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Inventu Viewer+ Setups 2025A1

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Inventu Viewer+ Base Product and Components

(Version: 6.0.113 January 8, 2025)

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulator

  • Added Microsoft’s Aptos Mono font to the list of fonts users can select for their terminal emulation sessions.
  • SAML2 can now have a customized user name based on a custom logon assertion value. For example, rather than showing the user’s email address in the Admin Console (or IP address when no IAM in use), a custom attribute can be specified. For example, custom attributes like “MainframeID” or “EmployeeNumber” can be associated with each active session. When InventuSSO or server-side storage for user preferences is active, this will also be used to manage the user’s saved emulator file names.
  • Logout is now supported for OIDC connections using a configured URL at the IAM provider. If the URL is defined, when a user logs-out of OIDC, the FVTerm application will find any and all of a user’s sessions and stop them when configured. This is optional and only will occur when the IAM configuration includes a reference to the FVTerm web server external URL such as https://fvterm.newco.com/oidcacs.aspx?logout=yes with Microsoft Entra ID this appends the user’s sid (session ID) to enable locating the user’s internal dictionary and stop any active sessions with the same owner/id. This has been tested with Microsoft Entra ID only.
  • The Microsoft GraphAPI used for retrieving groups and Custom Security Attributes was improved to accommodate detection of expiry of the Graph API Access Token. When originally used for retrieving active Groups the access token was only used once after startup. Now, with the custom security attributes retrieved for each user’s OIDC session start, the access token needs to be valid for the duration of the active FVTerm v4.0 IIS Application Pool process.
  • Server-side Macros sometimes would have startup issues after the first execution when run from a browser on localhost, due to a race condition between separate initialization calls. This was fixed and presumably will fix rare conditions in requests off the local machine.

Profiles Configuration and Runtime

  • Added the ability to customize the active user name in FVTerm (displayed in the Console for the connected user and used for server-side user preference storage) with the SAML 2.0 Custom UserID Attribute Name. When this is specified, the normal ID (typically the user’s email address or other name) will only be used if the assertions sent at user login do not include the specified attribute name, or the name is blank/empty.
  • Added new checkbox in Web Server / Security when SAML is the active IAM type:  Detailed SAML2 Connect Logging which when checked will log details of user connections in order to verify the assertions being sent for a user.
  • For Microsoft Entra ID OIDC, a new property Entra ID Security Attributes Group will read custom attributes for a user making them available to other FVTerm programs. While it is possible to add custom attributes to a user profile, such as “ftpFlags”, these are added as part of a group and are not sent automatically with the user logon information. To retrieve custom attributes for a user, a Microsoft Graph API call is needed and this property is used to specify the group of custom attributes to retrieve at user logon.

Installer

  • Added additional configuration help pages
  • Added installation of the Microsoft Aptos Mono font, which is now available to users to select as the active font for a host profile. The installer will run a special FVIISApi command to add the font to the list found in web.config.

ViewerLib API

  • New HostConnection static call StopOwnerSessions(string owner) was added to enable stopping all sessions for a user that has signed-out of an OIDC or SAML session.

Inventu Viewer+ Setups 2024I1

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Inventu Viewer+ Base Product and Components

(Version: 6.0.109 September 30, 2024)

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulator

  • When the Server API / IAM feature is active, the Macro Icon can now be displayed to users in order to facilitate running Server Macros. This is controlled by in the Configurator for Profiles
  • User attributes for SAML2 and OpenID are now available to both the Server Macro .NET code and the Javascript Client API and support. This is utilized in access control for FTP profiles as well as controlling visibility of the Macro Icon based on a user custom attribute.
  • Internals of synchronization between the client UI and Server macros were enhanced as part of integrating the new Inventu FTP Server Macro.
  • The OIDC support was enhanced to better support custom user attributes for Server Macros.
  • The Server Macro client user interface for the GetClientFile call was enhanced to support both direct selection and drag-and-drop for selecting a file for uploading.
  • A SAML2 UserID can have a vertical bar (|) which causes problems with identifying the user’s Macro folder (fixed in this release-converted to an underscore).

Inventu FTP Macro

  • New Installable .NET assembly that is a functional FTP Uploader that can be configured by a server administrator to enable authorized users to upload files to managed locations
  • Documented at https://software.inventu.com/help/html/IVFtpMacro
  • Note that customers that also would like to enable FTP downloads are welcome to alert Inventu to their requirements

Profiles Configuration and Runtime

  • The Help web pages for the configuration topics is now installed on the local server, so that “locked-down” servers (which do not have HTTP access out) no longer block access to the help.
  • The Auto-Load User Macros checkbox is now visible when ServerAPI / IAM feature is active
  • Macros Application Identifier which controls location of macros for a profile is no visible when the ServerAPI / IAM feature is active
  • Enable Macros Icon for Server Macros is a new checkbox that controls visibility of the Macros execution icon when the ServerAPI / IAM feature is active
  • Server Macro Access IAM Attribute is a new text field that identifies a custom user attribute, which if not present or blank, will hide / not display the Macro Icon

Installer

  • The SCKeyDefs.js file, as part of the new support for profile-based keyboard definitions, is modified by the installer to tweak the function calls so that the active profile can be used to program the keys when a new host connection occurs.
  • Help for the Profiles Configuration topics is now installed locally

ViewerLib API

  • Minor Fix to PutCommand to improve synchronization in ASCII environments

Inventu Viewer+ Setups 2024G1

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(Version: 6.0.107 July 30, 2024)

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulator

  • User Keyboard definitions can now be stored by Protocol or Profile. This enables multiple keyboard profiles between different hosts that may be the same protocol (TN5250, TN3270 or TNVT which includes all ASCII protocols from VT100 to Wyse 60).  If it is an end-user saving keyboard changes, a prompt is displayed asking if the changes are for the profile or for all hosts of the same type.  If it is an administrator at the server generating javascript for the SCKeyDefs.js file, a similar prompt will generate the appropriate code block.
  • Message parent domain was not working correctly and has been fixed so that a list of blank-separated URLs for the parent page can be specified in configuration. Prior versions required an * (asterisk) in order to work.
  • Message-based API startup had a timing issue leading to InventuSSO and other startup scripts not always running. This was fixed to ensure the initial connection event is always run.
  • Finnish is now available as a user’s preferred language for prompts and messages in the FVTerm client
  • If the initial connection of a websocket failed due to a rare hardware/router situation (websocket opened only between the client browser and a portion of the network but not all the way to the Inventu server), the recovery and implementation of AJAX web service calls was not working.
  • If Control-C was mapped, to send “Ctrl-C” to the host, there was a confirm popup “Send Control-C?” which was initially implemented for a customer that requested the confirmation because for them it closed the connection to the host. This customer is no longer supported by Inventu, as they are a customer of Flynet LTD and do not use any versions newer than 2018.   This confirm call was removed without making it a Profile option.
  • The clipboard box drawing was tweaked to fix a regression caused by the minimum font sizes implemented in 2024A1.

Profiles Mode Configuration – config/Admin.html Page

  • Updated Configuration option for Locale to add Finnish as an available language
  • For Message-based Client API, increased the length for defining valid Parent page URLs from 60 to 300

Inventu Viewer Installer

  • Added translation JSON file for the Finnish language

Inventu Viewer Studio

  • (Available at folder https://software.inventu.com/2023KS1)
  • Fixed scaling issues when used on PC monitors with high resolution–many buttons were only visible if a form was resized by the user.

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