Major changes include:

• Eloquence database
  • Database server performance improvements. The Eloquence B.08.30 database is expected to deliver noticeably improved throughput with a lower CPU utilization for a variety of workloads.

  • Improved FTS scalability and new FTS dictionary pools.

  • Support for compressed forward log files.

  • Database security improvements. Most visibly, a new hashing scheme is used to secure database passwords.

  • Fixed a number of issues with more than 2 billion records in a table.

  • Thread safe database client libraries.

  • Support for "Big Endian" byte order on "Little Endian" platforms for the image3k (and ftc) libraries to simplify migration of Cobol based IMAGE applications.

• Eloquence application environment
  • The terminal handling was enhanced to support a Unicode environment.

  • New DLG protocol to improve JDLG performance and usability in cloud environments or wide-area (Internet) network connections.

  • The new JDLG 2.0 delivers noticeably improved performance and efficiency.

  • The eqpcl utility was enhanced to support a subset of unicode characters.

  • The Eloquence DLL shared library is now available on all platforms.

  • The eloqsd server was enhanced to support IPv6 and TLS-encrypted network connections.

• IPv6 support.

• Systemd support on Linux.

• Eloquence WEBDLG2 is a highly scalabe web based user interface for Eloquence DLG. It provides JDLG compatibility and allows to use Eloquence DLG applications from any computer or mobile device, no additional software installation required.

Installation and Upgrade

Please refer to the Eloquence B.08.30 installation documents below for an overview of Eloquence installation and platform specific details, as well as information on updated License Keys.

• Installation notes
• HP-UX installation notes
• HP-UX kernel parameters
• Linux installation notes
• Linux kernel parameters
• Windows installation notes
• Configuration notes
• License Keys

The Eloquence B.08.30 release is available for download from the Eloquence web site.
For the Linux platform the new yum repository and deb repository make it easy to install and update Eloquence releases.

Compatibility

Eloquence B.08.30 is fully upwards compatible to previous Eloquence versions.

A database created with B.08.30 should not be used with previous Eloquence releases if new functionality is used. However, it is supported to move databases to older releases when no new functionality is used, subject to some limitations

Restructuring a database with FTS indexes or (re-) creating FTS indexes with B.08.30 enables an enhancement for FTS keywords with a large number of references. This is currently not supported by previous Eloquence releases and requires rebuilding any FTS indexes when moving a previous release.

The Eloquence B.08.30 database server uses a different new hashing scheme to secure database passwords. This is not supported by previous Eloquence releases and these passwords must be reset when moving a previous release. As a consequence Eloquence versions before B.08.30 are no longer able to authenticate passwords with the B.08.30 database server if the new password encoding is used. Compatibility is not affected if a database account does not use a password or uses the old password encoding scheme.

The Eloquence B.08.30 database server uses a different approach to handle compressed dbstore archive files. The previous option to configure an external gzip binary in the [devices] section is no longer supporte. Data compression is directly supported by Eloquence and enabled by a command option (more).

B.08.30 updates

The most recent B.08.30 update is B0830.2211-23 released on November 22, 2022. It includes any patches up to PE83-2211240 (2022-11-24).

The B.08.30 change document lists changes included in updated B.08.30 releases.

As changes or fixes are incorporated the B.08.30 release may be updated to include any relevant patches, problem fixes and enhancements. Patches are preferably limited to important problem fixes.

Acknowledgments

Eloquence B.08.30 includes or makes use of several third party and open source projects. Details can be found in the following document:

• Acknowledgments and Third Party Software