AMT 83
Released: 26 Feb 2021.
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AMT 83
- Since AMT Screens is now .NET Core compliant, it is important that end-users’ systems contain .NET Core Desktop Runtime (version 3.1.x)!
- If you experience any problems with Consumable Web Services, please do a reload of the WSDL first, as this may solve your problem immediately! For more information, please look at this help page.
| Product | Cat | Subcat | Description | Type | Version | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | C1902-086 AMT Reorganize did not handle table column type changes correctly; increasing the number of decimals in a numeric field caused the integer part to be cut off, and decreasing the number of array elements raised errors. Increasing the number of decimals no longer leads to data being cut off, and decreasing the number of array elements is now handled correctly. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | Developer | Database | C2005-007 Too many warnings were shown in AMT LION Developer for database index conditions using nullable table columns, and no warning was shown when an index condition column was set to nullable. The check on nullable columns in index conditions is now skipped if the index condition is unchanged. On the other hand, if table columns have been modified, the check for nullable columns is expanded to columns used in index conditions. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Low |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 329888 / 329959 Configuration B was not supported. Configuration B is now supported; AMT Screens now compares the local version with the server version and updates AMT Screens through the new AmtScreensUpdater and starts AMT Screens after installation. |
NEW | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2011-032 The AMT Application Center was run with ASP .NET Framework website technology, which must be run on a Windows operating system. A new version of the website has been developed with ASP .NET Core instead, which can be hosted on any operating system. The only difference for users is that most of the configuration must be done in appsettings.json instead of web.config. This ASP .NET Core version of the AMT Application Center will be available in PREVIEW in a future release! |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | 329840 / C2012-041 AMT Reorganize was slow in updating records for conditional indexes. AMT Reorganize has been improved to update record values for conditional indexes, so that it can now be combined with other conditional indexes on the same table. Also, updating is now done in one go and not in two separate stages. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | C2012-076 AMT Screens has been moved to .Net Core. There are now two more files in the AmtScreens folder, AmtScreens.dll and AmtScreens.runtimeconfig.json. Both are necessary for running AMT Screens. |
NEW | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | Developer | Web Services | 330165 If the Soapheader class was used in a provided webservice, services could not be activated and raised a long error message. This has now been resolved, by using the correct (_Native) classes when the provided webservice is generated. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330072 / C2012-084 If remote databases were used in AMT COBOL, AMT rejected the queries, because it couldn't find the required table(s). This rejection could be suppressed by the WARNSQLFUNCTIONS=TRUE switch. Now, if a query is used with the 'EXEC SQL AT MyRemoteDatabase' statement, the existence of the table is not checked anymore. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | C2101-016 If a table was changed to Unicode or back to ANSI, AMT Reorganize did not implement the change for SQL Server and Oracle. Logging showed that an action had been performed, but the database was not changed. Now the change gets executed and CHAR, VARCHAR and TEXT fields are changed to their required format in the database. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330216 / 330313 / 330293 Named pipes logged errors and warnings in the logging, which were difficult to address as the same functionality was coded differently in various AMT products. As a first step to solving any further problems with Named Pipes, code has been refactored and is reused between services to improve stability and maintainability. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Various | C2101-078 The forthcoming ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center websites were slow during login and keepalive calls if the system database contained a lot of tokens for the current user. The performance of checking the validity of a refresh token has been improved. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Database | C2101-082 With change C1906-014 (AMT 55), default values were no longer automatically added to database fields by AMT Reorganize. This could be a problem for new DMS2200 fields in an existing database as these are always NOT NULL, which could cause an AMT Reorganize on a populated table to fail. The AMT COBOL Generator has been fixed so that it always generates a default value for DMS2200 fields. AMT Reorganize then adds this value to database fields. These default values are the same as AMT Reorganize added prior to C1906-014. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Various | C2101-084 The forthcoming ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center raised an error in the Requests section, as GetAmtRequest requests were sent to the API without the mandatory 'id' parameter. The error has been fixed by adding 'id' to the parameters. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 330281 Concat of system items got an 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' exception if Null strings were used. Null values are handled correctly now. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Web Client | 330200 The macro bar with macros to enter a transaction code with one click did not work in AMT 78 and higher, sometimes even crashing the application. This was caused by the switch to GRPC. GRPC communication and JavaScript have been fixed in AMT to make macro functionality work as expected again. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | COM Module | 330030 Numeric values with no decimals were sent as 0 by the LionComModule, due to a syntax error that was introduced during maintenance. The syntax error has been fixed. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330299 / C2101-092 If a redefined item was bigger than the original item, the program crashed if the redefined was used in the COBOL code. Now, a filler variable is added to the structure to match the size of the original group and the defined group. IMPORTANT !!!! The problem has been solved by adding a filler to the original group if the redefine is bigger than the original group or variable.. However, the solution presented problems for other systems, so this change is only executed if a Genset option is set. The GENSET option is : CORRECTREDEFINES=TRUE |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 330282 / 330283 / 330322 / 329325 / 330332 AMT didn't support RPC/LITERAL messages for consumable webservices. The web service was generated, but raised errors at runtime. Support for RPC/LITERAL messages in consumable webservices has now been implemented correctly. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Reports | C2101-099 In preparation for the upgrade to a new PDF generator to comply with new pdf versions, some software changes have been made: - Embedded fonts. This is now always set to true. In future releases this setting will be obsolete and have no influence, as fonts will always be embedded to meet the requirements of PDF/A. - Print Orientation: if the developer does not set the orientation at the first print, it is now automatically set based on height and width of the document. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Security | 330304 Viewing prints in the forthcoming ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center sometimes gave an error because it was assumed the user did not have the proper authorization to view all prints, even when they did. This issue has been resolved by making the AMT Control Center check the correct component rights. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2101-105 Support for Opera browsers in AMT has ended. As the market share of Opera is small, less than 3% and declining, we have decided to put our efforts in supporting major browsers like Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Therefore a currently known issue with closing sessions within Opera will not be solved. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Web Client | C2101-112 The AMT Control Center (CC) and AMT Application Center (AC) websites are similar. However, when the forthcoming .NET Core versions of these websites were created, a number of differences emerged that have now been resolved by refactoring in the AMT Kernel: - The separate solution for AC Core has been removed, the original solution is now used, as is the case with CC. - The CC Core publish folder has been changed from ...html5aspnetcore to ...html5core. - The AC Core publish profiles have been changed to mimic the CC Core ones. - The AC web API source control folder has been changed from the full project name to a short name. - The CC Core website source control folder name has been changed from ...html5webaspnetcore to ...html5webcore - Build task names for local refresh have been synchronized. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | C2102-002 AmtScreensUpdater for ConfigurationB only worked with AMT Screens in a .NET framework. AmtScreensUpdater now works with .NET Core AMT Screens. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Developer | Various | 330309 / C2102-004 Headers filled with the class name instead of the proper description were shown when listview data was printed in AMT Developer Studio. The correct header text is now retrieved from the appropriate listview header property. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330353 / C2101-013 ExDef/ExRef variable failed if the variable was not part of a group, because the variable was optimized as NativeAmt instead of AmtVariable. It is now optimized as AmtVariable, so exDef/ExRef works again. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 329612 Logging for consumable webservices has been implemented. Adding line '<add key='EnableLogging' value='true' /> to the AMT Control Center WebConsumables configuration now results in logging of all input and output messages into the AMT logfiles. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Web Client | C2102-020 On return to a form, specifying an attribute like 'bright' in a dynamic form caused the edit fields behind it to move 1 position to the left, as the attribute did not originally take up a position. Now the attribute always takes up a position so the layout remains intact in any circumstance. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 330340 In Consumable Web Services, the XML root element was missing, because the input and output wrappers coming from web services were disabled in AMT 82. These have now been reenabled. |
FIX | AMT 83 | High |
| AMT LION | AmtTools | Debugger | 300360 Rest API webservices folders appeared in the AMT Developer even though the REST API preview key was not set in the Lion.ini file. A check has been added to the refresh functionality to ensure that the REST API webservices folders are not shown when the preview key is not set in the Lion.ini file. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Developer | Web Services | 330314 AMT now supports XmlSchemaSimpleContentExtension in a WSDL: For example: <xsd:complexType name='Measurement'> <xsd:simpleContent> <xsd:extension base='decimal'> <xsd:attribute default='CMK' form='unqualified' name='unitOfMeasurement' type='MeasurementUnitCode'/> </xsd:extension> </xsd:simpleContent> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:simpleType name='MeasurementUnitCode'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xsd:enumeration value='APZ'/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> Measurement is a class in AMT with 2 properties: The .Value (decimal) and the .MeasurementUnitCode (string). |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 330321 / 330320 In AMT Screens, a find command within the print preview using 'match whole word' raised an exception. The find command using 'match whole word' has been fixed by improving the 'match whole word' algorithm. Also, the search screen is now shown above the preview screen, so preview and search screen are both visible simultaneously. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Developer | Various | 330371 Export of (new) consumable and provided web services didn't work when the batch export functionality was used, only the old style web services were exported. This has now been fixed by re-enabling the export of the new style consumable and provided webservices. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Web Client | 330342 - A Scrollbox or a Panel on a Panel or Scrollbox did not inherit the background colour. - The child controls of a Tabsheet did not change colour when the Tabsheet changed colour. - The Scrollbox and Panel now inherit the background colour correctly. - The child controls of a Tabsheet now inherit the background colour correctly. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | C2102-044 The configuration shown in the 'About' screen of AMT Screens Configuration B was not correct. The correct configuration is now shown. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | 330395 / C2102-047 It was not possible to assign the 1.0 version of a table and index to a genset from a label. It is now possible to assign the 1.0 version of a table and index to a genset from a label, except if the table or index is locked. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | 330373 When AMT Reorganize was run in batch mode, the popup questions 'Users connected, retry? Yes/No' and 'A reo is needed, continue? Yes/No' were logged but no response was offered, causing the the Reorganize to hang. The AMT Reorganize in batch mode now responds correctly to the questions; with 'connected users' it does not retry and ends the program with appropriate logging; with 'reo needed' the answer is always 'Yes' and the Reorganize continues. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 330417 AMT Consumable calling web services with basic authentication did not work. The application of appsettings to the AMT Consumable web call has been improved, so that basic authentication works correctly now. See also 329612 / C2102-017. |
FIX | AMT 83 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Debugger | C2102-096 / 330306 The warning 'RETENTION is not implemented' was generated when query 'DECLARE CURNAME CURSOR FOR RETENTION' was used. The warning is no longer shown, it should not have been generated, AMT does implement the RETENTION cursor. |
CHANGE | AMT 83 | Medium |