APPX 6.2.0 Features

This page provides an overview of the new features in APPX 6.2.x

Overview

This release is primarily focused on the repair of bugs, found in both the 5.5.x & 6.1.x versions of Appx, along with a few enhancements.

Noteworthy enhancements include updates to the JSON parser, the Appx Data API, APIs for encoding/decoding base64 data, the addition of the long-awaited ability to enforce limited user licenses and the ability use the Html client to develop and debug APPX applications.

Changes in Release 6.2.0

Here is a list of the changes in Release 6.2.0:

JSON Parser

The parser can now parse a file of JSON data, the parsing size limits have be removed and the parsing results can be optioanlly converted to Unicode.

APPX Data Services API

The data API now takes advantage of the new JSON PARSE subroutine. The new subroutine provides the incoming data as Unicode. As the side effect, the PATH field in JSON file cannot be a key anymore since its size is larger than appx key size limit. As a work around you can use PARENT RID to read through the hierarchy.

Based on the selected ‘Mode=’ setting for each data services command, the parsed JSON will be written to a different file. For example, if the ‘Mode=small’ the parsed JSON is written to the file 0LA RAWJSONS, if ‘Mode=medium’ the data will be written to 0LA RAWJSONM and, for ‘Mode=large’ the data will be written to the 0LA RAWJSONL file. You can check 0LA WEBSERVICES JSON MODE to find out where the parsed JSON records were written.

Note again that the incoming JSON data no longer has a limit. If the incoming data is more than 1M characters, APPX writes the data to a file, then parses the content of the file.

Base64 Data Encoding/Decoding API

You can now encode up to 24k and decode up to 32k of Base64 data, The two new routines are: .CONVERT TO BASE64 and .CONVERT FROM BASE64

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Bugs Fixed

6.2.0:

The following bugs were addressed in this Release:

• Changing details on a unicode text field causes the encoding type to change from unicode to raw (#4954)
• Can't restructure the same app in different DB at the same time in RDBMS (#3886)
• Asql stops working when importing or dropping encrypted file (#4821)
• Token Values Not Showing Up Correctly on PDF Reports (#4991)
• Field Has Extra Character On PDF Reports (#4992)
• Issue with Password containing $ (#4994)
• Cross-Reference for file - not find 'Write' (#5007)
• Win-SSO doesn't appear to work with Windows Server 2012 2012R2 (#3013)
• Recovered encrypted file is corrupt (#4849)
• ADC Hangs On Starup If -user and -password is provided (#4947)
• APPX Doesn't Find Constraint Records (#4956)
• Client Type Column In Missing on Session Monitor (#4962)
• APPX System Error During Restructure on Risc Platforms (#4965)
• Re-processing of DD Gives Wrong Result (#4966)
• PDF Report Fails With Invalid UTF8 Sequence Error (#4968)
• Multiwidget Editor Crashes If Label Has Unicode Character (#4972)
• Cross-reference fails due to raw encoding in 0AD fields (#4978)
• SUBR Statement Has Memory Leak (#4979)
• Literal Cross Reference Issue With Label Field (#4981)
• Cannot Do Literal Xref on Unicode Characters (#4982)
• Table Cell Properties are not synced with column numbers (#4983)
• Table on popup with same relative position as table on parent equals c-assert (#4984)
• Fields with Picture Widgets Don't Print On PDF Reports (#4986)
• Multi Widget Editor Clears GUI Copy/Cut Buffer (#4987)
• Odd ILF behaviour while line numbers are showing? (#4996)
• HTML Client Doesn't Display EM Errors (#5000)
• Entering Large Unicode Data Causes Crash (#5002)
• Table Process Crashes On Large Raw Fields (#5005)
• .TEXT INSERT AT POS Subroutine Has Difficulty With The Last Character (#5009)
• IF EX statement On Unicode Field Doesn't Set --- TEXT AT POSITION (#5013)
• Table Widget not possible on MENU (#5014)
• .TEXT UPPER TO LOWER with Fristword Flag Issue (#5017)
• Cross-reference – ILF Statements for Html client missing Ilf verbs, has extra title bar text and mal-formatted literal text (#5019)
• INVOC PROC process has 2 default buttons (#4964)
• Scan list build hangs on Direct Process (#5010)

New Features/Enhancements

6.2.0:

The following features and enhancements were implemented in this Release:

• Add API Subroutines for XML Writer Calls (#618)
• Enahncements to JSON Parser (#619)
• Implement Limited Access User Rights as defined in the APPX License Agreement and CUSTOMER PRICE LIST dated 1/1/2008 (#629)
• Updating appxLoginMgr startup script on Linux/Unix (#630)
• Add an informational popup screen/status message to the disposition process. (#631)
• The Appx login manager SSL tokens are not validated by the login manager during the second login. Have the Appx login manager validate the SSL tokens when the second login occurs. (#632)
• Increase 0DX XFILE PATH Field Size (#633)
• Implement the APPX Image editor, the APPX ILF editor (#634)
• Clean Up Issues With Debugger In HTML Client (#636)
• Enhancements APPX Data Services API (#637)
• Add 0LA APIs to Encode/Decode Base64 data (#639)

Known Issues

• In the ILF editor, the search, replace and jump button items are not functional
• In the ILF editor, some audit information will be truncated or missing

For an up to date list of known issues, use Bugtracker & search for bugs in Release 6.2.0. These are the known bugs that we expect to fix in the patch release.

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-- BrianRyan - 2022-04-13