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Quick start guide to IBM Lotus Domino Server.Load V8
Learn about IBM Lotus Domino Server.Load V8. From installation to configuration to running workloads, this article shows you how to quickly get started.
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29 Jul 2010 |
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IBM Lotus Server.Load: The new IBM Lotus Sametime workloads
Set up and use the IBM Lotus Server.Load workload generation tool, which includes new IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging workloads, ST70IM and ST75IM, and the Sametime Initialization workload. We show you how to use these workloads to optimize your Lotus Sametime deployment performance.
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29 Jul 2010 |
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Comment lines: Sending parameters to the JSR 286-based Web Content Viewer portlet from external applications
The new JSR 286-based Web Content Viewer portlet that is part of IBM
WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 adds a lot of new features and has a lot of
advantages. However, if you want to send parameters from an external
application to the portlet, it works very differently in the new portlet
compared to the old one. This article describes how you can easily send
parameters to the new portlet and why this difference exists.
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14 Jul 2010 |
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Measuring IBM WebSphere Portal effectiveness
This article explains the tools and technologies available to monitor IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1 or later usage, including WebSphere Portal site analytics and various open source and commercial offerings. It compares these tools and technologies, providing usage guidelines in various scenarios with the design patterns and best practices on tracking portal usage.
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13 Jul 2010 |
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Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 and 6.1.5: A workshop
The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal. Learn which tool to use for which task and about the new capabilities of WebSphere Portal 6.1.5, and understand differences from previous versions of WebSphere Portal. We take you through exercises for each tool so you can learn hands-on how to use the different tools.
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29 Jun 2010 |
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IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes 8.5.1 on Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0: A scalability analysis
This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from your IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client on the new Citrix XenApp 5.0 server. In particular, we show that, by tuning your environment so that you get the most from your applications, you can realize significant improvements in running the Notes client on XenApp. This is true for both the standard and the basic configurations of Lotus Notes.
Moreover, the new support for Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 by Notes 8.5.1 together with memory improvements means we can scale to even higher numbers than before at a much reduced cost. Also presented are the testing environment, tuning parameters, and the workflows that were executed to gather the scalability data on Notes 8.5.1.
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28 Jun 2010 |
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IBM LotusLive and IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meetings Plug-in
This white paper provides detailed information about the installation, configuration, and usage of the IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte and IBM LotusLive Meetings plug-ins available to use with your IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime clients.
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27 May 2010 |
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IBM technology in the financial markets front office, Part 1: Overview of a financial markets front office integration blueprint
This article is the first in a series that explores how IBM middleware
capabilities can be integrated to address the technical requirements of the
financial markets front office. The front office requirements necessitate the
need for specialized software that can handle high volumes of data at
extremely high speeds. This article series describes an algorithmic trading
scenario that was implemented as part of an IBM Software Group incubation
project. This first article provides a high-level overview of an integration
blueprint that was produced within the project. This blueprint illustrates how
the components in the scenario interconnect. Future articles will drill deeper
into the technical details around the integration of the various products in
the blueprint and how the products were used in the scenario.
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06 May 2010 |
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Achieving high availability with IBM Lotus iNotes
Learn how to achieve high availability for IBM® Lotus® iNotes® through the use of a software load balancer or hardware such as an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) in conjunction with IBM Lotus Domino® clustering. This article discusses some of the challenges related to properly load balancing Lotus iNotes to ensure high availability with the use of an ADC.
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06 May 2010 |
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ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control of documents and their data, Part 3
The third of a three-part series, this article introduces how to use Open Document Format (ODF) Document Object Model (DOM) for Java™ to create text (text), spreadsheet (spreadsheet), and presentation graphics (presentation) documents.
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27 Apr 2010 |
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Troubleshooting IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Quickr integration issues
This white paper provides a step-by-step guide to isolating root causes of IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Quickr integration issues, including the configuration areas to check, for example, Domino Names.nsf, QPconfig.xml, STconfig.nsf, and firewall settings. In addition, we provide relevant debug parameters specific to hosting IBM Lotus Domino Servers, Quickr Servers, and Sametime Servers, to help pinpoint where Sametime and Quickr integration configuration fails.
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02 Apr 2010 |
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Getting started with DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations
IBM introduces DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations, which adds a fast and scalable database product to the Lotus
Foundations family. This article provides an overview of the Lotus Foundations architecture and describes how the DB2 Add-on fits
into this architecture. You'll also learn how to install and configure the Add-on.
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01 Apr 2010 |
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ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control of documents and their data, Part 2
The second of a three-part series, this article provides details of the code structure of the Open Document Format (ODF) Document Object Model (DOM) for Java™. We introduce the layered architecture of the ODFDOM and the compositions and functions of each layer, including the relationship between the layers.
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30 Mar 2010 |
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ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control of documents and their data, Part 1
This article is the first in a three-part series and introduces the new Open Document Format (ODF) Document Object Model (DOM) for Java™ along with the ODF Toolkit Union open source community, whose mission is to simplify the programmatic manipulation of documents and their data.
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23 Mar 2010 |
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 performance
This article reports IBM® Lotus® Notes® Traveler 8.5.1 performance results for Microsoft® Windows® 64-bit operating systems. In addition, it compares the performances of Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 (64-bit) server and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 (64-bit) server. Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 for IBM Lotus Domino® 32-bit servers was not tested because large deployments of Lotus Notes Traveler server are preferred on Lotus Domino 64-bit servers.
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09 Mar 2010 |
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Configuring IBM Tivoli Access Manager SSO for IBM Lotus Connections 2.5
This white paper explains how to configure IBM Tivoli Access Manager as a single sign-on (SSO) solution for IBM Lotus Connections 2.5. Though this is an optional configuration, it is recommended in order to provide a more secure environment, especially if users are accessing Lotus Connections from a wide area network (WAN).
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05 Mar 2010 |
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Migrating from PDF forms to IBM Lotus Forms
In the world of e-forms, IBM® Lotus® Forms and PDF forms are the most two popular products. A Lotus Forms project can be categorized as two distinct tasks: migrating from existing e-forms and creating e-forms from scratch. We have found in our experience with IBM Software Services for Lotus that most forms projects involve migrating from PDF forms to Lotus Forms.
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01 Mar 2010 |
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Administering IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 servers for beginners
This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus Domino, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of server maintenance and NSDs.
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01 Mar 2010 |
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Managing custom fields using the REST document service in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1.1 services for WebSphere Portal
This article introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) document service's custom field support in IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ 8.1.1 services for IBM WebSphere® Portal, also called the Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version of Lotus Quickr. We explain the concept of custom fields, discuss the programming model to manage custom fields with the Lotus Quickr REST document service, and demonstrate a business scenario for extending the core set of document attributes.
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23 Feb 2010 |
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Meet the developers: Chris Toohey
This interview with Chris Toohey is the first in a series of interviews with IBM Lotus Domino Designer developers who are active contributors to the Lotus community.
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17 Feb 2010 |
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Configuring single sign-on for IBM Lotus Connections in the Kerberos environment
In this article, we discuss the configuration of a Kerberos-based single sign-on solution from a Microsoft®
Windows® desktop to IBM® Lotus® Connections running on IBM WebSphere® Application Server.
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02 Feb 2010 |
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Mash active and archived data using IBM Mashup Center and Optim
For cost, operational efficiency, and regulatory requirements,
enterprises are required to archive transactional data. But that data might
still be useful for reporting purposes. This article shows how easily you can
use IBM Mashup Center to modify a reporting mashup to combine data from a
DB2(R) relational database with data that was archived using the Optim(TM)
Data Growth Solution.
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21 Jan 2010 |
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Monitoring availability, performance, infrastructure, and beyond using IBM Lotus Sametime
Ever wonder how to really know what the status of your IBM Lotus Sametime environment is? Discover how Lotus Sametime can be monitored, in terms of both function and performance, from the user perspective. This article describes (and provides) a simple lightweight proactive tool to assist administrators in better understanding the Lotus Sametime user experience to reduce outages, respond to issues more quickly, and improve the customer experience. In addition to monitoring capabilities, this tool can assist in debug collection and take the burden off users for problem recreates and data collection. By combining network validation with Lotus Sametime IM, user awareness, user login, and username look-up validation, never before has such a complete picture of the user experience been available.
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20 Jan 2010 |
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IBM Mashup Center: OpenSocial interoperability
This article describes how you can extend IBM® Mashup Center to use and interoperate with other widget component models, such as OpenSocial gadgets.
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19 Jan 2010 |
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XPages straight up
This article provides information for using JavaScript™ to create, view, edit, and remove documents in an IBM® Lotus® Domino® application. It also provides a general introduction to JavaScript in XPages and shows you where and how to attach JavaScript in the XPages user interface.
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12 Jan 2010 |
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Understanding and implementing local mail replicas for IBM Lotus Notes
If you are considering implementing local mail replicas for your IBM Lotus Notes users, learn more about the advantages of this model and how to create local mail replicas manually or administratively using Setup and Desktop policies. Customize the Desktop policy to control users’ Location documents.
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11 Jan 2010 |
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Informal collaboration tools for global software development teams
Software development teams that include engineers around the globe are adopting informal collaboration tools to overcome communication and cultural barriers and build trust and comfort among members. This article describes the benefits of such tools in fundamental, operational, and strategic terms.
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17 Dec 2009 |
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Developing a Mozilla Firefox plug-in for Content Management Interoperability Services
This article presents an overview of a new proposed standard for accessing content, namely Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), and provides an example of how to use these services using Mozilla Firefox.
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15 Dec 2009 |
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Use DataStage Web Services Pack to fetch Lotus Notes data into an
InfoSphere Information Servers DataStage module for more ETL
processing
This article explores various features that Lotus(R) Domino(R) Server
provides to create and deploy Lotus applications as Web services. You will
learn how IBM InfoSphere(R) Information Server uses these applications through
DataStage(R) Web Services Pack. This step-by-step guide helps you create,
configure, and deploy Web services in Lotus Domino, and it helps you create,
configure, compile, and execute a DataStage Web Services Pack job that uses
Lotus Web services.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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An IBM Mashup Center plug-in to perform XSLT transforms
Learn how to build an XSLT plug-in for Version 2 of the IBM Mashup Center
that takes advantage of the built-in support for Basic and Form-based authentication.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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Introducing IBM LotusLive Meetings
In this article, we give an overview of IBM® LotusLive Meetings and describe its unique features. In other articles in this series, we examine each offering in more detail.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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Introducing IBM LotusLive Engage
In this article, we give an overview of IBM® LotusLive Engage and describe its unique features. In other articles in this series, we examine each offering in more detail.
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10 Dec 2009 |
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My developerWorks: New ways to build your technical skills and your
professional network
My developerWorks is a worldwide community of software developers and IT
professionals of all stripes, from students to seasoned veterans. As you'd
expect, there's a lot going on in this community, 24/7. New groups of users
who share common interests are forming. Blogs and wikis are starting up.
Bookmarks and files are being added, examined, and copied. Collaborative
activities are breaking new ground. And now new features and the revamped home
page make it even easier to contribute and keep tabs on it all. So...whether
you're new to My developerWorks (welcome!) or already in the community, read
on to see the new ways the community can help you thrive.
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08 Dec 2009 |
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Understanding the Web services database (NDERPws.nsf) in Alloy by IBM and SAP
The backbone of Alloy™ by IBM® and SAP® architecture is Web services communication between trusted parties, namely IBM and SAP. Both asynchronous and synchronous communication between IBM and SAP is through the Web services database NDERPws.nsf. This article explains the role of this database and how to use it from both an administrator and a user perspective, and how to troubleshoot some common issues.
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08 Dec 2009 |
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Creating an IBM Lotus Web Content Management site structure with one click
Read about a simple solution that enables you to define site structures in IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management in an automated fashion. This solution allows you to save time on an otherwise time-consuming and monotonous task.
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08 Dec 2009 |
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Automating IBM Lotus Symphony deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
This article describes how to build and deploy a custom IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ package using Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager, formally Systems Management Server. The article describes in detail how to prepare your custom package with custom plug-ins, add custom branding, and update the Lotus Symphony package home page.
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10 Nov 2009 |
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Enabling secure, remote access to IBM Lotus iNotes using IBM Lotus Mobile Connect
Learn how the IBM® Lotus® Mobile Connect clientless option can be used in conjunction with IBM Lotus iNotes™ to gain secure, remote access to enterprise iNotes servers from devices (handhelds, laptops, workstations) requiring access outside the bounds of their corporate intranet.
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05 Nov 2009 |
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Demystifying the IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.x syndication tool: Making it work for you
This white paper describes the various components involved in IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.x syndication and explains how you can make the tool work for you. Also included are detailed discussions of some of the concepts involved in troubleshooting common syndication issues.
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22 Oct 2009 |
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Setting up an IBM Rational Application Developer-based iWidget development environment
When widgets are developed for deployment on IBM® Mashup Center, two IBM development tools can be used, the IBM Mashup Center widget factory or IBM Rational® Application Developer. This article explains how to set up IBM Rational Application Developer so that it can be used to create iWidgets for deployment in IBM Mashup Center.
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20 Oct 2009 |
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Introducing IBM LotusLive
In this article, we give an overview of the IBM® LotusLive offerings and describe their unique features. In subsequent articles in this series, we examine each offering in more detail.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Implementing common extension scenarios using IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 APIs
The IBM Lotus Web Content Management (hereafter called “Web Content Management”) API provides an extension of standard features of Web Content Management. This article provides usage and solutions with code samples of the most common implementations carried out by customers using APIs. You can pick and choose the samples provided here, as is, to incorporate into your system.
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07 Oct 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Lotus Notes with IBM Lotus Symphony using LotusScript and the Lotus Symphony Toolkit
Learn to use the IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ LotusScript® toolkit to publish information from IBM Lotus Notes® into Lotus Symphony applications, such as Lotus Symphony Documents and Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets.
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06 Oct 2009 |
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Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 with Lotus Widget Factory and Google gadgets
This article details two different approaches that you can use to accelerate and simplify the development of new widgets for IBM® Lotus® Connections.
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29 Sep 2009 |
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Implementing and deploying Google gadgets for the Lotus Connections Home page
This article introduces the IBM®-developed iWidget specification used in various IBM products such as IBM Lotus® Connections 2.0. It describes different aspects of the specification through a practical example, which shows how to implement an iWidget that acts as a wrapper for a Google gadget.
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29 Sep 2009 |
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Happy birthday to you, developerWorks!
Help us celebrate the tenth birthday of developerWorks.
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28 Sep 2009 |
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Troubleshooting issues with IBM Lotus Sametime Servers
The intent of this white paper is to give you a better understanding of the different components of IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 and 8.x servers and their environments, so you can better troubleshoot problems that may occur. We address both the stand-alone Sametime (chat or meeting) server as well as the Sametime Enterprise Meeting Server (EMS), which provides clustering, load balancing, and central administration for Sametime meeting servers.
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22 Sep 2009 |
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Introducing REST-based services for wiki and blog content in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1.1 services for IBM WebSphere Portal
In IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ versions earlier than 8.1.1, the public APIs supported only document-related services. Lotus Quickr 8.1.1 now has REST-based services for wiki and blog content, to enable creating, viewing, updating, and deleting wiki and blog content inside Lotus Quickr. This article focuses on the REST-style wiki and blog content service APIs, their usage, and how they can be leveraged to build custom solutions.
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16 Sep 2009 |
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New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Ultra-light mode and the Lotus iNotes redirector
IBM® Lotus® iNotes™ 8.5 includes many new features. This third article in the series covers the new Lotus iNotes ultra-light mode and some improvements to the Lotus iNotes redirector application.
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10 Sep 2009 |
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Customizing email notifications in IBM Lotus Connections 2.5
This white paper is a guide for personalizing the content and layout of the mail messages generated by IBM Lotus Connections 2.5.
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08 Sep 2009 |
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Understanding SMTP authentication and securing your IBM Lotus Domino 8 server from spam
Learn how the SMTP protocol and SMTP authentication process works to secure your IBM Lotus Domino 8 server from spam.
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08 Sep 2009 |
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Writing Java to build applications using IBM Lotus Domino Designer
The objective of the article is to help the traditional LotusScript developer, who typically has no hard-core development background, move to Java.
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31 Aug 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Reviewer's Guide
This Reviewer's Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBM's social software, Lotus Connections 2.5, and its eight services: Home Page, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, and Wikis. In addition, this guide explains how to extend the features and functionalities of Lotus Connections to your existing applications.
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28 Aug 2009 |
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An IBM Mashup Center plug-in to convert HTML to XML
Learn how to build a plug-in for the IBM Mashup Center that can convert HTML into
XML, opening the door for some simple data extraction from HTML pages using the Feed Mashup Editor.
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18 Aug 2009 |
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Migrating from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to IBM Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 8 and later using Binary Tree's CMT
This white paper explains the detailed steps to migrate a Microsoft® Exchange® server and Outlook® client to IBM® Lotus® Domino® and Lotus Notes® with the help of Binary Tree's Common Migration Tool (CMT).
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12 Aug 2009 |
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Deploying IBM Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal in 10 steps
IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ services for WebSphere® Portal provides a team collaboration platform that enables the team to exchange information in the form of documents, ideas, and knowledge. Lotus Quickr provides ready-to-use components, such as document library, blogs, and wikis, that provide the required collaboration capabilities. This article explains in simple terms how to deploy Lotus Quickr in an organization, in just 10 steps, to achieve the goal of team collaboration. All aspects of deployment are covered: from easy consumability in terms of installation and configuration, through choosing functional components and providing access control, to the extension of Lotus Quickr to suit the requirements.
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11 Aug 2009 |
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Understanding IBM Lotus Domino server clustering
This white paper explains how to set up, manage, and monitor an IBM Lotus Domino server cluster.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Managing reporting in Alloy by IBM and SAP 1.0
Alloy™ by IBM® and SAP® 1.0 combines the strengths of IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus® Domino® and SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules, providing access to the SAP workflows and data directly from Lotus Notes. This article provides a high-level architectural overview of Alloy, in-depth explanations of all the reporting management features supported in release 1.0, and troubleshooting tips for some common issues.
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04 Aug 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Lotus Domino Directory with Microsoft Active Directory using ADSync
An enterprise IT environment with multiple directory platforms is a common scenario, and IBM Lotus Domino Directory and Microsoft Active Directory are popular choices within this scenario. This article explains one way to get these two directories to communicate easily using the Lotus Domino Active Directory Synchronization tool (ADSync).
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28 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 server performance, part 3: Enterprise cluster mail performance
IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5 server offers a lot of features aimed at reducing the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Lotus Domino mail server cluster infrastructure in a large enterprise. In this article, we show you how you can leverage these features incrementally to realize TCO benefits while upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5.
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28 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 server performance, part 1: IBM Lotus Notes performance
Increasing value to the customer is an ongoing theme for the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server. The growing volume of information in today’s enterprise strains existing hardware infrastructures. Lotus Domino 8.5 contains features that help relieve the stress on the expensive processor and storage subsystems. This article shows the reductions in processor and disk utilization with Lotus Domino 8.5 and Lotus Notes® clients.
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28 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 server performance, part 2: iNotes performance
Improving input/output (I/O) performance is one of the major goals for IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5. The developerWorks® article "IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 performance for IBM Lotus Notes users" showed the impressive I/O reductions of Lotus Domino 8.5 with the Lotus Notes client. This article shows the I/O performance improvements of Lotus Domino 8.5 performance with Lotus iNotes® users. Lotus iNotes had been called Lotus Domino Web Access in the past; its name is iNotes in Lotus Domino 8.5.
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28 Jul 2009 |
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A quick start to using macros and controls in IBM Lotus Symphony
This article provides a step-by-step guide to get you started with macro programming for IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ in OpenOffice.org BASIC. It introduces the macro editor, shows how to add a control object to a Lotus Symphony document, demonstrates how to associate a control event to a macro, and introduces how to access data in a Lotus Symphony spreadsheet.
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21 Jul 2009 |
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Performance tuning IBM Lotus Quickr services for Lotus Domino
This article describes how to improve the performance of IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ services for Lotus Domino®.
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15 Jul 2009 |
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Verifying Lotus Forms XML digital signatures with Java
IBM® Lotus® Forms 3.5 provides support for XML digital signatures (XMLDSig) from W3C XML Signature Syntax and Processing. An XML digital signature for a Lotus Forms document can cover markup for the presentation layer and XML data managed by the XForms markup within the Lotus Forms document. This ability enables the signature to protect the full human context of a contract or agreement between the signing parties.
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14 Jul 2009 |
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Using the Generic Browser and Symphony Spreadsheet containers in composite applications
In IBM® Lotus Notes® 8.5 and IBM Lotus® Expeditor 6.2, the composite application infrastructure has been enriched with a generic application container framework. It comes with a set of components that allow for creating powerful and flexible applications without the need to write a single line of code. This article describes the generic application container framework and provides a step-by-step tutorial to create a composite application using the browser and spreadsheet container components. Weather data, such as average rainfall, is extracted from www.worldclimate.com and visualized in a chart defined in an IBM Lotus Symphony™ spreadsheet.
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14 Jul 2009 |
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Achieving ultimate storage and server cost savings
with DAOS in IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5
In this article, we discuss the various features that you can leverage in IBM® Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus® Domino® 8.5 to reduce your overall Lotus Domino server storage costs. We also outline how these savings affect more than just storage. We provide specific real-life savings seen by implementing these features in the Lotus Domino domain and how implementing DAOS inside IBM made a significant impact. We also show you how using the DAOS Estimator tool can provide you with information you need to determine your own cost savings.
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08 Jul 2009 |
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Building a custom component in IBM Lotus Quickr for IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting integration
This article explains how IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ services for WebSphere® Portal can be extended by developing custom components. Custom components can be developed to add more functionality and integrate with other software products and applications.
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30 Jun 2009 |
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Using the IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony API
This article describes the IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Unified Telephony API and the steps you take to deploy, configure, and invoke it. The Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony API is a REST (Representation State Transfer) API that provides click-to-call and click-to-conference semantics.
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30 Jun 2009 |
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What it takes to drive IBM Lotus Connections adoption in the enterprise
An increasing number of companies are evaluating social software for their enterprise. Most organizations from various industries are looking at IBM® Lotus® Connections for their social software needs. Without a clear adoption strategy and compelling business use case, though, even the best intended pilot programs can fail. Read about the lessons learned by some customers.
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30 Jun 2009 |
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Using the IBM Lotus Sametime Java toolkit from within a Lotus Sametime Connect toolkit plug-in
Learn how to use the full power of the low-level IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Protocol API exposed by the Java™ toolkit from within the easier development environment of the Lotus Sametime Connect toolkit. By extending the BuddyNote plug-in, which is one of the sample plug-ins provided with the Lotus Sametime software development kit (SDK), you can use the Server Storage API to store the notes about your buddies on the Lotus Sametime server rather than in a local configuration file.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Mashup business scenarios and patterns: Part 1
This initial article in a two-part series discusses the relationship of usage patterns that can be used today for deploying enterprise mashups to address business needs. Part 2 will address solution architecture and architectural patterns used to implement the business scenarios and usage patterns.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Developing an XML-based Lotus Sametime bot as a startup bean on WebSphere Application Server V7.0
Improving the representation for back-end content and system services using an IBM® Lotus® Sametime® bot is an easy way to attract users who are already familiar with the tool and want quick results without going to yet another Web site. This article provides a step-by-step guide to developing an XML-based Lotus Sametime bot as a startup bean on IBM WebSphere® Application Server V7.0.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Advanced Java view features in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5
Java™ views were introduced in the IBM® Lotus® Notes® client in release 8.0. Many new features were implemented through the Java views to modernize the Lotus Notes interface. After you have converted your application to use the Java view, you can follow the steps outlined in this article to take advantage of the new view features offered, such as threads, narrow mode, business cards, split action buttons, and custom context menus. This article presumes that you have an installed version of Lotus Notes 8.5, IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5, and the Lotus Notes 8.5 composite application editor. You should also be familiar with working in Lotus Domino® Designer.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Leveraging 3270 or 5250 data within Web-based mashup applications
Learn how to extract 3270 or 5250 data using IBM® Rational® Host Access Transformation Services, which can then be formed into an Atom data feed. This data feed can be utilized by IBM Mashup Center to consolidate with other data sources to create a new situational application for business users. We present an example of extracting data from a 3270 financial application, creating an Atom feed, cataloging that feed, and using that data to create an information dashboard for a loan officer.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Creating an IBM Lotus Notes 8.0 and later plug-in for IBM Multimedia Library
This article explains how to create an extension for IBM® Lotus Notes® 8.0 and later that allows you to open a preconfigured URL (for example, Lotus Notes Multimedia Library) in a newly opened browser window by selecting a menu entry in the Help menu.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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The new OpenNTF Alliance
This article describes the governance and IP model of the new OpenNTF Alliance. It also explains how consumers can find code on OpenNTF and how producers can contribute code. Last but not least, the article outlines some ideas for OpenNTF improvements and extensions.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Standard Widget Toolkit trees: Creating, sorting, and searching
This article explains how to develop and implement trees in the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). Learn how an SWT tree is created and populated with data, how columns can be used to categorize data, how a tree can be extended to support row sorting, and how the tree's content can be searched.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Integrating Flex applications with IBM Mashup Center
IBM® Mashup Center provides many ready-to-use widgets for building mashup applications. Additional widgets can be developed using Lotus Widget Factory, JavaScript™, and other programming languages. In this article, you walk through how an Adobe® Flex application can be used inside IBM Mashup Center.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 performance
This article reports on IBM® Lotus Notes® Traveler 8.5 performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. It also compares the performance of the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 (32-bit) server and the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1 (32-bit) server.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Helping customers globalize their IBM Lotus Notes applications
Globalizing IBM® Lotus® Notes® applications can be simple. IBM Lotus Domino® Global Workbench, which is released with Lotus Notes and Domino, can help customers globalize their applications quickly and easily. In version 8.5, Lotus Domino Global Workbench provides a new feature that extracts strings into properties files, thereby providing more flexibility for translation.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 iCalendar: Interoperability, implementation, and application
IBM® Lotus® Notes® 7.02 introduced the ability to import a public calendar in iCalendar format. Earlier, Lotus Notes 6.0 introduced the use of iCalendar as a calendar workflow exchange between applications or systems using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Customers interacting with different Internet calendar applications rely on iCalendar to exchange their calendar information to process the iCalendar invitation. Beginning with version 8.5, Lotus Notes implements an improvement to iCalendar interoperability that helps customers increase their work efficiency.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Understanding the automation test framework of Lotus C API toolkit
This article introduces the automation test framework of the IBM® Lotus® C API toolkit. The framework enables automated testing of the Lotus C API toolkit with little manual effort. It is an efficient approach for automatically testing a large number of cases. The framework is typical and can be applied to other products. In fact, the other Lotus toolkit products, Lotus C++ API toolkit and NotesSQL, take a similar approach to implementing automation testing.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Working with components in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1, part 3: Exposing components as a custom Atom feed
This article, the third in a three-part series, demonstrates how to expose the IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ content (items) as a custom Atom feed. The new Atom feed can be used to fetch Lotus Quickr content from components such as task or announcement across all teamplaces to which the user belongs. The content can also be filtered based on any option field of the component, such as the priority field of the task component or the type field of the announcement component.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Working with components in IBM Lotus Quickr, part 2: Creating a personalized view of the announcement component
This article explains how to create a personalized view of announcement items across all the teamplaces to which a user belongs. This article uses the IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management menu component for searching all the announcement content (items) that are created in different teamplaces to which the user belongs. The resulting set from the menu component is then filtered using Java™Script based on criteria. A similar approach can be used to create a personalized view of any other Lotus Web Content Management components, such as the Contact or Task components in IBM Lotus Quickr™.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Creating a bilingual environment using IBM Lotus Sametime
This article discusses how to change an existing IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 6.5.x or 7.x server environment to have a multilanguage environment; note that the multilanguage Lotus Sametime server was not made available until the R8 code stream. The article covers basic information on the languages supported, installation requirements, and the list of files that require developer changes to have a true multilanguage set-up. Illustrated in this article are step-by-step instructions and samples that you can use to make the changes needed in a single-language Lotus Sametime environment to have a multilingual Lotus Sametime server environment without upgrading IBM Lotus Domino®. Steps include copying files, making subform and template changes, and renaming views.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Basics steps: Converting an IBM Lotus Notes application to use Lotus Notes 8 Java components
Java™ views were introduced in the IBM® Lotus® Notes® client in release 8.0. Many new features were implemented using the Java views to modernize the Lotus Notes interface. This article outlines the steps that IBM Lotus Domino developers would take to convert their own Lotus Domino® (simple) applications into Java views. This document presumes that you have an installed version of Lotus Notes 8.5, IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5, and Lotus Notes composite application editor 8.5 and that you are familiar with working in Lotus Domino Designer.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Working with components in IBM Lotus Quickr, part 1: Creating a news component
This article provides end-to-end steps that explain how to create a new component (news list) in IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ Services for WebSphere® Portal 8.1. This news component supports basic features for a news item: title, summary, body, and type (normal and important news).
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Mashup business scenarios and patterns: Part 2
This article is part 2 in a two-part series that discusses the relationship of usage and architectural patterns that can be used for deploying enterprise mashups to address business needs. This article addresses the solution architecture and the architectural patterns used to implement the business scenarios and usage patterns covered in the initial article, "Mashup business scenarios and patterns: Part 1."
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Your Co branding for IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0 and later using the connect client
The IBM® Lotus® Sametime® connect client user interface can be customized with images, icons, logos, slogans, design schemes, and more. Users can brand the Lotus Sametime client to provide a unique and personal experience. A company can brand the Lotus Sametime client so that all employees see the company’s branding when they use Lotus Sametime. This article describes installing and modifying a Lotus Sametime branding plug-in, using the branding plug-in of a fictitious company, Your Co.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Administration policies and lite mode
IBM® Lotus® iNotes® 8.5 includes many new features. This second article in the series covers two distinct topics: new Lotus Domino® administration policy capabilities and improvements available in lite mode.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Full mode
IBM® Lotus® iNotes™ 8.5 full mode offers new features to bring more consistency between the iNotes browser-based experience and the Lotus Notes® 8.5 installed client experience. It also begins to add the same integration to external data services. In this article, the first in a multipart series, we cover the new features in Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode and examine the Web 2.0 related features in particular depth.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Lotus Notes with Microsoft Office using LotusScript and automation
Learn new techniques that you can apply to Microsoft® Office applications, such as Microsoft Excel, to publish information in an IBM® Lotus Notes® database in a variety of formats.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Domino, Linux, virtualization, scalability: No longer mutually exclusive terms
Tired of having to force fit IBM® Lotus® Domino® into your infrastructure? With the latest release of 64-bit Lotus Domino on Linux® and virtualization, you now can implement large-scale enterprise environments with Lotus Domino on Linux in a single footprint. This article documents the benchmarks that have been done and the results of early adopters of this solution, showing you how your infrastructure can fit and grow with Lotus Domino.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5
This article covers what’s new in the IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8.5 release. Lotus Notes 8.5 marks a major milestone in the Lotus Notes history and is a significant release in terms of new features, appearance, programmability, and functionality.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Implementing custom workflow decisions in Alloy 1.0 by IBM and SAP
With Alloy™ by IBM® and SAP® 1.0, business users can easily access SAP software and information from within their IBM Lotus Notes® environment, both online and offline. In addition to leave, travel, and reports management, Alloy also allows for custom workflow decision steps, defined in an SAP business process, to be brought into a user's Lotus Notes inbox. This article explains the necessary steps to implement such a custom workflow decision, based on a simple customer example.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Performance report: Alloy by IBM and SAP 1.0
This article reports on the performance of the IBM® components of the Alloy™ by IBM and SAP 1.0 software. Alloy by IBM and SAP 1.0 software simplifies your interaction with people, processes, and information by providing intuitive access to SAP software and information through the familiar IBM Lotus Notes®.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Wrinkle-free SSL: Using TLS/SSL with micro broker v3 in IBM Lotus Expeditor
One of the new security features provided with micro broker v3, which is shipped with IBM® Lotus® Expeditor 6.2, is the ability to encrypt network data transmitted to and from the broker using the industry-standard Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) protocols. This article describes several ways to secure your micro broker communication using this new feature.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Best practices in globalization: Developing IBM Lotus Notes applications
This article introduces the best practices in globalization that you can use to develop a good IBM®Lotus Notes® application. Following these recommendations, you can easily create good multilanguage-friendly Lotus Notes applications, which in turn can save you both resources and effort.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Forms 3.0.1 integration with IBM DB2 9, part 2
This article is the second in a series that explores the XML capabilities of IBM® DB2 9 and integrates those capabilities with IBM Lotus® Forms by looking at retrieving the Lotus Form document in its XML native format from the database and embedding it in Java™ Server Pages (JSPs).
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29 Jun 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Lotus Quickr with IBM WebSphere Portal using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Learn how to integrate IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ Web 2.0 services with IBM WebSphere® Portal applications, creating list and detail portlets that allow you not only to browse all the contents of a Lotus Quickr Library but also to allow access to the contents of a document.
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29 Jun 2009 |
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