MacOS Sierra and IBM Notes

When Sierra came out yesterday we did what we always do: Download and install! The funny thing was that IBM Notes was able to start on some Macbooks, and was unable to start on others. A short analysis clarified the issue:

We have had different installations. Those running IBM Notes for Mac with FP4 were unable to start, those running IBM Notes 64bit for Mac started without problem. To overcome this issue just uninstall the 32bit Version of Notes (best practice: delete files by hand or use a tool like CleanMyMac).

After that just install 64bit Version of IBM Notes and all necessary fixes you can find on Fixcentral. Do not forget to start the client in between the installation of the fixes. Otherwise the installation will be broken......

Have a lot of fun

Where Do I Find NOTES.INI On My Mac

If you try to find the notes.ini file on your Mac you will not find one. All application specific properties will be stored in a file called

"Notes Preferences"

in each users home directory. If your user eg is called Keith then navigate to

/Users/Keith/Library/Preferences/

here you will find the file Notes Preferences which includes the same information and syntax as the notes.ini file.

Ubuntu Kernel patched: solved bindsock issue on Domino servers

If you run a Domino, Sametime or Traveler server on Ubuntu than you might have recognized an issue during the last kernel releases that prevented to start http, ldap or any other task running a port smaller than 1024.

The Ubuntu kernel team solved that issue by implementing a workaround in the kernel because the main issue seems to be in bindsock library on domino side. Now we could run the up to date kernel release on Domino servers again.

Hopefully this workaround will not be removed in later kernel versions (again).

If you want to be informed follow:

Ubuntu Bug 1335478

Passworddecoder for WAS-Passwords

We frequently have the same problem on customer sides that we find WAS-installation (WebSphere Portal, IBM Connections, Sametime etc) and nobody remembers the passwords used for internal/ machine users.

If you look into config files you will find only the encrypted passwords.

Because of this you can decrypt your password using one of three methods.

1. You can just search the web
2. You can execute a long commandline on your server.

Examples for this with WAS Version 8

../java/bin/java -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.websphere.v8_1.0.201.v20111031_1843/wasJars/ -cp securityimpl.jar:iwsorb.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder {xor}HQkdb2Y=

Result:

encoded password == "{xor}HQkdb2Y=", decoded password == "BVB09"

Same for version 7

WAS Version 7

../java/bin/java -Djava.ext.dirs=/app/websphere/appserver/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.websphere.v7_7.0.3.v20110824_2356/wasJars/ -cp securityimpl.jar:iwsorb.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder {xor}HQkdb2Y=

Result:

encoded password == "{xor}HQkdb2Y=", decoded password == "BVB09"

The most diffcult thing for us is to remember the command and the syntax to execute. Well, we wrote a scipt.

Feel free to copy it to your homedirectory and execute it (at your own risk). The script will check for the correct path and gives you the decrypted password on the command line.

Download here......