LOTUSCONNECTIONS.org

Today I registered a date to take the exam of 957 Administering Lotus Connections 2.0.

After some calling with the people of Prometric I could find it under

Date / time

A couple of months ago AT&T release a beta version of their VPN Client for linux.

Unfortunately they released the client as a RPM ( RedHat package ) and not
as an Ubuntu DEB package.

But help was nearby, on this website I found how to convert the RPM
package to an Ubuntu DEB package.

http://blog.afmacedo.com/?p=11

And here you can download the latest IBM AT&T VPN Client
for Linux (@ 07/01/09 )

ftp://ftp.attglobal.net/pub/client/linux/agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3000.i386.rpm

After converting and installing I could find the app here :

The default behavior for images used in Blog post is to be scaled down to a
maximum of 350px, both width and height, aspect ratio is kept.

This is not really handy for screenshots that are posted on Blogs.

Thanks to the reply of Chris Whisonant at the Lotus Connections forum
I learned how to configure this behavior.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcforum.nsf/DateAllThreadedweb/42a2b16da056408bc12575210040b42f?OpenDocument

Made some extra edits so that scaled down images are clickable and a
full version of the image opens in a new window when you click on it.

Tested it with Firefox and IE

Changed the code in the file _day.vm as follow.

/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/installedApps/localhostNode01Cell/Blogs.ear/blogs.war/themes/blog # vi _day.vm

function openImage(item)
{
window.open(item);
}

dojo.addOnLoad(function(){
dojo.query(‘.entryContentContainer img’).forEach(
function(item){

if(item.style != undefined && item.style.width != undefined && item.style.width == “100%”)
return;
if (item.width > 400) {
item.height = item.height * (400/item.width);
item.width = 400;
item.onclick=function(){openImage(this.src)};
item.style.cursor=’pointer’;
}
}
);
});

Since 1 december 2008 IBM released a bunch of new iFixes to fix a diversity of issues within
Lotus Connections 2.0.1.

For the fixes and what they fix see the list below.

Use this url http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ to download these new ifixes.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35859
Release date:     22-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     20 – High Impact/Medium Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     Profiles: InLine Business card formats poorly in IE, makes the card unusable.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35655
Release date:     22-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Compatibility
Abstract:     Allow PNG photos for upload to Profiles.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO36131
Release date:     22-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     /activities/service/html/autocompletemembers?member needs to return extid

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35840
Release date:     22-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     Modification of CSS styles specific to IE to fix dojo dialog to 400px height

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO36188
Release date:     20-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     20 – High Impact/Medium Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     Communities: IE browser hangs when posting a topic in Community Discussion Forums.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35860
Release date:     20-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     Profiles: Cache issues in widgets and javlin card. When changing browser’s locale setting from English to French, the UI screens displayed in the new language for the current page, and all other future navigation.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35887
Release date:     20-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Function
Abstract:     Profiles: For non-default ProfileType (for e.g., profileType=test), the page displays default widgets if the ProfileType does not define its own set of widgets.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35785
Release date:     15-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     This is a change to allow the Connections antivirus software to work with Mcafee and Symantec ICAP scanners. Previously, the code only worked for Symantec.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35784
Release date:     15-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     This is a change to allow the Connections antivirus software to work with Mcafee and Symantec ICAP scanners. Previously, the code only worked for Symantec.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35783
Release date:     15-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     This is a change to allow the Connections antivirus software to work with Mcafee and Symantec ICAP scanners. Previously, the code only worked for Symantec.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35782
Release date:     12-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     This is a change to allow the Connections antivirus software to work with Mcafee and Symantec ICAP scanners. Previously, the code only worked for Symantec.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35377
Release date:     01-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Upgrades to version:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     There are two problems here, 1) It required the client to provide a ’slug’ header in order to upload a file, which should be optional, so the fix is to make this optional. When slug header is not provided a random file name will be generated. 2) when the slug header is provided, the file separator ‘.’ is missing so, instead of <slug>.extension you get <slug>extension, fix is to add the ‘.’.

Fix name:     2.0.1.0-LC-Multi-IFLO35376
Release date:     01-Dec-2008
Platforms:     AIX, Linux, Windows
Applies to versions:     2.0.1.0
Upgrades to version:     2.0.1.0
Severity:     30 – Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories:     Data
Abstract:     The problem here is that the feed/entries/atom Atom feed supports tag filtering, however, it only works when ONE tag is provided, if using multiple tags then the filter will fail. This iFix is for supporting mutliple tags filtering.

A while ago IBM released the first IBM
Lotus Connections Administration certification.

Here the link which covers the objectives for the
exam: http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/ovrL957.shtml

They already included a link to the registration area of the prometric website ( http://www.prometric.com/IBM/default.htm ) where you can register for the exam.

But for now I can’t find the 957 exam of Lotus Connections on the prometric website.