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What’s New in the HCL Community #7  

By NCUG | 4/2/20 5:09 PM | Business - News | Added by Oliver Busse

Notes/Domino V 11.0.1 are released, there’s Sametime trouble, DNUG goes digital, IBM shuts down Knowledge Center and a new video from the Canadian User Group is out. Read all about it here!

We Have Lost The “wasadmin” Account Password!   

By Milan Matejic | 3/31/20 2:22 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If you have lost the "wasadmin" account password or any other local WebSphere account, there is a rather simple way to recover it. Just connect to the server where WebSphere Deployment Manager is running, via RDP or SSH, depending on the OS of the server, and open the "security.xml" file located under "<WebSphere_Installation_Directory>/AppServer/profiles/<Deployment_Manager_Profile>/config/cells/<Cell_Name>" for example…

How to Get Typeahead in a Standard Notes Text Field  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/25/20 9:30 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

I was challenged by my boss to come up with a solution to a problem that one of our customers wanted solved. Could I create typeahead in a standard Notes text field? This is how I did it.

HCL Sametime 11 – Limited Use vs. Standard License   

By Milan Matejic | 3/25/20 2:37 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I found that there is a lot of confusion going around which Sametime features are covered in Limited Use License, although I could not find a document or a matrix chart covering this in detail, the following article provides some important insights.

HCL Sametime 11 – ST Proxy Server & DNS  

By Milan Matejic | 3/25/20 2:36 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Obviously, when deploying any application, DNS is important and the needed DNS entries need to be set. Before deploying the HCL Sametime 11 Proxy Server you need to make sure that the MongoDB and the Sametime Community Servers are reachable via FQDNs and hostnames.

Getting started with DQL  

By Mark Leusink | 3/22/20 3:54 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Do you remember? A little over 2 weeks ago was Engage. How quickly everything can change… When you were at Engage you might have seen the session I did with Oliver Busse on DQL. The slides and demo code can be found here and here. We touched how to get started with DQL briefly, and based on the questions we received I think it’s a good idea to write a couple of articles on the topic. This is the first.

#dnug47 not in Berlin  

By DNUG | 3/20/20 7:59 AM | Business - News | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The situation is unfortunately clear. We can’t justify a #dnug47 in June as a presence event. This also applies to all planned events of our User Group. But we are prepared for online formats and want to offer this as an alternative. We have developed a plan for this, which we will discuss with the specialist groups on March, 27th 2020. We will present the results here soon. Your board Daniel, Jürgen, Matthias & Verena

PSYCHED about DQL Next  

By John D. Curtis | 3/20/20 5:32 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

DQL Next is under design. What we have provided in Domino 10 and 11 is basically a find engine using all available means within Domino of searching document contents. We’re not done there to be sure. But what follows is a vast set of capability never bundled as we are going to bundle it. I’m excited about it, because it will make Domino developers very powerful and efficient.

Making Working From Home Work - Dev | Blog  

By Eric McCormick | 3/18/20 7:08 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

It may not be a great time for going out, but it's my hope everyone finds some small way to celebrate and have a bit of fun, since lots of peoples's anxiety levels are probably elevated. In any case, have a good, fun time, and hopefully don't do anything that'll scare the pets, kids, or your spouse.

Implemented the ID switching application for HCL Nomad  

By Masahiko Miyo | 3/18/20 11:05 AM | Development - Leap / Volt | Added by Oliver Busse

I am an Android user, so I can use HCL Nomad at last. I usually use HCL Nomad, I noticed that I can NOT switch ID. Since I have only one smartphone, I inconvenience verification test. So, I thought about 'how to switch ID'.

VOP: Disable Fileviewer  

By Remco Angioni | 3/17/20 5:20 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Supose you want to use the userpictures from Connections, but don’t want to use the FileViewer from Connections. There is no documentation, for sofar i could see, about this subject. So i opened a case for it and they came with this perfectly working solution.

Prevent upgrading the NAMES.NSF after Domino migration  

By Rainer Brandl | 3/16/20 2:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

First of all it´s not recommended to run a Domino Server with an older design on the Domino Directory but for some reasons it´s necessary. To prevent the question to upgrade your Domino Directory after installing a new release you simply can put the following entry in the NOTES.INI of the server: SERVER_UPGRADE_NO_DIRECTORY_REDESIGN=1

Determining why records appear in your employee.error file in the TDI Assemblyline  

By Martijn de Jong | 3/16/20 2:14 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Your TDI solution directory contains a couple of files which all start with employee. These files tell you which records were added, updated, deleted, skipped or produced an error. The last file is usually the most interesting one. Often employee records give an error because a user was deleted at an earlier stage and recreated with a different GUID. Sometimes users are created with the same login ID as a previous user, which was long deleted and there are more relatively obvious reasons like that why an employee record would create an error. However, sometimes you are just completely in the dark of why a record gives an error. That’s when this little tip helps you to determine the problem.

Domino Docker Project update -- OpenShift support & Podman+Docker+K8s support for "arbitrarily assigned user ID"  

By Daniel Nashed | 3/16/20 2:11 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

A couple of days ago I got the request from Daniele Vistalli, a fellow HCL Master, that he needs support to run Domino on Kubernetes (K8s) with a so called "arbitrarily assigned user ID". He and the team around him are doing incredible work to finalize Factor-y's MSP offering which included Domino on K8s as part of their platform. Running with distinct UIDs is an important security aspect, when offering cloud services separating data between containers -- and even more important tenants.

Building public APIs using Node.js/Express and domino-db? Think about rate-limiting!  

By Heiko Voigt | 3/13/20 9:35 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Quick tip today - if you are building public (REST-)APIs using JavaScript/Node.js/Express you sooner or later have to think about rate-limiting access to your APIs to avoid DoS Attacks. Facing this challenge as well, i came across two nice express middleware components to help me out.

HCL Domino Volt Open Beta  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 3/10/20 6:19 AM | Development - Leap / Volt | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Want to try HCL Domino Volt and join Beta testing? Now is the time to register.

Lots of Great News from HCL During the Engage Conference  

By NCUG | 3/9/20 10:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Did someone tell you that the old IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio was dead? Well, they are wrong. The user conference Engage set a new attendance record, and HCL had a ton of news for you. We’ve collected all you need to know here.

CEIR evolves with HCL at ENGAGE 2020  

By Julian Mosen | 3/9/20 7:50 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

“We have to evolve to avoid being disrupted” was the message Richard Jefts (General Manager at HCL Digital Solutions) delivered at the opening session of Engage 2020 – a two-day conference on collaboration technologies that took place in the Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands. Through 86 sessions more than 100 speakers and 400 attendees shared recent topics and insights into how to evolve collaboration in companies and how to leverage with the latest technologies and trends.

HCL Nomad Web, the new client for HCL Domino  

By Remco Angioni | 3/8/20 11:21 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Without replacing the “old” HCL Notes client, HCL introduced a new client. HCL Nomad Web will work from within your browser as it is the Notes Client. A download less then 100MB will be enough to start the client. Still works with your notes.id in the Vault and uses all Domino security layers. Secure like before !! And with the upcoming 2FA ( MFA ) starting with HCL Domino V12, it’s clear….we are ready for it.

My Summary from Engage 2020 - plus some advertisment and session slides  

By Heiko Voigt | 3/6/20 10:29 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Three exiting days are over - Engage 2020 is already history. And boy it was a fantastic event ! I started out on monday with a HCL Volt hands-on Workshop at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Arnhem, which helped quiet a bit to get a better understanding of the "how-works-what-and-where" of HCL Volt. A big thanks to Martin Lechleiter and Tim Clark for this. The day ended with the HCL Masters Reception at the Hotel bar this evening

Engage Redux  

By Gabriella Davis | 3/6/20 9:29 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

This week we were at Engage in the Netherlands presenting, learning and meeting up with customers and friends. Another big thank you to Theo, Hilde and Femke for all the work they put into this event, by my count of hands during the keynote around 20% of attendees were there for the first time which is fantastic.

engage.ug 2020 – Personal recap  

By Rainer Brandl | 3/6/20 12:52 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

What an amazing event at the Burger´s Zoo in Arnhem I was able to attend ! Theo Heselmans and his team again organized a tremendous event in a very special location. Thanks a lot for all of your work - every "Thank You" you received was well-deserved !!

Amsterdamned #engageug #dominoforever #hcldigital  

By Oliver Busse | 3/5/20 2:48 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Renan Ek Rendon

I am currently sitting in my hotel room near Amsterdam Schipol airport. I missed my flight in the morning because the Dutch train canceled several connections and the train I was in finally also had delays due to technical issues on the track. Another delay resulted in the need to change the train at Amsterdam Central. Anyway, I didn't make it in time, I was about 1 hour late. But why I am here?

Engage 2020 – Day 2 – Summary  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 3/5/20 1:29 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Although Day 1 was long, the start of Day 2, which was already at 8 am, did not allow much rest. The composition of the program did not allow a thorough tour of the zoo, but Burgers’ Ocean really surprised me.

Engage 2020 , another great event ! Some thoughts about it with my presentation deck  

By Matteo Bisi | 3/5/20 10:58 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

This week I had the pleasure to be part of Engage 2020 , the biggest European user group related to HCL Digital solution software (Domino,Sametime,Connections,Dx) that has been in Arnhem (NL) with more than 400 peoples. HCL: the key word is "Evolve".

HCL Domino Mobile Discussion Beta Template Release  

By HCL Digital | 3/5/20 1:31 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

As part of the Template Modernization project we are releasing the initial beta of the template modernization discussion template sample. The goal of this project has been to create a modern application that works well on a phone and tablet. With this initial beta release, the template works great on the phone and tablet. Please try it out.

The Lay of the Java Land, Early 2020  

By Jesse Gallagher | 3/4/20 3:52 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

I was musing earlier (somewhat incorrectly) about the weird state of Java versions, and it got me thinking about how odd the landscape looks in general lately, even as things are progressing splendidly. And, since not everyone follows a dozen Java-related Twitter feeds to keep up on all this stuff I figured it'd be useful to have a summary.

Engage 2020: Hello are you listening, There is stream for everything  

By Frank van der Linden | 3/4/20 10:01 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today I have gave a presentation at Engage Usergroup in Burgers Zoo, Arnhem. I was in the emerging technology track to share information about Spring Cloud Stream and how easy it is to connect to a message broker like RabbitMQ or Kafka. The demo application is showing the use of Spring Cloud Stream in a application.

Design a RESTful API for your Domino Apps  

By Serdar Basegmez | 3/4/20 7:07 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today, during my session, I remembered I had a blog and my last update was the last year, again for sharing a slide deck. So, here it comes... Yet another slide deck on my blog. First, I'd like to thank to the Lifetime IBM Champion and HCL Grandmaster Theo Heselmans once more.

Engage 2020 - Day 1 - Summary  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 3/4/20 1:00 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Today was the first official day of the conference Engage 2020. This time Theo Heselmans chose the Arnhem and the place of the Royal Burgers’ Zoo. Again he chose a completely unique place, but honestly … as always. He deserves a big thank you for that.