XPages Tip: Get an element’s id outside XPages events with CSJS
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 3:30a Henning Schmidt I was facing a problem today where I tried to set a value and do a partial refresh within a client script block on my XPage. Since this script block is outside any XPage event, I could not use the following SSJS within my CSJS to get the IDs of the elements I want to set and refresh:
dojo.byId(“#{id:idOfMyComponent}”);
I googled a bit but was not able to find a solution for this problem. There are many hints but you need to bring them together to get the result. Here is the code that [read] Keywords: xpages dojo
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Meet me at #ls12 @OpenNTF’s booth 516
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 12:56a Henning Schmidt In a couple of days there will be a bright yellow spot again in Orlando and the rest of the world turns grey due to lack of color. I am so happy that I can be yellow this year!
I want to thank Niklas Heidloff and Bruce Elgort who gave me the chance to join their team this year and represent OpenNTF at Lotusphere.You have to save a spot on your schedule this year to visit the Product Showcase. Mark booth 516 on your map! Come by and learn all about OpenNTF. Anything you ever wanted to know abou [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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XPages Twitter Controls go Mobile!
Sun, Nov 27th 2011 11:46p Henning Schmidt Last week I blogged about my Twitter Controls which I handed in to the 2. XPages Development Contest. It fulfilled the requirements of the contest by being a social app that uses the Twitter API and OAuth for authentication. One component was missing though: MOBILE.
So I sat down and checked the possibilities to make the app run on smartphones. There’s DOJO and the Mobile Controls integrated in the Extension Library 8.5.3. I took my first shot an had a mobile application together which pr [read] Keywords: xpages application
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XPages Tip: How to apply different styles for mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, …)
Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 12:23a Henning Schmidt I got stuck yesterday when I tried to shape my application to look different on different mobile devices. I wanted to have an iPhone look when the app gets opened with an iPhone and an Android look when it gets accessed with an Android phone. I knew that there were capabilities to achieve this but I could not find these. Now, as usual, the trick is easy.
There are properties that can be set in the xsp.properies file. First of all you have to find and access the file. Well, those of you out there [read] Keywords: domino
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XPages Tip: Work with multi value fields
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 12:21a Henning Schmidt In classic notes dev you can make a variety of fields multi value fields and define how values are to be separated. Imagine you have such a notes form and want to put an xpages frontend on top of it. How do you separate multi values?
Ok, it’s easy, isn’t it. Just use a Multiline Editbox control, bind that to your multi value field on the form and put a new value in every line of the box, right? This only works halfway since the contents of the field are being saved as a text string w [read] Keywords: notes
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XPages Twitter Controls on OpenNTF – Let the contest begin
Thu, Nov 17th 2011 11:58p Henning Schmidt I’ve been busy recently founding my own company hedersoft. There was no time left to blog or tweet a lot since administrative tasks ate it all up. Now things are getting back to normal and I’ll do my best to save some time to share my thoughts.
Anyway, hedersoft as an IBM Business Partner focusses on XPages. We will make basic applications and modules available as OpenSource and publish them on OpenNTF. Lars Buntrock started with his “Database Open Dialog” and I uploaded [read] Keywords: ibm
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Help needed: Using java sources in java agents
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 9:14a Henning Schmidt I am a bit in trouble here since DDE does not work as I expect it to. I hope there is somebody out there who has a solution to my problem. So here it is:
I am writing java code in my domino database using the Java Perspective. I created a source folder under WebContentWEB-INF and added the folder to my build path. I am using the classes and methods I coded on my XPages and they work. Now I need to code a java agent that is supposed to run every night. A lot of the methods and classes I need for [read] Keywords: agent
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A new star is born – hedersoft is now online!
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 12:05a Henning Schmidt I am so proud to announce that hedersoft lauched their homepage today!
Who is hedersoft?
hedersoft is a new company located in Salzkotten, Germany which provides services and sells products based on Lotus Notes / Domino. The company was founded in August 2011 by Lars Buntrock an myself (Henning Schmidt) and focusses on XPages. That is products based on XPages as well as services based on this exciting technology.
Both Lars and I worked for We4IT (sponsor of the XPages Dev Contest) until we resi [read] Keywords: domino
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Collect POP3 accounts with Domino – PO3Collect
Mon, Sep 26th 2011 7:03a Henning Schmidt We are currently setting up our business and use Domino as our mail server. We’re hosting our domain hedersoft.de and set up POP mailfiles there. Now since my administration skills as a developer is not that broad I thought I can tell Domino to simply pull the mails from my POP accounts and route them to the receiver’s mailfiles.
Well, Domino does not provide a feature to help me out there. I got stuck and asked Daddy Google what to do. He answered: “Try POP3Collect“!
As [read] Keywords: administration
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XPages Development Contest: A Review
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 3:46p Henning Schmidt This monday OpenNTF announced the winners of the “XPages Development Contest” sponsored by We4IT. The winners are:
Ferry Kranenburg for his Multi Database Search Control
Dennis Chen for his ZK Spreadsheet for XPages
Rami Muurimaki for his XPages PDF Exporter Custom Control
Congratulations to all of you and enjoy your iPads!
I reckon the contest can be regarded as a big success. I enjoyed a nice night before the contest started on which Niklas told me about the contest a [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes 8.5.3 reached code freeze
Wed, Aug 24th 2011 2:49a Henning Schmidt We are all waiting for Lotus Notes 8.5.3 since there is so much to come. It is supposed to be shipped in September 2011, which means that we could have it within the next 2 weeks. Regarding that there are still 3 phases to run through before web posting it might rather be the second half of September before lines are open for download.
Anyway, there are actually 887 fixes (as of today) in 8.5.3. But not all fixes are fixes. There are a lot of new features as well. Here are a few links to check [read] Keywords: domino
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“Planet NTF” aggregiert deutschsprachige Blogs zu Themen rund um “IBM/Lotus”
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 11:23a Henning Schmidt Lars Buntrock und Henning Schmidt haben kürzlich lotusnews.de aus der Idee heraus geboren, dass auch im deutschsprachigen Raum viel zum Thema IBM/Lotus gebloggt und auch diskutiert wird. Wie im Artikel “Willkommen bei lotusnews.de” erläutert, sind auch “bei uns” eine Menge lesenwerte Artikel in der Vergangenheit entstanden und werden sicherlich viele tolle Beiträge in der Zukunft entstehen.
Aus diesem Grund (nach Vorbild planetlotus.org) wurde die Seite planetntf.de ins Leben geruf [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes Client – R.I.P.
Mon, Jul 4th 2011 4:08a Henning Schmidt There is currently a big discussion in the community about the future name of Lotus Notes. Will it keep its name or do we end up with something like IBM Notes? Nobody knows yet, even IBM don’t es Ed Brill states in his recent blog post. You can find my opinion in Eds comments (No. 40).
Anyway, despite of the name of the product were is Lotus Notes heading? Look at the new features that have made their way into the client. Those are at a high percentage level XPages features. Now, XPages do [read] Keywords: ibm
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June was “Learn XPages” month!
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 7:36a Henning Schmidt How quick can a month end? I remember seeing a tweet saying “June is Learn XPages month so let’s go” on June 1st. Now that the month is over it’s time for a resumee.
I am a person who likes books to learn stuff. So I got myself a copy of “Mastering XPages”. Since XPages are not yet a main part of my workday I did most of the reading in the evenings and over the weekends. So I got as far as Chapter 11 – Advanced Scripting (Page 391).
The other thing I did [read] Keywords: xpages openntf
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Lotus Notes 8.5.2 FP3
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 3:38a Henning Schmidt Fixpack 3 for Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is supposed to be shipped this month. It is still in phase 1 “SPR Triangle”. The boys have to hurry to get it released this month.
On the other hand, there are not many changes to expect in this fixpack. Only 6 fixes will be included. So let’s wait for the code freeze and all following phases. [read] Keywords: ldd
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XPages Dev Contest – a big success so far!
Mon, Jun 27th 2011 2:01a Henning Schmidt Everybody already heard about the Xpages development contest on openNTF.org, right? Now here is a little summary of the weeks behind and a look forward to what can still be expected.
I am not quite sure what the hosts of the contest expected when they first announced the contest, but I guess the number of controls handed in so far already exceeds their expectations. OK, the number of participants compared to the number of controls is rather low, but we are only half way through the contest and [read] Keywords: xpages development
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Google Panda – Bye bye Content Farm
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 12:49a Henning Schmidt Google recently updated the search algorithm and calls that update Panda. Panda’s goal is to list quality content higher than search engine optimized content that Content Farms provide. The idea of Content Farms: Obey to all search engine rules and create content that lists high no matter what content that is. Put ads on those sites and earn a lot of money. The content is usually texts put together in India for 2 bucks a piece. It has no value for the reader and is only designed to fulfil [read] Keywords: google
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Sametime 8.5.2 adds Android Client
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 2:11a Henning Schmidt A long missing feature has been added to Sametime 8.5.2. A client for Android devices is now available! There has been an alternative client for a couple of weeks called QuipIM, but I guess everyone has been waiting for the “real” client, right? Now finally it has arrived. The documentation has been posted on the Sametime Wiki Pages.
I will give it a try in the next couple of days with a detailed comparison to QuipIM and be back with first impressions. So stay tuned.
BTW: There are c [read] Keywords: ldd
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Sametime 8.5.2 available – A week early!
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 12:32a Henning Schmidt Believe it or not, but Sametime 8.5.2 is already there. You can download it from Software Access Catalog.
There are a lot of sources out there dealing with what’s new and stuff so I won’t start my own list. You can find technical documentation for administrators, users and developers on the Sametime Wiki Pages. [read] Keywords: ibm
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lotusnews.de now online!
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 1:44a Henning Schmidt I’ve been blogging for a while now as a few of you may have noticed. I am a Lotus enthusiast and want to share my views with the yellow world.
I run my blog in english since the yellowverse does not stop at country borders and I am interested in global developments and changes. Since english is the de facto global language this is the best way to get connected to people I might not get in contact with otherwise.
On the other hand, there is a huge Lotus community in Germany. Most of the com [read] Keywords: lotus
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Am I wasting my time? IBM research study about email organization
Thu, May 26th 2011 11:49p Henning Schmidt Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian Cerruti, Hernan Badenes and John Tang from IBM Research in Almaden recently published a study about email organization called “Am I wasting my time organizing email? A study of email refinding“.
Is it better to create a complex folder structure and move incoming mails there or is it preferable to just let the inbox fill up? Do threads and tags help organizing emails? 345 long term users took part in the study with approx. 85,000 refinding act [read] Keywords: ibm
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XPages Application Server – awesome idea!
Thu, May 26th 2011 2:29p Henning Schmidt Ed Brill recently announced that IBM will ship an XPages Application Server in Q3/2011. He made this announcement in Bonn/Germany at the latest DNUG. It’s such a fantastic announcement and it made me think there will be a huge discussion starting soon after DNUG about what this server must contain or provide, what it shouldn’t and what the licencing model will be. To my surprise this discussion has not started yet (or I have missed it entirely). Anyway, here are my thoughts and wishe [read] Keywords: administration
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Learn JavaScript, CSS and much more with w3schools.com online and free of charge!
Fri, May 13th 2011 6:54a Henning Schmidt For those of you out there looking for JavaScript and CSS tutorials: w3schools.com should be the choice!
The site contains many well structured tutorials including JavaScript and CSS. There are many more tutorials though as you can see from the screenshot (click to enlarge). Each and every tutorial provides step-by-step lessons with many examples. Plus, it can be used as a glossary as well.
It’s a handy source for all new xpages developers coming from LotusScript and trying to get familiar [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Coding xpages – best practice!?
Wed, May 11th 2011 1:32a Henning Schmidt Domino developers coming from classic domino development are used to coding LotusScript, @Functions and maybe a little Java. Structuring code can be achieved by using Libraries to store the code. Code maintenance is another advantage of Libraries.
Now xpages entered the scene and with them come new ways of coding and with JavaScript a “replacement” for LotusScript. The Java Perspective offers sophisticated java coding features. Java Business Logic can be used by SS JavaScript. JavaS [read] Keywords: domino
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My blog has moved!
Tue, May 10th 2011 2:43a Henning Schmidt I’ve had my blog on wordpress.com for a while now but had some troubles recently. wordpress suspended this blog for unknown reasons. It is back on by I got no explanation why that happened. I decided that I don’t want to rely on wordpress.com anymore, spent some money on a few gigs of webspace and moved my blog there.
From today on you can access my blog on schmhen.de and my feed on schmhen.de/feed.
I asked Yancy to update the details on planetlotus so it probably won’t be no t [read] Keywords: facebook
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Blackberry PlayBook – A real iPad competitor?
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 2:36a Henning Schmidt RIM is about to release the Blackberry Playbook. It’s going to be shipped in the US and Canada on April 19th. But will it be a real competitor to the iPad (2) or Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets?
Let’s face it: A tablet is cool! It is state of the art and you have to have one nowadays, right? You sit on your couch and the movie is boring. What if you had a tablet to check your mails and twitter stream and to pass by planetlotus.org. Sure, you could take your smartphone. But is it as c [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Mastering XPages – The Bible
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 5:27p Henning Schmidt Have you already got your copy of “Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language” yet? I’ve read the fist chapters and the only thing I can say: STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
So if you do not know where to get this book, here are some links:
Amazon US
Amazon UKAmazon Germany
Amazon Autralia (My second home. Love you Aussies!)
IBM Press
You do not live in any of the countries mentioned? There will be an Amazon or other bookstore near yo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Jesus, DDE is NOT fun!
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 4:37a Henning Schmidt I am going to eat my furniture in a moment! I have a Lenovo R500, 3 GB memory and my HDD still has 40 GB of free space. I am running Vista64 and Lotus Notes 8.5.2. Working with Domino Designer for Eclipse is a nightmare on my system. It takes 2 minutes to start, it takes another 2 minutes to start Java Tooling etc.
Once started the DDE hangs every now and then, e.g. when saving design elements or when trying to open a design element. I can’t say why that is. Someone told me he reckons that [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 FP2
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 8:31a Henning Schmidt The Lotus Notes/Domino Fixpack 2 for 8.5.2 reached Gold Status and is about to be released in the next couple of days. Among many fixes there are some new functions coming with this releases. These are:
SPR# VASR876SSW – Syntax validation was added to Recent Contacts. The following are considered invalid: (1) Any address ending in period, backslash, forwardslash, @, left angle bracket or single quote . (2) Any smtp address where address is surrounded by single quotes. (3) No spaces are al [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Traveler 8.5.2.2 solves sync problems
Tue, Mar 15th 2011 4:03p Henning Schmidt I reported about sync problems with Lotus Traveler in one of my recent posts. Synchronisation worked a couple of days and then started to fail. This ended up in a state where I was able to sync just once a day. I urged my admin to update to Traveler 8.5.2.2 and he did so last thursday. I then updated my client on my android device and voila: all sync problems gone. It’s been working since then like a charm.
I don’t know the reasons for the problems when using 8.5.2.1, I’m just [read] Keywords: admin
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Sametime Client for iPhone and Android available
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 1:16a Henning Schmidt Are you like me waiting for a Lotus Sametime Client for iPhone or Android? Guess what, there is one and the best thing is: it’s free of charge! IBM hasn’t managed to provide a Sametime Client yet so some equally impatiant people have developed their own client. It’s called QuipIM for Sametime.
Features include:
Manage your connections to multiple accounts.
Manage your buddy list, including adding and removing buddies and groups.
Easily switch between active conversations using [read] Keywords: connections
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The might of the internet
Tue, Mar 8th 2011 2:54p Henning Schmidt The first weeks of 2011 have run at top speed concerning news and politics. We have seen major changes in local environments like the retreat of germany’s minister of defence Mr. Guttenberg as well as major and dramatic changes in the arab world. Would it have been possible that these changes had taken place 15 years ago without the internet?
Tunisia, Egypt and Libya just went or are still going through some radical changes forced by the locals. The people did not want to be ruled by their [read] Keywords: facebook
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Lotus Traveler on Android – What’s good and what’s not
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 3:25a Henning Schmidt I dropped my BB Bold in late december and started to use a new HTC Desire HD in january. My Bold served as a mobile mail and calendar client primarily and I didn’t use it to surf the web or install apps on it. So seeing all those iPhones and Android Smartphones out there with so many more capabilities than my Bold I definitely wanted one too. I am no Apple fan and haven’t had any Apple device at all so my choice was Android. I checked the market and finally went with the Desire HD. T [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Script: Dead or Alive?
Wed, Feb 9th 2011 2:17p Henning Schmidt Lotusphere 2011 is over and apart from “Get Social. Do Business” Xpages was the main topic. IBM’s strategy is mobile and web with xpages as the underlying technology as far as Lotus Domino is concerned. You have all seen the demo (Hey, what time is it again? It’s demo time!) in the OGS showing Notes Next, right? The web browser took a huge part of the whole and Ron presented xpages mobile controls on his android device. So talking web and mobile which piece of the cake wi [read] Keywords: domino
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Here I am!
Tue, Feb 8th 2011 10:14a Henning Schmidt Today my Blog got listed on PlanetLotus. I just want to say thank you Yancy!
So who am I? I am a Lotus Geek living and working in Germany. I work for an IBM Premier Business Partner called We4IT which you may or may not have heard of. We actually attended LS11 and some of you might have got in touch.
Anyway, I’ve been dedicated to the Lotus Brand for almost 15 years as a developer and consultant. You will be finding all kind of information on my blog as long as it is yellow.
Hope you̵ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Get your apps ready for mobile devices with XPages
Thu, Feb 3rd 2011 5:34a Henning Schmidt I provided a couple of links yesterday to XPages resources to get started with this excellent technology. Today I want to introduce a set of controls which allow to create mobile applications with XPages within hours (or even minutes): XPages Mobile Controls! Big thanks to OpenNTF, in this special case to Niklas Heidloff and Steve Castledine. Great work guys!
OK, what are XPages Mobile Controls. Niklas uploaded a presentation to Slideshare that shows the capabilities of these controls. Check it [read] Keywords: domino
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To all out there still running Lotus Notes/Domino 7.x
Thu, Jan 27th 2011 12:49a Henning Schmidt Are you still running Lotus Notes/Domino 7.x? You should be aware that IBM support for both Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino ends soon.
So you should consider upgrading to 8.0x or better 8.5x in the next couple of weeks. If you attend Lotusphere 2011 check the capabilities of Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5 and you will be urged by your guts to update as soon as you return.
Tagged: end of service, end of support, eos, lotus domino, lotus notes [read] Keywords: domino
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Find your way at Lotusphere 2011
Mon, Jan 24th 2011 4:49a Henning Schmidt Unfortunately I will be one of those poor fellas who must stay at home while others are having a great time at Lotusphere 2011. I put a list of useful links together for all you lucky ones attending this year. Here we go:
Homepage: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2011/
LS Blog: http://lotusphereblog.com/
LS Session App (Android): http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/market/apps/app/jo.android.ls/Lotusphere-2011-Scheduler
LS Session App (iPhone and Blackberry): http://itu [read] Keywords: ibm
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Fatal Bug in Notes/Domino 8.x?
Thu, Jan 20th 2011 3:57a Henning Schmidt Since lotus notes 8.x we are facing strange behaviours when updating existing applications on customer’s servers.
The application has a default view. A couple of days after the update the client answers to certain actions that the database’s default view is missing and that the action will therefore be aborted.
After a server-side design update users work on a semi-updated application when using their clients to open the application 0n the server, meaning that some design changes ha [read] Keywords: domino
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A Wish!
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 7:45a Henning Schmidt Since I recently dropped my Blackberry Bold and now operate a HTC Desire HD I moved from BB Enterprise Server to Lotus Traveler. It works well, but I really miss a Sametime client I got used to on my Bold.
So, my wish: Sametime Client for Android
I know that there are workarounds, but they are just workarounds. I rather wait for IBM to deliver a native solution. Believing rumors it won’t take long before IBM ships such a client. So let’s wait and see what’s being announced at L [read] Keywords: ibm
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