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String Functions Performance Considerations  

By Andre Guirard | 11/25/22 12:20 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I’ve been doing some tests and I see Instr$ in LotusScript is still a lot slower when you start searching in the middle of the string. I wrote an SPR about this sometime back. The same is true of Mid$ – I wrote a timing test that uses Mid$ to get the 1st character of a string as opposed to the 27000th. The latter takes much longer, and I don’t understand why. According to the help docs it’s two bytes per character, so it should be trivial to determine the location of a character from its number position.

Restic – Command Line Tool supporting Windows VSS  

By Daniel Nashed | 11/24/22 2:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Now that Domino 12.0.2 is has a native VSS Writer, we can look into new interesting integrations. In my session at SUTOL conference this week, I showed a first version of a Restic integration for Domino 12.0.2 via VSS. Restic is a very interesting application (https://restic.net) It's a single binary written in GO And uses a approach like Borg Backup uses. But in contrast to Borg Backup it has full Windows support. This includes VSS Writer + AutoRecovery support! It is Open Source, efficient, flexible & secure. And very simple to setup & use!

XPages Jakarta EE 2.9.0 and Next Steps  

By Jesse Gallagher | 11/22/22 4:54 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Keeping with my productive week off, today I release version 2.9.0 of the XPages Jakarta EE Support project. Similar to the previous release, this one contains new features primarily related to Jakarta NoSQL, but also has some improvements for JSF and a bunch of bug fixes and compatibility improvements.

Domino Oddness on Azure - 38 second delay in sending mail from web UI  

By Sean Cull | 11/22/22 10:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

We have had an odd issue on Domino that we have not been able to resolve despite lots of input from HCL. I just wanted to post it in case any other person comes across it. The symptom is a Domlog entry for 38 seconds when you trigger an email via XPages. This happened @4 years ago on an Azure Linux Domino 9 server ( which we scrapped ) and then started again with an Azure Windows Domino 11 server about a year ago.

HCL Sametime 12.0.1 - How to upgrade  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 11/21/22 4:09 PM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Oliver Busse

A few days ago, HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.1 were released. The installation is basically the same as for version 12.0, but I modified my guide. The upgrade is also very simple, so you can check out the guide I prepared. So you can get started.

More Open-Source Updates for Notes/Domino 12.0.2  

By Jesse Gallagher | 11/21/22 12:39 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The other day, I talked about some changes/workarounds for Notes/Domino 12.0.2. Today, I made a few updates to some of the open-source projects I maintain, including another update to the generate-domino-update-site Maven plugin.

HCL Notes 12.0.2 - New Signature feature seems broken   

By Jesper Kiær | 11/21/22 2:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

To test the new HCL Notes 12.0.2 "Signature" feature I created a simple form with a Rich Text Lite field for testing out the feature. I have have removed all options,but the signature feature for the field. Only a part of the image seem to be saved in the field.

Huddo Boards & Minio problems – Read before you restart!  

By Martijn de Jong | 11/21/22 2:06 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Last week I got the unpleasant surprise of a no longer working Huddo Boards for Component pack installation at a customer after I had rebooted my Kubernetes environment. I had to reboot this environment after I updated the Kubernetes certificates. Of course, after a change you immediately think that your problem is related to the change you just made, but in this case the only relation was with the restart, which means that this can happen to everyone running Huddo/Kudos Boards for Component pack or Huddo Boards Docker.

Domino Designer 12.0.2 – Object and Agent list is empty  

By Ulrich Krause | 11/21/22 2:04 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The issue applies to the 32 and 64 bit of the Domino Designer 12.0.2. It occurs in Forms, Views and Folders. Also, the issue only occurs when you open an application in Designer from the Notes workspace.

HCL Domino 12.0.2, Engage 2022 and HCL Factory tour Milan  

By Martin Pradny | 11/20/22 7:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

I haven't published my recap after Engage this year and the recent HCL Factory tour in Milan is a great opportunity to write a summary about what's happening in HCL (mostly Domino) space. It's a mix of news about 12.0.2, future directions, and my impressions, so it can be a bit chaotic, but I got the impression that many people see it similarly.

Configure Eclipse 4.6.x with HCL Notes 12.0.1 FP1  

By Karsten Lehmann | 11/18/22 4:07 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Once again I had to ask HCL development for setup instructions how to launch the HCL Notes Standard Client from an Eclipse IDE, this time for Notes 12.0.1 FP1. The instructions I had gotten earlier for Notes 10 have not changed much (I think there's one additional VM argument at the end of the list), but enough so that they did not work anymore.

New release of Open Eclipse Update Site to fix issues with Win/64 Notes Client 12.0.2  

By Karsten Lehmann | 11/18/22 5:13 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

As Jesse blogged there are some issues in the new Windows 64 Bit Notes Client 12.0.2 that break the "Import Local Update Site" functionality of the standard Update Site template of Domino. To fix this and other issues, I just uploaded a new release of the Open Eclipse Update Site on OpenNTF.

Notes/Domino 12.0.2 Fallout  

By Jesse Gallagher | 11/18/22 5:12 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Notes and Domino 12.0.2 came out today. Generally, there are some neat features in development and on the server, but there are also a couple things you may run into depending on your workflow and installation type.

Strange XPage, Unexpected runtime error  

By Fredrik Norling | 11/18/22 5:11 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I’m going to start a post that I will update regular when I get strange errors that can be hard to find the solution for. Feel free to post a comment or use the contact form to send me your strange errors and a solution or how to debug the problem. One of the best tools for debugging is to use the Log File reader found on OpenNTF, another good tool also on OpenNTF is the Debug toolbar But now to the problems and the possible solutions.

Tinkering with Mastodon, Keycloak, and Domino  

By Jesse Gallagher | 11/11/22 4:00 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Because of what I'll euphemistically call the current historical moment on Twitter, I (like a lot of people) decided to give another look at Mastodon. The normal way one would use it would be to sign up at mastodon.social and be on one's merry way, treating it just like a slightly-different Twitter. However, Mastodon is intentionally designed to be federated in a way similar to email, and the software is available on GitHub complete with scripts for Docker Compose, Vagrant, and so forth. So I went and did that, setting up my currently-barely-used account at @jesse@pub.frostillic.us. That on its own isn't particularly notable, nor are the specifics of how I set it up (it was a hodgepodge of a couple posts you can find by looking for "mastodon docker compose"). What I found neat for our purposes here was the way I could piggyback authentication onto stuff I had recently done with Keycloak. Keycloak, incidentally, was the topic of today's OpenNTF webinar, so, if you didn't see it, check back there for the replay when it's posted.

November OpenNTF Webinar: Integrate Keycloak with Domino for Identity Management  

By OpenNTF | 11/9/22 4:09 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In the days of micro-services, Identity Management, Identity Brokering and Single-Sign-On Capabilities are getting more and more important. HCL has put some serious investment into modernizing the various Domino authentication capabilities but still a lot of services require external system integration to be a nice citizen in a service orchestra. In this session, Heiko want to demonstrate the use cases and technical ways to integrate one major Open Source Identity Management system with HCL Domino - Keycloak.

Understanding Parentheses in LotusScript Method Calls  

By Paul Withers | 11/7/22 4:28 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Look at the following code and guess the error message. Class Person Public firstName as String End Class Sub Initialize Dim p as New Person Call outerPrint(p) End Sub Sub outerPrint(msg as Variant) innerPrint(msg) End Sub Sub innerPrint(msg as Variant) If (TypeName(msg) = "PERSON") Then Print msg.firstName Else Print msg End If End Sub The error message received will be a Type Mismatch, on the line innerPrint(msg). But the cause might be harder to work out - although the title of this blog post might point you in the direction.

Protecting your Domino container with fail2ban  

By Martijn de Jong | 11/7/22 4:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If your Domino server is connected to the Internet, you’ll find that bots (hacked systems running a script) will throw a brute force attack on your Domino server. For me, especially, my SMTP server was under heavy attack. The reason why it’s interesting for hackers to find a valid login on an SMTP server, is that this will probably allow them to send spam through your mail server. Most mail servers allow sending mail through their servers for other domains for authenticated users only. The chances of them guessing any of the users in my Domino directory right and then also guessing the password correctly are basically zero, but the pollution of my log file is reason enough to stop them. Fail2ban is a very elegant program for Linux to do just that. You can configure it to scan log files for certain patterns (it uses RegEx to recognise them) and add hosts that match those patterns too often within a defined period of time, to the block list of iptables.

First look at the Genesis Catalog - the App Store for Domino software  

By Prominic.NET | 11/3/22 1:26 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

During Collabsphere 2022, Prominic’s CTO Justin Hill presented a new tool we’ve made at Prominic that is not only very useful but also has a great potential: Genesis.

SnTT - Which Database has an FTI?  

By Keith Brooks | 11/3/22 6:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Earlier this year, Martin Vogel and I gave a session at Engage titled "Teaching Young and Old Dogs New Tricks: Notes & Domino Shortcuts You Wish You Knew," It was a great session with a filled capacity of the room. But I was neglectful; I had planned to post some essential tips in my blog at the time but did not get to it. I will try to make up for it over the next few weeks. The first one that not everyone may know about is how to find out which databases have a FTI, Full Text Index. Here is the scenario: You are asked to build new servers for your customer or organization and while looking at the old server, notice some indexing on some databases. This causes you to think, how do I find out which databases have an FTI so they can be rebuilt on the new server?

Sametime V12.0.1/12.0.2 cannot connect to LDAPS:636 using TLSv1.2  

By Remco Angioni | 10/31/22 4:49 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Setting up Sametime V12.0.1 and V12.0.2 BETA, I discovered that we couldn't connect to LDAPS to a Domino server, or to the AD using TLSv1.2.I discovered it in the Docker environment and noticed in the community log these lines: community_1 | stuserinfosa 2022-10-04 08:44:04.175 SEVERE 0 — 31 : createConnection : Problem Initalizing context for simple bind community_1 | javax.naming.CommunicationException: simple bind failed: stldap.domain.internal:636 [Root exception is java.io.IOException: Initial encode failure on StTlsSocket [6]]

MKDocs Sites on Domino  

By Paul Withers | 10/31/22 4:48 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

In the last blog posts I covered using a Jekyll-based site on Domino. Jekyll is a popular documentation option based on Markdown, but another is MKDocs. MKDocs also has a number of themes - a default Bootstrap-based theme, one used by the Read The Docs service, and the one I’ve used, Material for MKDocs.

Do you have any suggestions for OpenNTF ?   

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/28/22 12:23 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

AS probably you know OpenNTF has a Discord server, that everyone can join, where there are several “channels” (I know that the term is not correct) in which people can talk about specific topics. We have just added one, “#suggestion-box” where everyone is encouraged to go if they have any idea on what OpenNTF should do.

How to Enable, or Disable, TOTP for HCL Traveler and Verse  

By Keith Brooks | 10/28/22 3:01 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

After a discussion with fellow HCL Ambassador David Hablewitz, I realized I did not fully explain the HCL Traveler/Verse (will just refer to it as Verse) and TOTP issue in my blog post the other day, I intended to explain the pros and cons of using TOTP and Verse, but I neglected to explain how to enable or disable TOTP and what you do if you have one server or separate servers. The how-to is what this post is about.

Returning a 401 status   

By Tom Van Aken | 10/27/22 12:17 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

This section was originally part of a blogpost in my LotusScript REST API series. Since this is an interesting topic and also relevant for other REST API solutions, I decided to create a separate blogpost on this topic.

Customizing the TOTP Login Form and MFA Pages  

By Keith Brooks | 10/26/22 3:27 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Continuing the extension of my TOTP session from Collabpshere, I wanted to expand upon modifying the Login Form and MFA page for those who need it and want to know how to do it. The truth is I covered this in my 2021 Collabsphere presentation but since learned a few things which I want to pass on to all of you.