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Date: 11 May 2017

What's New in Notes/Domino 901 Feature Pack 8

Notes/Domino Team

Ranjit Rai - IBM ICS SWATFocusing on entire Notes/Domino

Narendra Nesarikar – IBM ICS Support Facilitator for Open Mics

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Agenda

➢Overview of What are the new features that comes in

• Notes 9.0.1 FP8• Domino 9.0.1 FP8

➢ Information on key features along with required configuration changes.

➢Details on other fixes.

➢Q &A


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Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Support Extension & 8.5.x End of Service.• 9.0.1 Support Extension

✓ Customers fully protected on evolving Notes/Domino 9.0.1 platform until at least 2021 and fee based extended support until at least 2024

✓ Notes/Domino 9.0.1 continues to be enhanced on both server and client side

✓ IBM Verse On-Premises will incorporate feature updates from the cloud.

• 8.5.x End of Service

✓ Notes/Domino 8.5.x has been in market for 6 years

✓ Most of the client base has moved to Notes/Domino 9.0.1

✓ Remaining customers have until September 2018 to make the move to Notes/Domino 9.0.1

✓ Customers requiring further support can do so at an additional charge.

What is a Feature Pack?


A “Feature Pack” delivers features, in addition to fixes. Our intent is to provide Feature Packs at a cadence of 3-4 per year

➢ Notes / Domino 9.0.1 will be the baseline release and future updates will be delivered as feature packs on top of 9.0.1. This provides a mechanism for continuous delivery and eases deployments.

➢ There are ”core” technical elements required to support the longevity of Domino applications and these are of the highest priority in the upcoming Feature Packs.

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Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 New features

• Upgrade Java 1.8 (Run time only).

• Move Views outside of NSF for Increased data store in NSF.

• Document encryption for Xpages.

• Increase Document Summary limit from 64k to 16mb.

• Pubnamestemplate update.

Notes/Domino 9.0.1 FP8 Platform Updates


• Microsoft Windows 2016 support added in Feature Pack 8.

• 32 bit dropped for AIX and Linux server.

• Notes Client Feature Pack 8 is note released for Mac and Embedded SameTimeupgrade planning is under way.

• No new functional improvements for Linux client beyond Fix Pack 7.

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• Templates released in separate downloads aligned with Feature Pack releases.

• Posted on IBM Fix Central and not packaged with the feature Pack installer –optional download to upgrade templates.

• Only updated templates will be released.

• Will include changes needed for corresponding features / fixes in the Notes / Domino Feature Pack.

• There is one zip file for English and one zip for all other languages.

Notes/Domino 9.0.1 FP8 Template Updates

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Notes 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8

Notes 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8


• Ability to show internet address instead of Notes addresses in Mail / Calendar / Contacts and ToDo’s

• To allow sending eml files as attachment.

• Retaining MIME formatting when forwarding or replying to internet messages

• Show Beginning of Message & Group by Date feature using desktop policy

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Showing Internet address for local recipients in place of Notes address


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• Requires Notes Client, server & Mail database template upgrade to FP8.

• Administrator needs to plan rolling out this updated template to users from server.

• Need to enable option in mail preferences to display Internet address of users instead of Notes address as below.

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Technote Link : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22002462

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22002462


• Requires upgrading server and Notes Client with feature pack 8

• The fix does require customer to set this ini: MIMEAttachNestedMessages=1 or 2 on the server.

1 for Making RFC822 Inline And Attached2 for Making RFC822 Attached

To allow sending eml files as attachment

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Procedure :

To retain MIME formatting:

• Upgrade mail files to the mail9.ntf template version provided with FP8.

• Add the notes.ini setting KeepReplyForwardMime=1 to Notes standard clients.

• Verify that MIME mail is enabled for the embedded browser; it is enabled by default in Notes 9:

a. From the Notes client, click File > Preferencesb. Click Basic Notes Client Configurationc. In Additional options, verify that the following setting is not selected:

Disable embedded browser for MIME mail.

Retaining MIME formatting when forwarding or replying to internet messages

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Show Beginning of Message & Group by Date feature using desktop policy

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Now in the 9.0.1 feature pack 8 we have added support to enable group by date and beginning of message features by default, using a desktop policy.


Administrators can push the notes.ini setting EnableBeginningOfMessage=1 to Notes clients to enable the Show > Beginning of Message option in mail files.

When enabled, Notes client users see the first 100 characters of a message in their Inbox or personal folders along with the subject. Users can select Show > Beginning of Message to turn off the setting.

Show Beginning of Message feature in all mail files.

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Administrators can push the notes.ini setting EnableGroupByDate=1to Notes clients to enable the Show > Group By Date option in mail files.

When enabled, messages in the Inbox, All Documents view, and personal folders on the IBM Notes client are grouped by relative date: Today, Yesterday, Last Week, and so forth.

Users can select Show > Group By Date to turn off the setting

Group By Date feature in all mail files

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Domino/Notes 9.0.1 FP8 Top Fixes


SPR # Fix

CSYL9VBRVE (LO84524) Issue where calendar updates do not update the notes invitee's calendar If auto processing is enabled.

GMAA7YUHGZ (LO47397) Allow users the option to disable password history.

KGEW7QNV85 (LO39186) Problem where Notes is unable to send an internet email message if the address is enclosed in single-quotes. This was a regression introduced in 9.0.1

MJBC9EBVCN (LO78311) Where new documents are lost when compact -REPLICA is running in a mail database.

ALSR8ZZR5J (LO72622) LDAP search authentication issue with special characters.

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ARBQ9Q5HR9 (LO82463) Messages sent from clients to external recipients will move addresses from the CC field to the TO field on replies.

ADONADJUDF (LO90147) Dialog prompting "How Do You Want To Open This File?" when opening a jpg or bmp file.

PEDSA7QK9P (LO87584) Notes Client SSO connection expires after the user's IBM notes client is left inactive for some time.

JGRN84PJJF (LO45099) Intermittent client crashes using the Notes Client together with OLE apps.

RGAUADUM59 (LO90248) Duplicate attachment icons when using LS embed object to attach files to a notes rich text item.

Refer: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/8d1c0550e6242b69852570c900549a74/26aa7417bb60f7df852580b40072af2d?OpenDocument

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/8d1c0550e6242b69852570c900549a74/26aa7417bb60f7df852580b40072af2d?OpenDocument

Domino/Notes 9.0.1 FP8 Interim Fix


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Refer http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657963

The latest Interim Fix for each product is listed below:

•Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 Interim Fix 3 (released May 2017)

•Notes 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 Interim Fix 1 (released April 2017)

•iNotes 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 Interim Fix 1 (released April 2017)

•Notes 9.0.1 64-bit for Mac Interim Fix 9 (released March 2017)

•Verse On-Premises 1.0.0.1 Interim Fix 1 (released March 2017)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657963


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