SAML & IBM Notes Traveler – Encrypted E-Mails Issue

A while ago, we ran into issue with SAML on IBM Notes Traveler devices. The Users were not able to open encrypted E-Mails.

Before assigning Users with SAML Policy in Domino Directory, Users were able to upload their ID-File and open Encrypted E-Mails. But as soon as the SAML Policy was assigned to a user, that would not be possible anymore.

We opened a Ticket at IBM and shortly after that we got a confirmation that the issue is related to SPR # GFAL9ZBJVT . A few days ago we got a Hot Fix for this issue, which needs to be installed on the users Mail Server. After installing this fix, the users were able to open encrypted E-Mails on their Apple devices (with Companion App installed) without any issue.

The Hot Fix for SPR # GFAL9ZBJVT is not included in Domino 10.0.1 or 10.0.1 FP1 release.

Update: The Hotfix is included in Domino 10.0.1 FP1 Code, take a look at the article from Daniel Nashed.

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IBM Notes/Domino G1 Language Packs Released

IBM Notes and Domino G1 Language Pack was released yesterday, part numbers are listed below.

Take note that the FP1 is not included, so you should install it right away after installing the slipstream version. And if you had the first “troubled” version of the client installed, you should uninstall the original slipstream release completely before installing the FP1 Update to ensure compatibility with FP1, as described in the official article.

IBM Notes Client 10.0.1 Multilingual User Interface

• IBM Notes Client v10.0.1 Multilingual User Interface for Windows (Group 1) Multilingual (CC0I9ML )

IBM Notes 10.0.1 for Mac

• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit German and Italian (CC0IDML )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese (CC0ICML )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit Korean and Japanese (CC0IBML ) – View details
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese (CC0IAML )

• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese (CC0ICML )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit Korean and Japanese (CC0IBML ) – View details
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Mac 64 bit Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese (CC0IAML )

IBM Notes 10.0.1 for Windows

• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows German (CC0HRDE )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Brazilian (CC0HZBP )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows French (CC0HVFR )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Italian (CC0HYIT )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Japanese (CC0HXJA )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Japanese (CC0KCJA )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Korean (CC0HSKO )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Simplified Chinese (CC0HTSC )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Spanish (CC0HUES )
• IBM Notes v10.0.1 Windows Traditional Chinese (CC0HWTC )

IBM Notes Designer & Admin for Windows

• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin V10.0.1 for Windows German (CC0I0DE )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Brazilian (CC0I8BP )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows French (CC0I4FR )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Italian (CC0I7IT )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Japanese (CC0I6JA )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Japanese (CC0KDJA )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin V10.0.1 for Windows Korean (CC0I1KO )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Simplified Chinese (CC0I2SC )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Spanish (CC0I3ES )
• IBM Notes, Domino Designer and Admin v10.0.1 for Windows Traditional Chinese (CC0I5TC )

IBM XWork Server

• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux German (CC0IQDE )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux French (CC0IMFR )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Italian (CC0IRIT )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Korean (CC0ISKO )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Simplified Chinese (CC0ITSC )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Spanish (CC0INES )
• IBM XWork Server 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Traditional Chinese (CC0IUTC )
• IBM XWork Server10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux Portuguese Brazilian (CC0IPBP )

IBM i

• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i German (CC0IYDE )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i French (CC0IVFR )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Italian (CC0IZIT )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Korean (CC0J0KO )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Portuguese Brazilian (CC0IXBP )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Simplified Chinese (CC0J1SC )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Spanish (CC0IWES )
• IBM Domino 10.0.1 Language Pack for Windows, AIX, Linux, IBM i Traditional Chinese (CC0J2TC )

APNs Certificate used for Traveler 9.0.1.21 Expires soon!

The APNs certificate implemented in IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1.21,will expire on 30th March and therefore the Push Notifications for Apple iOS devices will not be possible with the “default” certificate.

The easiest way to make sure that the Push Notifications functions properly is to update your Traveler Server to 10.0.0.0 or newer release. Index of all IBM Notes Traveler Releases:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21700212#10011

In order to upgrade Traveler, there is no need to update Domino to the Version 10, although I would strongly recommend it. Traveler 10.0.X System Requirements:

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10729949

Announcing the IBM Domino V10 portfolio beta program: Sign up today

Make sure to sign up and take a look to the Domino V10 beta program.

Official Post

Beta 1: We will form an initial group of beta participants, based on the submissions received and then qualify and approve for beta program enrollment. Beta 1 will begin on June 25th, 2018.

What can be tested in Beta 1:

– Domino (Windows)
– Notes client (Windows)
– Notes, Designer & Admin clients (Windows)

This beta is English-only.

Beta 2: We will extend the initial group of Beta 1 participants as we get further along in the development cycle for Domino V10, by including additional participants at the Beta 2 stage. We expect the Beta 2 phase to begin the second half of July 2018.  Submissions received up to July 15th, for those not included in the Beta 1 group, will be considered for inclusion in the Beta 2 phase.

 What can be tested in Beta 2:

– Domino (Windows and Linux)
– Notes client (Windows and Apple Mac)
– Notes, Designer & Admin clients (Windows)
– Verse on Premises (Windows and Linux)
– DominoDB NPM package for Node.js

The goal of the IBM Domino V10 Portfolio Beta Program is for the community of beta participants to conduct honest, constructive and thoughtful review and testing of the Domino V10 beta software, which includes IBM Domino V10, IBM Notes V10, IBM Sametime V10 and IBM Verse On-Premises V10.

We’re seeking people who meet the following criteria:    

– A business end user, administrator, or developer, who has prior knowledge of Domino, Notes, and Verse.
– Those who bring diverse (role/industry/geography/company size) attributes to the beta team and, thus, ensure we get the right blend of input perspectives.

IBM is looking for participants to:

– Share their use case for the beta in their company.
– Engage in a dialog about Domino V10 and provide timely feedback.
– Be constructive and professional in all written/spoken interaction with program members, IBM and HCL.
– Attend the web conferences and meetings pertaining to the beta program.
– Experience the beta in a non-production environment.
– Be open to the idea of becoming a reference for IBM Domino V10.

IBM Traveler 9.0.1.16 APNS Certificate Expires on 08.03.2018

As of 08.03.2018, the APNS Certificate used by Traveler 9.0.1.16 will expire and will not be valid anymore. For everybody who is running Traveler 9.0.1.16 this is a good time to update to a newer version. The current version of IBM Notes Traveler is 9.0.1.20.

You can also update the certificate files, as Detlev described in his blog post.

Why is APNS Certificate important? IBM Technical Support Video

IBM Traveler 9.0.1.15 APNS Certificate Expires on 12.08.2017

As of tomorrow, 12.08.2017, the APNS Certificate used by Traveler 9.0.1.15 will expire and will not be valid anymore. For everybody who is running Traveler 9.0.1.15 this is a good time to update to a newer version. The current version of IBM Notes Traveler is 9.0.1.18.

You can also update the certificate files, as Detlev described in his blog post.

Why is APNS Certificate important? IBM Technical Support Video

 

Traveler 9.0.1.18 is out and it brings one big change!

Since yesterday the new Traveler 9.0.1.18 Update is out.

As usual there are a few bugfixes, but this time there is also a new feature which changes the way the users mail file is accessed.

Until now the users mail database was accessed by the Traveler server using the server ID, but starting from Traveler 9.0.1.18 the “run as user” Feature will be enabled by default, which means that the users mail database will be accessed with a user ID rather than the server ID. This behavior can be disabled by using the “notes.ini” parameter “NTS_USER_SESSION=false“.

Details on what´s new.

The Traveler 9.0.1.18 update can be downloaded from Fix Central.

IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1.16 Available

IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1.16 Update is available for Download.

This update covers all previous updates and beside usual fixes, this updates enables Java 1.8 Support. Which is important and makes this update a requirement before installing IBM Domino Feature Pack 8 which will come later on.

Fix List

Release Notes

Download from Fix Central

Make sure to visit Daniel Nashed´s Blog, specifically the posts about IBM Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 and Java 1.8 Support where he described the impact of the coming changes and new features in great detail.

IBM Traveler Derby Database Corruption

After an OS restart we encountered a problem with the Traveler Server, the local Derby database became corrupt, and therefore Traveler clients could not sync the enterprise data.

After starting the Traveler task the following errors were logged in the console:

[09C4:000C-0B5C] <Timestamp>   Traveler: WARNING <Username> Session ID d082448615552a82da8175a9ea5d071a309 could not be associated with any existing PS threads.

[09C4:000C-0B5C] <Timestamp>   Traveler: SEVERE  <Username>  Exception Thrown: com.lotus.sync.db.PersistenceException: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Invalid Properties list in FROM list.  There is no index ‘IDX_GUIDNEXT_1’ on table ‘GU

[09C4:000C-0B5C] <Timestamp>   Traveler: WARNING <Username> Sync exception being treated as a backend failure. Exception Thrown: com.lotus.sync.db.PersistenceException: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Invalid Properties list in FROM list.

Next course of action was to try to defrag the Database which solved the problem. I simply removed the Traveler task from the “notes.ini” file and started it with “Load Traveler -defrag” command. The defragmentation Process took about 10 Minutes after which the Traveler task was started and the mobile devices could sync the PIM Data without any problems.

The following article from IBM also describes a similar behavior:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21608001