• New First-Time User Introductory Help for the FVTerm Terminal Emulator Client
• Further Continuous Updates, Enhancements and Fixes

Inventu Flynet Viewer Base Product and Components
(Version: 5.0.376 July 8, 2019)

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulation Feature

• Added new first-time user single-page help popup. This is configurable in the View when in Profiles mode. Provides key tips that help new users better understand subjects such as printing the screen, clipboard and others. Also provides a new user the first opportunity to select the client language, and is translated into all supported languages.  The design and content is based on feedback from our customers on those issues they most would like new users to be aware of, to reduce the need for emails and other help provided by their internal support and administration staff.
• For a multi-line entry field that is over 50 characters and has a field below it on the screen, word-wrap is now automatically implemented as a user is keying text into the field.  This follows the same approach as a clipboard paste for multi-row fields, but now works for direct entry by the end-user.
• The new Profiles-mode capability to locate the action icons and status at the top of the page conflicted with displaying available macros for the current screen (fixed).
• For developers–a new javascript file is now in the distribution that minifies the FVSessions.js, FVTermParent.js and a new FVHod.js module.  This is named FVApi-min.js and is in the Scripts folder.
• FVHod.js module includes the FVSessions.HODSession which inherits from FVSession in the FVSessions.js module — it adds a number of new functions that support easy migration of Java and JavaScript code that interact with the IBM Host-On-Demand Java applet.  Included is a transpiler to simplify execution of a series of emulator interactions without the need for nested completion functions.
• Added a mappable keyboard accelerator definition (StartCopy) to start a clipboard copy operation–this activates the yellow cross-hair cursor for drawing a box around the screen area to copy.  This enables users involved in repetitive copy operations to speed things-up much like the Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V actions do.
• Operator Help File updated to better reflect new functionality and user interface.
• Touch devices were not starting correctly when the action icons were positioned at the top of the screen (fixed).

Flynet Viewer Emulation Service and Runtime Framework (Version 5.0.376)

• Clustered server session allocation for reserved sessions was not always calculated properly at startup (fixed).
• New connections with changes to an existing host definition were not working consistently.  Some settings, such as the TLS support activation were not being copied to the new session (fixed).
• HostPrint keyboard accelerator action now shows as [HostPrint] in trace rather than [???]

Profiles Configuration and Runtime

• Added new properties for a View to display the new user Introductory Help Page (default is yes).

Setup and Installation

• New Host and Profile Wizards now have the appropriate default CSS file based on protocol when the initial Host Connection is tested.
• Initial Setup Wizard was maximizing non-Edge web browsers, which, while maximizing vertical space, created confusion.  All browsers now simply issue a warning to the user to make sure the browser has adequate height.

• Profile-Based Configuration Now Default – Integrated with Setup for New Installs
• Profile Configuration Help File – All New
• Recordings can Now be Scrubbed Easily and Repeatedly of Sensitive Data
• Further Continuous Updates, Enhancements and Fixes

Flynet Viewer Base Product and Components
(Version: 5.0.373 May 14, 2019)

Profile-Based Configuration Support

The Profile-Based Configuration Administration User Interface continues to be enhanced and built-out.

• User storage of preferences can now be set to “Server” and changes to preferences will be stored using the userID (the setting was there in prior versions but was not activated until this version). Client IP instead of a text User ID can also be used but a warning will be displayed since this is unreliable in many network environments.
• View setting for Tiles vs. Icons has also now been implemented, along with the ability to set the background color for the Tiles or Icons in the View.
• The Help for Profiles Settings was completed (all settings now have help which has been updated to cover Profile mode). The help has been uploaded to the FlynetSoftware.com help folders.  A future version will enable unzipping a local copy of the new Profiles help HTML folder to enable access in locked-down servers.
• Some Track colors and status were not being properly set in Profile Host Connection settings during editing
• CfgAdmin.htm has retry and reload attempts incorporated to accommodate being loaded as the Services are still starting in a fresh installation
• Added retry and error checking when loading Profile and View files to cover possible server startup issues with network drive availability
• Added Logging of Profile and View loading to the FVProfile.log file
• NewHost and NewProfile Wizard Button locations for Previous and Next were made consistent regardless of visibility; the Next Button was moved to be grouped closer to the Previous and Cancel buttons to improve usability. When the page was very wide, the Next button wasn’t that easily located for a new user.
• Profiles Configuration for AD Groups missing an editor button enabling selection from a list of available groups
• Profile security for Groups access to a View made more reliable

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulation Feature

• The View Menu presentation was improved for large numbers of host connections along with the Profiles mode enhancement of displaying Icons instead of Tiles for selecting a host connection.
• Macro storage and retrieval is now more tightly associated with the active Profile name and Macro Application ID for the session. Active host name was being used, which could lead to confusion when managing multiple profiles that connect to the same host.
• User Preferences can now be stored at the server-reducing reliance on cookies, as well as providing portability between devices for the same user
• Websocket server-side cleanup made more efficient following a lost client connection.

Flynet Viewer Emulation Service and Runtime Framework (Version 5.0.371)

• SSH Library Initialization added to support dynamic new host definition that is part of the NewHost CfgAdmin setup configuration flow for SSH hosts
• Added logging of text being searched for new host connect in trace mode

3270 Protocol-Specific Changes

• Prior versions would change the cursor position inside an entry field so that it was on the last non-blank character. The cursor position will now stay as set by the host.  This provides better support for host 3270 editors like ISPF
• Rare circumstance caused duplicated data inside an entry field causing all subsequent fields to be skewed to higher positions on the screen. Discovered during global search and replace off a certain column position in the 3270 ISPF editor.

Setup and Installation

• A new install is now defaulted to Profile Mode and creates the appropriate Profile and View files for a new setup
• Setup now runs the CfgAdmin.htm page instead of Help at end of the Setup—if first-time install, will run in install mode, which will automatically run the NewHost and NewProfile wizards for the Host1 definition created by the setup. This includes additional prompts and assists to guide a first-time installer through the profile definitions and connection wizard.
• The IIS Web Server service status is now checked at the end of the setup to ensure that the service is started and has a setting of AutoStart. If the status is Disabled, while it will be changed to AutoStart, a Popup warning will be displayed to the setup user as there may be a domain group policy that will continue to interfere with the IIS web service without an administrative change.

Recorder 2.0

• • A text scrubbing option has been added—Ctrl-H or Search – Scrub Text. Provides up to 10 search-replace pairs with assistance with cues to ensure the lengths of the search and replace text is the same.
  • Scrubbing form has a save/restore with a file name, so that multiple sets of scrub definitions can be saved and re-used.
  • By always using the same test subjects, the same scrub items (for example, social security numbers, names and other sensitive data) can be “fixed” easily and consistently.
  • Recording files were not being converted from the original log/trace format due to a months-old regression. This did not impact usability in Viewer Studio, but the recording files were much larger, as the conversion removes all the hexadecimal buffer records. A check was made so that no passwords will be included in the converted recording (any password attribute field is changed to “Pass” if changed). Without this fix, the text scrubbing would have left sensitive data in the hexadecimal buffers.