You typed your password wrong twice, maybe three times, and now HCL Notes is refusing to let you in. Just a heads up, a locked Notes ID can feel like a tough nut to crack when you don’t know which recovery route your organization uses. Or maybe it’s worse — you came back from vacation, […]
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If you’ve been running HCL Notes environments for any length of time, you know the drill: ID files, password resets, shared login workarounds for kiosk machines, and the occasional 2 a.m. call because someone’s password expired mid-shift. It’s been the same basic authentication model for three decades. Fix Pack 1 for Notes/Domino 2026 (14.5.1) quietly […]
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If you’re running HCL Notes/Domino 14.5.1 (marketed as HCL Notes/Domino 2026), a new update just landed. HCL released Fix Pack 1 (FP1) on July 16, 2026. It’s a smaller update than a full version release, but it fixes real problems that admins have been hitting since March. I wrote about the 12.0.2 Fix Pack 8 […]
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The Problem: Drowning in My Own Automation As an IT Pro, I run a lot of automation. Scheduled agents, background jobs, sync processes — code I’ve written over the years that quietly does its job across various databases. Almost all of it has one habit in common: when something happens (good or bad), it […]
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If you’ve been running HCL Notes and Domino for any length of time, you already know the platform has a habit of quietly sitting on years — sometimes decades — of company knowledge. Support tickets, policy documents, contracts, project notes, client history. It’s all in there. The problem has always been finding the right piece […]
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If you’re running HCL Notes/Domino on the 12.0.2 stream, there’s a fix pack sitting in the HCLSoftware download portal right now that’s worth ten minutes of your attention. HCL released Fix Pack 8 (FP8) for 12.0.2 on May 7, 2026, with language kits following a day later, and it’s not a minor cleanup release. It […]
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If you have ever tried to open a document, run an agent, or replicate a database in HCL Notes (formerly IBM Lotus Notes) and Domino, you have probably run into this exact message: “Database has not opened yet.” It is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — error messages in the entire […]
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The HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes) platform has been powering enterprise messaging, workflow automation, and secure collaboration for decades. With millions of enterprise users worldwide and a deeply programmable architecture, Notes/Domino remains one of the most customizable business application platforms available. Among its most powerful — yet often underused — features is DXL (Domino […]
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HCL Notes doesn’t provide a direct way of working with a master-details scenario, may be because it’s not a relational database system where Primary-Foreign-Key relationship entails the designer platform to provide some efficient mechanism to entertain this particular scenario. So we need to devise some alternate methodology to achieve it. So in order to […]
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While developing in IBM/HCL Notes you may stumble across the situations where your search of documents requires more than one key. The custom function placed below provides you with the same facility. Its prototype is pretty simple, it gets the form name, first field name and its key value, and second field name and its […]
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