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Inventu Viewer+ Setups 2020J1

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Now With 3270 Device Printing Support

Inventu Viewer+ introduces support for the 3287-1 Printer for users needing device printing for mainframe TN3270 reports.  This is added to the existing support for TN5250 AS400/IBMi device printing.

Inventu Viewer+ Base Product and Components

(Version: 6.0.21 November 2, 2020)

FlyServer Emulation Service

  • TN3270 new Device Printer support with IBM3287-1 device emulation. This first version has been tested with basic 3270-orders printing.  Any customer or evaluator can expect rapid turn-around on any issues discovered with customer printing applications.  If Basic 3270 printing jobs do not have an “End of Job” buffer sent, a 5 second timeout will complete a job.
  • Added Japanese and Korean DBCS language support for TN5250 AS400 connections
  • TN5250 Device printing displayed “1;” at beginning of many lines during first print job; fixed in this release.
  • 5250 protocol lost a character in circumstances due to Telnet escape character. This will appear in all prior versions as one or two missing characters on the screen in unpredictable locations.
  • 5250 protocol Regression due to fix in 2020G1 Version 6.0.15—if a screen is not cleared and a new entry field is in the same position as a field on the prior screen, the length will run to the next defined field instead of the normal end of the entry field (fixed in this release).

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulation

  • Integration of support for 3287 device printing including support for Associated Printer Device ID management. 5250, 3270 Device printing and the “Print Screen” functions share the same Print Job management, with a quick pop-up providing Print Preview and the ability to select a printer or print to PDF.
  • Printed reports for 5250 or 3270 devices in 132 column mode fit 66 lines per page better in landscape mode
  • Added Help and Tip-Text support for Japanese and Korean.
  • Changed display of Chinese, Japanese and Korean selections to the native language instead of the English version.
  • When uploading a file as part of a server-side macro, a zero-length file was failing.
  • SAML 2.0 authentication fixed connection exception under circumstances where the SAML cookie was present with an empty value.
  • For TN3270 and TN5250, the cursor will no longer be automatically positioned in the first entry field if not positioned there by the host. This behavior can be controlled with the new Profile setting “Automatic Cursor Positioning”.

ViewerLib API

  • New Property HostConnection.screenTimeout enables reading or changing the session timeout setup by the default for the server

Installer

  • Added two new CodePage files to support IBM DBCS Japanese (CCSID 939) and Korean (CCSID 933). These all have a .ucm extension and have a few Inventu Extensions after being copied from the mappings folder of the  http://site.icu-project.org/ distributed C++ project.

Emulation Configurator

  • Added new options for 3287 device printing for 3270 connections, including the ability to associate a new printer with an existing display session LU.
  • Added Japanese and Korean language options for 5250 connections
  • Connection Wizard was enhanced to enable use on servers that have a Concurrent User-Based license key (where each user can have multiple sessions).
  • Updated help to include Automatic Cursor Positioning, Code Page to include Chinese, Default Locale to include Chinese, Japanese or Korean and Display Active Sessions web server option.
  • Added new Profile setting – Automatic Cursor Positioning, which enables control over new behavior that no longer positions the cursor in the first entry field if it wasn’t positioned there by the host.
  • Added “Trace Users Active Sessions” to the Web Server setting, so that when “Display Active Sessions” is checked for a View, the web.config no longer needs editing to provide the underlying logic needed for the Display Active Sessions setting to work on the View.
  • Wizards improved for smoother connection testing during new Host and new Profile definitions

InventuSSO Connection Framework

  • Added new VarMap global setting to enable capturing SAML 2.0, Query string and Post values to enable access in the logic and scripting.
  • New formal connection variable “userQualifier” will enable unique host credentials for a single identified client. Enables single identified clients to have multiple host accounts and still enjoy the single sign-on benefits.  Credential files will be named with the userQualifier added to the user identity.
  • Added new formal state “LogonInit” for setup of userQualifier from available SAML or other variables prior to the session starting and credentials being checked for auto-signon.
  • Added new SetPasswordRules for a Host or HostNames group which provides far more control over complex password generation. Rules for latest AS400/IBMi operating systems and Mainframe RACF are now accommodated.  Documentation provides cross reference with both the AS400/IBMi and RACF documentation.
  • A full test rig with all permutations of the rules is available on request and was used to wring-out the logic to ensure compatibility with customer environments.
  • Added SetPasswordSpecialChars to enable setting any range of special characters for passwords within the constraints of the InventuSSO.cfg settings syntax.
  • The @PWGen function will now use the SetPasswordRules if set instead of the original, simpler logic initially implemented.
  • A new source module will now be distributed with InventuSSO-PWRules.cs which is a self-contained generator for IBMi and Mainframe RACF complex passwords.
  • SetField and SetDeviceID, which both use text expressions now can use a ? at the start of the text expression to make it a switch expression. Based on a variable value, multiple text expressions can be specified, similar to a switch expression in Javascript, C, C#, Java and others, but in a single configuration line.
  • Additional tweaks for managing device ID’s and configuration variables across the IIS FVTerm v4.0 Application Pool recycling while connections are active

Inventu Viewer+ Setups 2020i1

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Support for IBM Double-Byte Character Set

Inventu Viewer+ introduces support for IBM DBCS language support starting with Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional on the TN5250 (AS400/IBMi) protocol.  This is a significant enhancement which enables support for a broad number of popular worldwide languages including Japanese, Korean and most DBCS Character sets currently supported on IBM Mainframes and AS400/IBMi platforms.

InventuSSO

The Inventu SSO extension is now formally available to customers with the IAM Server Extensions feature as a source distribution from the https://software.inventu.com downloads page.  The InventuSSO is a connection scripting extension provided to Inventu customers for implementing advanced connections that can auto-logon a user with administration-free credentials management.

With this release, if a new connection includes the variable “userHostID” the credentials file for the user will include the userHostID value in the name, providing multiple sign-on accounts for a single identified user.

Inventu Viewer+ Base Product and Components

(Version: 6.0.19 September 2, 2020)

FlyServer Emulation Service

  • Added support for IBM DBCS in the TN5250 protocol. Implemented using public tables available from http://site.icu-project.org/.  Initial configuration support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese and the TN5250 protocol—Inventu will be publishing all applicable IBM CCSID DBCS tables at https://software.inventu.com/DBCSTables.  In this initial release only display of DBCS characters and TN5250 is supported—data entry and TN3270 are not difficult extensions using the same internal data and functions established in this release and can be made available on evaluator or customer request.
  • Tracing and Trace Viewer added DBCS/Unicode support- Trace Files are now encoded in the UTF-8 data format.
  • Device Printing, currently implemented in the TN5250 protocol, was displaying double-lines instead of Bold and Underlined text. The SCS command interpreters at the server and client javascript have been upgraded in this release to support all combinations of underlined and bold text in the resulting printed report.

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulation

  • Added support for DBCS integrated with the core service enhancements. This includes a new property, “Code Page File” in Profiles that match in the Host value “Code Page File” so that different profiles can have different code pages for the same host.
    • Clipboard support will accurately copy DBCS (Chinese characters) – with this version extra spaces may be included along with the text.
    • Cursor movement will adjust to the double-width DBCS characters so that the cursor will be positioned correctly over the character
    • Cursor size will double in width over DBCS characters.
    • Javascript API will return DBCS characters mixed with standard characters
  • Added Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese as available languages for prompts, messages and first-line help (along with Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch and Swedish).
  • When using SAML 2.0 security, tweaks improve error reporting when an issue occurs during testing.
  • When activating the Mouse Wheel to send PageUp/PageDown keys in a Profile, some browser/mouse combinations would create an endless loop, locking the web client. This is fixed in this release—all installations with prior releases should de-activate this option until 2020i1 can be installed.
  • Implemented new querystring value “userHostID” to enable parent pages to provide the Host UserID for a new connection. This is to sync with updates to InventuSSO supporting multiple Host ID sign-on accounts for a single identified user.

ViewerLib API

  • Added a new HostConnection Readonly Boolean property, DBCSActive, which is true if the current session has a DBCS codepage setting (such as 935 – Chinese Simplified).
  • GetText() and GetTextFull() methods will now return full Unicode characters if DBCS characters (such as Chinese) are in the screen area defined in the parameters.
  • encodePassThru will now detect DBCS mode and utilize an alternate DBCS internal function for creating the compressed HTTP text sent to the FVTerm client for screen updates.

Installer

  • Added three new CodePage files to support Traditional Chinese (CCSID 937), Simplified Chinese (CCSID 935) and Extended Simplified Chinese (CCSID 1388). These all have a .ucm extension and have a few Inventu Extensions after being copied from the mappings folder of the  http://site.icu-project.org/ distributed C++ project.

Flynet Viewer Renamed Inventu Viewer+ Starting With Setup 2020F1

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Inventu Viewer+ 2020F1

Setups 2020F1 mark a new chapter in the history of the Inventu terminal emulation product line.  From the early days when WildTower Solutions produced the first versions based on Screensurfer, the “Flynet” name has been in the products.  Inventu has now renamed our products from Flynet Viewer 2016 to Inventu Viewer+.

The “plus” stands for the added features and fixes that Inventu provides with the Inventu Viewer+ product compared to earlier releases of Flynet Viewer 2016.  Since the April 2018 setups, only Inventu has provided updated versions of Flynet Viewer 2016 and now Inventu is the sole provider of Inventu Viewer+.

Throughout the Inventu Website and Products, all references to “http://flynetsoftware.com” are now “https://software.inventu.com”.

Inventu Viewer+ Base Product and Components
(Version: 6.0.14 June 15, 2020)

Base Inventu Viewer+ Emulation Service

  • All tools and windows updated to reflect name change from Flynet Viewer to Inventu Viewer+
  • Note that for existing servers updated to this build existing registry hives and file folder names will continue to use the base name “Flynet”. New installations will use base name “Inventu”.
  • Clustered servers improved support for upgrades where the name of the server is appended to reflect a new key (enabling increased sessions for example). Tickets from an upgraded server are now recognized by other servers as an upgrade is being made using hold/release on a live 24/7 environment.
  • Added MaxWarningBand, named Session Max Warning Band which if set will monitor total active sessions on a single server or cluster and send a warning email to the registered company administrator if the number of sessions comes inside the band. For example, for a cluster with 1,000 sessions, setting the warning band at 100 would send an email the first time active sessions exceeded 900.  Please alert support@inventu.com if you wish to use this feature, and provide the email you would like informed.  Requires HTTPS access to inventu.com from each server that this setting is live on for the email to work.
  • 3270 protocol additional tweak for entry fields with attribute at last position on screen instead of row1, column1.
  • 3270 sessions were vulnerable to a rare condition when a session was terminated as a TN3270E buffer acknowledgement was queued for sending. If this occurred,  that session would fail on the first TN3270E buffer received from the host needing an “ack” buffer from then on.  This is fixed in Version 6.0.14 of Flyserver.exe.
  • With a 3270 screen with an entry field at row 1, column 1, the buffer sent to the host was sending the field at row 1 column 1 first. Based on behavior of IBM Personal Communications terminal emulator, which sends this as the last field, the logic was tweaked to behave the same as PCOMM to maximize compatibility.
  • The 5250 attribute Mandatory Fill was causing a field to be set as numeric only. Fixed in this release.
  • Added Console Command at port 82, “resetLicense” for subscription licenses, will enable updating the subscription expiration without restarting the service (must first “Check Subscription” with the FVLicense.exe tool).

FVTerm Web Terminal Emulation

  • Welcome Icon changed to “Inventu Fast View Terminal” from “Flynet Pure Web Terminal Emulator”
  • Minimum Worker Threads no longer needs to be set by administrators from the default of zero in order to activate the recommended setting of TotalSessions*2 / vCPU’s/Threads. This setting is important to insure fast session response times in larger session configurations.
  • SAML 2.0 Security Framework was enhanced to allow different top-level web pages than SCTerm.html to initiate and complete a sign-in.
  • StretchFonts was defaulting to ON regardless of the default set in a Profile in Profiles configuration mode. Fixed in this release.
  • Clipboard Paste actions were broken in prior setup, fixed in this release.
  • ClipBoard detection of columns improved when combined with repeating a previous screen’s copy block selection (double-clicking the Copy icon)
  • The SamlAuth.js file was added to the Scripts folder to support top-level web pages that replace SCTerm.html as the default page for users.

Setup, Profiles Configuration and Runtime

  • New name – IVSetup64.exe instead of FVSetup64.exe
  • Discontinued 32 bit version
  • Detect if existing install and determine if Flynet or Inventu as base name
  • Add new /f parameter so that a customer can install to Flynet registry and folder base names if in an existing environment where these names are part of sharing or maintenance procedures.
  • When loaded as a re-install, there is now a confirmation message box to allow the user to cancel before any actions are taken, in case the IVSetup64 executable was accidentally run.
  • Fixed some minor issues for workstations with only IISExpress installed
  • New detection if the IIS default folder has been set to FVTerm so that internal URL’s and shortcuts don’t include “/fvterm/” in URL’s. This is for installations where the customer wants URL’s to be simply the web server without /fvterm.
  • WebSockets are now defaulted ON for new installations for the FVTerm web terminal emulator settings
  • The Introductory Help for FVTerm is now defaulted OFF for new installations. This is a summary help page describing how FVTerm works for new users and in practice was preferred OFF by customers.
  • At completion of the setup, the Emulation Configuration Editor was loading sometimes without the correct web.config – the Editor will now wait if part of an install before initializing.

Inventu Viewer+ Studio
(Version: 2.0.217 June 15, 2010)

  • Changed name of the executable from “Flynet Viewer Studio.exe” to “ViewerStudio.exe”
  • Rebranding including all new icons and logos
  • Detection of base name “Inventu” or “Flynet” for all registry and file system access
  • Added new property to the Field Definition – TrimBlanks which can be set to “Both” which is the current default, or “Left” or “Right” – this now allows the ability to ensure the full text of a field is read instead of trimmed text, in applications where any leading or trailing blanks are important.
  • Fixed generation of logon sequences with ASCII hosts so that multiple fields can be entered on the same screen that are key fields, such as userID and Password. Since most VT/ASCII signons have unique screens for userID and password this has not been an issue.

 

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