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Release Notes: Verastream Integration Broker, Version 9.9
Technical Note 10071
Last Reviewed 15-Mar-2007
Applies To
Verastream Integration Broker version 9.9
Summary
Technical Note 10071
Last Reviewed 15-Mar-2007
Applies To
Verastream Integration Broker version 9.9
Summary
This document describes new features and other important information about version 9.9 of Verastream Integration Broker.
This technical note is organized into the following sections:
New Features
In addition to the new features below, this release includes all improvements previously delivered in version 9.8 patch 9 and earlier (such as added Oracle version support). For more information, see Technical Note 40035.
Verastream Component Protocol (VCP) Library for .NET 2.0
You can connect to any VCP server and client using the VCP Library for .NET 2.0. The Repository Manager (a developer tool) contains code generators for different VCP components. For more information, see the online help documentation installed with the product.
Verastream Adapter for PostgreSQL
For more information, see the online help documentation installed with the product.
Verastream Adapter for SQL Server 2005
Verastream Integration Broker version 9.9 contains a new SQL Server adapter based on ODBC. This new adapter has been added because of Microsoft's plan to deprecate the DB-Library API, currently in use, in all future versions of SQL Server. Although the new adapter is primarily meant for SQL Server 2005, it can be used with SQL Server 2000. A number of features, which were not fully supported by the old DB-Library adapter, are available with the new ODBC adapter.
When installing the SQL Server adapter, ODBC is the default choice (shown in the listbox as Microsoft SQL/Server ODBC).
For more information, see the product online help documentation installed with the product.
Platform and Adapter Support Changes
Support is added for:
- HP Tru64 UNIX v5.1B+
- HP-UX 11i (PA/RISC)
- IBM AIX 5.2
- Java version 1.5
- Attachmate Verastream Host Integrator versions 6.0 and 6.5
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (as described above)
- IBM DB2 versions 8.x and 9.1, including DB2 Express
Support was re-added for:
- RedHat Linux 7.2 and 7.3
- SCO Unixware 7.1.4
Support has been discontinued for:
- IBM zSeries (OS/390)
- Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM). See also http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/.
- SAP 4.6d and SAP 4.6d_r (with thread support)
- Java versions prior to 1.4.0
Fixes
In addition to the fixes below, this release includes all fixes previously delivered in version 9.8 patch 9 and earlier. For more information, see Technical Note 40035.
Job Logs when using OpenVMS
On OpenVMS, the Verastream daemon sntcpd starts servers and CSX switches by submitting jobs to a batch queue.
Prior to version 9.9, the job log associated with these jobs printed to the SYS$PRINT printer queue.
In version 9.9, by default, the job log is no longer printed. This is comparable to the /NOPRINT flag of the SUBMIT command.
To print the job logs of the submitted jobs, set the parameter VSJOBQUEUEPRINTER to the name of the printer queue. For example, to restore pre-v9.9 behavior, set VSJOBQUEUEPRINTER=SYS$PRINT.
To run the submitted jobs without a job log, set the parameter VSJOBQUEUENOLOGFILE to any value. This is comparable to the /NOLOGFILE of the SUBMIT command.
Updates to Time Zone for United States
The time zone file, pardir/zoneinfo.tar has been updated to accommodate the new Daylight Savings time policy in the United States. You will only notice this change when reading and writing datetime values from XML documents.
For general information about DST and Attachmate products, see Technical Note 2171.
Process Integrator - Insert Table from Repository and Update Table from Repository
These two functions insert a table and necessary fields into the application. The manner in which these functions rename uppercase columns has changed between versions 9.51 and 9.6. To return to pre-9.6 behavior, set parameter VSREPOSCOLUMNTOLOWER=9.51.
Known Issues
Addenda to Installation Instructions
In vbig.pdf, on page 122, section "Creating Verastream Shared Libraries for RML/SQL Databases, Oracle":
Verastream software linked with Oracle libraries can access either a local or remote Oracle RDBMS.
Since this interface is not provided as a ready-to-run shared library, you must compile morasql.ec if you are running Oracle 8i on Windows. Oracle 8i is not prelinked. The only other reason to compile the adapter’s DLL (Windows) or shared libraries (Unix) is if you need a different number of cursors than the ones supplied in the product (16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 cursors).
Security Vulnerability
See Technical Note 10070.
Axis Web Services code generator produces incorrect Web service for dataset members
The stub generator for Java Web services previously would create an incorrect Web service where the members of structures and streams occurred twice. This issue has been corrected.
Dynamically setting height of VIEWBOX object
Previously, programmatically changing the height of a VIEWBOX element using the PROPERTIES/VIEWBOX function did not work correctly. This has been fixed.
64-bit Motif libraries on IBM AIX
On AIX 5.2 there is a problem with the dynamic loading of Motif 64-bit libraries. Non-graphical elements are not affected. If GUI elements are needed on this platform, the 32-bit VIB product can be used. Adapter support is the same for 32-bit and 64-bit products.
