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This technote contains important IBM Notes Traveler support information for Apple iOS 8.x device users

Q1. Is support for Apple iOS 8.x devices planned for day one for Notes Traveler?
Yes. Notes Traveler 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 2 and later versions will support iOS 8.x devices as soon as they become available.  

Q2. Is support for iOS 8.x devices planned on day one for SmartCloud Notes Traveler?
Yes. The SmartCloud Notes Traveler environment will also support iOS 8.x devices as soon as they become available.  

Q3. Will Notes Traveler Companion & To Do applications support iOS 8.x?
Yes, we are expecting to very soon push to iTunes new versions of Notes Traveler Companion and To Do applications that will support iOS 8.x devices. This technote will be updated with specific version information once the new versions are posted.

Q4. What Notes Traveler functionality will be supported on devices running iOS 8.x?
Functionality and features comparable with those in previously supported releases. New features added in iOS 8.x will not immediately be supported with Notes Traveler; however, support for new features may be introduced over time. This technote will be updated to reflect any new feature limitations or statements of support.

Q5. Should I upgrade my Notes Traveler server now in preparation for iOS 8.x devices?
Notes Traveler server versions 9.0.1 Interim Fix 5 and 9.0.0.1 Interim Fix 6 include an update to correctly recognize and handle iOS 8.x devices (per APAR LO81825). Prior to this update, iOS 8.x devices may not have been able to connect to the Notes Traveler server if security settings prohibit unsecured devices or if restricting access by device type or user agent.  For additional information on these releases, see the Index of Recommended Maintenance.

Q6. Will there be any Notes Traveler server updates for iOS 8x?
Yes, most likely. We are currently testing Notes Traveler with iOS 8 devices. And although most functions should work without issue from day one, closely after the release of iOS 8 it is very likely that we will release a Notes Traveler Interim Fix to address any issues that we find during testing. This technote will updated to indicate any recommended Interim Fixes should and when they become available.

Q7. Is the beta version of iOS 8.x supported with Notes Traveler or SmartCloud Notes Traveler?
No, iOS beta versions are not supported with Notes Traveler or SmartCloud Notes Traveler. Should you report a problem with Notes Traveler on a beta iOS release, you will be asked to upgrade to the official release when it becomes available to verify whether the problem exists in the supported version.

The new userland interface in RHEL7, Firewalld, when enabled, will block network communication of Notes and Domino.

The TN 1683423 show how to enable communications using firewall or disabling the firewall.

To disable:

Disable the firewall with the command: “systemctl stop firewalld” and  “systemctl disable firewalld”.
To query the firewall status, issue the command:  “systemctl  status firewalld”

Below are some basic points that one should remember as best practices to manage and maintain DAOS feature in IBM Notes Domino environment.

1. Domino server must be 8.5.x and onwards. All database ODS must be 48 and onwards.
2. Transaction Logging must be enabled on server and it is recommended to keep transaction log directory outside of domino/data folder, in a separate drive.
3. DAOS Directory path should be kept out of Domino/Data directory, in a separate drive.
4. Make sure DAOS Catalog Status always remain in SYNCHRONIZED status. You can monitor DAOS Catalog status using command ‘Tell DAOSmgr Status’. As far as DAOS Catalog remains in SYNCHRONIZED status, DAOS functionality will work fine.
5. If DAOS Catalog status shows ‘NEEDS RESYNC’ then you should get DAOS Catalog in SYNCHRONIZED status using command ‘Tell DAOSmgr Resync’. You can also using ‘force’ switch with this command to synchronize DAOS Catalog forcefully. The command would be ‘Tell DAOSmgr Resync force’
6. You can create a scheduled program document to run ‘tell daosmgr resync’ command periodically if you DAOS Catalog frequently goes in ‘NEEDS RESYNC’ status.
7. Regularly check disk space in Transaction log as well as DAOS drives and make sure there’s enough disk space available on server.
8. Make sure there’s a proper backup mechanism implemented to backup DAOS and Transaction log directories.
9. Exclude DAOS and Transaction log directories from OS Anti Virus Scanning.
10. Disable Transaction logging on System Databases like log.nsf, busytime.nsf, clubusy.nsf.
11. Never delete daoscat.nsf and daos.cfg file in order to resolve catalog resync problems. Deleting these files will reset DAOS calculations and deletion of NLO files may take longer time causing disk space issues on server.
12. Review your company’s regular attachment sending policy via mails and set DAOS attachment size accordingly to take optimum benefit of DAOS feature storing attachments.
13. Review your backup schedule and accordingly set DAOS deferred deletion interval which will delete NLO files with 0 references.
14. Enable DAOS on mail.boxes. Enabling transaction logging and DAOS on mail.box will enable the Router to optimize the delivery of DAOS based attachments. This can result in significant I/O savings for the case where the same attachment is sent to multiple recipients on the same Domino server.
15. On an AIX/Linux platform, never create DAOS Directory at root level. Always create DAOS directory as a sub directory of any other directory at root level. Please check below examples

DAOS base path:  /daos/xxxxx => Not Recommended
DAOS base path: //daos/xxxxx => Recommended

The information above is from TN 1683254

When people leaves the company i always put the user on a deny access group, remove the account and delete the mail database.

But if you do not delete the account…

Once the user added in Deny access group to Deny Traveler access you need to enable “Enforce server access setting” to Yes in the server document under Ports -> Internet Ports -> Web tab.

Follow the below steps to enable the ‘Enforce server access setting’ to Yes in Server document:

1) Open the Domino Administrator client.

2) Chose the Traveler Server document .

3) Go to Ports -> Internet Ports -> Web tab and set the value for the below field to “YES”.

 Enforce server access setting
4) Restart the HTTP task to take affect the changes

Found the information above on the TN 1634205

Yesterday a portal cluster stops to respond requests after 4 months of work without a restart.

I found a lot of messages on systemout.log

8/25/14 10:13:21:418 BRT] 00000171 exception     E com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection DirContext reCreateDirContext(String errorMessage)
                                 com.ibm.websphere.wim.exception.WIMSystemException: CWWIM4520E  ‘javax.naming.CommunicationException:  [Root exception is java.net.SocketException: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?): connect]’

This Microsoft TechNote explain the problem with Windows 2008 R2

IBM published a TN about Notes and the upcoming Apple’s OS X 10.10 Yosemite

This issue is fixed in 9.0.1 Fix Pack 2 via the new INI parameter described below.

Fix Details: SPR# MJON9GQHLL – Fixes potential performance degradation in LDAP search when there are many nested groups.  This fix introduces the new ini: LDAP_COMPLEX_FILTER.  

• When this ini is set to 1, the code path for the fix for SPR# CAHT959LQG is enabled and the performance degradation could result.  
• Setting this ini to 0, disables the code path and no performance degradation will be seen.

This week i am working on a migration project.  Everything was fine until i ran

 ./WASPostUpgrade.sh /waspreupgradebackup -profileName wp_profile -oldProfile wp_profile -username wpsadmin -password ****** -includeApps true -backupConfig false -javaoption -Xmx3056m

JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Java dump using ‘/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/javacore.20140729.090005.3839.0009.txt’ in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Java dump written to /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/javacore.20140729.090005.3839.0009.txt
Java heap space
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using ‘/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/Snap.20140729.090005.3839.0010.trc’ in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/Snap.20140729.090005.3839.0010.trc
JVMDUMP013I Processed dump event “systhrow”, detail “java/lang/OutOfMemoryError”.
MIGR0272E: The migration function cannot complete the command

I run again the command with Xmx4096m but the command doesn´t run anymore and the logs show that the parameter -includeApps is not valid.

The solution was

1 – Delete the wp_profile
2 – Delete the JCR index collections
3 – Run WASPreupgrade on the source portal
4 – Recreate the wp_profile on the target machine
5 – Run the WASPostUpgrade with Xmx510m

This is a cool tool. It is free and runs on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms.

Go to the Pencil Website and look for more details and download options.

A costumer yesterday ask the exact question i found on this link http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO43023

If a DWA message disclaimer is set and a DWA user sends an email where the recipient is an internal user – i.e. address is Notes mail format not internet format, the Notes user receives the message disclaimer.

This is a known behavior in Notes/Domino and reported to Quality engineering in SPR # KBRT67FN7B as an Enhancement request and currently there are no plans to address it in R8 and R8.5