Neue features in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7

Kategorie: Domino Designer; Domino Server

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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/releasenotes/

New features in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7

Client

Accessibility

• You can designate row and column headers in tables so that screen-reader applications can detect them.

Desktop

• New menu option (File - Close All Window Tabs) allows a user to quickly close all open windows.
• No longer necessary to wait while a view which needs updating is being opened.
• Lotus Workplace has been integrated into the Welcome Page Wizard, allowing users to create multiple Workplace welcome pages.
• Users can now save their open window state on shutdown. For example, if a user has 5 windows open, then shuts down Notes, those 5 windows will open when Notes is restarted.
• Preferences set via policies (both Desktop and Mail) can now be locked down by the administrator.
• AutoSave option for selected documents (see Designer section below).

Calendar and Scheduling

• A new Calendar Cleanup action allows users to easily and quickly delete old entries from their calendar.
• AutoProcessing can automatically accept a Calendar event even if there is a schedule conflict.
• Users can cancel Calendar/Scheduling workflow when Sending with comments.
• The Calendar Mini-view has the ability to be expanded and collapsed.
• Calendar Managers can now mark messages for follow up in mail files that they manage.
• Calendar Managers: mail forwarded by a calendar manager will now be created/saved in the correct mail file.
• Meetings now allow you set up the Online portion of the meeting to restrict attendees to only those on the invite list and to provide a password for the online meeting.
• Meetings View renamed to All Calendar Entries and has new views and many usability improvements.
• Embedded graphics in the Description field now appear when sending an Invitation through iCalendar.

Rooms and Resources

• Users are able to specify a preferred site and a preferred list of rooms/resources to use when scheduling meetings.
• There is the ability to see which rooms/resources are restricted when scheduling meetings.
• Rooms and Resources workflow changed to eliminate double bookings - Rooms or Resources booked directly through the R&R database now get processed in the same way as Rooms/Resources booked through Calendaring and Scheduling.
• Rooms and Resources template has usability improvements to forms and views, including a simple form to create a reservation, and the ability to transfer a reservation.
• Administrators can limit how far in the future reservations can be made in the Resource Reservation database. Users who attempt to book a room or resource over the administrator set limit will receive a separate decline notice that will tell them that their reservation exceeded the limit.
• Administrators can set automatic reminder notices to be sent to the Chairperson who booked a particular room and/or resource, so that if a meeting is cancelled, the room and/or resource can be released.
• Administrators can now set up Room & Resources Manager to prevent overbooking of rooms and resources by users.

Mail

• Users are warned if no Subject has been entered in a document.
• A new status bar icon indicates whether e-mail you receive is digitally signed, encrypted, or both.
• Sort by Subject is now available on the Inbox and other views in Mail.
• Added Delivery Option to allow Personal Groups to remain collapsed.
• Mail Rules support for: Stop Processing Action, and BlackList/WhiteList spam.
• The Quick Follow Up feature allows a user to flag a document or set of documents for Follow Up, without displaying the Follow Up dialog box, by using defaults that are set in Preferences. Also, the user can now display the Follow Up dialog box by dragging and dropping to the Follow Up view.
• Follow Up actions are available via the right-click mouse menu.
• Mail threads can now be displayed as part of the Memo header.
• Mail views now have a new Folder action - Discover Folders - when a document is selected in the view, and the Folder-Discover Folders action is selected, a dialog box will be displayed showing which folders the selected document is in.
• When upgrading a folder design manually, you can now choose to base the design on All Documents.
• Mail Preferences can now be set via policies, allowing administrators to roll out a single set of preferences to all users. These preferences can be locked down by the administrator so that the end user cannot modify them.
• Users can now display a view level icon within the Inbox that shows if they are the only one, or one of a few listed, in the "To" and/or "cc:" field.
• Archiving - UI usability improvements.
• Archiving - Creation Date can now be used when archiving.
• Archiving - Administrators can now set a maximum retention time for archiving.
• Archiving - Administrators can now use a custom generated expiration field.

Interoperability

• Smart Tags integration - Access to Notes is available using the Smart Tags feature in Microsoft Office XP. Smart Tags work by recognizing certain types of text (for example, person names), and then offering related functions and commands. You can now send Notes mail, show name details and/or invite the person to a meeting.

Template

• Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (formerly Sametime) integration has been added to the Mail, Calendar, and Scheduling views; to the Teamroom and Discussion templates, to the Personal Name and Address Book; to the Domino Directory; and to the Rooms and Resources template. Users can see who is online, indicated by a Globe icon, and click a button to start a chat session.
• The TeamRoom and Discussion templates, Rooms and Resources, and Document Library, support Mozilla browser.

Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing integration

• Notes Instant Messaging Chat windows are now in a separate thread - they are no longer blocked when the Notes client is blocked.
• Notes Instant Messaging buddy Contact list can now be minimized to the Windows task bar.
• Notes Instant Messaging preferences now support three new options for when a new IM message or invitation arrives: Bring message window to front, Blink window and Play sound.
• Notes Instant Messaging buddy Contact list includes three new options: Show online people only, Show short names, and Sort list.
• Notes Instant Messaging Meetings now support Screen Sharing, Whiteboard, Audio and Video.
• The Toolbar now has icons for Screen Sharing, Whiteboard, Audio and Video Instant Meetings.
• Notes URLs can now be pasted into and activated within Notes Chat windows.

Notes Application Plug-in for use with the Lotus Workplace Messaging rich client Edition - Technology Preview

• The Notes Application Plug-in is included as part of the Notes / Domino 7.0 Beta 3 release, and is designed to work in conjunction with the IBM Lotus Workplace 2.5 Messaging rich client. For more information, see the IBM Lotus Workplace Release Notes.

Designer

DB2 Access View and DB2 Query View

Support for DB2 data store is introduced with Domino 7. For more information about this new feature, please refer to the Domino 7 Designer Help documentation.

• DB2 Access View is a new design element available for DB2-enabled databases.
• DB2 Query View is a new type of view available for DB2-enabled databases.

Forms

• Designers now have the ability to specify that a form supports AutoSave - documents being edited with that form will be saved out locally based on a user specified time, so that they will be available after a system failure/crash. Users will also have the option to save out documents that use that form to the local store in the event the server they were working on goes down.

Fields

• Text, Names, Dialog List, Radio Button and Check box fields now respect the Input Enabled method.

Views

• Application developers can now have actions added to right-click menus in views.
• View Shared Column support has been added.
• Support for multiple "User Profile" columns in a view

UI

• The design lists have been redesigned for better display of information, and to provide the Designer the ability to edit design elements directly in the design lists.
• A new toolbar icon to toggle the LotusScript debugger state also shows the state of the debugger (on/off).
• Java debugger support allows Designers to prepare design elements that contain Java code for subsequent debugging by using the checkbox provided for agents, web services, and script libraries. A remote Java Debugger (like Eclipse) can then be attached to the Notes Client JVMs in order to debug those design elements.
• There is a new dialog box available (Tools-Java Debugging Preferences) to set required variables for Java debugger support.
• New design element to create a web service.
• Agents can now be enabled for Agent Profiling and the results of the profiling can be viewed from the Designer.

Domino Web Access

• A new Domino Web Access client template (dwa7.ntf) is available to provide new features in a concise user interface for the browser.
• Mail threads can be viewed while reading mail, or from the Mail Threads view.
• Users can sign, send, and read S/MIME messages.
• Users can create their own personalized Stationery, which can be used for their mail messages.
• Users can import country-specific holidays into their calandar.
• The Instant Messaging awareness integration more closely mirrors the Notes client awareness features.
• The "Sametime Connect for browsers" client is integrated as the default Instant Contact List manager.
• Productivity enhancements including:
  • Single-click Followup support
  • Quick Mail Rule support
  • Ability to forward any Domino Web Access object in a message
• Mozilla-specific improvements including:
  • Drag and drop support
  • Offline support for scheduled synchronization
• Administrators can prohibit access to attachments in Mail, Calendar, and Scheduling events (via the Domino Web Access server configuration document).
• Administrators have a Browser Cache Management option to support IE browser cache scrubbing (via the Domino Web Access server configuration document).
• Administrators can configure the Domino Activity Logging to tracking Domino Web Access requests and usage.

Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook

IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook allows Microsoft Outlook users to use many of the Domino/Notes mail, address book, calendar, and scheduling functions over a Domino server (instead of Microsoft Exchange) including:

• Changing the owner of their mail database
• Changing their password in Domino Access for Outlook
• Setting up user security
• Customizing replication settings
• Setting up an out-of-office message
• Setting up their free time schedule
• Processing meeting invitations automatically.
• Users can sign, send, and read S/MIME messages.

Domino Server

Administrator

• DB2 administration support¹ has been added, including:
  
  - A tool to enable Domino to run with a DB2 data store

  - An integrated API to allow DB2 users/passwords to be added

  - Support in the Status and Analysis panels

  - A tool to allow configuration of a connection document from DB2 to Domino

  - Ability to create and use Domino Access Views (DAVs) and SQL Query Views on some platforms

• Support for Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) has been added, including:
  
  - A DDM administrative UI

  - The ability to combine information generated on one or more DDM-enabled servers into one database on another server.

  - A database probe that ensures a database(s) can be opened. Optionally, the database(s) can be checked for unused space and for user inactivity, according to configurable thresholds.

  - A database probe that monitors key locations in the database software layer (NSF/NIF), and generates events for errors that occur; because some errors occur naturally, an error exclusion list can be configured.

  - Directory probes that include checks for: the health of the LDAP task and associated user response, directory replication, directory indexing, NRPC and secondary LDAP search response times, directory aggregation of source-to-destination, scheduled aggregation for missed or long-running aggregations, availability of directories and secondary LDAP/Notes domains, and view/update LDAP serving reports.

  - Mail probes that include: verification of local mail routing by sending a message to a known destination and verifying its delivery, alerting the administrator to the number of inflight messages if the router cannot keep up with the mail flow, and alerting the administrator when too much mail is pending to a particular destination, or if mail to that destination is failing.

  - SMTP probes that: verify mail can be delivered to a SMTP recipient via a Delivery Status Notification (DSN) report, check the SMTP task by verifying the processes threads, and verify protocol requests by connecting to the appropriate port and performing a minimal protocol-specific conversation.

  - Replication probes that check for: replication errors, for databases which have not replicated according to their configured schedule, for last successful replication, and for replication conflicts, including doclinks to the replication conflict documents.

  - Security probes that include: verification of a database ACL against a pre-determined configuration, and a check for inconsistencies in security configurations across multiple servers based on a "gold standard" set of configuration values.

  - Agent probes that report total number of agents run, agent security errors, time-out errors, agents diabled by the Design Update task, full-text operations performed against non-indexed databases, CPU usage ², memory usage by LotusScript and Java agents executed by Agent Manager and HTTP, and agents that run long or start late.

  - Integration of the Tivoli Autonomic Monitoring Engine (TAME) into Domino, which provides event reporting capabilities to other Tivoli Interfaces (i.e., Tivoli Enterprise Console), and which provides a framework for third-party Resource Module plug-ins to evaluate/report on Domino and OS resources.

  - Domino Resource Modules, built for Domino TAME, can report CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization statistics. The resource modules are configured with and report to DDM interfaces, and to Tivoli Enterprise Console.

• Ability to write status bar history to a log file
• Ability to supress the Roaming User Upgrade prompt
• The new Domino Web Administrator now supports Mozilla browsers.
• Three new event notification methods which are programmable via LotusScript, batch language, Java, C, etc.
• An enhanced Message ID feature allows a message ID to be prefixed to console messages, via the Notes.INI settings Display_MessageID=1, and Display_MessageSeverity=1.
• The Administration process will no longer automatically revert name changes and will require that the administrator either approve or reject the name change reversion. For additional information about this feature, please see "AdminP - Rename Reversion Approval" in these release notes.

DB2

• Support for DB2¹ data store is introduced with Domino 7. For information about this new feature, please refer to the Domino 7 Administration Help document.

Directories

• Aliases have been added. An alias is an entry in an LDAP directory which points to another entry in the directory; on a search request the derefAlias protocol element specifies whether to dereference the alias to the entry it points to, or not. For example, specifying an alias of "cn=Bruce Kent,o=ACME" as the base and "derefAlias=Always" on a search request returns the entry the alias points to, cn=Bruce Kent,ou=Boston,o=ACME. The Domino LDAP service supports limited alias dereferencing for LDAP search requests.
• The Domino 7 LDAP service now supports Universal Notes IDs (UNID) through 32-character values of the new "dominoUNID" operational attribute.
• LDAP searches have been enhanced to work with Lotus Workplace products that use the WebSphere Member Manager (WMM) service to access user/group objects.

Install

• Enhancements to Smart Upgrade include:
  
  - Detaching kits in the background, to prevent time lost to a non-working client

  - Failover from a shared (network) upgrade kit to another server's attached kit

  - If clustered, use of a cluster mate if the first server is unavailable

  - Prevent excessive server load by limiting the number of downloads from a single server

  - Notification to administrators, via a mail-in database, of the Smart Upgrade status by user/machine (Success, Failed, or Delayed)

  - Provisioning of Smart Upgrade Tracking database

• ISMP - a new Java-based installer for Windows from InstallShield. For additional details, please visit http://www.installshield.com.

Java

• A new version of Java; JVM 1.4.2.
• Ability to remotely debug Java code (agents, script libraries, and Web previews) in the Notes client.

LEI

• Enterprise failover support in the Domino cluster environment is provided, so that if one server in a given implementation fails, activities continue processing on secondary, or subsequent, servers.
• The LEI Administrator incorporates new functionality such as Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) awareness, and form-based connection testing.
• Ability to control how dependent activities are run, based on the results of the calling activity.
• Ability to have Data Management activities that use Notes connections to run under different Notes IDs.
• Domino remote script debugging will now be able to debug the scripts used in Scripted Activities.
• Scripted Activities now record the connections used by the scripts, providing improved servicability.
• LEI, DECS and the LSXLC are now fully integrated into Domino's NSD services.
• LEI scheduling dexterity is now improved, with better handling when you need to "RESTRICT TO SCHEDULE".
• LEI Connection documents let you directly test your connections for validity.
• Virtual Documents now properly handle backend update and deletion synchronization

Mail/Messaging

• Private whitelist filters for SMTP connections
• Private blacklist filters for SMTP connections
• DNS whitelist filters for SMTP connections
• Stop processing action available for mail server rules
• Ability to create and add message disclaimers to email messages

Network

• IPv6 protocol support has been upgraded to include additional platforms and services¹.
• CIDR format now supported in IP address pattern strings
• IOCP support in Linux Intel
• New configurations of SPX are not supported for Domino 7.
• Private blacklist/whitelist filters for SMTP connections; DNS whitelist filters for SMTP connections

Performance

• An internal API gathers CPU times for the Domino Domain Manager.
• CPU utility and performance statistics are gathered and analyzed using an improved process.

Policies

• New Mail poicy settings document
• New client policy lockdown feature allows you to specify which policy settings can be modified by end users.

Programmability

• New formula function @PolicyIsFieldLocked
• New formula command @Command([DiscoverFolders]) will bring up a dialog showing all folders the current document is within.
• New @function: @IsEmbeddedInsideWCT to determine if Notes is running embedded within a WCT rich client
• New @function: @DbBuildVersion to determine what server version there is for a database
• New @functions: @GetDB2Schema and @IsDB2
• New properties and methods:
  
  - NotesAdministrationProcess.ApproveHostedOrgStorageDeletion (LotusScript) and AdministrationProcess.approveHostedOrgStorageDeletion (Java)

  - NotesDatabase.GetModifiedDocuments (LotusScript) and Database.getModifiedDocuments (Java)

  - NotesDocumentCollection.UntilTime (LotusScript) and DocumentCollection.getUntilTime (Java)

  - NotesDOMDocumentNode.CreateAttributeNodeNS, CreateElementNodeNS, GetElementsByTagNameNS (LotusScript)

  - NotesDOMElementNode.GetAttributeNodeNS, GetAttributeNodeNS, GetElementsByTagNameNS, RemoveAttributeNS, SetAttributeNodeNS, SetAttributeNS (LotusScript)

• Web services (provider entities) can be created as LotusScript or Java design elements and accessed through a Domino server.
• Performance Profiler for Java and LotusScript Agent and Web Services.
• Integration of a new version of XML parser.

Security

• Domino 7 supports the use of 1024-bit RSA and 128-bit RC2 Notes keys.

Serviceability

• Autonomic Diagnostic Collection - This feature is used to evalutate call stacks that are generated from a Notes Client or Domino Server crash via the Automatic Diagnostic Collection feature that was first introduced in Release 6.0.1 of Notes and Domino. It adds to the functionality of the Automatic Data Collection feature by analyzing the call stacks that are located in the Fault Report mail-in database and evaluating to see if there are other instances of the same problem¹.
• When using the automatic diagnostic collection tool to gather information about server crashes, the server is now first checked to see if it is being run under the Domino Controller and, if so, uses the Controller logs. If not, the server is checked to see if console logging is enabled and, if so, uses the console output. Finally, data is extracted from log.nsf if neither the Domino Controller nor console logging has been set¹.
• Customers can configure what files (using wildcards) will be collected by the automatic diagnostic collection tool when it runs on clients or servers. This allows for the option to collect diagnostic files from other IBM products as well as third-party add-ins¹.
• When the "quit" or "restart server" command is issued to the server, and the server doesn't terminate in the alloted time, then the server will forcefully terminate and an NSD log will be generated before termination. The time limit is specified in the "Automatic Server Restart" section of the server document in the Basics tab; the default is 5 minutes. This time limit is the time that no shutdown activity occurs; when a process successfully terminates then the timer restarts. This feature can be disabled using the Notes.INI setting SHUTDOWN_MONITOR_DISABLED=1.

Web Server

• DB2 management features are now available from Domino's Web Administrator client.
• Support for web applications to compress data sent to HTTP servers.
• The Web Administrator client works in Mozilla browsers.
• JSP tags work in Portal.

Footnotes
¹ These features do not apply to i5/OS for the current beta release.
² For the current release, probes that rank Agents by CPU usage are supported on Windows only.