This document covers the following topics:
EntireX now also supports the following additional platforms:
z/OS version 2.2.
Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise 64-bit editions.
Installation packages have been streamlined and restructured:
EntireX Broker can now stay running while runtime updates outside EntireX Broker are made.
Administration and Monitoring functionality has been clearly separated from the runtime parts.
The EntireX Mini Runtime is now a separate installation package that is compatible with the Software AG Installer. Files are installed in the standard EntireX directory. If you need the EntireX Mini Runtime with your application, you may have to extend the path variable before starting your application. See EntireX Mini Runtime Considerations under UNIX | Windows. No other post-installation steps are required.
Examples have been reworked and streamlined.
See the Using the Software AG Installer under http://documentation.softwareag.com > Cross-Product Guides > Software AG Installer and Update Manager and the respective EntireX documentation sections for z/OS | UNIX | Windows | BS2000 | z/VSE.
COBOL Mapping Editor
COBOL program ID and Channel name can now be modified after extraction, using the COBOL Mapping Editor.
This means you can make adjustments to your COBOL interface without having to perform a new extraction.
See the new toolbar icon Show dialog to modify COBOL Source Characteristics under COBOL Source View, for example for interface type CICS with Channel Container Calling Convention.
New Eclipse Version
EntireX now uses Eclipse version 4.5.
A new connection type "COBOL Converter" has been introduced. Adapter services for this connection type can be used to convert Integration Server data structures from/to a byte array representing the COBOL binary data. See Converting IS Data Structures with the COBOL Converter for more information.
EntireX supports Command Central for EntireX Broker instances running under UNIX or Windows. This support has been enhanced. You can now perform the following operations on EntireX Broker in addition to the operations supported in EntireX version 9.9:
Configure Application Monitoring
Configure EntireX Broker Persistent Store
Configure EntireX Broker Security
Enable and specify EntireX Broker Trace Level dynamically
See Administering EntireX Components with Command Central for full list of operations supported by EntireX. General information is provided in the separate Command Central documentation and the Command Central Online Help.
Brainstorm is a one-stop portal for all Software AG customers to submit feature requests, vote on ideas that have been posted by other customers and get your voice heard. All product categories are moderated by product managers, and ideas get responded to and updated on a regular basis. The number in square brackets is the Brainstorm ID.
New KPIs for CPU time [02757]. These are available with the Command and Information Services interface. See New CIS Interface Version 9 below.
The CPU time can now also be shown in the Software AG product Optimize for Infrastructure. See the separate Optimize for Infrastructure documentation under http://documentation.softwareag.com > webMethods Product Suite >Documentation by Product.
Three new KPIs are provided by CIS Interface Version 9 for Information Reply Structure BROKER-OBJECT:
Amount of CPU time in seconds used by Broker process since Broker start.
Additional amount of CPU time in microseconds used by Broker process since Broker start.
CPU time consumed by Broker process in relation to total CPU workload in percent.
See ACI Fields CPU-USED-* under Broker CIS Data Structures in the ACI Programming documentation.
The EntireX .NET Wrapper Wizard now supports Microsoft Visual Studio version 2012 and 2013 in addition to version 2010 already supported.
Note:
With the next version of EntireX, the .NET Wrapper Wizard will support Visual Studio version 2015; older versions (2010, 2012
and 2013) will no longer be supported. See Features to be Dropped in Future Versions.
Web Services Stack
Multiple sections of the EntireX documentation reference the separate Web Services Stack documentation.
Since webMethods Suite 9.8, this documentation is part of the Software AG Infrastructure Administrator's Guide, also available under http://documentation.softwareag.com > Guides for Tools Shared by Software AG Products.
Publish and Subscribe
The EntireX Broker communication model Publish and Subscribe is no longer supported.
You therefore need to remove the broker attribute PUBLISH-AND-SUBSCRIBE from your broker attribute file,
otherwise error ETBE0023 Unknown attribute PUBLISH-AND-SUBSCRIBE is returned.
EntireX built with Visual Studio 2015
This version of EntireX was built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. When you install EntireX components, the necessary Microsoft
Redistributable Files are also installed.
COBOL Wrapper
The generic RPC service modules for the following interface types need to be generated with the Software AG Designer:
COBSRVID for CICS with standard linkage calling convention 
More info
COBSRVIB for Batch with standard linkage calling convention More info
This is described under Generation and Usage of Generic RPC Service Module COBSRVI in the COBOL Wrapper documentation. The modules are no longer part of the Delivered Modules for z/OS of the COBOL Wrapper. This ensures you always have a generic RPC service module COBSRVI with the latest updates (the Designer is updated much more frequently than the z/OS installation).