This document covers the following topics:
For greater security, default password handling has been enhanced for Software AG products that are installed with the SAG Installer. On the Administrator Password panel, enter a default product administrator password for the products you are installing, and choose whether to require the password to be changed on first product login. The password must be at least 8 characters long. The maximum number of consecutive identical characters (for example "aaa") or sequential characters (for example "123") is 3.
Notes:
Encrypted Password for ETBINFO and ETBCMD
Security for command-line utilities ETBINFO and ETBCMD under UNIX and Windows has been enhanced.
Instead of specifying a cleartext password when you call a secure broker, you can now encrypt a password and store
this in a file.
See Using an Encrypted Password for ETBINFO (UNIX | Windows) and ETBCMD (UNIX | Windows).
Encrypted Password for EntireX Monitoring Scripts
Password encryption is also available for EntireX monitoring scripts. See:
Using an Encrypted Password in section Introduction under EntireX Monitoring Scripts
Monitoring Broker under EntireX Monitoring Scripts for a sample script using an encrypted password
Note under Default Handling under EntireX Monitoring Scripts if your default settings file was created with a previous version of EntireX that did not support password encryption.
PassTicket Support
PassTickets are now supported for connections to CICS ECI and IMS Connect with the EntireX Adapter and the respective RPC
servers.
See CICS ECI and IMS Connect Connections Support PassTickets under EntireX Adapter Enhancements.
See also EntireX RPC Server Enhancements.
CICS ECI and IMS Connect Connections Support PassTickets
Additional fields are provided to define an application name and a secured signon key.
This means you can use a RACF PassTicket instead of a password. See:
Connection Parameters for CICS ECI Connections in the EntireX Adapter documentation
See EntireX Adapter Enhancements above.
Administrating EntireX Mainframe Broker Monitoring
You can now administer EntireX Mainframe Broker Monitoring in Command Central.
You can enable and disable the monitoring of the real mainframe broker (z/OS and BS2000) from within Command Central
running under UNIX or Windows.
This feature is particularly useful for major configuration changes in the mainframe environment, for example changing
the user password.
If you did not disable monitoring you would encounter a security error stating that the mainframe proxy is not able to
log in to the real mainframe broker. See:
EntireX Mainframe Broker Monitoring in the platform-independent Administration documentation
Administering EntireX Mainframe Broker Monitoring using the Command Central GUI | Command Line
User Transaction ID Field for CICS Socket ListenerUser Transaction ID has been added as an additional field for CICS Socket Listener.
For more information on controlling user transaction ID via Command Central, see:
Location of EntireX Broker Trace File
You can now change the directory of the EntireX Broker trace file.
For more information see new parameter Trace Location under Administering the EntireX Broker using the Command Central GUI | Command Line.
New Default Interface Type for IDL Extractor for COBOL
'CICS with Standard Linkage Calling Convention' is now the default client interface type for the IDL Extractor for COBOL.
The previous default, 'CICS with DFHCOMMAREA Calling Convention' has multiple restrictions regarding API calls, for
example
maximum length 32 KB
no unlimited unbounded array
no long user ID/password
These restrictions do not apply to the new default.
Supported Microsoft Visual Studio Versions
C Wrapper and DCOM Wrapper now support Visual Studio 2019 in addition to 2017. Visual Studio 2015 is no longer supported.
EntireX now supports Eclipse version 4.19 provided by the webMethods suite.
RPC Server for IMS Connect supports RACF PassTicket
Additional fields are provided to define a secured signon key.
With the application name and the newly provided secured signon key, you can now use a RACF PassTicket instead of
password.
See Configuring an RPC Server Instance > IMS Connect using the Command Central GUI | Command Line.
RPC Server for CICS ECI supports RACF PassTicket
Additional fields are provided to define a secured signon key.
With the application name and the newly provided secured signon key, you can now use a RACF PassTicket instead of
password.
See Configuring the CICS ECI Side.
Monitoring
A new section introduces the various monitoring approaches provided by EntireX. It also shows common scenarios using these
approaches. Links are provided to other sections of the EntireX documentation, where these approaches are described in greater
detail. See Monitoring EntireX.
Maximum Number of Worker Tasks Increased
For broker attributes NUM-WORKER, WORKER-MAX, WORKER-MIN,
the maximum number of worker tasks has been increased from 32 to 64.
The check of the attributes has been simplified.
Only WORKER-MIN greater than WORKER-MAX is rejected.
PSTORE-TYPE=CTREE
c-tree is now known as FairCom DB. EntireX version 10.8 uses FairCom DB v12.0.1.
This new version is not compatible with the old version 11.6.1. This means that when you upgrade to EntireX 10.8 you will
need to restart with PSTORE=COLD.
See PSTORE under Broker-specific Broker Attributes.
Trace Utility
Two additional columns Pid and Tid have been introduced. They display the process ID and the thread ID of each request to the broker.
ETBINFO
New profiles are provided for command-line utility ETBINFO. These produce a more structured output that is easier to understand.
See Table of Options and Profiles (z/OS | UNIX | Windows).