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Not a sub or function name

Posted by on 15 August,2018 No comments

If you suddenly start getting errors from a scriptlibrary or on a button in a form or a view.
Errors like this

  • Not a sub or function name
  • Sub or Function Not Defined
  • DB is not declared
  • Variable not resolved
  • Unable to find XXXX

Check that you variables / functions / Subs is declared as public

This is done at the top of the library or form using Options Public

This error can easily be mistaken with 64K library problems, Lotusscript recompile issues and other HCL Domino FP9 and FP10 related issues

IBM Domino and GDPR, what is this?

Posted by on 4 April,2018 No comments

On the 25:th of May this year a new set of rules come in affect for companies that deal with European citizens. This will give some basic rights to people and the information related to them.
This will affect all companies in EU or working against EU, so if you are an US based company but have customers inside EU you are affected by this.

  1. Right to know what is stored
  2. Right to be forgotten
  3. Right to correct wrongful data
  4. Right to portability
  5. Right not to be a subject to automated decision making

This will then have some effects on your company and the systems holding the information.

  1. Make sure that you have a data privacy policy
  2. Make sure you know what information you use to what and where
  3. Make sure that you process information on a legal ground
  4. Inform and get consent from users if needed
  5. Make sure that information is safe
  6. Make sure that right people have access to the information
  7. Make sure that you can erase information/anonymize that you don’t have rights to process anymore (Yes, backups also apply)
  8. Make sure that you can correct wrongful information
  9. Have a routine to investigate and report data breaches
  10. Make a list of all your data processors

How can we handle this in a Domino based system then?

Notes names and the Adminp process is a good start to comply with right to correction and right to be forgotten. But you might probably need to adjust your applications
Fulltext search and Domain search can also help you find data that you need to remove and/or correct.
Enable webserver logs to find out what is happening in you webb environment, but remember to clean up this log with the retention policy that you have decided and add that you log things to you privacy policy.

If you need assistance, have questions or need help getting ahead of this feel free to contact me.
Also Follow my twitter flow for GDPR articles in Swedish and English –> GDPR News

I’ve also found a tool that can help you track changes in your Domino environment GDPR Logger
( Contact me if you find this tool interesting )

Some more info in this youtube video by Ytria

 

a small list for the environment

Posted by on 5 December,2017 2 comments

Domino 2025 Jam is coming up tomorrow in Sweden and I will attend and see how this event will affect the future of the IBM Domino environment. I’ve created a list of things that I think would be good to have for the future. So here is the list in no specific order for now I will probably come back and update this post more.

  • Support for Cloud based Connections in onpremise Verse
  • Addon Store for Verse
  • More Actions based handling of emails that needs Actions
  • Save searches in Verse as as dynamic folders
  • HTTP/2 support
  • more SQL like syntax in views like Joins
  • Extended FT Search query commands
  • Websocket support
  • Scheduled XPage/Java code, might already be there with updated OSGI in FP10
  • Javascript update in XPages
  • Remove 64K limits in lookups
  • Check if field is to large
  • Add paging in Lookups
  • Support for CSS preprocessors
  • NodeJS in NSF support
  • Install/update Server modules like NPM (great idea Patrick Kwinten)
  • Virtual Server support for multiple HTTPS addresses on one IPAdress
  • Virtual Server Folder Access Control – What folders is accessible from one hostname
  • LTPA Token send as an Authorization header instead of a cookie for better rest support
  • Split upload handling (direct server support would be good instead of creating your own)
  • Attachment streaming for video
  • Round-trip Editing of attachments like we have in the Notes client
  • Support for more names in a single group and/or in names fields
  • Server side setup of Password Change requirements for web users
  • Server side setup of Password complexity for web users
  • 2-Factor login using i.e Google authenticator
  • Bulk import, faster ways to import large datasets from CSV or XML
  • Updated Notesid creation I believe that there is a limit to 1 each ms today
  • Database performance monitor
  • Speed, Speed and more Speed

Feel free to add your entries to the list, I have most certain missed lots of entries.

Making your Domino environment work for you

Posted by on 4 December,2017 1 comment

If you haven’t started using Rest api calls with your Domino environment, it’s time now. This will help you extennd and connect your domino environment to external services or connect external services to your Domino environment.

There is several ways to expose Rest api from the server

  • Domino Data Services
  • SmartNSF on OpenNTF
  • XPage with Json output
  • Domino View displayed as json
  • Lotusscript or Java agent

Here is some ideas what you could do

  • Sending / getting data from ERP system
  • Remote run print jobs
  • Compile Log events from servers or machines
  • Send control files to a cutting machine
  • Get information about how many people is walking thru a door
  • Getting sales numbers from cash registers into the Domino based extranet
  • Automatically get the exchange rate and update this into the system
  • Moving a support case forward in your external helpdesk
  • Connect IOT devices directly to a Domino or use IBM IOT in Bluemix as the collector point

If you have any great additions to the possibilities or need help implementing feel free to contact me or comment below.

Getting data from an HTTPS site in backend using XPages

Posted by on 11 October,2017 4 comments

If you want to connect to an SSL protected site and get information it could be an webpage or a webservice if you are using xpages and the certifier isn’t already in Domino you need to import the certificates.

Open up the Domino Name and adress book navigate to Security -> Certificates

When you are in this view the action menu will have a new option

Select these and import each of the certificates that you have.

Important Step!!
When they are imported you need to create a Cross certificate.

Go in to each one of the newly imported certificates and in the actions menu you will have create cross certificate create a cross certificate against the server. Make sure to change from Local to the server in registration server and select the certificate for the server. When you are done.

Restart task HTTP on the server console and you should be able to connect.

If it’s an old Java agent this doesn’t work then you need to import the certificate in the keystore in the jvm. Check out this technote
https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0035853

java.io.File doesn’t work as expected in Domino FP7 and newer versions

Posted by on 26 September,2017 1 comment

I found this error in a java agent first. If you detach a file from a Notes document using Domino Classes and try to get a handle on the file using java.io.File the file isn’t found until you do a new call against the server. I don’t know if this has to do with the change of Java version server side or not but the same code works in FP6.

Code Example

Body.extractFile(strFileName);
File objInFile = new File(strFileName);
if(objInFile.exists()){

But if you go and use java.io.File in an XPage it will not find a file until you reload the page completely, it seams to work fine in FP6 but not in newer versions.

I have tried this on Window 64bit version of Domino 9.01fp6, 9.01fp7 and 9.01fp9

Anybody else seeing the same problems please report against the problem
SPR # PALTAQQLXH / APAR LO92928

If you want to test it in a database let me know and I can supply a sample database

Have you experienced any other bugs related to the Java upgrade?

Verse 1.0.2 with Live text and send extensions

Posted by on 4 September,2017 Comments Off on Verse 1.0.2 with Live text and send extensions

Yes you heard right, onpremise Verse gets extensionpoints that gives you the possibility to find text and populate this.

Live text demo showing clickable text that reveal actions you can take.

And also gives you the possibility to do intercept the user before a email is sent. This is great for compliance reasons.

There is more good stuff in there but this is really exciting a developer end point in to web email.

Why you should install Verse on premise NOW!!

Posted by on 9 May,2017 Comments Off on Why you should install Verse on premise NOW!!

If you are using Domino and mail on premise you should install Verse now.

My list on why you should

  1. Modern fast interface for your users
  2. Supersmart filtering of emails

    Filter by folder, time and even containing attachments, Group emails by thread. Last two added with Verse 1.01
  3. Need Action and wait for functions for better email workflows
  4. Offline emails

Installing Verse is a simple operation, make sure that your server has the right Domino and FP version installed. Also add the 2 new views to your mail templates and update this to your users.

Verse is a great performance enhancement for mail management.

Some improvements I would like to see in future versions

  1. Get the calendar inbox and full verse calendar experience
  2. Add more time intervall. Previous Month, last 30 days, This Year
  3. Preview of attachments
  4. Support for SmartCloud version of Connections, today only on premise Connections.
  5. Extension API:s
  6. Watson cloud extensions for smarter email and calendar
  7. Better ways to create new emails an include attachments for other emails (i.e you get an request for an invoice copy from an customer. you connect to finance to get the copy. and want to send this attachment to the customer but you don’t want to forward the email from finance)

Verse 1.01 is out with great improvements so if you have Verse but not that version upgrade (needs 9.01fp8 if3)

Bluemix the extension your need to expand your universe

Posted by on 9 January,2017 2 comments

We have everything on our own servers you might say and have no use for IBM Bluemix Cloud services you might say. Well, I think you are wrong, Bluemix will help you expand the reach of your applications beyond borders that you might have today.

  1. Lets say you have an internal audit application and you want some external users to answer on some audits. Bluemix will help you here without opening up or adding a new server
  2. Perhaps you want to get some users in another part of the world to get web access to you application. Great Bluemix will help you here
  3. You have a customer facing application site that you want to be able to scale up easy, no problem Bluemix will assist you.
  4. Your application will improve with input from some IOT devices that is on customer sites. Bluemix will definitely give your help here.

This is 4 examples where Bluemix will help you expand your applications in an easy and affordable way.

If you haven’t started using Bluemix or want to, feel free to contact me.

GDPR privacy and security for everybody

Posted by on 7 December,2016 No comments

If you have or haven’t heard of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) that is a European Union law that will be in effect on the 25:th of May 2018. This regulation will affect all companies working with citizens of EU, do many companies will be affected not only Companies with offices within the EU.

So if your company is within EU or work with EU citizens this affects your company.

Why should you bother, well the board of directors of your company will. Because the company can get a fine of 4% of your total revenue and your company can be stopped from handling personal information about European citizens. And that includes information about customers, partners and suppliers.

Why is this implemented

We send out more and more information about our personal information and companies has forgotten that they have only borrowed this information and they can’t do what they want with this.
And with all data breaches in mind a better knowledge and understanding about security would probably have prevented many of them.

I will continue to monitor this area and write about this

Feel free to give your comment about GDPR or contact me if you have any other questions