Lotus Notes 8.5 Windows 10

IBM's technical support resource for all IBM products and services including downloads, fixes, drivers, APARs, product documentation, Redbooks, whitepapers and technotes. ZP09-0396,AT A GLANCE IBM(R) Lotus Notes(R) and Lotus(R) Domino(R) 8.5.1 includes many features and enhancements that improve the usability of the solutions for both the end user (Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes(TM), and Lotus Notes Traveler) and developers (Do. IBM® Lotus® Notes Traveler software is a no charge mobile offering for IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino® users Provides a full, cross-platform release that includes capabilities for these supported mobile device platforms - Apple iOS, Google Android 2.x and 3.x, Nokia Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.x. STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION OF IBM LOTUS DOMINO 8.5 Lotus Domino is an IBM Server application program that is commonly used for enterprise e-mailing, scheduling, collaboration and messaging that can be deployed in a company as a core e-mail server which will be very helpful for them to enhance the productivity of their people. It works as a backbone of a simple and real-time work environment. To install Lotus Notes v8.5, First click on Installation Wizard. Accept License Agreement by clicking on I accept the terms in the license agreement. Enter your username & organization name and select option for Single User Install or Multi User Install.

Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5 is available for Download from the IBM Passport Advantage Website.

New in Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5:

  • xPages
  • ID Vault (read a article from p. mooney here)
  • Domino attachment and object service (DAOS)
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Attention:
There exist a Interim Fix for 8.5 which solved the following problem:

User Rename and User Delete will fail to update group membership except in the rare case where the renamed/deleted user is also listed in the LocalAdmin field for the group. This fix is needed only on 8.5 servers running adminp and is a regression introduced in Release 8.5.

The fix is available on Fix Central.

ipod owners manual downloadAdvice:
Use a pre-8.5 server to do User Rename and User Delete functions, or apply the fix for spr JPAI7MFS69 to the 8.5 server.

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Yes, many folks still use Lotus Notes / IBM Notes. Myself included, several dozen hours a week actually. By default, Notes really doesn't take advantage of modern systems with lots of RAM. This article will help your Notes installation use your sytem's memory more effectively, which also means Notes will

  • start faster
  • behave more responsively, especially as you open up more and more tabs and Sametime windows.

Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1

I tested this tweak with both Notes 8.5.3 and Notes 9. Interesting to note that Notes 8.5.3, which predates Windows 8 by years, won't even run on Windows 8 until you make this simple alteration.

I first mentioned part of this procedure here, which for most folks involves simply closing Notes, then backing up then editing one line of this file. IBM then published a tip for Domino Designers that works well for regular Lotus/IBM Notes users as well.

1) Close Notes
2) Make a backup copy of the jvm.properties file:
C:notesframeworkrcpdeployjvm.properties
3) Edit the jvm.properties file, changing the first 3 lines from the default of:
vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m
vmarg.Xms=-Xms48m
vmarg.Xmca=-Xmca8k
to
vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx1024m
vmarg.Xms=-Xms512m
vmarg.Xmca=-Xmca512k
4) save your changes
5) restart Notes

That's it!

The details of the edit:

Sep 16 2013: Lotus Notes issue was simple to fix, the oldie but goodie JVM tuning trick gets 8.5.3 running fine on Windows 8.1 64 bit: How to Speed Up your Notes Standard (Eclipse-based) Client Jun 06 2011, where kchao states:

Here’s how to increase your Eclipse memory usage: - Close your Notes client - Go to your Notes client installation directory of C:…Notesframeworkrcpdeploy and edit the jvm.properties file by changing: vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m to vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx512m or vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx1024m -Save and close the file then start your Notes Client. My Lotus notes client is fast like a rocket now.

This same tweak dates back to 2008, seen here. It would seem that

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx768m

is as high as you can safely go (I’m on a beastly 16GB of RAM W520).

Put in higher numbers, especially above 1500, and Notes takes forever to start, and strange things may happen, such as a “Failed to login CLFRJ0010E: Notes initialization failed” message.

Jul 30 2013: IBM Domino Designer

If you have at least 2 GB of physical RAM, close all instances of Notes, Domino Designer, and Domino Administrator, and then change the settings from the following default values:

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m
vmarg.Xms=-Xms48m
vmarg.Xmca=-Xmca8k

Lotus Notes 8.5 2 Windows 10

to these new values

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx1024m
vmarg.Xms=-Xms512m
vmarg.Xmca=-Xmca512k

Linux

procedure documented at tar.gz here*

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  1. Close lotus notes and zap it, to be sure it is closed indeed.

  2. Check for jvm.properties in the following path:

    • if Lotus Notes 8:/opt/IBM/lotus/notes/framework/rcp/deploy/.
    • if Lotus Notes 9:/opt/ibm/notes/framework/rcp/deploy/.

  3. Open jvm.properties and search for: vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m
    Replace it with vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx768m and save the file.

  4. Open Lotus Notes and feel the difference.
    Of course, you can give more memory if you want. The end!

Lotus Notes 8.5 Windows 10

*I have not yet tested this tweak on Linux, but others have