Server

  • WBJT9YVM48 (LO85846) – Fixes MIME messages with character encoding CP936 (Simplified Chinese) displaying as garbage on the Notes Client. (technote 1977628)
  • HYYH9DF5GR (LO77900) – Fixes situation where emails in trash are not removed even if “Permanently delete documents after X hours” is set. This fix introduced a new Notes.ini CHECK_EXPIRED_SOFT_DELETES_ON_DBOPEN=1. This is off be default.
  • PACY9CGLQ3 (LO77454) – If the Client ID files has a newer name and the ID vault has the older name, after a sync, the Client ID file is reverted to use the older name and the user loses access.
  • MKIN9WMUYH (LO85291) – This fix allows a user to add a custom response header in the web server by setting notes.ini: HTTPAdditionalRespHeader=; Example: HTTPAdditionalRespHeader=Cache-control: no-cache. (technote 1962324)
  • MKIN9WHT2N (LO84986) – Fixed an issue where an uncaught throw in URLstream::WriteChar crashes the web server.
  • DADS9Q3JW5 (LO82428) – Fixes Domino Server crash while converting MIME messages on HTTable::GetTableTextSize.
  • KHRL9AKSPM (LO76633) – Fixes Domino Server crash when the Dir$ function is used against a drive that is not mapped. This is a regression in 9.0.
  • MKINA3SPYN (LO86887) – Fixes an intermittent Domino Server crash in crypto code when VerifyMAC() is passed a bogus length.
  • SHJR9HDJC7 (LO79624) – Fixes and intermittent Domino Server crash when decrypting SMIME due to an access violation in memory below SM_WriteToAsnBuf.

iNotes

  • KMOAA6LDVX (LO88282)- Fixes iNotes mail or calendar create failure when using Firefox 44/45. (technote 1978919)
  • MLEY9LKEFQ (LO81065) – iNotes ‘More’ menu items are blanked in Internet Explorer with ActiveX attachment. This is a regression introduced in 9.0.1.
  • YGAO9VNL8U (LO84666) – Notes Web: Fixed an issue where some right-click menus displayed slowly using IE.