Digital Solutions
  |  July 29, 2020

Licensing Update: HCL Complete Collaboration (CCB) Guest Licensing

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Uffe Sorensen
Global Director of DS Strategy, HCL Software

Since July 2019, it has been HCL Digital Solutions’ mission to help our customers and business partners by introducing contemporary licensing and making license management easier for all our products.

Today, we are taking the next step towards consolidating all of our Domino licensing on a “per user” license model – the HCL Domino Complete Collaboration offering a.k.a “CCB.”

Effectively immediately, customers with HCL Domino Servers deployed under CCB Authorized User entitlements can be accessed by a Licensee’s entitled CCB Authorized Users and Guest Users.

A “Guest User” can be an anonymous web user (no authentication), or an authenticated web user with a predefined maximum level of Domino application access (ACL) as “Depositor.”

In addition, HCL Domino servers under CCB may participate in mail routing (SMTP), directory lookup and authentication (LDAP) for non-HCL Domino programs and permit access to free/busy time calendar information.

HCL made the following changes to the CCB license based on customer requests to facilitate:
• A read-only external website for guest users
• Data collection using surveys generated by Domino Volt 1.0.1 and its anonymous user support available today.
• Removing the need for a separate Utility Server license for Guest Users with complex PVU reporting requirements.
• Clarifying licensing for mail and calendar interoperability in multi-vendor scenarios involving our partner’s solutions.

In August, HCL plans to update the formal License Information found here. In the meantime, you may refer to this blog or you can request a formal Product Notice for compliance.

If you have any questions about this announcement or have any licensing questions, please contact your HCL product specialist or Business Partner.

Uffe Sorensen & the Domino Product Team

Disclaimer – HCL’s statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at HCL’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard HCL benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations such as the amount of multi programming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.

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10 Comments

  1. John@NotesExperts.com'
    JP Liggett on August 2, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    Amazing!! This is a great step forward.

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    • Rebecca Bauer on August 12, 2020 at 6:43 pm

      Thanks!

  2. garyau.hk@gmail.com'
    Gary au on August 12, 2020 at 10:12 am

    is CCB guest license included in any product , such as Collaboration Express , or a extra license option which can be purchased ?

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    • Rebecca Bauer on August 12, 2020 at 6:36 pm

      HCL Domino Complete Collaboration (CCB) is the product which can now replace any current per user licensing — like Collaboration Express – or any individual client and server license – like Domino Enterprise Client Access and Domino Enterprise Server. CCB now offers the guest entitlement uniquely for customers licensing their Domino usage via CCB.

    • Mwiakg@aol.com'
      Mike wagner on August 22, 2020 at 3:57 am

      I was a long-time notes developer before I retired a couple of years ago. I would love to keep my skills fresh but no longer have access to a notes environment. It there a license that would allow me to code and run applications just for my own enjoyment and enrichment?

  3. winais@ktnbusinesssolutions.com'
    Winai on August 17, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    If customer do not want to use email and they want to use only application feature integrate the other email system. What kind of license that we recommend to customer?

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    • unnati.ghosh on September 28, 2020 at 9:11 pm

      Mail routing is intrinsic to Domino and to many apps that run on the platform. For simplicity, full mail functionality is included with CCB and functional/workflow mail is included with CCX. You don’t have to use the mail functionality, but it is part of your entitlement.

      You would still use CCB and CCX licensing for applications, we will not separate the licensing.

      Our blog post published on Sep 23 also provides more information. https://blog.hcltechsw.com/domino/licensing-update-introducing-ccx-external-user-entitlements/

  4. michael_dudding@us.ibm.com'
    Michael Dudding on August 21, 2020 at 4:19 am

    This is fantastic. It is something that has been needed for a long time. I know several customers that maintained a Utility Server license for this very reason. They were always at risk of compliance in a mixed environment.

    Reply
  5. jurjen.vandenbroeck@axians.com'
    Jurjen van den Broeck on August 31, 2020 at 8:16 am

    Dear,

    Where can I find the formal License Information?

    Reply

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