Release 10.5

Increased platform support EntireX now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2019. EntireX Java ACI and Java RPC clients now support both Java 8 and Java 11.

REST enhancements EntireX now supports scenarios where you have a REST API and want to call this from a COBOL or Natural application.

EntireX Adapter enhancements Extraction of REST Consumers (introduced with Integration Server 10.5) has been added. Additional object wrapper types and default values for service input parameters are now supported.

It is now possible to extract services with field names containing special characters such as ":" and "*". Extraction of Web Service Connectors is now supported.

The Application Monitoring Data Collector is now available as a component running inside an Integration Server using the EntireX Adapter.

It is now possible to use both object wrapper types and string types with a content type in the same program. At runtime the listener inspects the input signature of the service to be called in order to determine the data type required by the Integration Server.

Broker statistics in Command Central You can now display the current statistics of a running EntireX Broker.

Application Monitoring enhancements The Application Monitoring Data Collector is now available as a component running inside an Integration Server using the EntireX Adapter.

New KPIs: The message ID and correlation ID of a message are now available as Application Monitoring KPIs.

New Command and Information Services (CIS) Version 11: CIS version 11 provides commands to enable/disable the Application Monitoring feature and to define the collector Broker ID for Application Monitoring.

New operator commands: Broker supports operator commands DISPLAY APPMON, APPMON=NO|YES and COLLECTOR=host:port. Currently for z/OS only.

Using Command Central you can now change Data Collector settings dynamically. The change is effective immediately; there is no need to restart the broker.

Ping command for EntireX RPC servers A ping command is now available for all EntireX RPC servers to test the server's availability. This is particularly useful in a high availability cluster context.

IDL Extractor for Integration Server You can now extract a subset of services from the desired package.

Testing tool for RPC Server for XML/SOAP A pop-up message is issued if the EntireX XML Tester is about to communicate with the RPC Server for XML/SOAP. In this case we recommend using the EntireX IDL Tester instead.

New Broker stubs New broker stub ARFETB for exclusive use by Adabas Replication Services. New broker stub NATETBZ for exclusive use by Natural RPC Server. Both stubs are zIIP-eligible.

Administration Service Enhancements The Broker Administration service (UNIX and Windows) has been replaced by a more lightweight implementation. The registration, name and usage of the service remains the same. See EntireX Release Notes for details.

c-tree-specific Broker attributes COMPATIBILITY and FLUSH-DIR These attributes have been introduced to be compatible with c-tree behavior prior to EntireX Broker version 10.5.

Docker Healthcheck A script healthcheck.sh is now provided for the EntireX RPC servers that support Docker technology. (This was previously available only for EntireX Broker.) Execution of this script pings the component and returns the result of the ping command.

Unique Message ID Message IDs and Correlation IDs available since ACI version 11 (EntireX 10.1) can now be accessed with EntireX components COBOL Wrapper, .NET Wrapper and C Wrapper.

Long Broker password support You can use long Broker passwords with COBOL RPC clients built with the COBOL Wrapper.

Long RPC user ID/password support You can now use long RPC user IDs and passwords with COBOL RPC clients built with the COBOL Wrapper.

Software AG is discontinuing the support of Micro Focus COBOL on the platforms Windows and Linux because Micro Focus no longer supports Micro Focus Server Express and Net Express on these platforms. Micro Focus COBOL is still supported on Solaris and AIX, and EntireX still supports Micro Focus COBOL on these platforms.

Software AG no longer supports HP-UX.

Support for EntireX Broker under z/VSE will end on 31 October 2020. We strongly recommend using EntireX Broker on a Linux or Windows platform.

Support for EntireX RPC Server for z/VSE CICS will end on 31 October 2020. We strongly recommend using the EntireX RPC Server for CICS Socket Listener.

Support for EntireX RPC Server for z/VSE Batch will end on 31 October. No replacement.

Support for server-side mapping files (SVM) in the Software AG Designer will be dropped in the next version. SVM files can no longer be created by the IDL Extractor for COBOL and the COBOL Wrapper. The Deployment Wizard will be dropped in the next version. Support for Server-side mapping files (SVM) in the EntireX RPC Servers for CICS, Batch and IMS will be dropped later in a future version. We strongly recommend using client-side server mapping files (CVM) for ease-of-use.

Direct SSL/TLS support (using GSK) inside the broker under z/OS will be dropped in the next version. Use IBM's Application Transparent Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS) instead.

Micro Focus COBOL will be dropped in the next version from all platforms.

Broker restart behavior with Update Manager If you install updates for EntireX Broker using the Software AG Update Manager, all brokers that were stopped by the Update Manager before the update will be restarted automatically; the broker's AUTOSTART setting is ignored in this context.

Note: In versions prior to 10.5, all brokers with AUTOSTART=YES were restarted, irrespective of whether they were running prior to the update or not.

Margins and max. values of Monitoring KPIs The setting of margins and max. values used for displaying EntireX Broker KPIs has been reworked.

Adapter log files The log files created by the Adapter (wmentirex*.log) are now written using the character set UTF-8 (instead of the default character set).

Adapter data types It is now possible to use both object wrapper types and string types with a content type in the same program. At runtime the listener inspects the input signature of the service to be called in order to determine the data type required by the Integration Server.

Dynamic configuring of Application Monitoring You can now configure Application Monitoring while the EntireX Broker is running.

Default value for APPLICATION-MONITORING The default value for service-specific attribute APPLICATION-MONITORING has been changed from NO to YES.

Trace Utility Default Output The EntireX Trace Utility now uses "Full" instead of "Standard" as the default output format.

License handling EntireX checks only the major number of the version number. This means that EntireX version 10.5 works with all 10.x license files. This applies to EntireX Broker and RPC servers at runtime and also to installation.