Nyheter i Domino 10, Domino 11 och lite om Connections

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Nyheter i Domino 10, Domino 11 och lite om Connections

Sista veckan i februari höll HCL öppet hus i Milano och pratade om vad de planerar att göra med IBM Collaboration produkterna, som de håller på att köpa från IBM. Precis innan det var det IBM Think 2019 i San Francisco, där också en hel del nytt presenterades för framförallt Domino. Beträffande själva köpet så vet vi inte så mycket mer än att allt tyder på att det verkar bli av och att HCL tänker ge Domino en nystart.

 

Några spännande grejor som ser ut att komma med Domino 11 under Q4 2019.

 

  1. Domino som Elastic Search provider. Elastic Search kommer äntligen att kunna ersätta Dominos fulltextindex, som i mina ögon överlevt sig själv med många år. För att inte störa bakåtkompabiliteten kan Elastic aktiveras applikation för applikation.

 

  1. HTTP-autentisering mot ID Vault vilket bl.a. förenklar lösenordshantering. ID Vault blir i allt bättre med APIer etc., vilket i sig fått Dominos katalog att fungera lite mer som t.ex. Active Directory. som t.ex. inte haft Dominos problem med t.ex dubbla lösenord och klientberoenden.

 

  1. Apropå Active Directory så kommer också en helt ny AD synk.

 

  1. Ny installerare – InstallAnywhere 2018 ersätter InstallShield som gick ur tiden för länge sedan

 

  1. Domino Publisher – Snärtigare eventhanterare för både publicering- och prenumerationer knutna till databasevents och document events.

 

To be continued…. Jag skall försöka uppdatera den här posten efterhand som mer information släpps från HCL och IBM

 

Nya Domino 10 funktioner som redan släppts eller släpps efterhand

 

  1. En app (Domino Mobile Apps, kodnamn Nomad) som kör traditionella Notes-applikationer direkt från Ipads sluttestas just nu och efter den kommer även Nomad för iPhone, Android och ChromeOS. Apple versionerna av Nomad verkar distribueras via Apples B2B app store. Infoware har testat Nomad med gott resultat och vi följer utvecklingen.

 

  1. Notes-applikationsstöd som WebAssembly komponent. Nomad är också byggd för att kunna kompileras enligt WebAssembly-standarden. WebAssembly är en ny standard för att köra binärer på webb oavsett webbläsare. Web browser pluginen verkar alltså komma tillbaka, men betydligt tunnare och mer standardbaserad än tidigare. Tillsammans med ID-Vault för både Notes och http så kan det nog bli riktigt smidigt att köra både webb- och traditionella Notes applikationer från både webbläsare och mobiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly

 

  1. Domino Query Language

 

DQL – Domino Query Language släpptes i december 2018 med Domino 10.0.1. DQL är ett nytt blixtsnabbt sätt/API/Språk för att hämta data från Domino. Om jag förstått det rätt så kommer DQL t.ex. att kunna ersätta t.ex. sök och NoteCollections i Domino applikationer.

 

  1. Domino Query Language Explorer är en Notes databas byggd för att testa DQL och få frågorna översatta till java, lotusscript eller javascript.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJNqjfML9-I

Presentationen är 11 minuter. Riktigt snyggt.

 

  1. Domino AppDev Pack 1.0 har släpptes tillsammans med Domino 10.0.1 och nu siktar HCL på att följa upp det med en ny release varje kvartal. Målet med Domino AppDev pack är att möjliggöra modernare Domino utveckling baserat på Node.js, javascript tillsammans med Domino Query Language.

 

Connections framtid, vad händer där?

HCL verkar satsa lika hårt här, även om planerna inte verkar lika klara som för Domino. Några saker har dock sipprat ut

  1. Release-tempot ökas upp till ett nytt Feature pack per kvartal och paketen utlovas att innehålla mer nytt. Senast nu under Q1 släpptes IC6 CR4 med bland annat en funktion för att dela enskilda filer externt m.h.a. direktlänkar som sedan inte kräver inloggning. Den funktionen har iallafall jag längtat efter. Infoware släpper förresten DomainPatrol Social support för IC6 CR4 nu i dagarna.
  2. IBM Connections kund-Jams för att samla input framåt är igång nu i stil med HCLs Jams inför Domino 10 och senast Domino 11

 

Länkar till mina viktigaste källor

 

Bra sammanfattning om IBM Collaboration på IBM Think nu under februari 2019

https://domino.elfworld.org/this-is-what-happened-at-ibm-think-2019/

 

Bra sammanfattning från HCLs konferens i Milano nu sista veckan i februari 2019

https://www.c3ug.ca/c3ug-blog/2019/3/1/hcl-factory-tour-episode-2-a-new-base-a-new-hope-a-new-beginning

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Picture copyright and cudos belongs to colleague and photographer Tony Andersson

https://500px.com/tonyandersson

 

 

 

 

 

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DomainPatrol Social with support for IBM Connections 6

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You know IBM Connections right? What you might not know is, that we make it even more powerful, useful, better, tidier with DomainPatrol Social

And now it’s soon available for IBM Connections 6.

We can in 4 clicks merge two whole Communities. With everything in it! Neat and tidy. With the same function you can move and merge almost all content, like Wikis, Files, Communities, Activities, Users etc. All solving complex questions and issues from users and admins.

In our session we show real life examples how our customers have used DomainPatrol Social to:

  • use IBM Connections more. Sometimes users are afraid of submitting content as they don’t know where to put it
  • to upgrade their environment
  • to merge in companies they bought – with lots of new users and content
  • to handle movements of staff in the organisation
  • to handle unused and orphan content that clogs up the environment

Detach your content from the predefined places, and go social!

Contact us for more details

 

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DomainPatrol Social arrives at IBM Connect 2017

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Almost 2 months of 2017 has already zoomed by, time just seems to fly! Right now we are busy with last minute preparations before IBM Connect in San Francisco next week!
 


We are bringing a great new release of DomainPatrol Social to IBM Connect!


As you know, DomainPatrol Social is the best tool for administering IBM Connections, for moving and merging almost all content and managing users.

In our new release we are introducing Reports. You can now get detailed statistics about the usage of your IBM Connections environment. For example when a Community was last updated, how many active/inactive owners it has and the sizes of all components and widgets. You can see the usage of Personal Files, how many there are, last update, active/inactive owners etc. The same goes for Wikis, Activities, Blogs, CCM, Community Files and Forums.

Contact us if you would like a demo or a free trial in your own environment!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you see even more in depth analysis of your IBM Connections environment? Then we recommend that you take a look at ConnectionsExpert from our strategic partner panagenda. It is the perfect complement to DomainPatrol Social.

Get continuous and accurate insight into user behavior in order to maximize the potential of your Connections environment.

 

 

Adoption

Increasing the adoption rate is a big challenge when introducing IBM Connections. ConnectionsExpert has been specifically designed to provide continuous usage and adoption insights.

It reveals approaches to accelerating adoption and is a great source for management reports.

 

 

Analytics

In powerful solutions like IBM Connections, it is not always easy to access, find or even be aware of all the important information one needs in order to utilize the system to its full potential. One of the focus areas of ConnectionsExpert is to perform analytics to reveal these nuggets of vital information, visualize them and make it easy to act on the findings.

 

 

Contact us if you are interested in either of our solutions! 

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DomainPatrol Social 10 – beyond Merge Communities

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DomainPatrol Social for IBM Connections is all about content and people. An application packed with intelligent functions shaping IBM Connections to maximum performance. We help our customers every day with communities that needs merging, files that needs moving, profiles that needs merging and not to forget our rising star Manage Access Control where you can copy one user's access rights to another one.

The newly released DomainPatrol Social 9 with Community Templates received great praise by our customers. We are glad to be able to offer project managers a way of repeating successful project communities with just a few clicks. Save and re use your valued results of your project instead of inventing the wheel time and time again.

Therefore we are likewise excited to announce that we today are releasing yet another pack of functions. DomainPatrol Social 10; with focus on small but very effective settings and commands for the day to day use.

DomainPatrol Social 10 supports IBM Connections 5.5 CR1. Contact Maria Enderstam for free trials, demos, prices and if you have question regarding the product.

The new functions in a nutshell:

Manage Search Index

Create search indexes for the different IBM Connections Applications.

 

Scheduled Task Management

Puse or Resume scheduled system tasks.

 

Manage User Roles

Set profiles as active or inactive. You can also reset Homepage Welcome page settings.

 

Synchronize Users

Synchronize Profile information to all IBM Connections applications.

 

Add User Tags / Add Community Tags

Add tags to one or multiple user profiles or Communities.

 

Remove User Tags / Remove Community Tags

Remove selected tags from a user's profile or from a community.

 

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Official announcement from IBM – Extending support for Notes/Domino 9.0.1 to 2021

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IBM announcent today that they will extend their support for IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 to September 2021. There has been some discussion in the community about Notes/Domino and IBMs future plan for the platform. What we know for a fact now is that Notes/Domino will be around to at least 2021. We also know that the IBM Domino Server is a core part of IBM Verse (and Verse on-prem is soon to be released) and that IBM is adding new functionality to the platform, like the possibility to use MS Outlook as your email client with IBM Domino Server as the backend. We also know that IBM will release Fix Pack 7 (FP7) for IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 in September 2017 which is a scheduled maintenance release, containing several bug fixes and some new features.

traveler connections ibm_notes_9_icon sametime9

Will there be a IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.2 or maybe a 9.1.0? Or will IBM Verse take over as the platform name, only time will tell…

So what about todays announcement, that is IBM telling us? Well support for version 9 of IBM Notes, IBM Domino, IBM Notes Traveler, and IBM Enterprise Integrator are extended to September 2021. Support for the following associated entitlements is also extended to September 2021:

  • IBM Sametime® V9.0 Limited Use
  • IBM Domino Designer V9.0.1
  • IBM Mobile Connect V6.1.5
  • IBM Domino Global Workbench V9.0.1

IBM is also adding entitlement to your Notes/Domino license to use some IBM Connections 5.5 features. The features we are talking about is the Files and Profiles features.

  • The Files feature helps users easily share content with other people and removes the need to send large files through email
  • The Profiles feature helps users find the people they need by searching across the organization

 

Link: IBM Notes and Domino V9.0.1 extends support and enhances its collaboration toolset with social capabilities from IBM Connections V5.5

As you know you can always contact us if you have any questions about this 🙂 

 

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DomainPatrol Social and Social Connections

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Let us present to you the perfect way to keep your IBM Connections environment in shape!

DomainPatrol Social is a very competent product which solves most challenges both IT and Business experience. Certainly when it comes to Content and User Administration in IBM Connections.

For example if you have several communities, with similar purpose or content, you can use the function Merge Communities to merge them into one Community. Or Move Communities in and out of one another. The same applies to all kinds of content including Files, Blogs, Wikis, Libraries and Activities.

New projects starts, others end. The organization is constantly changing and consequently your needs.

Other situations we can solve is when people get new roles in your organization or leaves the organization. Orphan content is a common problem and DomainPatrol Social has several ways to solve it. One is Complete User Management for Files, Blogs, Wikis. Another is Copy User Access to transfer all, or some of the access that user A had to user B and/or user C. Problem solved!

Sometimes one user ends up with two profiles in IBM Connections. Perhaps they started off as a consultant or external user and now they are permanent employees. No worries. Use the function Merge Profiles. All content from both profiles are merged into one. Phew! No more unhappy users that can't access their stuff.

Make sure your users trust IBM Connections with their highly valued business content.

Contact us for more information, or meet us at Social Connections in Toronto!

 

 

Infoware is proud sponsor of Social Connections!

THE place to be to learn about all things IBM Connections.

Check out some of the great sessions by speakers from across the globe! The agenda can be found here

A selection of some the great sessions you need to come and listen to:

  1. 10+ user case studies focused on their implemention of IBM Connections!
  2. Great sessions by IBM Champions (18 IBM champions are currently attending the event)
  3. A peak into the future with sessions on Toscana, Future of work and What is coming to IBM Connections

Register here and meet Maria, Fredrik and Ulla in the Infoware booth!

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IBM Connections using Active Directory and Nested Groups

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Case:
Customer wants to use nested groups in Access control for Communities, also it should be reflected in I'm a Member when user is looking for their communitys and so on. Connections was 4.5CRx

Google search Links that where tried, but did not work for me (for some reason unknown).
https://www.lbenitez.com/2015/11/how-to-enable-nested-ldap-groups-in-ibm.html
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321308
https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcforum.nsf/869c7412fe5d56b7852569fa007826e3/4aa9a40d4818785f85257b3b004e3240?OpenDocument
https://www.communardo.de/home/techblog/2014/06/04/nested-groups-ibm-connections/

Found something that worked for me (seems logical looking at the description).
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5392.active-directory-ldap-syntax-filters.aspx
coming from thread
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/f238d2b0-a1d7-48e8-8a60-542e7ccfa2e8/recursive-retrieval-of-all-ad-group-memberships-of-a-user?forum=ITCG

Description:
All groups specified user belongs to, including due to group nesting (Notes 10, 19)
eg. (member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=cn=Jim Smith,ou=West,dc=Domain,dc=com)
All members of specified group, including  due to group nesting (Note 10)
eg. (memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=  cn=Test,ou=East,dc=Domain,dc=com) 
Note 10.
The string 1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941 specifies LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN. This applies only to DN attributes. This is an extended match operator that walks the chain of ancestry in objects all the way to the root until it finds a match. This reveals group nesting. It is available only on domain controllers with Windows Server 2003 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 (or above).

NOTE: 
All of this is of course done in the context of Deployment Manager.
After doing the changes a full resynch needs to be done with all nodes in the cluster (sometimes also take down node and use synchNode from the node) and restart the node.

Solution is to change my setting in Websphere to reflect this:
nestgroup1
nestgroup2
nestgroup3

Also changed for performance reasons the following (optional):
Reason:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.0.0/com.ibm.websphere.wim.doc/disablingnestedgroupsearches.html
Solution is to change according to instructions

How does it look in the files before and after the change, here are snippets of this:

wimconfig.xml before the change:
      <config:groupConfiguration>
        <config:memberAttributes name="member" objectClass="group" scope="nested"/>
        <config:membershipAttribute name="memberof" scope="nested"/>
      </config:groupConfiguration>

wimconfig.xml after the change:
      <config:groupConfiguration>
        <config:memberAttributes name="member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:" objectClass="group" scope="nested"/>
        <config:membershipAttribute name="memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:" scope="nested"/>
      </config:groupConfiguration>

security.xml before the change (you can not cut and paste any of these because some parameters are unique to your environment):
  <userRegistries xmi:type="security:WIMUserRegistry" xmi:id="WIMUserRegistry_1" serverId="" serverPassword="{xor}" realm="defaultWIMFileBasedRealm" ignoreCase="true" useRegistryServerId="false" primaryAdminId="wasadmin" registryClassName="com.ibm.ws.wim.registry.WIMUserRegistry"/>

security.xml after the change (you can not cut and paste any of these because some parameters are unique to your environment):
  <userRegistries xmi:type="security:WIMUserRegistry" xmi:id="WIMUserRegistry_1" serverId="" serverPassword="{xor}" realm="defaultWIMFileBasedRealm" ignoreCase="true" useRegistryServerId="false" primaryAdminId="wasadmin" registryClassName="com.ibm.ws.wim.registry.WIMUserRegistry">
    <properties xmi:id="VMMURProperty_1" name="com.ibm.ws.wim.registry.grouplevel" value="1"/>
  </userRegistries>
 

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