This document describes the changes, enhancements, migration considerations, and documentation for this release.
This version of the Entire Net-Work Client introduces support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 platforms. Entire Net-Work Client can now be installed and managed in these environments.
Entire Net-Work Client 1.3.1 is a complete replacement for any prior version of Entire Net-Work Client.
Last-minute information on problems that have been addressed by this release are described in the ReadMe file.
The following enhancements have been made to this release of Entire Net-Work Client:
This version of the Entire Net-Work Client introduces support for Windows Vista platforms. Entire Net-Work Client can now be installed and managed in Windows Vista environments.
For consistency, the installation directories of this version of Entire Net-Work Client have been reorganized on any platform so that they mirror the organization required and established on Windows Vista platforms. In past releases, the code and data of an Entire Net-Work Client installation were intermixed in the installation directories. In parallel with the Windows Vista installation requirements, the code and data of an Entire Net-Work Client installation are now separated into separate subdirectories -- regardless of the platform on which you install Entire Net-Work Client.
While this has no affect on the migration of your Entire Net-Work Client configuration to Entire Net-Work Client 1.3 (during installation the files are reorganized automatically), it does impact where you can find your configuration and log files. Entire Net-Work executable and library files (the code files) are still stored in the following locations:
In Windows environments: Program Files\Software AG\Entire
Net-Work Client
In UNIX environments:
$SAG\wcl\vnn, where
nn is the release number.
However, data files (including configuration and log files and user exit libraries) are stored in the following locations:
In Windows XP environments (up to XP Server 2003): Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Software AG\Entire Net-Work
Client\
In Windows Vista environments: ProgramData\Software AG\Entire
Net-Work Client\
In UNIX environments: $SAG\wcl\.
This version of Entire Net-Work Client supports Software AG Directory Server 5.3, which introduces the ability to set up a failover Directory Server. This is a useful new feature you can use to ensure that if one Directory Server goes down, a second Directory Server automatically runs in its place. Both Directory Servers use the same configuration file and share a network alias name. Directory Server clients (machines that will make use of the Directory Server, such as Entire Net-Work or Tamino) refer to the pair of Directory Servers via their shared network alias name.
For more information about the use and configuration of a failover Directory Server, read Configuring a Failover Directory Server.
This version of Entire Net-Work Client includes an External Security Interface (ESI) for ADASAF support that provides access to secured Adabas resources on a z/OS host node. For more information about ESI, read Accessing Secured z/OS Host Resources.
This version of Entire Net-Work Client now allows you to call user exits before and after ACB and ACBX direct calls, if the Adabas interface supports user exits. For more information about these user exits, read Using ADALNK User Exits.
A number of log file changes have been made in this release of Entire Net-Work Client:
The log file names have been changed for Entire Net-Work Clients. The new log file names are described in Starting a New Entire Net-Work Client Log File .
You can now specify the directory location of your log files for Entire Net-Work Clients. For more information, read Specifying the Client Log File Location
If you want to store your log files on a shared server, read Directing Log Files to a Shared Server.
If the Software AG Directory Server is installed and used by a prior version of Entire Net-Work Client, be sure to use the existing Software AG Directory Server port number setting for the Entire Net-Work Client 1.3 installation. You can change the port number after Entire Net-Work Client 1.3 is installed. For complete information on changing the Directory Server port number used, read Changing the Software AG Directory Server Port Number.
To migrate from an older version of Entire Net-Work Client to Entire Net-Work Client 1.3, you need only install 1.3. Your older Entire Net-Work Client configurations will automatically be migrated during the installation process.
Note:
When you install Entire Net-Work Client 1.3 on a Windows system running an older
version of Entire Net-Work Client, the older Entire Net-Work Client installation is automatically uninstalled.
However, on UNIX systems, the older Entire Net-Work Client installation must be removed
manually. Entire Net-Work Client Installation and Administration Guide
For information on how long a product is supported by Software AG, access Software AG's Empower web site at https://empower.softwareag.com.
Log into Empower. Once you have logged in, you can expand in the left menu of the web page and select to access the Product Version Availability application. This application allows you to review support information for specific products and releases.
Support for 32-bit Linux operating systems will be dropped in a future version.
The documentation for this product is new with this release. If you have an Empower account, current, updated, and past versions of the documentation can be reviewed and downloaded by linking to the Software AG documentation, found on Software AG's Empower web site. If you do not have an Empower user ID and password yet, you will find instructions for registering on this site (free for customers with maintenance contracts).
The Entire Net-Work Client documentation includes:
online HTML topics describing all aspects of the product;
Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format (PDF) files created from the HTML topics;
Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format (PDF) files of a book created from the HTML topics.
Documentation for the Software AG Directory Server can be found in Software AG Directory Server Documentation.
The System Management Hub documentation can be found in the System Management Hub installation. For example, if SMH is installed in Windows at C:\Program Files\Software AG\ System Management Hub, then the SMH documentation can be found in: C:\Program Files\Software AG\System Management Hub\help\doc\overview.htm. Likewise, in UNIX environments, if the SMH installation is located at $SAG/common/arg, then the SMH documentation can be found in $SAG/common/arg/help/doc/overview.htm.
No hard-copy documentation is provided, but you can print the PDF and HTML files on your local printer.
With Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP and Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Server 2003, Microsoft introduced a range of powerful new security features that restrict active content that runs locally on your computer. Active content includes ActiveX controls, Java applets, and JavaScript. Software AG's documentation web pages contain some JavaScript, and the SEARCH, INDEX and CONTENTS capabilities are implemented as Java applets. As a result, when viewing documentation web pages that reside on your PC using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox under Windows XP SP2, note that active content is blocked. You must explicitly and repeatedly allow active content if you want to make use of the documentation's full navigation features. Note that this behavior is only observed when reading web pages installed locally on your PC, including those on CD in the PCs CD-ROM drive.
The active content for which Software AG is responsible, that is, the JavaScript code in our HTML documentation pages, will not harm your computers. The risk in using the navigation applets is negligible: Software AG has received no reports from users concerning any harm caused to a computer by the applets. We therefore suggest that when reading Software AG documentation in a local context, you should allow active content via the Security settings in the browser (with Internet Explorer, usually found under Tools > Internet Options > Advanced).
Full details of alternatives can be found on the home page of the suppliers of the navigation applets: http://www.phdcc.com/xpsp2.htm.
