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DECS 5.0.10 Release Notes
These are the Release Notes for DECS functionality included with Release 5.0.10 Notes/Domino product shipments.
Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) is a visual tool and high-performance server environment you can use to create Web applications that provide live, native access to enterprise data and applications. The visual tool includes an application wizard and online Help to assist you to define external data source connections -- for example, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, File directory, EDA/SQL, or ODBC -- and fields within your application that automatically update with external connector data. For more information on connecting to legacy databases, see the Domino Enterprise Connection Services User's Guide. (DECSDOC.NSF) in your Notes or Domino data directory. For information about the Lotus connectors that are available in DECS, see www.Lotus.com/ei.
These notes include:
- Overview of this release
- System requirements
- Operational considerations and known limitations with this release
- Reporting feedback and software problem reports
Overview of this release
Important information from previous releases that is being retained in this Release Note are as follows:
Oracle Runtime library
If you have trouble loading the Oracle Runtime library due to unresolved symbols, you may need to re-link the oraclntsh.so library WITHOUT the sorapt.o file. In the Oracle installation script $ORACLE_HOME/bin/genclntsh, comment out the following command at line 148:
ar d $LIBCOMMON sorapt.o
and run genclntsh to re-create the library.
Subfield Key Ordering
In the Activity document Options section, Multivalue data subfield keys can now be ordered by the user.
Domain Search and DocLinks
Domino, post R5, introduced a change to its Extension Manager interface which adversely effected the behavior of DECS. DECS has been updated to restore support for RealTime event handling triggered by Domain Searches, DocLinks, Notes replication, @Formulas, and LotusScript written with the NotesDocument class.
System Requirements
A complete matrix of enterprise systems and versions certified and supported for each Domino OS platform may be found at www.lotus.com/dominoei
Operational Considerations and Limitations
- Be aware that for DECS to browse the server, on Domino 5.x, the Name and Address Book server document for the DECS server must have the "Only allow server access to users listed in this directory" option set to NO.
- When using multi-value data fields, do not designate a "Character Set" when you select the "Sorting - Text order - Binary" option. The "Character Set" field must be blanked out to prevent an error.
Reporting product feedback, comments and software report problems
This software product will be supported via Lotus Support. You can request enhancements to this product in the customer forum on the Lotus enterprise integration web site: www.lotus.com/dominoei.
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