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RTC 2.0, Sametime & Notes 8.5


Nicholas Aronne (2111) | asked Jul 27 '09, 11:20 a.m.
Has anyone successfully gotten the RTC Sametime plugin to work with 2.0 and Notes 8.5. I had it working with RTC 1.0, my team recently upgraded to 2.0.

I've updated my rational install with 2.0 and even attempted to install the Sametime plugin that comes with 2.0, most of which appear not to be compatible with Notes 8.5

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

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Nagesh Subrahmanyam (771211) | answered Oct 09 '12, 3:01 p.m.
!n00b alert!

I peeked into Infocenter for ST. It appears that you could chat with team members from RTC using ST plugins. Is this correct ? If yes, then I really do not understand the point, when ST is already installed. Instead, it would be nice to see if ST message pops up when say, a change-set is delivered. In the reverse direction, perhaps a chat message could update a work item, etc. Are such features already present ?

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Dr. Hans-Joachim Pross (1.1k4458) | answered Mar 28 '12, 7:35 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
Does anybody know, how to integrate Notes 8.5 FP3 embedded SameTime with RTC 3.0.1.1?

See manual:
For step 1.a. I modified the plugin_customization.ini-file in the folder C:\Programme\IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework\rcp

I fail directly with the step 1.c. Click Tools > Plug-ins > Install Plug-ins

I don't have this menu point.

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Paul Sims (31513421) | answered Nov 10 '11, 9:08 a.m.
I'm still waiting on an answer to my question, i.e., "Is someone working on a hotfix for Sametime 8.5.x?"

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Arne Bister (2.6k12832) | answered Nov 10 '11, 8:38 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
+1 to find out whether and how we can integrate RTC 3.0.1.1 with (embedded) Sametime 8.5 (FP2). Anybody done this?

- Arne

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Paul Sims (31513421) | answered Aug 11 '11, 12:55 p.m.
Does the RTC 3.0.1 client support Sametime 8.5.x? The Information Center topic at URL http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v3r0m1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.collaboration.doc/topics/t_connect_st.html refers to the new property name com.ibm.collaboration.realtime in plugin_customization.ini but I couldn't find the supporting Sametime plug-in update.

I checked for plug-in updates and only found four.


TeamConcert_301/sametime
Jazz Collaboration
Sametime 7.5.1 MQTT Client v2.0.0.6 Hotfix
Sametime 8.0 JWRZ-7ETP5W Hotfix
Sametime 8.0.1 JWRZ-7ETP5W Hotfix


Is someone working on a hotfix for Sametime 8.5.x?

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Nigel Jones (2132) | answered Feb 11 '11, 9:13 a.m.
Is RTC 2.x now working with ST 8.5?

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Stephanie Bagot (2.1k1513) | answered May 18 '10, 11:10 a.m.
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
As per IBM detailed System requirements, we currently do not support ST 8.5 for RTC 2.x
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg27015704#Instant

We only support ST 7.5.1, 8.0, 8.0.1 integrations.

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preetam kulkarni (139298) | answered May 03 '10, 9:32 a.m.
Hi can anybody help me from where to get plug ins for same time 8.5 to connect to rtc 2.0.0.2

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Umang Shah (16) | answered Feb 23 '10, 3:59 p.m.
I followed the instructions btu could not get it working. Within RTC, did you select Sametime 8.0/Noets 8.0.1 as the provider? I am not getting any error messages, when trying to connect it does not return any errors and the discopnnect button activates thinking it is connected. But within my RTC client I do not see online or green icon.

Were you able to do step 2? I am unable to do step 2 in sametime or integrated sametime/notes?

Thanks for the post ... I had given up trying to get my standalone ST
8.0.2 to work with RTC 2.0. After reading your post, I took another
look at it.

I'm using the same ST 8.0.2 as you are (i.e. Build 20081208)

Once again, Installation step 1.i is where things go wrong .
When installing the RTC 2.0 plugins into ST 8.0.2 :

1) there's no 8.0.2 plugin offered (8.0 and 8.0.1 are offered)
2) when I select (say) 8.0.1, I get a dependency complaint shown in the
attachment.

I'm using the GA RTC 2.0 product. Are you perhaps using 2.0.0.1 ?


On 12/16/2009 10:08 AM, cdgray wrote:
I was able to get it working with both
- integrated ST 8.0.2 under Notes 8.5 (IBM Lotus Notes Release 8.5.1 /
Revision 20090929.1223 (Release 8.5.1)
- standard configuration using ST 8.0.2 Build 20081208

I recall seeing in the forum that the RTC Information Center was
updated - in any case, I was able to follow the instructions under
this topic... Collaborating> Collaborating using
Rational Team Concert> Instant messaging> Connecting to a
local Sametime application, at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtc/v2r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.collaboration.doc/topics/t_connect_st.html

There were some exceptions and gotchas...

Step 1 a) plugin_customization.ini

With multiple copies of ST installed, you have to update both
instances of the ini file, or at least pick the instance for the ST
app that you want to work with - in my case:
- standalone ST - the plugin_customization.ini file was here:
C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Sametime Connect 802\rcp
- integrated ST in Notes 8.5 - plugin_customization.ini was here:
C:\notes\framework\rcp

I skipped Steps 1 c) - k) Turns out I
didn't have to install/update any plug-ins or update them...

Initially, I ran into an error "Invalid combination
- Requested operation cannot be performed because it would invalidate
the current configuration. See details for more
information."
when I tried to update the
plug-ins

I think this comes up because all my plug-ins are up to date with the
levels of Notes and ST and selecting plug-ins to install at this
point was failing since the available code to install is down-level!

I Skipped Step 2 -
Configure Sametime with your Jazz repository
connection


The UI for Preferences Notes 8.5 has changed from earlier levels - in
any case, I didn't find "Jazz" and "Connections"
only allows one connection for Activities...
I think the instructions for Step 2) with Notes 8.5 should be updated
to say create a new entry under "Accounts" to have the
information about the Jazz / RTC URI - but so far it's working
without having done that update, and I'm not sure if this an Account
is needed.

Step 3) worked like a charm.

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Tom Frauenhofer (1.3k58435) | answered Dec 17 '09, 8:38 a.m.
Thanks for the post ... I had given up trying to get my standalone ST
8.0.2 to work with RTC 2.0. After reading your post, I took another
look at it.

I'm using the same ST 8.0.2 as you are (i.e. Build 20081208)

Once again, Installation step 1.i is where things go wrong .
When installing the RTC 2.0 plugins into ST 8.0.2 :

1) there's no 8.0.2 plugin offered (8.0 and 8.0.1 are offered)
2) when I select (say) 8.0.1, I get a dependency complaint shown in the
attachment.

I'm using the GA RTC 2.0 product. Are you perhaps using 2.0.0.1 ?


On 12/16/2009 10:08 AM, cdgray wrote:
I was able to get it working with both
- integrated ST 8.0.2 under Notes 8.5 (IBM Lotus Notes Release 8.5.1 /
Revision 20090929.1223 (Release 8.5.1)
- standard configuration using ST 8.0.2 Build 20081208

I recall seeing in the forum that the RTC Information Center was
updated - in any case, I was able to follow the instructions under
this topic... Collaborating> Collaborating using
Rational Team Concert> Instant messaging> Connecting to a
local Sametime application, at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtc/v2r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.collaboration.doc/topics/t_connect_st.html

There were some exceptions and gotchas...

Step 1 a) plugin_customization.ini

With multiple copies of ST installed, you have to update both
instances of the ini file, or at least pick the instance for the ST
app that you want to work with - in my case:
- standalone ST - the plugin_customization.ini file was here:
C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Sametime Connect 802\rcp
- integrated ST in Notes 8.5 - plugin_customization.ini was here:
C:\notes\framework\rcp

I skipped Steps 1 c) - k) Turns out I
didn't have to install/update any plug-ins or update them...

Initially, I ran into an error "Invalid combination
- Requested operation cannot be performed because it would invalidate
the current configuration. See details for more
information."
when I tried to update the
plug-ins

I think this comes up because all my plug-ins are up to date with the
levels of Notes and ST and selecting plug-ins to install at this
point was failing since the available code to install is down-level!

I Skipped Step 2 -
Configure Sametime with your Jazz repository
connection


The UI for Preferences Notes 8.5 has changed from earlier levels - in
any case, I didn't find "Jazz" and "Connections"
only allows one connection for Activities...
I think the instructions for Step 2) with Notes 8.5 should be updated
to say create a new entry under "Accounts" to have the
information about the Jazz / RTC URI - but so far it's working
without having done that update, and I'm not sure if this an Account
is needed.

Step 3) worked like a charm.

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