Release 9.12

Enhanced COBOL MPO support: For MPO groups based on a REDEFINE declaration, the MPO selector definition can be anywhere in the DATA DIVISION of the COBOL source: before, inside or after the MPO group.

With the IMS MPP Message Interface (IMS Connect) you can now determine the position of an MPO selector using a fixed offset starting from the end of the message. You can also use an offset from the beginning of the message as in earlier versions.

The IDL Extractor for Natural now supports Arabic shaping as well as multibyte character sets.

Date and Time support for EntireX Adapter . The EntireX Adapter now supports user-defined formats for mapping the IDL data types Date and Time.

Trace Utility enhancement . The EntireX Trace Utility has been enhanced: a date field has been added to the generated CSV file.

RPC server Enhanced COBOL MPO support for EntireX COBOL RPC servers (CICS, Batch, IMS BMP, Micro Focus, CICS ECI, IMS Connect). See Workbench enhancements above for details.

XML/SOAP Listener and high availability The XML/SOAP Listener now supports persistent sockets, socket reconnect and security handling. This means it can now be used in high-availability scenarios where the EntireX Broker is load-balanced.

ICU custom conversion under z/OS Custom conversion using ICU is now available under z/OS in addition to the support already provided under UNIX and Windows.

Direct SSL/TLS support for broker stubs under z/OS Direct SSL/TLS support (using GSK) inside the broker stubs under z/OS has been dropped. We stongly recommend using IBM's Application Transparent Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS) instead.

Administration using System Management Hub Administration with SMH is no longer supported. This also includes the batch interface argbatch and SNMP. The most important functionality is provided by Command Central. Minor features have been moved to the command line or were dropped.

Dynamic IDL/RPC parameters with IBM® MQ webMethods EntireX RPC Server and Listener for IBM® MQ no longer support dynamic IDL/RPC parameters.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013 These versions are no longer supported. The following EntireX components support Microsoft Visual Studio version 2015:

Command Central When using the command-line mode to get information from or to administer EntireX, the data representation for input and output of some commands has changed.

Authorization rules Authorization rules for UNIX and Windows are no longer managed with System Management Hub. Instead, rules can be stored in an LDAP repository (as in earlier versions of EntireX) or in a new section of the Broker attribute file, DEFAULTS=AUTHORIZATION-RULES.

Broker attribute file validation The validation of the broker attribute file has been thoroughly reworked. Inconsistent definitions may result in an unexpected error when you start your broker.

COBOL RPC Client and Server The sources generated by the EntireX Workbench component COBOL Wrapper can be compiled by any compiler supported by the COBOL Wrapper: standard COBOL compiler, for example IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 4.2 or 5.1.

Microsoft Visual Studio support The following EntireX components support Microsoft Visual Studio version 2015:

Older versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (2010, 2012 or 2013) are no longer supported.

EntireX Adapter The mapping of MPO groups to Integration Server data structures and to the signature has been changed with this version to simplify the usage of the MPO construct in the Integration Server.

Previously the alternatives of an MPO group (groups in the IDL file with the attribute CHOICE) were mapped to arrays with either zero array elements (unselected alternative) or one array element (selected alternative). This has been changed such that arrays are no longer used. Unselected alternatives are suppressed and thus not visible in the output pipeline. The selected alternative is directly represented in the output pipeline without the enclosing array.

However, this enhancement means the new output signature is not compatible with existing Adapter services. This also affects the runtime behavior. If you use MPO groups, regenerate these Adapter services from the Designer and adapt the services that are using the new Adapter service to the changed output signature.

DIV Persistent Store Parameter Handling Defining a DIV persistent store has been streamlined. New broker attributes have been introduced to replace format parameters.