Win API calls in ND6

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Hi all,I wonder whether anyone can shed some light on this.

We will be migrating up to ND6 in the next few months and i’ve heard that there is an issue with Win API calls.

For example:

Declare Funtion NEMGetFile lib “nnotes.dll”

Does anyone know whether this is true and whether its both client and/or server side (we will also be migrating from NT to iSeries at the same time as well).

Thanks in advance of any help received.

Kind Regards

Charlotte

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Subject: ? Win API calls in ND6

Charlotte,

  1. calls to nnotes.dll are not Win API calls,

  2. NEMGetFile does not live in nnotes.dll, but nnotesws.dll and is undocumented/unsupported as all functions in that particular dll.

Do I understand correctly that your code that is calling Notes API runs on server? In that case you will have a ton of additional problems when migrating to iSeries (even besides possible changes in use of undocumented calls, that I can not neither confirm nor refute) and depending on number of API calls in your code, you may spend time up to next year fixing it.

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Subject: RE: ? Win API calls in ND6

Hi,Thanks for that information.

In all the years that I’ve been doing Notes development, i haven’t had to use any win api calls.

Therefore, all this is new to me, hence the questions.

I don’t know whether the code is running on the server or the client as i’m looking at the code through TeamStudio and picking out any reference to “Lib” and flagging it as an issue to look into it in more detail at a later date.

Out of curiosity, are there any specific api’s that are used on the server side?

Thanks in Advance

Charlotte