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Micro Focus OnWeb 7.5.0 Readme

Micro Focus OnWeb 7.5.0 provides several enhancements to the OnWeb 7.2.5 Patch 1 release and resolves a number of issues in that release. For more information, contact Micro Focus Technical Support at .

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Micro Focus OnWeb 7.5.0 Readme 1

Contents 1

Enhancements 1

Installation Notes 3

OnWeb Server for Windows 3

Prerequisites for AIX 3

Prerequisites for iSeries 4

OnWeb Dev Suite 4

OnWeb IIS Plug-in (Filter & Extension) 4

Resolved Issues 5

OnWeb Server 5

OnWeb Development Tools 6

Known Issues 7

Contacting Micro Focus 7

Enhancements

OnWeb has been enhanced to include the following new features:

• OnWeb IIS Plug-in

Deploy, run and administer OnWeb Applications using the Microsoft IIS interface. The OnWeb IIS Plug-in is installed separately as an OnWeb extension on Windows Server machines.

• Application Manager Command Line Tool

Manage OnWeb applications using the Add, Delete, Update, List and Find commands.

• OnWeb API enhancements

Exposes file system calls such as file and folder creation and deletion , as well as existence checking using the OnWeb Scripting API.

• UNIX Terminal Application Scripting

Connect to and operate UNIX Terminals, such as VT220, using the OnWeb Scripting interface.

• Improvements to OnWeb Server Performance and Stability

Includes many improvements to run-time performance and stability, resolving high load issues specifically when handling application scripts of large size.

This version boosts performance when dealing with a high number of context switches. It resolves deadlocks, memory management, session clean-up and LiveConnect issues.

• Added OnWeb Object Builder Add-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010

OnWeb Tools installation detects and installs the Object Builder Add-in to all pre-installed Microsoft Visual Studio instances.

• OnWeb Tools are now compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7

Installation Notes

OnWeb Server for Windows

Before installing OnWeb 7.5.0, you must first uninstall the OnWeb Server. You do not need to uninstall the Development tools. Upgrading the tools leaves the existing project code in its respective locations. The new default Windows installation folders are:

OnWeb Server: %ProgramFiles%\Micro Focus\OnWeb Server

OnWeb Tools: %ProgramFiles%\Micro Focus\OnWeb Tools

Notes:

1. When uninstalling the OnWeb Server, you should uninstall the OnWeb Apache instance. Uninstalling Apache does not remove the httpd.conf and htdocs files. However, it is recommended to back up any customized files or projects before uninstalling OnWeb.

2. If, during installation, an error message appears stating there is a previous installation of OnWeb when there is no previous version, this means the Apache registry entry is corrupted. Contact Micro Focus support for a clean-up tool or remove registry entries for the Apache group manually and re-install OnWeb.

Prerequisites for AIX

The following prerequisites are required for the OnWeb Server (7.2.5 and above) AIX 5L platform:

|File set |Level |State |Type |Description(Uninstaller) |

|Bash |3.0-1 |C |R |The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash). (/bin/rpm) bash shell is mandatory|

| | | | |for startup script onwebclt |

|xlC.rte |8.0.0.9 |A |F |C Set ++ Runtime xlC.rte C/C++ RT libraries should be at or above |

| | | | |version 7.x |

Use the following shell command to list the file sets and levels:

% lslpp -L xlC.rte bash

Prerequisites for iSeries

The software prerequisite 5733-XT2 was added to the list for V6R1MO machines.

For a complete list of the IBM iSeries for V5R4 and V6R1 prerequisites, refer to the following:

• OnWeb Administrator Guide

• Installing and Administering OnWeb Server for iSeries

OnWeb Dev Suite

In Windows XP, the OnWeb Tools are installed by default to the same directory as the Windows Server version. To overcome security limitations in Windows Vista and Windows 7, the default installation directory was changed to %SystemDrive%\Micro Focus.

Note: Before upgrading the OnWeb Development Tools, rename or delete (in the case where no customizations were applied) DefaultKeys_5250.5250 located in the Dev-tools\OnWeb Object-Builder installation directory. OnWeb Object Builder generates a new, updated file on the next invocation. This is crucial for applying some field-exit related fixes in server-automated scripts.

OnWeb IIS Plug-in (Filter & Extension)

As an alternative to the default Apache HTTP interface, OnWeb Server can now be installed together with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). This configuration allows IIS to communicate directly with the OnWeb Server using the OnWeb IIS Plug-in.

The IIS Plug-in is shipped as a separate package, called OnWebIISPlug-in.msi. This is different to the OnWeb Apache Plug-in, which is installed by default with the server installation.

The OnWeb IIS Plug-in installation requires and supports IIS version 6.0.

During installation, you are prompted to set the:

• OnWeb Server IP address

• OnWeb Server port. Default = 19803.

This is the communication port used for the internal protocol towards the IIS.

• OnWeb Web Site port. Default = 8085.

Ensure you choose a different web site port than the one used by the Apache Plug-in (default = 8084).

In a standard Apache-based installation, OnWeb’s Apache module monitors and invokes the OnWeb servers. When the OnWeb IIS Plug-in is installed on the same machine that runs the OnWeb Server, it is possible to enable server process monitoring using the IIS Plug-in. This option is enabled in the IIS Plug-in configuration file (IIS.Conf) by setting OnWebFilterMonitorServer to TRUE. Note that, when running with this configuration, you should shut down the OnWeb Apache Plug-in.

The OnWeb IIS Plug-in installer does not configure multiple OnWeb Server sites by default, but only a single site. If multiple site are required, the administrator can configure them manually. This involves:

• Creating a new web site under IIS, configured on a different port

• Cloning the OnWeb Plug-in IIS binaries folder

• Updating the configuration file and the virtual directory location for the new web site.

For more information, refer to the OnWeb IIS Plug-in Installation Guide.

Resolved Issues

The following issues have been resolved in OnWeb 7.5.0:

OnWeb Server

• Server crashes when scripting engine error messages are too long.

• Server crashes when the same map object is created in different sessions.

• Server shuts down gracefully when logging in as a different user on a terminal services machine.

• OnWeb Server is giving Out of Memory errors when executing large scripts under high load.

• Server crashes in the string standard library module when out of memory is reported in the JavaScript engine.

• High number of context switches produced by the Apache and OnWeb Server.

• Improvement to some of thread unsafe Scripting API functions.

• Server crashes when running AS/400 emulation sessions when the keyboard is locked.

• Sessions are not reclaimed after idle timeout.

• Sessions hang under extreme load.

• Java LiveConnect memory leaks.

• Redundant trace messages can degrade the server performance.

• PF is still displayed on function key button instead of F.

• AS/400 132x27 screens are not handled correctly.

• In a confirm field, when pressing Y, data is sent to the server but, after submit, the Y turns to an N which causes a loop.

OnWeb Development Tools

• Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit OnWeb Designer run-time issues.

• Wrong conversion when using non-default character set in Code Snippets.

• Not all object properties are copied or duplicated in Object Builder.

• Exception when trying to send a key to the host while disconnected in Object Builder.

• Session pooling properties are not saved when closing Object Builder.

• AS/400 132x27 screens are not handled correctly.

• Exception when connecting in AS/400 mod 5 and opening visual trace.

• ‘View Method Script’ displayed editor should be read-only in Object Builder.

• Object Builder Add-in compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.

Known Issues

• Application Manager Command Line requires an existing project in order to function. The last used project should be defined in the profile.ini configuration file. This can be set by launching the Application Manager window and logging in, or by manually setting the name of the project in the profile.ini file using project.lastused.0=.

• Errors occur when running OnWeb Server and Tools installations from the same folder.

• IIS Plug-in load problems occur when running under IIS 7 with IIS 6.0 management compatibility pack.

• OnWeb Server for iSeries: Server has compatibility issues when running

LiveConnect-based rules against 3270 hosts.

• OnWeb Server for iSeries/AIX: Some LiveConnect exceptions can occur under heavy load.

• Micro Focus Elastic Cluster Server is not supported by the IIS Plug-in.

• In Windows XP, an exception occurs when connecting to a 3270 host through SSL.

• Directory browsing in OOB Environment Configuration does not work in Windows XP with .NET Framework 2.0. This problem is resolved by manually upgrading to .NET 2.0 SP2.

Contacting Micro Focus

Visit the Micro Focus Web site at . Our Web site gives up-to-date details of contact numbers and addresses. The product support pages contain considerable additional information, including the WebSync service, which you can use to download fixes and documentation updates.

If you are a Micro Focus SupportLine customer, see your SupportLine Handbook for contact information. You can download the handbook from our Web site or order it in printed form from your sales representative. If you do not have convenient Web access, you can use the list below to find phone numbers for Micro Focus SupportLine in those countries where SupportLine is available.

Support from Micro Focus may be available only to customers who have maintenance agreements.

|Australia |Free telephone: 1800 444 050 |

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