FP8 issue: Sending of email no longer expands private groups

User creates a private group, for example 5 people in customer service. Calls the group CS. Contains Tom, Dick, Harry, Mary and Jane. Prior to FP8 she sends email out to CS and the To: got expanded to all the recipients. A recipient could to a “reply to all” and continue the conversation. Upon installation of FP8 it no longer expands the group. One of the recipients tries to do a ‘reply to all’ and gets an invalid address for CS.

APAR LO92034 with SPR JMEAAL7J7V

Service Request 53181,082,000

According to IBM they will: “be creating an enhancement request for this issue so that the developers can review this for possible fix in future releases.”

Subject: Code modification

We looked at the logic in F9 and implemented that automatically in the Send.

Subject: Workaround: Press F9 to expand the group

The workaround is to press F9 to expand the group before pressing send.

Subject: You can override it in delivery options

I like having it suppressed by default because of people who abuse reply-all.

Subject: oops maybe it’s different in FP8

I’m on FP7.

Subject: Hm. It’s a bug, though.

Wonder why they’d mismark it for an enhancement: private groups are by design, not publicized to other people.

Consider what you’d reveal by creating a group, “Managers like Hitler”. They’re revealing private information to the world.