HCL Domino Ideas Portal

Welcome to the #dominoforever Product Ideas Forum! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.


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    Ability to manually upload N/D installers in AutoUpdate database

    In the customer's environment, the Domino servers are locked down in a secured environment and have no means to communicate with the MyHCL Software Portal via the AutoUpdate feature. For such situations, the customer would like to request the abil...
    7 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Needs Review

    Add support for profile and named documents to Domino OTS

    Currently Domino OTS only supports creating and updating documents.Some functionality in Domino is controlled via Profile documents.In recent versions also named documents are used (AutoUpdate, AdminCentral). For example Domino Auto Update is conf...
    about 2 years ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review

    Synchronize a Photo with a Domino Directory Person Document

    The ability to synchronize a user's photo from another Lotus Notes application to the corresponding Person document in the Domino Directory. Providing native support for this functionality would eliminate the need for custom development and manual...
    3 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Needs Clarification

    Improve logging for connection related events in mailscan

    Below message observed at console, although the scanning of attachment works fine.[2CBC:0006-40BC] 10.06.2026 14:16:20 nmailscan: Cannot send ClamAV session end command. Error: Unexpected protocol stack error [2CBC:0006-40BC] 10.06.2026 14:16:21 n...
    3 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review

    Support for DNS-PERSIST-01 ACME challenges

    A new DNS-based ACME challenge for SSL certificates is currently in draft: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html This allows the renewal of SSL certificates for servers that are not exposed to the public internet, without having t...
    8 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Needs Review

    Domino OTS: Execute a formula on a document before saving it

    Domino 14.0 supports formulas to search documents -- which is really a very good addition and helpful for OTS setups for first and additional servers. It would be helpful to be able to execute a formula before the document is saved to have a flexi...
    over 1 year ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review

    Renaming a user back to a prior used DN results in incorrect order in Notes ID-Vault

    There are several use cases, which lead to a problem, where the expected order of DNs in the a users's Notes ID-Vault document gets messed up leading to not showing the most recent DN in first place (column IDOwner). If for example a user gets ren...
    11 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Parallel Recreation of fulltext index

    When you need to recreate a fulltext index it feels none productive to first delete the index and after that leave the database without an index until the new is created that could take a while depending on the size of the db. It would be better t...
    over 1 year ago in Domino / Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Prevent FullText indexer to index empty files - set minimal size threshold

    I noticed that the Domino (Domain FileSystem) indexer calls on Tika's to extract text from empty files. This causes errors and delays in indexing process. From Tika logs: org.apache.tika.exception.ZeroByteFileException: InputStream must have > ...
    8 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Retrieve Database Replication History Summary Using LotusScript.

    This idea focuses on using LotusScript to programmatically extract and present a concise summary of database replication history in HCL Domino / IBM Notes, enabling administrators to easily monitor replication status and identify potential issues. ⚙️
    7 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review
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