Monthly Archives: December 2017

a small list for the environment

Posted by on 5 December,2017 2 comments

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

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

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

Making your Domino environment work for you

Posted by on 4 December,2017 1 comment

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

There is several ways to expose Rest api from the server

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

Here is some ideas what you could do

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

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