unipaas V1.9e Release Notes

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1 Release Notes W e are proud to introduce. is an improved and updated version of the unipaas V1.9 release. Read the information in this document to find out more about this latest unipaas version. For more information about previous unipaas releases, see the PastReleaseNotes.pdf file provided with this installation.

2 General Information General Information Introducing Magic Software s We are delighted to announce the launch of a new release of Magic Software s unipaas SaaS-Enabled Application Platform. unipaas allows organizations to quickly and cost effectively enjoy all the benefits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, whether onpremise, or on-demand. Based upon a unique, unitary development paradigm, unipaas gives the power to quickly develop, enhance, and deploy business applications under multiple deployment models and at a fraction of the cost and time compared to conventional.net or Java environments. Further Enhancing the Platform introduces many new features and fixes. These new features enable you to accelerate application development and to produce more sophisticated and manageable business applications. This long list is added to the continuous effort of optimizing and proofing the product by addressing and fixing customer and internal reported problems. Improving Client/Server to RIA Conversion Some of the new features in this release are intended to significantly reduce the effort required to turn your existing client/server applications into RIA. Continued Platform Support and Compatibility unipaas was tested and is confirmed to be compatible with Windows 7 32-bit and Windows Server bit operating systems. Note: Due to the Windows 7 UAC, when installing and running unipaas on Windows 7, your user must have admin rights. You may also need to right-click on the unipaas Studio icon and click the Run as administrator option. For more information about the various platforms on which has been checked for operation by Magic Software Enterprises, refer to the Compatibility Guide.pdf file provided with this installation..net Integration As of unipaas V1.8, you can enhance your offering by easily embedding and integrating any.net control or assembly. You can upgrade the look and feel of your Rich Internet Application by directly placing new.net controls into your RIA user interface. You can also enhance the functionality of your RIA by integrating any.net assembly. To use the.net functionality, you need to have.net framework V2.0 SP1 (or above) installed on your machine. You can install it by running the NetFx20SP1_x86.exe file in the Scripts\RIA folder. 2

3 General Information For more information on how to add and manipulate.net modules, see the sample available at: or the.net Tutorial sample installed with unipaas. Note that if your pre-version 1.9 programs use.net objects, you must resave the programs that refer to.net objects using the V1.9x service pack (use ^S). Alternatively, you can export and import the programs. Mobile Device Support Expand your IT offering by supporting mobile devices alongside stationary desktops. With the same high productivity of development and by keeping your own expertise in developing unipaas applications you can now easily produce highly interactive mobile applications and quickly expand your internal systems to serve the mobile workforce. unipaas Web Page Make sure to visit our unipaas Web page, where you can view and download various documents. unipaas Licensing In addition to the new unitary development and deployment paradigm for RIA and SaaS, unipaas also supports any previous Magic Software editions and forms of development and deployment. However, in order to maintain your former development and deployment capabilities, you need to obtain new unipaas licenses that reflect your current edeveloper V10 licenses. To obtain unipaas licenses, please contact your local Magic Software representative. Migrating from edeveloper V10.1 to unipaas Migrating an edeveloper V10.1 application to unipaas is quite straightforward and no explicit migration procedure is required. You can directly access and open edeveloper V10 applications from the unipaas Studio and Runtime engines. Migrating from edeveloper V9.4 to unipaas Migrating an edeveloper V9.4 application to unipaas is fast and easy. unipaas provides a collection of wizards to easily migrate your application, INI settings, and interface builder data. In the Migration subfolder of the product, located in the Start menu of your desktop, you will find a shortcut to each of the available conversion wizards. We recommend reading the Migration chapter in the unipaas Help before migrating your edeveloper V9.4 applications. 3

4 General Information Bundled Products unipaas comes with the following bundled products: Limited version of DB2 Express limited to 3 months Version Control Client Jalindi Igloo The Magic Optimizer The Record Main Converter The Magic Optimizer Magic Software is happy to introduce Ocean Solutions s complementary utility the Magic Optimizer. The Magic Optimizer provides extended query and analysis capabilities for any unipaas application. This version of the Magic Optimizer provides a fully operational documentation feature, and a limited evaluation version of the remaining features. To obtain a fully operational license of the Magic Optimizer, please contact Ocean Solutions at info@magic-optimizer.com. From Record Main Based to Event Driven Applications Turn your applications into fully event driven by utilizing the new Record Main Converter utility. The Record Main Converter utility locates all of the Record Main based logic of a unipaas application and automatically and fully converts it to event based logic while keeping the entire functionality of the application intact. Making your applications completely event driven enables you to utilize new features, such as Subforms and Explicit Tabbing order of controls that are not available in tasks that have the Record Main Compatible logic unit. But most importantly, this conversion brings your application one big leap forward towards turning the application into a Rich Internet Application (RIA), allowing you to start and benefit from the great values of RIA sooner than ever before. Note that the Record Main Converter utility might not handle specific complex logic segments. In such cases, the complex logic segment will be kept as-is to maintain the application functionality and to allow for manual intervention to complete the conversion. 4

5 General Information Downloadable Databases You can connect your unipaas application to various databases, including all of the previous edeveloper V10 database gateways. Below are some links to downloadable express version databases. Make sure that the corresponding unipaas database gateway is included as part of the unipaas installation. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition MySQL 5.0 Rich Internet Application on Apache Web Server To run a RIA application on an Apache Web Server, the following lines should be added to the httpd.conf file: AddType application/x-ms-application.application AddType application/x-ms-application.manifest AddType application/x-msdownload.dll AddType application/octet-stream deploy AddHandler default-handler.jpg.gif.js.txt.bat.msi Web and RIA development on Windows 7 By default, IIS 7.5 is not installed on Windows 7. To run Web programs or Rich Client programs using a local IIS Web server, you may need to install it manually. You can install IIS by going to Control Panel > Programs > Advanced Options > Windows Features. For more information, refer to the following URLs: Web and RIA Development on Windows Vista The unipaas installation cannot enable the CGI and ISAPI Extension on the IIS of Windows Vista. If you have troubles running RIA on Windows Vista, refer to the Configuring IIS7 to Work with unipaas technical note, which you can find in the unipaas Help. RTL Applications It is advisable to use the same const file for development and deployment; otherwise, some issues may arise, such as incorrect alignment of a Label control in RTL fields. 5

6 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes Windows 7 Compatibility The unipaas installation was changed and it will now properly define the required settings in II7 and set the unipaas executables to run under the administrator user. Floating License for RIA The Floating license capability enables several unipaas server processes to share the same license and dynamically share the available license entities according to changing server demand. The floating license capability, which was previously supported only for thread-based licenses, was enhanced and now supports RIA user-based licenses as well. SQLite Gateway A new gateway was introduced to support the SQLite database. The SQLite database is a single user, self-contained transactional SQL database engine that does not require a server or any installation or configuration. The SQLite gateway is integrated in unipaas and available with every installation of unipaas. REST Support New HTTPCall() Function RESTful web services can be properly consumed by the introduction of the new HTTPCall function. The new HTTPCall function supports all of the HTTP call verbs that are required for proper RESTfull service consumption. Comment Enhancements The comments pane was enhanced as follows: 1. Components screen The comments pane now shows the comments of the currently parked component object. By default, your components comments are not exposed. You can expose them by checking the Expose comments when used as a component check box in the component application properties. 2. Task Editor The comments pane now shows the comments of the currently parked object. If the comment of the currently parked object includes a short description (between /* and */ ), then the group at the bottom of the screen will show that description. In addition, you can now define multiple short description strings (/x x/) in the comment. The required strings will be shown according to the ShortDescriptionChar setting in the ini file. This will allow you to have short descriptions in many languages, so each developer can see a different short description. 6

7 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes Systinet 6.6 and Java 1.6 unipaas now installs Systinet 6.6 and JRE 1.6. This version of Systinet supports Java 1.6. Java 1.4 will not be supported when working with SSJ or using the JExplore() function. If you want to change an existing Web Service call, you need to reload the service and define a new Invoke Web S operation. Sample Projects The following samples projects were added to the product and they are now be installed in the SampleProjects folder: Rich Internet Demo The project of the live RIA Demo that is available at and Online Samples A set of Online (Client/Server) examples for many Client/Server how to scenarios that are described in the Mastering unipaas book. Rich Internet Samples A set of Rich Internet examples for many Rich Client how to scenarios that are described in the Mastering unipaas book. Mobile Web Samples Web templates based on HTML Merge technology for mobile devices..net Tutorial A short tutorial with examples explaining how to use.net in unipaas. All the projects are available with their source code, so you can use them in your applications. 7

8 PDF Hebrew Version (QCR # 3545) unipaas hanged after printing specific strings into a PDF in the Hebrew version. Web Services Hebrew Version (QCR # ) An error was displayed when calling a WSDL with multiple headers in the Hebrew version. Events Multi-Marking (QCR # ) The handler of an event raised after raising the Mark All event was executed only once even though more than one record was marked. Menus Windows 7 (QCR # ) The navigation icons on the toolbar did not return to their normal state after clicking on them in Windows 7. Web Application Default HTML (QCR # ) The ISS Application Pool process crashed after sending a request with an empty ARGUMENTS parameter when using the DefHtml setting. Printing Images (QCR # ) Images were not printed on the second execution when printing multiple images of Blob type. Rich Client Mobile (QCR # ) A Pidion scanner running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional crashed while trying to scan data when parked on a.net Edit control. RM Converter Remark Lines (QCR # ) The RM Converter duplicated remark lines in some scenarios. Mail Attachments (QCR # ) A mail attachment was embedded in the mail body instead of as an attached file in some scenarios. Functions ClientCertificateAdd (QCR # ) The ClientCertificateAdd() function did not work properly. 8

9 MSSQL Direct SQL (QCR # ) unipaas crashed in a specific program that used Memory tables and had a lot of Direct SQL statements. Components Parallel Program (QCR # ) unipaas searched the program number in the Host application instead of the component application when calling to a parallel program defined in a component. Subform User Range (QCR # ) The range mask could not be deleted using F3 after reentering a task called in a subform. Functions DataViewVars (QCR # ) The DataViewVars() function did not work properly for options 1 and 2 on a parent task when it was evaluated in the Task Prefix or Record Prefix. DB2 Locking (QCR # ) unipaas did not return the error "Waiting for locked row" and allowed modifying of the same record from two sessions. Rich Client ranges Value (QCR # ) The record was not updated in the database if the data contained the value of ranges in any of the fields. Unicode Combo Box (QCR # ) The wrong value was written in an Alpha field when updating it with the value of a Unicode field attached to a Combo Box control. RM Converter Duplicate Variables (QCR # ) The RM converter duplicated a variable defined in the Record Main in some scenarios. Components Multiple Launches (QCR # ) unipaas crashed when running a specific component s architecture that involved simultaneously launching component A and B and executing a program from component B. AS400 Unicode (QCR # ) The SUPPORT_UNICODE_STMT keyword in the AS400 DBMS properties was ignored when trying to insert Unicode values in a table when the OS400 version was V6R1. 9

10 Rich Client Multiple Applications (QCR # ) A Rich Internet Application could not be executed after installing two applications that had the same project name and used different application icons. Rich Client Menus (QCR # ) Menu items were repeated in a Rich Client program after hiding the parent menu and the items and then showing the parent menu using the MnuHide() and MnuShow() functions. Version Control IBM Rational ClearCase (QCR # ) unipaas returned an error when trying to use IBM Rational ClearCase as the Version Control software. Oracle Transactions (QCR # ) An error was returned when updating an Oracle 11g record from a subtask, which was defined with a Record level transaction and an Immediate locking strategy. Caret Display Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The caret was not displayed properly when parking in an Alpha field with a picture having an 'H' suffix when using the Hebrew version under Windows 7 or Windows Vista. Rich Client Closing Sub Tasks (QCR # ) unipaas hanged when pressing Alt+F4 from an Interactive Rich Client subtask called by a non-interactive RC program. Rich Client Combo Box (QCR # ) The combo box values were not changed properly when browsing through a combo box whose data was retrieved from a data source. Rich Client Menus (QCR # ) A disabled submenu entry was displayed when opening an enabled submenu and then opening the disabled submenu in a Rich Client task. Rich Client Direct SQL (QCR # ) unipaas crashed when running a Direct SQL task with a Memory result table when the execution took more time than the value defined in the Sort/Temp box popup seconds environment setting. 10

11 DB2/400 Stored Procedure (QCR # ) The opening Quotation mark of an Alpha text in a call to a stored procedure was considered as part of the string and was sent to the stored procedure. Rich Client Menus (QCR # ) Menus with Unicode characters were not displayed properly in a Rich Client task when using the SpecialClientDisableCache special setting. Rich Client Placement (QCR # ) unipaas crashed with an unhandled exception when a Table control was placed in a Tab control that had the placement defined and then resizing the form. Rich Client Control Verification (QCR # ) A Verify Error operation in the Control Verification was always executed when pressing the down arrow even if the valid value was entered in the field. User-Defined Function Performance (QCR # ) Executing a user-defined function many times was slower than in previous versions. Rich Client Context Menu (QCR # ) The entries in the context menu were wrongly disabled for some window types. MSSQL Direct SQL (QCR # ) unipaas crashed in a specific scenario involving Direct SQL on certain machines. Link Query Access (QCR # ) The Access property value of a Link Query operation was changed from 'Write' to 'Read' after changing the index. Rich Client MDI Frame (QCR # ) The forms were not shown properly after resizing the MDI frame when the program had a table and a Subform control and placement was used. Rich Client Window Events (QCR # ) The 'Window Resize' and 'Window Reposition' events were raised repeatedly when moving or resizing the window of a Rich Client program. 11

12 Functions RangeReset (QCR # ) The RangeReset() function was not working for link fields. Print Preview Hebrew Version (QCR # ) Some columns appeared distorted on Print Preview in the Hebrew Version when the Visible Column property of some columns was set to No. DB2/400 View Refresh (QCR # ) unipaas crashed when executing a specific program and performing View Refresh with no arguments after deleting a record when a range was defined and the index was not the default index. Tooltip Lines Mode (QCR # ) The tooltip was not seen correctly when scrolling the records in Line mode from the form area. V9 Converter Crash (QCR # ) The V9 Converter utility crashed after converting a specific project. Subform Control Close Button (QCR # ) The parent task s Record Suffix was not executed after modifying the data view when the focus was on the subform and clicking on the Windows Close button. V9 Converter Expressions (QCR # ) Expressions attached to a Call Program were corrupted after converting a specific project. Rich Client Proxy (QCR # ) An error message appeared when using multiple proxies in some scenarios. Merge Tag Name (QCR # ) The last character was not seen when the merge tag name was 30 characters. Button Control Fit to Size (QCR # ) The Fit to size option did not work properly for a 6-image button. 12

13 Task Editor Repeat (QCR # ) unipaas crashed after repeating a column entry when the column name was modified. ODBC Get Definition (QCR # ) Get Definition returned the wrong value when performed on a column defined as decimal(18,4) when using Informix ODBC. Rich Client Drag & Drop (QCR # ) It was not possible to drag data from a Browser control to an Edit control in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Functions RangeAdd (QCR # ) unipaas crashed when the RangeAdd function was used in a global event called from a subform. RM Converter Level Function (QCR # ) The RM Converter did not convert the Level function to the MainLevel function when there was no logic in the Record Main of the converted task. Batch Allow Events (QCR # ) A Batch program defined with Allow Events = No and Open task window = Yes was not displayed again after another window took focus. Rich Client.NET Integration (QCR # ) The properties of a chart control were not displayed on the Form Editor. MSSQL DATETIME (QCR # ) An error was returned when inserting a specific date into a DATETIME field. Call By Name Context Menu (QCR # ) A context menu attached to a program was changed after execution of a parallel program when the program was called from another program by using the Call by Name operation. Data Sources Chinese Operating System (QCR # ) unipaas hanged when trying to open a specific project that contained data sources and was created on a Chinese machine. 13

14 Web S Lite xsd:integer (QCR # ) A data type defined as xsd:integer instead of xsd:int was shown as Not Supported when the service was loaded using Web S Lite. CallDLL Char Parameter (QCR # ) The second parameter was not sent to a DLL when the parameter was defined as char. Export & Import Task Load (QCR # ) Loading a task took a long time after performing Export and Import in a specific project. Rich Client SpecialModifiedDecimalSeparator (QCR # ) The SpecialModifiedDecimalSeparator was not working in Rich Client tasks. RM Converter Block Operation (QCR # ) The RM Converter did not separate the Block If operations from the Block Else operations. Rich Client.NET Integration (QCR # ) unipaas crashed with an unhandled exception when raising a Keybord event for a.net User interface component named "Exontrol". Rich Client Mobile (QCR # ) An error message appeared when deploying a RIA application on a mobile device when the mobile device was missing some assemblies. The missing assembly details will now be seen in the client log on the mobile device. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd provides the information in this document as is and without any warranties, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will Magic Software Enterprises Ltd be liable for any loss of profit, business, use, or data or for indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind whether based in contract, negligence, or other tort. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd may make changes to this document and the product information at any time without notice and without obligation to update the materials contained in this document. Magic is a trademark of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. Copyright Magic Software Enterprises, November,