Why is it so hard to get a valuable answer from IBM support?
A few days ago, I talked about the “Disable Export View Data” feature which is available in Notes 8.0.2 and that there is a technote in which a IBM technote contributor wrote that
Enabling or disabling of this option can also be done using an API call (setOption) or a LotusScript (SetOption)
Playing around with the GetOption method of the NotesDatabase class, I finally found out, which value has to be used to enable / disable this new feature.
Thomas Bahn suggested to open a PMR to tell IBM that the option is not documented in the designer help. I did open a PMR on the same day …
Here is what I asked for:
ESR: Disable Export of ViewData is new to 8.0.2. Technote #1314694
says that “Enabling or disabling of this option can also be done using
an API call (setOption) or a LotusScript (SetOption). ”
Which OPTDB_ .. constant must be used? Not documented in designer help
The first update by first level support
Looking for hints
Well, this is OK, so pls. look for hints and let me know, what you’ve found.
A couple of hours later, the next update
So far – only 2 “don’t knows”
To continue on Monday.
Next update on monday
… Unfortunately I can not answer
it this far but I hope I will be able to do it shortly.
In the meantime, first level support escalated the PMR to BE.
Another 6 hours later, BE answered
… I did not understand what is being asked from us. Can you let me know what exactly is the question or what is the customer looking for.
I do not know, what the heck is going on. English is not my native language. But is it really so hard to understand a simple question?
Is there really a difference between the lines, I wrote as initial question in the PMR and the “translation”, firstlevel support sent to BE?
All information I have is in the PMR – I don’t speak customer’s native
language and had no other info than that already in the PMR.
My understanding of the problem is however that customer wanted to “use
API call (setOption) or a LotusScript (SetOption)”. In particular he
asks “which OPTDB_ .. constant must be used?” Because it is “Not
documented in designer help”.
And here is the latest update
… Confirmed that the requested information is not in designer help.
Ehm … I already know this, IBM!