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The sad state of affairs of US citizen IT workers

Carl Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:28:16 AM -0400

"either unemployed or holding jobs that did not need their training"

That could mean that 1% of those people are unemployed and 99% have jobs but are working in different fields. Lots of people do degree courses in subjects they don't end up doing for careers.

Kind of meaningless stats.

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

JP Liggett — Tue, 19 May 2015 11:37:23 AM -0400

I suggest XML file types for transporting data, since XML is native to both Notes and Excel.

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Mike McP — Thu, 14 May 2015 09:14:19 AM -0400

"Any Chance IBM can fix this?"

Have you tried IBM Verse? It's a new way to get things done, and I think it will solve all your problems...it even has headshots of your contacts ;)

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Pat Sawyer — Wed, 13 May 2015 07:41:29 PM -0400

I use Junction Lite for importing into Excel for small jobs, and use TDI for large jobs { Link }

I use some custom code for exporting into excel for canned reports but use the edit>copy as table for most views nowadays.

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Kevin Pettitt — Wed, 13 May 2015 03:44:52 PM -0400

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Tool was free once upon a time but now they charge what I think is probably quite a fair price for what you get. It's a full blown application that allows you to set up complex import jobs that can be run repeatedly and by different people as needed. All sorts of clean up and transformation code can be easily included in the job configuration as well. Think LEI but for Excel (or CSV) files.

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Wayne — Wed, 13 May 2015 10:06:31 AM -0400

.COL files still work, and work quite well.

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Brian Moore — Wed, 13 May 2015 09:49:15 AM -0400

I don't think there is much of a chance for two reasons. One is IBM isn't focused on Notes like it should. I don't _remember_ importing via csv, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.

The second is trying to do anything with a Microsoft product is always like trying to hit a moving target. Microsoft has always changed parts of it's products so third party applications didn't work with them. The main reason (I've gathered) is to move you closer to their products. A Notes install is pretty hardy, so it can live through sever changes in a Microsoft application. And users have a tendency to blame not the non-Microsoft product for the problem, even if Microsoft it the product that changed.

I have a post on doing an import, and you can see it here:

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You may notice that when I create the Excel object, I have a comment about the version. This is an example of Microsoft changing things. Every so often, the object that needed to be created gets a new name, so older code ceases to work. An earlier version of my code included:

Set Excel = CreateObject( "Excel.Application.8" ) ' for windows95

I had to ask the user for version of the OS and Excel, then send my code to create the correct object.

My post doesn't do some of the fancier stuff it can - like it hard codes the file names and locations. I did this for the convenience of the reader. I was posting about importing, not getting file names and locations via dialog boxes. You are welcome to use this, or I can help modify it if you need.

Cheers,

Brian

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Robert Ibsen Voith — Wed, 13 May 2015 04:23:43 AM -0400

Several solutions exists, where you may find pretty generic importers using LotusScript, for example this one from OpenNTF { Link } I have also made a third-party solution at { Link }

Lotus Notes now imcompatible with Excel data?

Stephan H. Wissel — Tue, 12 May 2015 07:11:46 PM -0400

There's a Data-Moving-Animal application on OpenNTF.org that allows to configure all sorts of import operations. Might be what you are looking for

Sony Pictures: would the email have been more secure had it stayed in Lotus Notes and had it been archived?

Nathan T. Freeman — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 02:32:57 PM -0400

Since the breach was of a large number of Windows desktops and servers all authenticated by Active Directory, it would have depended on whether the attackers knew enough about the platform to spot local NSF and grab id files. And whether Sony had used a policy of local encryption on their NSFs.

If you don’t use it, you lose it to Microsoft

George Banning — Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:00:25 PM -0400

I have been an active Notes/Domino developer for 20 years. I even met Ray Ozzie who wrote it and used version 2.0 through 9.

My company just laid me off since the work is diminishing and they have moved to the Microsoft Platform and SharePoint. Even Ray Ozzie was at one time the CEO of Microsoft. He too jumped off the Domino wagon, a wagon he built.

So like so many mentioned above and elsewhere, I too am forced to migrate to the SharePoint development platform. I will still do Notes as a consultant but must ride the wave if I wish to remain gainfully employed.

Best of luck to all.

Would you want a Notes Client for the Ipad?

Jeff Weesner — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:00:56 PM -0400

Yes, looking to make all our applications browser based because mobile is not microsoft centric.

No way IRS relies on local desktops to store email

Ben Langhinrichs — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:26:54 PM -0400

According to the article I read, they use Exchange/Outlook. But I have to agree, it is beyond plausible that they rely on local storage on a PC. Centralized storage is so inexpensive now, it defies belief that they would not archive emails for longer than this. They may not be immediately accessible, but they have to be in the vaults.

Of course, I might also sanrkily add that the IRS could talk to the NSA who probably have every government official's emails.

There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk

Tim Tripcony — Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:22:43 AM -0400

Saving an attachment (and some other file operations) writes the destination folder to a notes.ini variable called FileDlgDirectory so that Notes can default the save dialog to the same directory the next time you try to save a file, since it's reasonable to assume that you always save attachments to the same, or similar, location. Without this behavior, you'd have to manually navigate to your preferred location every time, which for most users would be extremely tedious. So this is generally a very good thing.

However, if the location you saved to last is no longer valid the next time you try to save, you'll see the error you mentioned in your post.

Any thoughts on the new Lotus Notes team at IBM?

Fredrik Malmborg — Tue, 2 Apr 2013 07:17:57 AM -0400

I agree that Scott Souder is keeping the flag high for Notes/Domino. Great energy and positive flow.

Any thoughts on the new Lotus Notes team at IBM?

I’m an IBMer — Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:30:32 AM -0400

I don't think a replacement for Brill has been announced yet. Scott Souder took on the role of evangelist and external advocate and has been doing an amazing job.

Will IBM fix the Lotus Notes license invoicing system?

Matti Timonen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:53:29 PM -0400

You can migrate Passport Advantage Express agreement to Passport Advantage which has renewal date once a year. This change happened about year ago.

Highlights

Removal of the 500-point entry requirement for Passport Advantage. Elimination of the total order size restriction, which previously kept some customers from qualifying for Passport Advantage, makes it possible for customers with relatively few IBM software licenses to enroll in or migrate to Passport Advantage to accrue discounts and eliminates the need to process multiple individual renewal quotes throughout the year.

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Will IBM fix the Lotus Notes license invoicing system?

Henning Heinz — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:35:00 PM -0400

I had some customers consolidate this year. So in Germany this is possiible. Business Partners are doing the work, customers just sign a short agreement.

My Version of Lotusphere

Tony Austin — Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:29:45 PM -0400

While face to face is superior in many ways, another version of Lotusphere would be to record MANY of the sessions (perhaps from user group meetings all around the world too, not just the Orlando conference) and put them up PERMANENTLY on a shared video download site. No lame excuses, IBM -- these days disk is pretty cheap, Internet bandwidth is high and also getting cheaper all the time.

Antivirus software a waste of money for businesses, report suggests

Tony Austin — Tue, 4 Dec 2012 07:56:19 PM -0400

Eugen, maybe see

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