Technical Requirements and Installation

Alfabet FastLane 11 IR is only available as cloud application and therefore the following is for informational purposes only.

  • The Alfabet FastLane components are hosted on Microsoft Server® 2022 and 2019. This is the last release supporting Alfabet FastLane 11 Microsoft Server® 2019.
  • Alfabet FastLane 11.1 IR is a .NET 6 component. Microsoft ® .NET 6 (also referred to as .Net Core) must be installed on the hosts of the Alfabet FastLane components on server side. ASP.NET Core is required for the Internet Information Services hosting the Alfabet Web Application.
  • The Alfabet FastLane database can be hosted on Microsoft SQL Server® 2019 or Azure® SQLServer.
  • It is recommended to install the Alfabet FastLane database server on a host with 4 (minimum 2) Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C processors up to 3.5GHz and providing 8 (minimum 4) GB RAM free memory not allocated to other processes.
  • A network controller of 10 GB/s is recommended for best performance.
  • .NET remoting is no longer supported. Generation or remote alias specifications has been removed from the Alfabet Administrator.
  • The configuration of the Alfabet Web Application is no longer done in *.config files but rather in *.json files. In the physical root directory of the Alfabet Web Application, the web.config file is substituted with the appsettings.json file. In addition, a sub-folder config containing the file alfasettings.json is required. An example with recommended settings for both fields is delivered with the release.
  • If you encounter problems rendering Alfabet FastLane 11.1 IR in Mozilla® Firefox®, request the Cloud team to add "disableContentSecurityPolicyHeader":true in the AlfabetWebConfig field of the alfasettings.json file to fix the issue. This setting is not required for security reasons. Other browsers can be used instead.
  • HTTPS is required for Alfabet FastLane 11.1 IR. If access via HTTP connections is required, request the Cloud team to add "DisableCookieSecurePolicy":true in the AlfabetWebConfig field of the alfasettings.json file.
  • Context sensitivity is currently not provided for the online help. The help has been completely revised and is publicly available. To open the online help via the Help button in the Alfabet FastLane application, https://documentation.softwareag.com/alfabet/fastlane/afl11-1/webhelp/afl-webhelp must be entered in the Help Server attribute of the server alias of the Alfabet Web Application.
  • The command line tool AlfaServerServiceGenerator is obsolete. Server services can be generated via AlfaService.exe with the following command line:
    • sc create ServiceName binpath= "PathToAlfabetInstallationDirectory\Programs\AlfaService.exe Alfabet111_CIServiceName" DisplayName= "ServiceDisplayName" start= auto
  • The embedded third-party component yFiles for HTML has been updated to a licensed version of yFiles for HTML version 2.5.0.2, Copyright © 2017-2022 yWorks GmbH, All Rights Reserved.
  • The third-party component FusionCharts® library is no longer embedded in Alfabet FastLane.