IBM Lotus Workplace products — innovative software for integrating people with business processes
IBM United States Software Announcement 203-307November 11, 2003
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IBM Lotus Workplace products will integrate multiple collaborative capabilities into a single, reliable, easily managed platform with robust security features. Lotus Workplace products currently include the following products which are designed to be used in combination or separately to provide a unified collaborative environment to meet changing business needs.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging V1.1 provides a cost-effective way to extend the reach of your messaging infrastructure to the rest of your organization.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning V1.1 (the next release of IBM Lotus Learning Management System) (LMS) helps organizations manage their classroom-based and e-learning programs and resources more efficiently.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration V1.1 helps individuals, teams, and entire organizations, together with their customers, Business Partners, and suppliers, be better coordinated, better informed, and more resilient.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management V1.1 helps resolve IT and Webmaster bottlenecks by placing content creation and management in the hands of content experts for author once, publish everywhere control to help reduce development and implementation time.
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IBM Lotus® Workplace — new, innovative software products using a single, open platform to integrate people with business processes. Developed by IBM Lotus software, the leader in collaboration, Lotus Workplace products integrate multiple collaborative capabilities with core elements from the number one business integration portal, IBM WebSphere® Portal.
The single, dynamic, security rich, Lotus Workplace environment enables simplified access to people, information, and business processes that can be adapted to fit specific user roles, or tasks, and specific industry or business needs — within or beyond organizational boundaries.
Lotus Workplace products currently include:
- IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging™ V1.1 : Provides a cost-effective, security rich, standards-based product to extend the reach of your messaging infrastructure. Lotus Workplace Messaging is scalable, easily deployed, and can be integrated across existing infrastructures to take full advantage of current IT investments.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration V1.1 : Is designed to reduce complexity of collaboration while enabling users to gain instant access to the right people and information. Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration combines the on demand Web-based capabilities of instant messaging, team Web conferencing, and team spaces.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning V1.1 : Helps streamline the management of an organization's classroom-based and e-learning programs, resources, and courseware, delivering a variety of learning experiences to groups of students, wherever they are located, keeping track of their activities and performance. Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is the next release of IBM Lotus Learning Management System (LMS).
- IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management V1.1 : Enables all users to rapidly create portlets that personalize information without programming resources, so content is rapidly channeled into the portlet without need for specialized skills. With its rapid content deployment capability and point-and-click interface, Lotus Workplace Web Content Management helps relieve IT and Webmaster bottlenecks by placing end-to-end Web content management in the hands of content experts for information updates that happen in minutes, not days.
Designed to be used in combination or separately, these products provide a unified workplace
environment to meet changing business needs.
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Planned availability dates
V1.1 of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for Windows™ and Linux
- November 24, 2003: Electronic software delivery and online documentation
- December 12, 2003: Media and documentation
V1.1 of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for AIX®
- December 22, 2003: Electronic software delivery and online documentation
- January 9, 2004: Media and documentation
IBM Lotus Workplace products will integrate multiple collaborative capabilities into a single security rich, reliable, open platform that is easily managed. They enable users to work together to respond more quickly and accurately, helping reduce redundancies, and driving simplification into business processes. This ultimately results in improved business productivity and the ability to respond with speed to any customer demand, business opportunity, or external threat.
IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging
Overview
IBM Lotus software, the leader in enterprise messaging, now provides IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging V1.1, a low-cost, standards-based messaging solution that is security rich, scalable, easily deployed and can be integrated across existing infrastructures to take full advantage of current IT investments. Enhanced with support for the Lotus Workplace environment, Lotus Workplace Messaging is built on proven IBM technologies that include core elements of WebSphere and DB2®. Lotus Workplace Messaging provides low cost Web browser, portal, and POP3-based messaging access to corporate messaging and directory infrastructures to enable messaging capabilities to be extended to baseline employees who do not currently have access to the organization's e-mail.
This standards-based messaging capability integrates easily with a variety of messaging infrastructures, including IBM Lotus Domino™, as well as with portals, browsers, standards-based e-mail clients, and other Lotus Workplace product capabilities. Scalable, easy-to-use and maintain, with support for SSL session encryption and additional security features, Lotus Workplace Messaging capabilities provide a low cost, on demand messaging solution for the rest of your organization.
Features
IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging helps enable organizations to communicate more directly with timely information to these baseline or "unserved" employees and, at the same time, can reduce expenses by helping to minimize the need for printed materials, postage, and response tracking currently required. This can help organizations increase the speed of communications containing critical information to help reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase competitive advantage.
Uniquely positioned to offer extended business value, Lotus Workplace Messaging is seamlessly integrated into the Lotus Workplace environment. Customers who have made (or are planning) the decision to create an on demand operating environment can purchase Lotus Workplace Messaging for cost-effective e-mail for baseline users while also providing the foundation for customers and Business Partners wanting to solve their need for people integration as they deploy their operating environments and move towards becoming an on demand business.
With Lotus Workplace Messaging, you are able to:
- Extend easy-to-use, reliable messaging to traditionally unserved employees to help save time and money, and increase productivity
- Leverage existing infrastructure and IT investments
- Integrate Workplace Messaging easily with your existing messaging and directory infrastructure using LDAP and SMTP standards
- Help decrease total cost of ownership through low license costs, high scalability, multiple platform support, user-friendly browser interface, low-touch client deployments, and more
- Deploy standards-based security features to help protect your network
- Leverage the latest open-standards-based messaging built on core elements of proven WebSphere and DB2 technology
Benefits
Lotus Workplace Messaging enables organizations to boost productivity with more efficient communications. Many employees in industries like manufacturing, retail, distribution, or construction often have limited or no access to their organizations' electronic business communications. These employees could include retail clerks, factory floor workers, or construction workers who don't have access to e-mail — which can make receiving and responding to critical business information efficiently a challenge. For example, hand delivering printed weekly work schedules or mailing benefits information can be costly and time-consuming, and can ultimately decrease productivity.
Organizations need a user-friendly, cost-effective way to communicate with these unserved employees. And IT administrators need a solution that is reliable, security rich, and easy to manage and deploy; a solution that coexists alongside the current messaging infrastructure, allowing them to leverage IT investments.
Lotus Workplace Messaging can also help lower cost of ownership by integrating with your existing directory and messaging infrastructure. Leveraging your current IT investment is critical to helping reduce costs and simplify deployment. Lotus Workplace Messaging enables you to integrate with any standards-based messaging infrastructure, including IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft™ Exchange, by using industry standards like LDAP and SMTP. You can use your existing third-party LDAP directory, such as Domino Directory, Microsoft Exchange, or Microsoft Active Directory, to easily connect Lotus Workplace Messaging to your existing directory infrastructure. This eliminates the need to invest in a separate internal directory with redundant attributes, and lets you leverage your existing LDAP capabilities and knowledge so you don't need to spend more money or time learning new skills. A standard LDAP directory also lets you transparently merge your existing messaging solution — like Lotus Domino — and the new Lotus Workplace Messaging server so existing and new users can communicate electronically with each other by locating e-mail addresses across multiple LDAP directories. Or if you prefer, you can use the standards-based LDAP directory — IBM Directory Server — provided with Lotus Workplace Messaging.
Using the latest SMTP and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) standards for transporting Internet e-mail helps Lotus Workplace Messaging users send and receive e-mail messages reliably and with high interoperability.
IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning
Overview
Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning V1.1 is the next release of the Lotus Learning Management System (LMS), a modular, extensible, e-learning software solution based on core elements of WebSphere. It is designed to streamline the management of an organization's classroom-based and e-learning programs, resources and courseware. Like Lotus LMS, Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is an open, scalable, full-featured learning management system that delivers a variety of learning experiences to groups of students, wherever they are located, and keeps track of their activities and performance. Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning includes all the functionality of Lotus LMS, enhanced with a portlet-based student UI, new features and support for the Lotus Workplace environment, and a searchable catalog that allows users to readily access the information they need, when they need it, to help improve productivity and response to job requirements.
Features
Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is a flexible, scalable, and configurable learning management system with a portlet-style front end that seamlessly integrates into the Lotus Workplace environment. It is an open, standards-compliant suite of software modules that manages both classroom-based and e-learning activities, resources, and courseware across an enterprise. Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning helps organizations create, manage, and deliver educational resources and courseware to help their employees, Business Partners, and customers be better prepared, better informed, and more effective. Available in 24 languages, the product allows you to manage your entire training program worldwide from a single platform, delivering a variety of learning experiences to groups of students, wherever they are located, and keeping track of their activities and performance.
The portlet-based student UI incorporates learning resources into the user's desktop environment, so that learning is available to workers on an online, real-time basis. The portlets, which can be customized to suit a user's job role, industry, and profile, enable employees to self-manage their learning activities and access learning in a "just in time" fashion. The portlets are very flexible and can be integrated into the Lotus Workplace environment as desired. You can choose to offer a few or a complete set of learning portlets to support specific learning tasks along with other day-to-day work activities.
More than just a student productivity tool, Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is also a full-featured, end-to-end standards-compliant learning management system with an easy-to-use courseware development and management tool, flexible reporting, and powerful administration functions. Because of its open architecture and support for industry standards, Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning integrates well with customers' third-party back-office systems, such as SAP and PeopleSoft.
Just like Lotus LMS, Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is comprised of the following modules:
- Learning Server — Manages users, enrollments, course catalogs, resources, course schedules, and reporting.
- Authoring and Assembly Tool — Workstation-based tool that allows subject matter experts (SMEs) to easily create courseware without programming skills, so companies can share internal knowledge and make content authoring available to all.
- Content Delivery Server — Deploys/tracks course content, sends progress data to the Learning Server, and integrates with Lotus Virtual Classroom V1.1.1. Separating content delivery improves system performance and scalability.
- Offline Learning Client — Supports disconnected users and replicates their course progress back to the server, so training is readily available to remote/mobile workers.
Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning shares Lotus LMS's support for industry standards such as Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC). Organizations can offer their employees a wide variety of third-party developed, standards-compliant courseware, leveraging their investments in existing courseware libraries. Support for rich media, course libraries from third-party vendors such as NETg, and formal and informal learning events makes the system flexible enough to suit your training requirements. The product can also integrate easily into a your existing infrastructure and provide a reliable platform for delivering e-learning courseware and managing instructor-led learning activities.
Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning provides all the functions needed to deliver online courses, schedule classrooms, perform student assessments, and manage student enrollment activities. The product enables Training and Human Resources Managers to establish curriculums, administer certification programs, track and report on learning activities, and manage scheduling/notifications/alerts to keep students updated on class activities. With Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning, you are also able to:
- Design and track training programs and activities
- Deliver tools that enable employees to self-manage their learning activities and resources
- Support global workers in multiple languages and time zones
- Customize the student UI for various audiences
- Create or import courseware and manage course catalogs
- Manage calendars and schedule learning activities
- Generate extensive reports for tracking learning activities required by industry/government regulations
The product integrates easily into your existing infrastructure and provides a reliable platform for delivering e-learning courseware and managing instructor-led learning activities.
Benefits
IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning helps streamline an organization's training operations, efficiently meet ongoing training requirements, and measures the results and effectiveness of training deliverables.
With Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning, you can:
- Deliver consistent, enterprise-wide training needed to support an e-business on demand™ environment, manage new technology, perform new tasks, help meet regulatory compliance, and improve employee effectiveness and productivity.
- Integrate learning portlets into business processes, so you have "just in time" learning solutions that fit your employees' specific needs and job functions.
- Use the Authoring Tool to develop custom courses that capture and disseminate information on corporate best practices, new products, updated business processes, and internal policies and procedures.
- Deliver flexible training programs to suit a large, dispersed global workforce with different responsibilities, languages, and job profiles.
- Manage learning activities and multiple modes of training delivery across an enterprise, for increased efficiencies and cost savings.
- Save money and time by using e-learning to deliver courses online, without workers traveling off-site.
- Import and continue using third-party courseware libraries if they are standards-compliant.
- Track and report on employees' training activities via the built-in reporting tool. Those organizations that need to train employees as required by industry or government regulations or maintain certification levels will find the product's reporting tool invaluable.
IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration
Overview
IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration V1.1 is the first release of combined instant messaging, team Web conferencing, and team spaces expressly for the new, dynamically adaptive, IBM Lotus Workplace environment. Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration capabilities can be integrated with other Lotus Workplace products, significantly helping enhance collaboration and human interaction in an easy and cost-effective manner.
Features
Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration is a security rich, scalable product for the Lotus Workplace environment that brings together asynchronous and real-time collaboration:
- Membership — Provides the ability for the moderator of a team work space or team Web conference to define and control member access and participation.
- Instant Messaging and Presence Awareness — Provides the ability to know, in advance, whether a person is available to collaborate, share information, and/or take action.
- Document Manager — Provides a centralized location for documents as well as built-in methods for tracking changes and comments made by team members. Authorized members can read, edit, and delete documents, as well as create and delete folders.
- Discussion Forum — Provides the ability to create Web-based discussion forums, or a forum within a forum, and allows members to engage in threaded discussions.
- Team Web Conferencing — Provides broadcast-style meeting capabilities including enabling the moderator to share presentations and participants to optionally download meeting materials.
- Search — Provides the ability for authorized members to perform scoped and cross-team space and Web conference searches.
Technically speaking, Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration as a Lotus Workplace product:
- Offers a standards-based team collaboration solution that can leverage existing IT skills and technologies.
- Integrates with existing infrastructures like IBM Lotus Domino using open standards including J2EE, LDAP, and HTML.
- Embraces standards-based security features for authentication of users, confidentiality of content, and integrity of data.
- Supports both intranet and extranet scenarios to help make it easier and more cost-effective to install, use, upgrade and maintain than separate products for each unique — yet fully integrated — capability.
Benefits
Individuals, teams, and entire organizations, together with their customers, Business Partners, and suppliers, can become better coordinated, better informed, and more resilient with the help of Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration through:
- Providing instant, anytime access to people and information, minimizing the cycles associated with e-mail and voice-mail "tag" and complex searches for timely information — giving people more time to focus on their core business.
- Seamlessly bringing together geographically dispersed team members, instilling a sense of community.
- Helping increase personal and team productivity, simplifying the users experience and virtualizing spontaneous and collaboration activities.
- Helping improve responsiveness to customers as well as colleagues, Business Partners, and suppliers, all while helping reduce the need for in-person meetings and the costs associated with related business travel.
- Enabling faster, more informed team decision-making, centralizing timely and accurate information directly related to the decision at hand.
Plus, Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration can help organizations to:
- Generally improve responsiveness
- Enhance/optimize customer service interactions
- Anticipate and dynamically respond to market opportunities as well as competitive threats
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
Overview
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management V1.1 is the next release of Aptrix products recently purchased by IBM to support the Lotus Workplace environment. The portlet-based UI aggregates content from IBM Lotus Notes®, SQL, and IBM DB2 Content Manager repositories and seamlessly merges it within another look and feel. It also personalizes the delivery of managed content and assets from Internet, intranet and extranet sites. Lotus Workplace Web Content Management's simple, yet powerful, point-and-click interface enables all users to rapidly create portlets that personalize information without programming resources so content is rapidly channeled into the portlet without need for specialized skills.
Features
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management is a flexible, scalable, and configurable Web content management system with a portlet-style front end that seamlessly integrates into the Lotus Workplace environment. It is an open, standards-compliant product that uses a point-and-click interface that gives your staff an instant way to find and personalize essential enterprise information — instead of waiting indefinitely for it to be extracted from a multitude of repositories, systems and obscure applications by overworked developers — and create their own portlets fast. The product features include:
- Rapid portal development — Portlets are created using a simple point-and-click interface within WebSphere Portal Server — completely removing the need for Java™ development skills. Now anyone can access and personalize all content, freeing IT staff to focus on mission-critical tasks.
- Better managed business content — Content and components from Lotus Workplace Web Content Management Web applications and Internet, intranet, and extranet sites are immediately available in the portal. Users create, manage, and publish information straight into the portal — for high availability of accurate, relevant, and up-to-date information across all organizational boundaries.
Benefits
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management streamlines the Web content management process, helps you shorten time to market, reduces costs, streamlines business processes, enhances customer service, and improves information availability. With Lotus Workplace Web Content Management, you can:
- Streamline the Web content management process by managing the lifecycle of content with built in approval process via built in workflow
- Improve responsiveness by quickly deploying information in minutes versus days
- Help reduce legal risk and associated costs
- Publish faster in multiple locations because of component architecture's re-use of components
- Help solve Webmaster and IT bottlenecks of content management by separating presentation (Web design) from content — each managed separately
- Improve information access for customers, suppliers, partners, and employees
- Allow content authors to easily create using familiar existing desktop applications
- Improve customer, partner, and supplier support with more current and relevant information
- Improve decision making
- Improve business productivity
- Integrate with back-end systems without re-engineering, and re-use legacy data and information from many sources or applications
- Integrate with native authoring tools
- Provide a consistent look and feel, and consistent content worldwide
- Personalize content to user and/or audience to improve repeat visitors to sites
- Integrate with portals, personalization/shopping cart for e-commerce, software configuration management, digital asset management, and document management
- Decrease redundancy
- Enhance customer service for improved loyalty
- Work with open standards
Accessibility by people with disabilities
IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging, IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration, and IBM Lotus Collaborative Learning products have the following accessibility characteristics. (Though IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management is not currently accessible, it prevents no barriers to creating accessible Web content.)
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Features for visually impaired users:
- Supports interfaces commonly used by screen readers (Windows only)
- Can be operated using only the keyboard
- Supports customization of display attributes such as color, contrast, and font size
- Communicates all information independently of color
- Supports interfaces commonly used by screen magnifiers (Windows only)
- Supports the attachment of alternative output devices
- Provides documentation in an accessible format
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Features for users with mobility impairments or limited hand use:
- Can be operated using only the keyboard
- Allows the user to request more time to complete timed responses
- Supports the attachment of alternative input and output devices
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Features for the deaf and hard of hearing users:
- Supports alternatives to audio information
- Supports adjustable volume control
- Presents no barriers to cognitively impaired users
- Does not flash the screen at rates that could induce epileptic seizures
IBM Lotus is committed to providing accessible Workplace products for use by people with
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The path to IBM Lotus Workplace
For customers enjoying the value of Lotus collaborative solutions today, you are already on the path to Lotus Workplace and have choices for realizing the benefits of Lotus Workplace collaborative capabilities. Lotus Workplace products are designed to deliver value to your investments in IBM Lotus software.
Lotus software customers can:
- Continue to derive value from current and future releases of Lotus Notes® and Domino, and other Lotus software products, as they are integrated into the Lotus Workplace environment
- Purchase and implement IBM WebSphere Portal to extend the reach of current investments
- Integrate open standards-based Lotus Workplace products into your existing supported infrastructure
- Maintain subscription service for existing Lotus software products which are currently planned to be carried forward to comparable components and capabilities within Lotus Workplace platform
WebSphere Portal customers can:
- Continue with WebSphere Portal and access their Lotus Domino data via portlets
- Purchase and implement Lotus Workplace products to extend the business integration power of WebSphere Portal by introducing rich collaborative capabilities and functionality
New customers can:
- Use Lotus Workplace products as the foundation for their collaborative infrastructure
- Use Lotus Workplace products to enhance their existing supported infrastructure by adding collaborative capabilities
- License both WebSphere Portal and Lotus Workplace products for a complete set of capabilities that integrate people, processes, applications, and content across their organization.
How WebSphere Portal fits:
- Lotus Workplace products contain limited, core elements of WebSphere Portal, to provide integrating elements such as common administration and a common interface tuned to the tasks of individuals. A WebSphere Portal license is required for any use outside the context of Lotus Workplace products.
- Market-leading WebSphere Portal is a complimentary purchase for organizations that want a complete solution that integrates the people, applications, content, and processes across their enterprise including Lotus Workplace product capabilities.
- For more information on WebSphere Portal visit:
For Lotus Workplace product roadmaps and additional information, visit:
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The following educational offerings are available:
Course Course Course title number type Administering IBM LWM750 Self-study Lotus(R) Workplace Messaging 1.1 IBM Lotus Workplace LBC700 Self-study SA Bootcamp Configuring IBM Lotus LWPQ70 Self-study Workplace People Finder Portlet 1.1 Getting Started with LWL200 Self-study IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 Authoring To Administering IBM LWL300 Classroom Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 Using IBM Lotus LWLQ10 Self-study Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 Getting Started with LWMQ10 Self-study IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.1 Getting Started with LWTCQ10 Self-study IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 1.1
IBM Software Services for Lotus — Education provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses are on the IBM Software Services for Lotus Training and Certification Web site.
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Product information will be available on day of announcement through the Offering Information Web site at:
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No publications are shipped with this product.
The IBM Publications Center:
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The IBM Publications Notification System
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Server CPU and memory requirements
This section describes the minimum server CPU and memory requirements for each server platform supported by the 1.1 versions of the IBM Lotus Workplace products.
Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000 systems
- Four 2 GHz, or faster processor
- 2 GB, or more RAM
- Recommend NTFS file system
- Virtual memory or swap space double the amount of physical memory is recommended; at a minimum, virtual memory or swap space should be at least equal to the amount of physical memory
Linux systems
- Quad Pentium™ 4 processor at 1.4 GHz, or higher
- 2 GB, or more RAM
- Virtual memory or swap space double the amount of physical memory is recommended; at a minimum, virtual memory or swap space should be at least equal to the amount of physical memory
AIX® systems
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pSeries® 630
Model 6E4
- 4 processors 1.45 GHz, or faster
- 4 GB RAM
- Virtual memory or swap space double the amount of physical memory is recommended; at a minimum, virtual memory or swap space should be at least equal to the amount of physical memory
Server disk space requirements
Installing IBM WebSphere® Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM HTTP Server, Lotus Workplace products, and the Lotus Workplace product databases, requires a minimum of 13 GB of free disk space. This amount does not include the disk space required to install the database product.
If you use a two-computer deployment or a multiple-computer network deployment, a server that stores the Lotus Workplace databases requires a minimum of 8 GB of free disk space, and a computer that stores the other Lotus Workplace software components requires a minimum of 5 GB of free disk space.
Note: The Linux ext2 file system, used by default on Linux, does not allow changes to the file system size. Therefore, you should plan disk space requirements carefully.
Estimating Disk Space Requirements for Lotus Workplace Messaging™ V1.1
DB2® stores mail messages, address books, calendar data, and attachments. Before you install Lotus Workplace Messaging, you must determine the number of messaging user accounts and the allowable mailbox size for each account. The required disk space will then dictate the number of disk drives required. By default, Lotus Workplace Messaging allots 60 MB of storage to each mail account. The total disk space for the mail data must be at least 400 MB.
For detailed mail store disk sizing information, refer to the online help in the InfoCenter.
Estimating the data store size for IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning V1.1
The amount of space required for the data and indexes that comprise a Collaborative Learning database depends on the following factors:
- Number of courses
- Number of rostered users
- Average courses per user
- Average nodes (course elements) per course
Use the following formulas to estimate the size of the data and indexes in a Collaborative Learning database:
To estimate the data size (in kilobytes), use this formula: data size in kilobytes = numberOfCourses * (57 + avgNodesPerCourse * 30.4) + numberOfUsers * (10 + avgCoursesPerUser * [3.8 + avgNodesPerCourse * 1.1]).
To estimate the index size (in kilobytes), use this formula: index size in kilobytes = numberOfCourses * (12.3 + avgNodesPerCourse * 1.4) + numberOfUsers * (1.5 + avgCoursesPerUser * [1.6 + avgNodesPerCourse * 0.14]).
Add the data size to the index size to calculate the required disk space. If the Learning Management and Learning Delivery servers are installed on one machine, multiply the result by two to determine the required disk space.
Network connectivity requirements
To use Lotus Workplace products across a network, the following is required for the computer running Lotus Workplace products:
- Network adapter and connection to a physical network that can carry IP packets. For example, Ethernet, token ring, ATM, and so on.
- Static IP address.
- Configured fully qualified host name. The portal system must be able to resolve an IP address from its fully qualified host name. To ensure that the host name is configured correctly, type the ping command from a command line; for example, ping hostname.yourco.com, where hostname.yourco.com is the fully qualified host name.
Recommended hardware (AIX operating system)
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IBM pSeries 630 Model 6E4
- Four 1.45 GHz processors
- 4 GB RAM
- 36 GB disk storage space (additional space may be required if DB2 Universal Database® is located on the same machine)
Software requirements
Server software requirements
This section describes the server software requirements for the 1.1 versions of the Lotus Workplace products.
Supported server operating systems
One of the following operating systems is required on the computer where Lotus Workplace products will be installed:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2, or later
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2, or later
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 32-bit Intel™, version 7 kernel 2.4 and SLES 8
- IBM AIX Version 5.1 with Maintenance Level 3
- IBM AIX Version 5.2
Supported WebSphere Application Server versions
- WebSphere Application Server Enterprise, Version 5.0.1.
- If the WebSphere Application server is installed prior to Lotus Workplace installation but WebSphere Portal is not, you have the option to use the installed WebSphere Application server. However, installing a new copy of the WebSphere Application Server (provided with the WebSphere Portal installation that is part of Lotus Workplace installation) is recommended.
Supported WebSphere Portal versions
- IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatform Version 5.0.
- You can install WebSphere Portal as part of the Lotus Workplace product installation, or you can install Lotus Workplace products over an existing WebSphere Portal installation.
Supported storage databases
Lotus Workplace includes DB2 software, licensed for use only by Lotus Workplace products. The database must be installed prior to Lotus Workplace installation.
- IBM DB2 Universal Database Workgroup Server Edition Version 8.1 with Fix Pack 2
- IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition Version 8.1 with Fix Pack 2 (provided with Lotus Workplace CD set)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 2 (Learning Management and Learning Delivery servers only)
- Oracle 8i, or later (Learning Management and Learning Delivery servers only)
- IBM DB2 7.2 (Learning Management and Learning Delivery servers only)
Supported HTTP servers
- IBM HTTP Server, Version 1.3.20 and Version 1.3.26 (Version 1.3.26 provided with WebSphere Application Server installation)
- iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1, Service Pack 7, 8, or 9
- Lotus Domino™ Enterprise Server (as Web server) 5.012, 6.02
- Microsoft IIS 5.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0
- Sun ONE Web Server (formerly iPlanet), Enterprise Edition 6.0.1
Supported LDAP directories
Lotus Workplace products require one of the following LDAP directory servers. A directory server must be installed and configured prior to Lotus Workplace installation. The directory server can be on the same computer as the Lotus Workplace products, or on a separate computer.
- IBM Directory Server, Version 4.1 with Fix Pack 2
- IBM Directory Server, Version 5.1 with Fix Pack 1 (provided with Lotus Workplace CD set)
- IBM Lotus Domino, Version 5.0.12 and 6.0.2
- IBM SecureWay®, Version 3.2 (only for Learning Management and Learning Delivery servers running on separate computers than those running other Lotus Workplace components)
- Microsoft Active Directory — 2000
- Novell eDirectory Version 8.6.2
- Sun ONE Directory Server Version 5.1
Client software requirements
This section describes the software requirements for the version 1.1 clients of Lotus Workplace.
Supported client operating systems
All Lotus Workplace products support these client operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 2, or later
- Microsoft Windows XP
- SuSE Linux 32-bit Intel, kernel version 7 2.4 and SLES 8
Collaborative Learning additionally supports these client operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Macintosh OS 9
- Macintosh OS X
- Red Hat Linux 7.2, or later
Note: The Workplace Collaborative Learning Authoring Tool and Offline Learning client support Windows 2000 and Windows XP only.
Supported browsers
All Lotus Workplace products support these browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 on Windows 2000, with Microsoft Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP with the Sun plug-in version of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.4.1
- Netscape Mozilla 1.3 on SuSE Linux 32-bit Intel, kernel version 7 2.4 and SLES 8 — with the Sun plug-in version of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.4.1
Collaborative Learning additionally supports these browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0x — Windows and Macintosh platforms
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 — on supported Windows platforms
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 — on supported Windows platforms
- Netscape 6.0x — on supported Windows platforms
- Netscape 6.2 or later — all supported platforms
Supported mail clients
Lotus Workplace Messaging supports the following POP3 and IMAP (tech preview) clients.
POP3 clients
- Lotus Notes® 6.02 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- Microsoft Outlook XP/2002 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- WebSphere Portal Internet Mailbox versions 4.2 and 5.0
- IMAP Clients (Tech Preview)
- Lotus Notes 6.02 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- Microsoft Outlook XP/2002 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6 — on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Additional browser support
- Netscape Navigator, Versions 4.7 and 6 — for Internet Mailbox portlet in WebSphere Portal
Planning information
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Subscription and Technical Support, is now included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support for the product announced in this letter is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity by providing voice and/or electronic access into the IBM support organizations.
For additional information, refer to the IBM software support Web site at:
You may also contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.
Packaging: The 1.1 release of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for Windows and Linux will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
The 1.1 release of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for Windows and Linux media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- IBM Lotus Workplace product CDs
- Prerequisite software CDs
- Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
The LI form number is L-TLBL-5R3NSS.
The 1.1 release of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for AIX will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
The 1.1 release of the IBM Lotus Workplace products for AIX media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- IBM Lotus Workplace product CDs
- Prerequisite software CDs
- Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
The LI form number is L-TLBL-5R3NSS.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed Product Product function title group category IBM Lotus Workplace Lotus IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging Workplace Messaging IBM Lotus Workplace Lotus IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration Workplace Team Collaboration IBM Lotus Workplace Lotus IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Workplace Collaborative Learning Learning IBM Lotus Workplace Lotus IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Workplace Web Content Management Management
- IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging is priced on a per-user basis.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning is priced on a per-user basis.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management is priced on a per-processor basis.
- IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration is priced on a per-user basis.
Passport Advantage licensing
IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging
Program name/ Part description number Workplace Users License -- SW D529SLL Maintenance 12 Months Workplace Users SW Maintenance D529TLL Reinstatement 12 Months Workplace Users SW Maintenance E00Q0LL Annual Renewal
IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration
Program name/ Part description number Workplace Team Collab Users D5396LL License -- SW Maintenance 12 Months Workplace Team Collab Users SW D5397LL Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months Workplace Team Collab Users SW E013VLL Maintenance Annual Renewal
IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning
Program name/ Part description number Workplace Collab Learn Users D5394LL License -- SW Maintenance 12 Months Workplace Collab Learn Users SW D5395LL Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months Workplace Collab Learn Users SW E013ULL Maintenance Annual Renewal
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
Program name/ Part description number Workplace Web Content Mgmnt Per D52Y0LL Processor License -- SW Maintenance 12 Mont Workplace Web Content Mgmnt Per D52Y1LL Processor SW Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Workplace Web Content Mgmnt Per E011DLL Processor SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/ Part description number Workplace V1.1.0 Media Pack AH0K4ML Multilingual (Portuguese, French, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Multilingual, Korean, Chinese -- Simplified, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese -- Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Norwegian Nynorsk, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Italian, Finnish, Polish) AIX V5.x CD-ROM Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V1.1.0 Program name/ Part description number Media Pack AH0K2ML Multilingual (Portuguese, French, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Multilingual, Korean, Chinese -- Simplified, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese -- Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Norwegian Nynorsk, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Italian, Finnish, Polish) Windows 2000, Linux for pSeries UNIX Servers (incl pSeries IntelliStation(R)) CD-ROM Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V1.1.0
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed below are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Workplace V1.1.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs Part
offerings description description number
IBM Lotus Workplace Workplace AH0K4ML
Messaging User, IBM Multilingual (Portuguese,
Lotus Workplace Web French, Danish,
Content Management, Russian, Hebrew,
Lotus Workplace Arabic, Multilingual,
Collaborative Korean, Chinese --
Learning User, Lotus Simplified, Spanish,
Workplace Team Brazilian Portuguese,
Collaboration, Lotus German, Swedish,
Learning Management Japanese, Chinese --
Systems User Traditional,
Hungarian, English
U.S., Norwegian
Nynorsk, Greek,
Turkish, Dutch,
Czech, Italian,
Finnish, Polish) AIX
V5.x CD-ROM Digital
Disk -- ISO 9660
Standard
IBM Lotus Workplace Workplace AH0K2ML
Messaging User, IBM Multilingual (Portuguese,
Lotus Workplace Web French, Danish,
Content Management, Russian, Hebrew,
Lotus Workplace Arabic, Multilingual,
Collaborative Korean, Chinese --
Learning User, Lotus Simplified, Spanish,
Workplace Team Brazilian Portuguese,
Collaboration, Lotus German, Swedish,
Learning Management Japanese, Chinese --
Systems User Traditional,
Hungarian, English
U.S., Norwegian
Nynorsk, Greek,
Turkish, Dutch,
Czech, Italian,
Finnish, Polish)
Windows 2000, Linux
for pSeries UNIX
Servers (incl pSeries
Intellistation)
CD-ROM Digital Disk --
ISO 9660 Standard
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Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only and do not include Software Maintenance.
License information form number: L-TLBL-5R3NSS
Limited warranty applies: Yes
Warranty: This program has warranty for a minimum of one year from acquisition from IBM or authorized Business Partner. The warranty provided to the customer, for at least one year from acquisition, is access to data bases (read Web sites) for program information, FAQs, including any known fixes to defects, which the customer can download or obtain otherwise and install at their leisure.
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Money-back guarantee: If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program, return it within 30 days from the invoice date, to the party (either IBM or its reseller) from whom you acquired it, for a refund. This applies only to your first acquisition of the program.
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Volume Orders (IVO): No
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Software Maintenance applies: Yes
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Subscription and Technical Support, is now included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support for the product announced in this letter is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity by providing voice and/or electronic access into the IBM support organizations.
IBM includes one year of Software Maintenance with the initial license acquisition of each program acquired. The initial period of Software Maintenance can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option that is available.
While your Software Maintenance is in effect: IBM provides you assistance for your (1) routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to) questions; and (2) code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via telephone and, if available, electronic access, only to your information systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift hours) of your IBM support center. (This assistance is not available to your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, every day of the year. For additional details, consult your IBM Software Support Guide at:
Software Maintenance does not include assistance for (1) the design and development of applications, (2) your use of programs in other than their specified operating environment, or (3) failures caused by products for which IBM is not responsible under this agreement.
For more information about the Passport Advantage Agreement, refer to the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement Software Announcement 201-202 , dated July 10, 2001, or visit the Passport Advantage Web site at:
IBM Operational Support Services — Support Line: Yes
iSeries™ Software Subscription applies: No
Educational allowance available:
Not applicable
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