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The Vendor Independent Messaging API once was a strong competitor to Microsoft's Mail API (or MAPI). Both software vendors saw the need for a common messaging API to enable other applications and development environments to communicate with email. VIM was Lotus competitor in this competition, which lost ...
However, VIM can be used to access older Notes databases on older systems, and one of the frequent uses in the Notes 3 and Notes 54 era was to use VIM to make "Non-password dialog"-applications. You could use VIM to open a session with a supplied password, something the Notes C API never has allowed, and then hand over the control to the Notes C API. Voila, no password dialog!
As stated elsewhere in this course; No further testing with VIM has been conducted after Notes R5!