Archive for: ‘März 2023’

Capture signatures, find out who took the last slice, create fresh icons: HCL Nomad for Web Browsers v1.0.7 is out today!

31. März 2023 Posted by Thomas Hampel

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Fresh out of the oven, Nomad for Web Browsers 1.0.7 has been released as of March 8, 2023. Nomad for Android (March 1) and iOS (March 8) are also out.

You aren’t a graphic designer? Give your Domino Application a new icon with Restyle!

Does your application icon reflect a throwback time when styles and color choices were more questionable? Nomad for Web 1.0.7 introduces a new choice in Restyle to create and change your application icon. Give it a try in Nomad for Web under File>Application>Restyle, jump to “Create Icon” to browse over a dozen categories of stock images, choose circle or square, and make your gradient shading choice. Cancel at any time to leave things alone or hit Restyle to restyle your application, including the new icon. Poof! You have now moved from parachute pants and acid washed jeans to a modern design style. Don’t worry – if you want that ‘80s Miami feel, you can still choose teal and pink under Themes.

New! Capture a signature, don’t run out of pizza
The following feature is out in the March releases of Nomad for Web, and mobile (iOS and Android).

You can now easily add the ability for a user to draw and add their signature to a document in Notes/Domino 12.0.2. With the March Nomad releases, you can now do this with the Nomad client as well. Think of a package delivery application built in Domino where the recipient is presented with a tablet to sign for receipt.

Use Domino Designer 12.0.2 and above to add the new @Command([EditInsetSignature]) to your application to capture a signature that will be added to a Rich Text / Rich Text Lite Field and display in the document. Now when the user runs the app, they will be presented with an input box to sign, and it’s stored and displayed in the document. We’ve been thinking of using it on pizza days in development whenever someone takes a slice.

Nomad Links
HCL Nomad for Web Browsers Release Notes covering 1.0.7

What’s new in HCL Nomad for web browsers

HCL Nomad for Android in the Google Play store

HCL Nomad for iOS in the Apple App store

Throwback
Here are links to our last two blogs about Nomad in case you missed them:
HCL Domino Admins: Deploy HCL Nomad v1.0.6 Update Today!
Important News for Domino Administrators

Can we do something better or different?
Don’t forget that we listen to you and change things up when we can. You can tell us through our Aha! Ideas portal that you have a great idea which we could put into Nomad or Restyle. Come tell us what to focus on next. You can also search for ideas and upvote them to tell us that you, too, think it’s a good idea. We look forward to hearing what you want us to do next!

Start using Nomad today!
Simply download Nomad 1.0.7 from the HCLSoftware license and downloads portal and get going today. Or if you don’t have the admin rights or skills and you want to try your app in Nomad, then why not head over to the HCL Sandbox and play with it now? You can create a new app from your template and make sure it works in Nomad. Try using Restyle to see how it will look. Upgrade your Nomad experience now with our latest release and experience all the benefits Nomad has to offer. Want to learn more about Nomad capabilities? Click here for more info.

 

Testen Sie das neue Microsoft Teams für Windows

31. März 2023 Posted by Gerda Marx

Microsoft Teams gibt es seit 2017. Millionen nutzen es, da es spätestens mit der Pandemie Einzug in viele Büros und Homeoffices gehalten hat.

Nun wurde Teams von Microsoft nochmal komplett überarbeitet, damit die zukünftige Nutzung mit KI problemlos funktioniert. Mit Microsoft Copilot wurde bereits die neue "Ära" eingeläutet, damit KI in Unternehmen genutzt werden kann. Doch auch das Design und die Geschwindigkeit wurde erheblich verbessert. Und der Speicher Footprint wurde auch deutlich verkleinert.

Einen ersten Eindruck erhalten Sie in : New Era of Teams

New Era of Teams

Das neue Teams ist in der Public Preview zunächst nur für Windows User verfügbar, soll aber im Laufe des Jahres 2023 für alle bereitstehen. Doch Teams erhält noch viele weitere Funktionen. Insgesamt sind mehr als 50 geplant.

Eine wichtige Funktion ist sicherlich, dass Sie sich als User nicht mehr abmelden müssen, um in einen anderen Tenant zu wechseln. Dies spart Ihnen, wenn Sie mit Externen in deren Tennant  zusammenarbeiten müssen, viel Zeit.

Mit dem Speaker Coach erhalten Sie ein automatisches Feedback zu Ihrer Präsentation,  so können Sie Ihre Fähigkeiten verbessern. Bei Live-Präsentationen die aufgezeichnet werden, kann der Presenter diese Informationen Live einsehen, jedoch werden diese nicht gespeichert.

Dateien die Sie mit Ihrem Team teilen, werden mit Reitern unterteilt in Dateien die Sie selbst geteilt haben und Dateien die mit Ihnen geteilt wurden. So finden Sie die Unterlagen schneller.

Das Whiteboard wird verbessert, denn Sie "...profitieren von einer Vielzahl von Whiteboard-Innovationen, darunter die Möglichkeit, Ihr vorhandenes Whiteboard in Teams-Meetings zu öffnen, Ihr Whiteboard schnell mit einer der 60+ Vorlagen einzurichten, andere einzuladen, Ihrem Standpunkt beim Navigieren zu folgen, Mitarbeiter durch Haftnotiz-Attribution zu identifizieren, die Größe Ihres Haftnotiztextes automatisch zu ändern und ihn nach Belieben zu formatieren. Sie können auch Loopkomponenten aus dem Teams-Chat und demnächst aus Outlook-Mail und Word für das Web kopieren und in das Whiteboard einfügen. Auf das Whiteboard, an dem Sie und Ihre Teilnehmer gemeinsam gearbeitet haben, sowie auf freigegebene Kommentare können Sie im Teams-Chat unter der Registerkarte Whiteboard nach der Besprechung zugreifen" heißt es in der Techcommunity

Neue Nachrichten werden bald oben angezeigt und nicht mehr unten. Die Teams Telefonie wird weiter ausgebaut und vieles mehr. Es bleibt spannend! Viele Funktionen werden erst im Laufe des Jahres 2023 verfügbar sein, auch für Mac User. Abzuwarten bleibt, welche der neuen Funktionen evtl. nur die Premium User erhalten.

OneNote E-Mail-Anhänge als Angriffsvektor

31. März 2023 Posted by Manuel

Seit wenigen Monaten verlegen sich Angreifer offenbar darauf zunehmend darauf, OneNote-Dateien (Dateiendung .one) als Vehikel für E-Mail…

Mehrsprachige Chatbots: Wie Sie im Kundenservice 24+ Sprachen abbilden – ohne zusätzlichen Aufwand

23. März 2023 Posted by Celina

Mithilfe einer KI-Übersetzung werden Chatbots auf Knopfdruck mehrsprachig. Die Verwaltung erfolgt weiterhin nur in einer Sprache.

HCL Notes und Domino 11.0.1 FP7

21. März 2023 Posted by Oliver Regelmann

HCL hat das Fix Pack 7 für Version 11.0.1 von Notes und Domino veröffentlicht. Enthalten sind Fixes für ca. 80 Fehler, unter anderem diese drei für den eingebetteten Sametime-Client: SAME-45393 First Message after fresh launch of application is not updated on chat area but gets updated in the preview area SAME-46527 Initial chat IMAGE message […]

Der Beitrag HCL Notes und Domino 11.0.1 FP7 erschien zuerst auf n-komm.

Word erhält neue Verknüpfung und Shortcuts

21. März 2023 Posted by Gerda Marx

Kaum zu glauben, aber MS-Word gibt es jetzt schon seit 40 Jahren! 1983 wurde es für MS-DOS angekündigt ab 1989 gab es eine Windows Version. Fast jeder kennt es, fast jeder nutzt es im privaten Bereich oder geschäftlich.

Nun wurde eine lang ersehnte Verknüpfung endlich verfügbar - Text einfügen ohne Formatierung! Sie kennen es bestimmt, Sie kopieren eine Textpassage und möchten diese in ein Worddokument einfügen. Jedoch ist der kopierte Text formatiert bspw. Fett, Farbig, Kursiv etc.. Bisher mussten User den Text einfügen und die Formatierung im Nachhinein ändern - sehr mühsam!

Nun können Sie mit dem Shortcut  Strg + Shift + V auf einem Windows Rechner (Cmd + Shift + V beim Mac) den kopierten Text in Word einfügen. Die Formatierung des eingefügten Textes wird nicht übertragen. Oder Sie gehen auf "Einfügung" und "Nur Text übernehmen"

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Das Bild zeigt, dass der eingefügte Text sofort die Schrift, Schriftgröße und Standardfarbe schwarz der aktuellen Formatierung erhält. Dies wird für viele User eine Erleichterung sein und viel Zeit sparen.

"Durch die Anpassung der neuen Verknüpfung musste Microsoft andere Tastenkombinationen anpassen

Shortcuts new

Diese Tastenkombinationen sind für Benutzer von M365 Home und M365 Business Standard Beta Channel verfügbar, die Folgendes ausführen:

  • Windows: Version 16.0.15831.20174 oder höher
  • Mac: Version 16.67.1113.0 oder höher" (Quelle:Microsoft Insider)

 

Ein weiterer toller neuer Shortcut von Microsoft ist  Zoom in / Zoom out  in Word mit den Tastenkombinationen:

Strg + (Minuszeichen) zum Verkleinern

Strg + + (Pluszeichen) zum Vergrößern

Strg + 0 (Null), um zu 100% Zoom zurückzukehren

Beim Mac ist es statt Strg die Cmd ⌘(Command) Taste. Gerade bei der Arbeit am Laptop sehr praktisch, da hier der Bildschirm kleiner ist.

Wenn Sie Tastenkombinationen selbst anpassen möchten, gibt es vom Microsoft Support eine Webseite die dieses ausführlich erklärt. Bitte beachten Sie, dass Sie bei selbst angepassten Tastenkombinationen den ursprünglichen Shortcut nicht mehr nutzen können.

→ Anmerkung: Auf meinem Macbook funktionieren die neuen Shortcuts "noch" nicht, jedoch kann ich über Einfügen "nur Text einfügen" die Verknüpfung nutzen. Auf einem Windows 10-Rechner konnte ich die Shortcuts  in "Word im Web" nutzen, in der Desktop App leider nicht. Da es erst im Beta Channel verfügbar ist, könnte es noch etwas dauern bis es alle nutzen können. Ich freue mich jedoch schon drauf.

Registration for Volt MX Go Early Access Program Is Now Open

17. März 2023 Posted by Adam Gartenberg

We are pleased to share that we are now accepting registrations for the upcoming Volt MX Go early access program. If you are a current or prospective Volt MX Go customer or Business Partner and are interested in testing and providing feedback on the upcoming release, please fill in the registration form here. 

The program will provide a preview of the features that will be included in the July 2023 Volt MX Go release, and our goal is to be able to incorporate feedback on features, design, and usability prior to the release. We are looking for participants who have a Domino 12.0.2 development environment available and can commit to deploying and testing the Volt MX Go early access code as soon as it is available in mid-April so that we have time to make any necessary updates prior to July. 

The Volt MX Go early access release will enable you to: 

  • Connect Volt Foundry to your Domino applications with a dedicated Domino Adapter, guided by a fast, simple first-touch experience 
  • Modernize or create new multiexperience applications in Volt Iris against your Domino back-end data and applications 
  • Get a head start on your Volt MX Go applications by importing existing Domino Views, Forms and Fields into Volt Foundry 
  • Greatly expand who can code Domino applications through VoltFormula, allowing you to run @Formula and OpenFormula code without requiring a full rewrite 

 The early access program is feature-driven and iterative, with new iterations and code drops being made available as soon as they are declared ready for testing by our development team. New code drops can be provided in just a few weeks after the previous one, on short notice. 

How to Participate
To apply to participate in the program, fill in the registration form here 

We will be doing a limited, phased rollout of the program to make sure we can properly accommodate feedback and assist participants. We will begin notifying those who have been accepted into the program in mid-April and will provide access to the code, documentation and the feedback forum at that time.  

We will be bringing additional participants on board on a regular basis from that point onward, so please be on the lookout for an acceptance email as we ramp up the program. Our goal is to be able to include as many participants as possible. 

We are excited about the upcoming Volt MX Go release and encouraged by all the interest we are seeing and are looking forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions! 

Vorstellung DNUG Stammtisch Schweiz

17. März 2023 Posted by Marketing

Nachdem die Swiss Notes User Group (SNoUG) zum Ende des vergangenen Jahres „die Segel gestrichen“ hat, will die DNUG – wie bereits verschiedentlich angekündigt – nun auch in der Schweiz Fuß fassen. Wie schon in Österreich werden in einem ersten Schritt regelmäßige Treffen aller Interessierten stattfinden. Diese „DNUG Stammtisch“ genannten Treffen finden mittlerweile in verschiedenen Städten in D-A-CH statt und sollen primär den Kontakt und Austausch unter allen fördern, die sich für HCL Software interessieren. Eine DNUG-Mitgliedschaft ist für die Teilnahme nicht erforderlich.

Der „DNUG Stammtisch Schweiz“ wird erstmalig in Zürich stattfinden. Der Stammtisch trägt dabei ganz bewusst kein „Zürich“ im Namen, da er künftig rotierend auch in anderen Schweizer Städten stattfinden wird. Aktuell angedacht sind Bern und Basel.

Auch wenn „Notes“ das sicherlich nach wie vor bekannteste Produkt im stetig wachsenden Portfolio von HCL Software ist, an den Stammtischen geht es nicht nur um Notes. HCL Software adressiert mittlerweile viele Themen und das soll sich auch bei den Stammtischen widerspiegeln.

Fürs Erste wird Helmut Sproll der Gastgeber (Host) sein. Er ist in der Schweizer „Notes-Welt“ bestens bekannt, hat er doch mehrere Jahre besagte SNoUG geleitet und ist nun seit knapp 2 Jahren im Vorstand der DNUG. Leute kennenlernen, Erfahrungen austauschen, über den Tellerrand schauen, das sind für Helmut zentrale Anliegen. “Die Welt ist ein Dorf geworden. In einem Dorf kennt man sich, man hilft sich und interessiert sich für den Anderen. Mit dem Stammtisch möchten wir unseren Teil dazu beitragen.”

Wie Helmut freuen wir uns darauf, Dich beim Stammtisch Schweiz begrüßen zu dürfen.

Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung findest Du hier.

Der Beitrag Vorstellung DNUG Stammtisch Schweiz erschien zuerst auf DNUG e.V..

Chatbots und KI: #35 – Wie Unternehmen von ChatGPT profitieren können mit Moritz Larsen

16. März 2023 Posted by Johannes

In der heutigen Folge von „Chatbots und KI“ spricht Thomas Bahn mit Moritz Larsen darüber, wie Unternehmen von ChatGPT profitieren können.

HCL Domino Named Leader in G2’s Winter 2023 Report

15. März 2023 Posted by Dan Allen

G2’s Winter 2023 Report

We are excited to share that HCL Domino has been selected as a leader in several G2 categories in their Winter 2023 report! G2 is a global peer review site that scores products based on reviews gathered from nearly 2M users.

  • Top 50 Best Development Products of 2023 – This recognition is earned based on the analysis of HCL Domino’s product Satisfaction and Market Presence scores within its category.
    Top 50 Best Development Products of 2023
  • Momentum Leader Application Development Platform – Products in the Leader Tier in the Momentum Grid rank in the top 25% of their category’s product by their users.
  • Rapid Application Development Leader – Products in the Leader quadrant in the Grid® Report are rated highly by G2 users and have substantial Satisfaction and Market Presence scores.
  • Low-code Development Platform Leader – Products in the Leader quadrant in the Grid® Report are rated highly by G2 users and have substantial Satisfaction and Market Presence scores

Here are some G2 customer quotes from 2023 reviews for Domino:

  • “Domino is most secure and easy to use”
  • “…an underrated piece of software with exceptional ROI…”
  • “From CRM to BigData, it solved most of our business challenges!”
  • “Hands down, still the best low code collaborative system”
  • “The most integrated, easiest to use collab solution. Absolute portability, clustering, security, low code development in one integrated solution.”
  • “You can create complex applications in a very fast way which leaves the competition far behind. The Domino server is very performant and doesn’t need many resources, even when 1000s of users connect at the same time. Thanks to the backward compatibility, upgrading a piece of cake. And then I’m not even mentioning the power of replication.”

Leave a HCL Domino G2 Review:
Learn more about what other users have to say (or leave your own review of HCL Domino) on G2’s HCL Domino review page! To all our customers who gave reviews…thank you! These reviews help us evaluate our products, and we look forward to building on the experience that earned us these badges.

What is a Citizen Development Platform and Why Does it Matter?

14. März 2023 Posted by Unnati Ghosh

What is a Citizen Development Platform and Why Does it Matter

Organizations are driven to adopt citizen development due to the increased demand for software and the need for more skilled developers. Through citizen development programs, non-technical employees can develop unique software applications for themselves or their teams with little to no coding experience.

The most common citizen development areas are customer service, finance, operations, and HR. This framework increases the number of developers available to your business and adds knowledge and an original perspective to the software development process.

 

What is Citizen Development?

When non-IT-trained staff members use low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms to create business-critical applications, this approach is known as “citizen development.” It approves applications made using citizen development techniques.

This separates the meaning of citizen development from that of shadow IT. Non-IT experts, known as citizen developers, look for low-code or no-code solutions to solve their problems.

As digital agility develops, more employees become citizen developers and produce their applications. Citizen developers can be found in many organizations’ human resources, R&D, finance, and customer service divisions.

 

Who is a Citizen Developer?

A citizen developer is an employee who uses low-code or no-code platforms to build software applications for their team or others without the help of IT. Rather than being a role, a citizen developer is a personality. They use development techniques that IT has approved and sanctioned while they create programs in runtime environments.

Each citizen programmer possesses unique skills and expertise in specialized domains but needs more coding experience. They are change-driven problem solvers with a basic understanding of technology. Drag-and-drop interfaces are used by the users of no-code and low-code platforms to implement their ideas.

 

The Need for a Citizen Development Platform

Efficiency and productivity have increased for companies that invest time and money in the citizen development community. Earlier, businesses used to waste time waiting for IT specialists to fix a problem, but nowadays, citizen development platforms have become a regular procedure in many application development organizations.

Also, any employee who learns and understands the use of LCNC platforms can create software or teach a fellow employee, expanding the community of citizen developers. Any business process becomes more efficient in both situations.

 

Benefits of Citizen development

Citizen development helps build business agility and enhances sustainability. Some of the major benefits of citizen development in an organization are:

Enhanced Agility
Citizen developers may create solutions in a fraction of the time required by conventional software development techniques, responding promptly to changing business needs. Companies can stay one step ahead of the competition and quickly change directions to take on new challenges.

Affordable Solutions
Citizen developers can build solutions faster and inexpensively with low-code and no-code platforms than with conventional software development techniques. Because of this, it is simpler for businesses to keep within their budgets and maximize their investment.

Efficiency and New Ideas
The field of application development is expanding every day. A business that wants to stay current must frequently produce new applications. Organizations can create apps that respond to changing requirements and market demands due to LCNC and citizen development. To build apps that adapt to new needs and market demands much faster than before. Citizen application development motivates innovation and fosters creative thinking.

Speed
The time it takes to release new apps is reduced by citizen development. For example, app users can provide immediate feedback to citizen developers who are developing it. They are capable of making corrections on their own if something needs mending. Since non-IT experts are more familiar with business requirements and difficulties, their solutions typically provide better problem-solving and improved customer experiences.

Better user experience
Citizen developers can develop solutions specifically targeted to end customers’ needs due to their distinctive perspective. As a result, users have a better experience using the products, and adoption rates are higher.

Greater Innovation
Companies can access a fresh source of innovation and creativity by enabling citizen developers. This results in increased innovation and the development of unique solutions that can drive growth and competitiveness.

Improved Alignment with Business Goals
Citizen developers can develop solutions per the organization’s goals because they thoroughly understand the business and its objectives. Better results and more effective resource use are the results of this.

Businesses that invest in citizen developers stand to gain significantly from cost savings, enhanced agility, an improved user experience, increased innovation, and better alignment with corporate objectives. For businesses of all sizes, the advent of the citizen developer movement heralds a new era in software development. Accept this modification and benefit from a more productive and efficient development process.

 

HCL Domino – An Ideal Platform for Citizen Developers

HCL Domino, a rapid application development platform, continues evolving to meet the needs of the modern business — it’s collaborative, low-code, mobile, and web-ready.

The latest release of Domino, v12.0.2, makes it easy to develop robust, secure, and enterprise-grade workflow-based applications.

HCL Domino empowers you to become a citizen developer by providing a low-code platform that enables you to create custom business applications, automate processes, and streamline collaboration without requiring extensive technical skills.  And helping citizen developers across verticals build applications up to 60-70% faster to automate their manual processes and drive efficiency, productivity, and transparency. Click here for a demo.

It’s Shoptalk time: Take your e-commerce game to the next level and strengthen your network!

13. März 2023 Posted by Maja Bondensgaard

Shoptalk time

Shoptalk US is just around the corner! We invite YOU to join us for this exciting three-day conference from March 26th to March 29th in Las Vegas. With over 8,000 attendees, 500+ speakers, and 300+ exhibitors, Shoptalk US is the retail industry’s premier event of the year. By attending, you’ll learn from industry leaders, gain new ideas, and network with peers to stay ahead of the game in retail.

The dedicated HCL Customer Experience team will be there, and we are offering YOU the chance to sign up in advance for 1-1 meetings with the team! We look forward to sharing insights with you on how to transform your digital commerce strategy and drive growth in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace.

Our expertise in the retail industry has already helped some of the biggest brands unlock growth with our commerce solutions. We’re excited that several of our HCL Commerce customers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Lowe’s, Boots/Walgreen Alliance, and IKEA, will be keynote speakers at the event.

And that’s not all: We have a special treat in store! Visit our coffee cart for a FREE cup of coffee!

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn, connect, and grow your business! Let’s grab a cup of coffee together, and let’s discuss how HCL Commerce can help you transform your digital commerce strategy and drive growth.

Send an email to David Lebowitz, Steven Drane or Sierra Bhatia and let’s pre-book a 1-1 meeting at Shoptalk US!

Learn more about Shoptalk here.

Restoring uncataloged items from Library Manager

13. März 2023 Posted by HCLSoftware

Load balancing refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers, also known as a “server farm” or “server pool.”

load balancer acts as the “traffic cop” sitting in front of your servers and routing client requests across all servers capable of fulfilling those requests in a manner that maximizes speed and capacity utilization and ensures that no one server is overworked, which could degrade performance. If a single server goes down, the load balancer redirects traffic to the remaining online servers. When a new server is added to the server group, the load balancer automatically starts to send requests to it.

In this manner, a load balancer performs the following functions:

  • Distributes client requests or network load efficiently across multiple servers
  • Ensures high availability and reliability by sending requests only to servers that are online
  • Provides the flexibility to add or subtract servers as demand dictates

HCL Compass also offers the capability to configure load balancing, to distribute the client requests across all available Compass Web (CQWeb) servers.

This blog discusses about how to load balance two Compass web servers using an IBM HTTP Server 9.0.0.11 that is using the WebSphere plugin.

Host details:

Host-1: ending with number 26921

OS: Windows Standard 2019 64Bit

Host-2: ending with number 35411

OS: Windows Standard 2019 64Bit

Environment details:

HCL Compass version: 2.2.0

WAS/IHS version: 9.0.0.11

Prerequisites:

* The following applications installed and configured on both hosts;

WAS-9.0.0.11 and IHS-9.0.0.11

Compass – 2.2.0

* Compass Web server profiles created and configured on both hosts

Important Note: We have considered the first Compass Web Server Host-1 itself as the load balancer host. You can consider a third host for configuring load balancing, in addition to the number of Compass web servers you include as a part of load balancing.

Procedure for configuring load balancing begins from here:

1. Setup Session Affinity:

Session affinity directs requests from a given client to a specific application server. The application state maintained in the HTTP session is accessed in the HTTP session cache, which is local to the application server. Session affinity provides higher performance than database persistence of the session object, alone. Without session affinity, session requests must be obtained from the database if they are sent to a server that does not have the session object in the local cache. To configure a unique HTTP session clone ID using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console (ISC), complete the following steps for each WebSphere application server on Host-1 and Host-2.

On Host-1 launch the WebSphere ISC Console: Go to Start -> All Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0 -> Profiles -> cqwebprofile -> Administrative console

Login as admin

Go To Servers > Server Types > WebSphere Application Servers > server1

Click on Configuration > Web Container Settings > Web container

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Then click on Customer properties:

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Under Preferences, click and click “New…”.

In the Name field enter “HttpSessionCloneId”.

In the Value field enter a unique value for the server (cqw26921). The unique value must be 8 to 9 alphanumeric characters.

In the optional Description field enter “ClearQuest web server 26921”.

Click on OK.

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Click Save to save the configuration changes directly to the master configuration.

2.. Repeat the same steps on Host-2:

Note: Make sure the value of HttpSessionCloneId is 8 characters – cqw26921 & cqw35411 , as per documentation – https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/8.5.5?topic=iwspi-configuring-simple-load-balancing-across-multiple-application-server-profiles

3. Restart the WebSphere Application servers 26921 and 35411.

4. Generate the plugin-cfg.xml file for each application server (HOST-1 & HOST-2) using the WebSphere Integrated Solution console.

Launch the WebSphere ISC on Host-1:

Login as user “admin”

Go to Servers -> Server Types and click on “Web servers”.

Check the box beside “webserver1”

Click “Generate Plug-in” and a plugin-cfg.xml file will be created.

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Note: A plugin-cfg.xml file was created. Please note its location in the messages section near the top of ISC.

Stop the IHS service on this server if it already started.

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Copy this generated plugin-cfg.xml file located at

C:\Program Files\HCL\Compass\cqweb\cqwebprofile\config\cells\dfltCell\nodes\HOST-1-node\servers\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml

To

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\ HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml

Then rename the file C:\Program Files\HCL\Compass\cqweb\cqwebprofile\config\cells\dfltCell\nodes\HOST-1 -node\servers\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml to something else , ex. plugin-cfg-original.xml

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Repeat the same steps to generate a plugin-cfg.xml file on server Host-2

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Then move a copy of this file HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml to the first host HOST-1 under the folder

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\

Graphical user interface, text, application, email Description automatically generated

Then rename the file C:\Program Files\HCL\Compass\cqweb\cqwebprofile\config\cells\dfltCell\nodes\HOST-1-node\servers\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml to something else, ex. plugin-cfg-original.xml

5. Edit both HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml and HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml located in C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1 .

Change “localhost” to the target server’s actual IP address or its Full Qualified Domain name.

5.1. In the file – HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml ;

Change this:

<Server CloneID=”cqw26921″ ConnectTimeout=”5″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”dfltNode_server1″ ServerIOTimeout=”900″ WaitForContinue=”false”>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”localhost” Port=”12080″ Protocol=”http”/>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”localhost” Port=”12443″ Protocol=”https”>

<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.kdb”/>

<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.sth”/>

</Transport>

</Server>

To this:

<Server CloneID=”cqw26921″ ConnectTimeout=”5″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”dfltNode_server1″ ServerIOTimeout=”900″ WaitForContinue=”false”>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”<host-2 ip address>” Port=”12080″ Protocol=”http”/>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”=”<host-2 ip address>” Port=”12443″ Protocol=”https”>

<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.kdb”/>

<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.sth”/>

</Transport>

</Server>

5.2. (If the HOST-1 server’s IP address was <host-1 ip address> then for HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml)

Change this:

<Server CloneID=”cqw35411″ ConnectTimeout=”5″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”dfltNode_server1″ ServerIOTimeout=”900″ WaitForContinue=”false”>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”localhost” Port=”12080″ Protocol=”http”/>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”localhost” Port=”12443″ Protocol=”https”>

<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.kdb”/>

<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”C:\Program Files\ibm\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.sth”/>

</Transport>

</Server>

To this:

<Server CloneID=”cqw35411″ ConnectTimeout=”5″ ExtendedHandshake=”false” MaxConnections=”-1″ Name=”dfltNode_server1″ ServerIOTimeout=”900″ WaitForContinue=”false”>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”<host-1 ip address>” Port=”12080″ Protocol=”http”/>

<Transport ConnectionTTL=”28″ Hostname=”<host-1 ip address>” Port=”12443″ Protocol=”https”>

<Property Name=”keyring” Value=”C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.kdb”/>

<Property Name=”stashfile” Value=”C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins/config/webserver1/plugin-key.sth”/>

</Transport>

</Server>

Save the files.

6. On HOST-1 if C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml exists then rename it (plugin-cfg.xml.original) or move it to a non-working directory.

7. We need to merge the two plugin files: HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml and HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml

Use the pluginCfgMerge tool to combine the plugin-cfg.xml files. Open a DOS command window on the NJMYCLDDW95811 server and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin and enter the command:

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin>pluginCfgMerge.bat “C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml” “C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml” plugin-cfg.xml

Merging:

Found file C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\HOST-1-plugin-cfg.xml: true

Merging a non-ODC generated plugin-cfg.xml

Found file C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\HOST-2-plugin-cfg.xml: true

Merged plugin config file written to plugin-cfg.xml

Merge Complete

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin>

Move the resulting plugin-cfg.xml file to C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1

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8. Copy the key database file, plugin-key.kdb and the sth file plugin-key.sth located at

C:\Program Files\HCL\Compass\cqweb\cqwebprofile\config\cells\dfltCell\nodes\HOST-1-node\servers\webserver1

on the HOST-1 server to:

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1 on the HOST-1.

Note: Before you copy these files, you will see that the same files are already existing in the folder C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1. You will need to first rename these files to something else, ex. Plugin-key-original.kdb and plugin-key-original.sth

Copy the key database file, plugin-key.kdb located at

C:\Program Files\HCL\Compass\cqweb\cqwebprofile\config\cells\dfltCell\nodes\HOST-2.NONPROD.HCLPNP.COM-node\servers\webserver1

on the server HOST-2 to a temporary location on the server HOST-1.

On the HOST-1 open the IBM Key Management utility.

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Click on Key Database File > Open, then click on Browse and explore to the path where you have saved the kdb file copied from Host-2:

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Enter the password that you had set while creating this database file on Host-2:

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It will now show you the kdb file you imported in the ‘Filename’ field and ‘default’ under the ‘Personal Certificates’ field, as shown below:

Select ‘Signer Certificates’ option from the drop down and click on ‘Extract’, as shown below:

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Add the recently created arm file to the database file:

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Start the IHS service on Host-1 that was stopped earlier.

This completes the configuration of load balancer on Compass web servers.

To test the load balancing, you need to logon to the Compass Web URL on both hosts , i.e. https://Host-1/cqweb/ and https://<Host-2>/cqweb/ , and for both these URLs it shows the same process ID, as mentioned below:

Cqrpc process is running on Host-2, and the process id is 17608 as seen in the below screen:

When you access the CQWeb URL – https://Host-1/cqweb/ as Compass admin user, and it shows the process id of cqrpc.exe process running on Host-2, i.e. 17608 as seen below:

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Note: Go to CQWeb Site Administration > Monitoring, to see these details

You can now access the CQWeb URL on Host-2 i.e., https://Host-2/cqweb/ and it also shows the same process id 17608 running on host-2, as seen in the below screen:

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Reference:

https://help.hcltechsw.com/compass/2.2.0/com.hcl.compass.doc/webhelp/oxy_ex-1/com.ibm.rational.clearquest.webadmin.doc/topics/c_cqwsvr_load_balance_config.html

Save the Date: assono KI-Forum | Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2023 | Live in Düsseldorf

9. März 2023 Posted by Celina

Nach den ausgebuchten assono KI-Foren in Hamburg und München geht es nun im Mai in Düsseldorf in die mittlerweile sechste Runde.

Outlook für Mac kostenlos

8. März 2023 Posted by Gerda Marx

Wer Outlook auf seinem Rechner verwenden möchte, musste bisher die Office Suite oder ein Microsoft 365 Abo lizensieren. Für Mac Rechner ist dies jetzt nicht mehr notwendig. Microsoft hat bekannt gegeben, dass Mac User ab sofort Outlook kostenlos nutzen können - ohne Lizenz.

Outlook ist ein bekanntes Mail Programm und im Apple App Store erhältlich. Genutzt werden kann es auch auf Rechnern mit dem M1 bzw. M2 Chip. Alle User von Mail-Anbietern mit IMAP-Unterstützung, wie bspw. Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo etc., können nun das kostenlose Outlook nutzen. Alle relevanten Funktionen sollen verfügbar sein. Auch mehrere Mail Konten können in der Ansicht "alle Konten" verwaltet werden. So kann Speicherplatz gespart werden, da nicht die einzelnen Apps der Anbieter runtergeladen werden müssen, um die Mails zu bearbeiten. Wobei zu bemerken ist, dass dies auch beim Mail-Programm vom Apple möglich ist.

Outlook für den Mac ist eine native MacOS-App, die auch ein "Weiterbearbeiten" in der mobilen nativen iOS-App ermöglicht. So kann der Nutzer bei Bedarf eine Mail auf dem Rechner bearbeiten, die Arbeit unterbrechen, und durch die Hand-off-Funktion problemlos auf dem iPhone weiterbearbeiten. Für diese Synchronisation müssen Sie auf Ihrem Mac und iPhone mit derselben Apple-ID angemeldet sein.

"Darüber hinaus überarbeitet Microsoft derzeit seine Outlook für Windows-App. Seit geraumer Zeit testet der Softwareriese eine neue webbasierte Version von Outlook und plant, die Windows Mail-Anwendung und Outlook für Windows in einem einzigen E-Mail-Client zu vereinen. Bei der neuen "One Outlook"-App handelt es sich im Wesentlichen um Outlook.com als Progressive Web-App (PWA). Ähnlich wie Outlook für Mac wird auch dieser neue Client kostenlos sein und eine Vielzahl von E-Mail-Anbietern unterstützen, heißt es. Ein Erscheinungsdatum gibt es noch nicht." heißt es bei  heise.de

Eine progressive Web-App für Outlook MacOS ist allerdings nicht geplant.

Einige User der Techcommunity melden noch Probleme beim Einrichten der der kostenlosen Version. Es kann sein, das die neue Version noch nicht bei allen im Store angekommen ist.