The Eloquence B.08.10 release includes all applicable B.08.00 bug fixes up to June 2010.

Contents:

• Installation
• Database Server
• Database Client Libraries
• Database Utilities
• Eloquence Language
• Eloquence WEBDLG
• Eloquence JDLG

This has a few consequences in the Eloquence installation

• An existing installation of a previous Eloquence release is not updated or replaced when installing Eloquence B.08.10.

• A separate start/stop script and startup configuration file is used.

• Any customizations in the config files of a previous Eloquence release are not carried over and must be adapted manually. However, as the Eloquence config files are backwards compatible, the previous config files could be copied or linked to the Eloquence B.08.10 config directory.

• Eloquence B.08.10 uses a different path for its binaries and the PATH environment variable (or any absolute paths in scripts) may need to be adpated to take advantage of Eloquence B.08.10. Though Eloquence B.08.10 is closely compatible with the previous release and binaries may be mixed, it is recommended to make these changes.

• Eloquence B.08.10 uses a different path for its shared libraries. To use the B.08.10 libraries, the SHLIB_PATH / LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables need to be set appropriately. Though Eloquence B.08.10 is closely compatible with the previous release and previous libraries may be used, it is recommended to make these changes.

Please refer to the following documents for details:

• Eloquence B.08.10 Installation
• Eloquence B.08.10 Configuration

When updating from the B.7.10 release, please also read the upgrade hints from the B.08.00 release notes.

• The database server was enhanced to support item masking.

• The database server was enhanced to support item encryption.

Other database server changes include

• The server was enhanced to implicitly grant a DBA user administrative capabilities on all databases (DADMIN and DBPRIV privileges).

• The "operator" user property was added. This may be used to indicate user accounts permitted to perform operational tasks. This allows to be more restrictive with administrative accounts.

• Added support for user password modification timestamp.

• The HTTP status display has been enhanced and optional filter expressions similar to the "dbctl list" command have been added (with update B.08.10.01).

• Eloquence B.08.10 Database Server changes
• Eloquence B.08.10 Configuration

• The DBINFO mode 114 was added to support obtaining field status.

  DBINFO mode 114 is similar to DBINFO mode 104 but returns field specific status information rather than item numbers. DBINFO mode 114 is available in both the image3k and the native client library.

  See Database Server document for details.

• A DBOPEN of an encrypted database returns status -812:0 if one or more master keys are unavailable.

• The DBUPDATE mode 2 on a master set was changed to return status 43:0 instead of -804:0 when a duplicate key item value was found.

• Corrected error message on db status -31 from "illegal mode" to "bad mode"

• A compatibility problem with the DBFIND mode 4 when using wildcard search was fixed (#3860).

  DBFIND mode 4 allows to provide information on the length of its arguments. However, with a wildcard search this only specifies the max. argument length. A wildcard character may terminate the argument.

  Previous Eloquence versions used the argument length to determine the search term, possibly allowing multiple wildcard characters. However, this behaviour differs from TurboIMAGE and might result in an unexpected status 17 returned.

• The DBINFO mode 114 was added to support obtaining field status.

  DBINFO mode 114 is similar to DBINFO mode 104 but returns field specific status information rather than item numbers. DBINFO mode 114 is available in both the image3k and the native client library.

  See Database Server document for details.

• A DBOPEN of an encrypted database returns status -812:0 if one or more master keys are unavailable.

• The DBUPDATE mode 2 (or DBUPDATE using the CIUPDATE flag for image3k) on a master set was changed to return status 43:0 instead of -804:0 when a duplicate key item value is specified.

  TurboIMAGE did not support changing a key item in a master set, the CIUPDATE flag only applied to detail sets. With Eloquence, update of key items was supported but returned a status -804:0 in previous versions.

• The dbutil utility was enhanced to support item masking.

• The dbutil utility was enhanced to support item encryption.

• The dbkeyutil utility was added to support item encryption.

Other changes to database utilities include

• dbctl was enhanced for encryption status and key management.

• dbbexp, dbcfix, and fwaudit have been added a -M option for specifying master keys when working with encrypted databases.

• dbutil and dbdumpcat were enhanced for tracking password change timestamps.

• Eloquence B.08.10 Database Utility changes

• Fixed a limitation of the COMMAND statement that could result in overflowing the symbol table, causing an ERROR 2 (#3376).

  A COMMAND statement may grow the symbol table of the current program segment (SUB/FN). This may eventually result in an ERROR 2 when reaching the size limit of the symbol table. This enhancement limits new entries to the symbol table to variables whenever possible.

• Extend valid PRINTER numbers from -2:99 to -2:999 (#3843). Previously, printer numbers were limited to the range of -2 to 99.

• Added the POPUPBOX option to the Eloquence config file to allow enabling function keys to interrupt a POPUP BOX statement in the text based user interface (#3509).

  When enabled, a defined function key or HALT interrupts a POPUP BOX statement and returns -1 as the selected choice.

  This function is enabled in the configuration file by specifying the option POPUPBOX and the asssociated config value. For example:

  option popupbox 7
  

  The option value is bit encoded:
  • 1 = Function key
  • 2 = HALT
  • 4 = ESC
  Please note that this functionality is not available when using the DLG driver.

• Improved DLL interoperability with 32 and 64 bit Eloquence DLLs (with update B.08.10.01). The new eloqcore can now use 32 and 64 bit Eloquence DLLs that are linked against the most recent libeqdll library.

• Update B.08.10.01 also fixed a limitation in the decompiler ("LIST") that caused a problem with array member variables passed to a SUB/FN

Changes to the Eloquence WEBDLG include

• The Eloquence WebDLG module for the Apache 1.3 web server is no longer shipped. The Apache 1.3 web server is considered obsolete and is no longer supported by the Apache project. We recommend to use the Apache 2.2 web server for new installations.

Changes to the Eloquence JDLG include

• New JDLG 1.5.5 release available