AMT 88
Released: 11 Jun 2021.
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Special attention items:
AMT 88
- Command SENDTOTABSHEET has now been implemented in the Web Client and in AMT Screens.
Important: only one tab can be opened at a time in AMT Screens! - FTP connections made by AMT ComScript used .NET’s FtpWebRequest, which was deprecated in .NET Core, so a third-party replacement was needed.
The FluentFtp library is now used for FTP connections.
Important: The format of file names returned by the FTP client has changed to include the directory path. Other responses might also have a different format. It is important that customers check any scripts and programs that use the AMT FTP functionality for discrepancies, and adjust them where necessary. - Transaction Server agents were restarted automatically if a new version of a loaded form or program had been generated. This cleared the state of ‘Shared’ (also known as ‘Reentrant’) programs, which could cause issues.
It is now possible to disable the automatic restarting mechanism in the AMT Control Center.
Important: Because of this change, it is necessary to do an AMT Reorganize of the the system database!
| Product | Cat | Subcat | Description | Type | Version | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 320407 / 330727 / C2002-019 Sendtotabsheet has now been implemented for AMT Screens and the Web Client. Important: In AMT Screens only one tab can be opened at a time! |
NEW | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 330308 / C2102-052 Aligning controls in AMT Screens, the AMT Developer Studio and the Web Client caused overlap of controls. Alignment has been improved, controls during alignment are no longer stacked on top of each other. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | C2102-113 Macros (with shortcuts) did not work in pop-ups. This has been fixed by having pop-ups go through the same procedures as the main screen at creation time. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Security | 330116 / 330025 / C2103-076 Web request header information contained possible security risks. Header information has been added to and removed from in places to eliminate possible security risks. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Various | C2104-024 The AID tool (AMT Installation and Deployment) is now part of the AMT delivery. The tool can be used to compose and run workflows containing PowerShell tasks. |
NEW | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2104-104 FTP connections made by the AMT ComScript module used .NET's FtpWebRequest, which was deprecated in .NET Core so a third-party replacement was needed. The FluentFtp library is now used for FTP connections. Important: The format of file names returned by the FTP client has changed to include the directory path. Other responses might also have a different format. It is important that customers check any scripts and programs that use the AMT FTP functionality for discrepancies, and adjust them where necessary. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Reports | 330636 / C2105-010 If a 'saverecovery ' job was aborted and the job was restarted immediately, the original job did not finish correctly and it was reported as still running, preventing the new job of the same name from being started. A 'saverecovery' job now finishes the original job immediately and correctly. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 330594 / C2105-019 Text within buttons had a margin for an image even if there was no image, making the text harder to read. This margin is now set only if there is an image present. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330343 / C2105-024 AMT COBOL Developer: AmtQuery using numeric variables could cause generation errors if these variables were internally optimized into AmtNativeInts. AmtNativeInt is now supported in AmtQuery. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330807 / C2105-025 The AMT Application Server and AMT Batch Controller went down after a connection exception was thrown within an agent. Now, the exception is logged, the AMT Application Server and AMT Batch Controller keep running after the exception, and a new agent is started. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Various | C2105-027 For customers already using the AMT AID tool: the recently added XML tab in the AMT AID tool has now been changed to Documentation, to show .SYNOPSIS data. The user can add, edit and delete the documentation of a file here, for Roottasks and Workflows. Added PowerShell tasks/templates have read-only documentation. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | 330825 / C2105-028 When an AMT Reorganization was run on a former DB2 database, fields with DbFieldType TIME raised an error. A Length attribute was added to this type, but this was not allowed for TIME fields in former DB2. AMT Reorganize now creates TIME fields without length specified. For TIME fields with a fraction TIMESTAMP is used. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330826 / C2105-030 In former 2200 DMS tables, Updates went wrong when 'occurs' was defined in combination with a Depending-On variable, which should truncate results not belonging to the array. The Depending-On variable now truncates the results correctly. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Scripts | 330786 / C2105-031 In the ComScipt module, function job.GetMessageObjectsByBatchId has been introduced, which retrieves all messages of a batch (script and all programs started by the script). |
NEW | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | C2105-035 During AMT Reorganizes on former DB2 databases, unique indexes with extra columns specified were not created correctly. They were created as non-unique with the extra included fields as part of the index. AMT Reorganize Analysis signalled a change every time in these cases. AMT Reorganized has been changed now, to consider such indexes as unique with included columns now marked as included. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Services | Various | C2105-040 Transaction Server agents were restarted automatically if a new version of a loaded form or program had been generated. This cleared the state of 'Shared' (also known as 'Reentrant') programs, which could cause issues. It is now possible to disable the automatic restarting mechanism in the AMT Control Center, under 'System Configuration' > 'Architecture' > 'Applications'. Important: Because of this change, it is necessary to do an AMT Reorganise of the the system database! |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | 330850 / C2105-044 AMT COBOL Report Writer removed too many quotes in a report line, and also full-stops, leading to lines as "'BETWEEN QUOTES" TEST.'. to appear as BETWEEN QUOTES' TEST in the output, where it should have been ''BETWEEN QUOTES' TEST.. The Generator was fixed to solve this issue. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | 330859 / C2105-049 Despite the fact that 3D charts were no longer supported, the setting was still available in the Object Inspector in the AMT Developer Studio. The 3D setting has been removed for charts. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Configuration | 330844 / C2105-050 With .Net Core, the AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center did not change to the theme set in appsettings.json. If a theme is set in appsettings.json, it is now used instead of the default theme, and minimized CSS files are removed. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Generator | Various | C2105-052 The Format function now also allows routine results as a first numeric item. Expressions are not allowed, as length/decimals for formatting aren't available in that case. More help on this can be found here. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 329440 / C2105-054 Large tables with mixed-sorting indexes caused bad performance. Performance has been enhanced through improved sorting of these indexes. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330874 / C2105-058 SQL Insert statements did not insert all array elements bound in the statement. Changes in the SQL parser now make sure that all array elements are recognized. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Control Center | Various | 330840 / C2105-061 AMT Control Center runtime behavior setting 'Session Data Timeout' was not visible for COBOL installations. The AMT Control Center has been corrected so that this setting is now visible in all circumstances. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330851 / C2105-062 Checks during validation and generation to ensure variable names are used unambiguously did not work in all cases, for instance if executed in if-statements. Checks on uniqueness now work in all circumstances. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Web Client | C2105-065 The AMT Web Client got stuck if clientIDMode was configured differently from its default. The generated web.config has been corrected so that clientIDMode='Predictable' is also specified, preventing the hang. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Prodinstall/Pinstall | 330875 / C2105-067 PInstall did not work when running from a UNC path, because Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Codebase returned an incorrect path. Obsolete Codebase has been replaced by Location, and PInstall now works when running from a UNC path. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Web Client | 330812 / C2105-068 Populating list boxes with a huge amount of items took a long time in the Web Client. Performance has been improved significantly (test form: 10.000 items from > 30 seconds to < 3 seconds) by changes in JavaScript, making addition of new items more efficient. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330880 / C2105-072 The value of an interrupt in a report (with an interrupt routine defined) stored in 'si-reportresult' was blank in global logic. Now global logic and reports use the same si-reportresult. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Security | 330784 / C2105-077 AMT Control Center: a user with a CC-admin role ('super administrator') couldn't see all transactions in the Security section, if their role(s) didn't correspond with the transaction roles. Retrieving transactions for the CC-admin has now been made independent of transaction role conditions. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Generator | Various | 330899 / C2105-085 The AMT Generator raised a C# error if a numeric variable startcase was compared to a si-highvalue. The AMT Generator has been improved so that startcase with case values like si-highvalue, si-lowvalue and si-hex00value is generated correctly. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | C2105-087 / 330916 When a Unicode file was opened for APPEND, data got corrupted if the Unicode setting was not set when the file was opened originally. This problem has been corrected, the Unicode switch is now set properly. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | 330895 / C2105-088 AMT Report threw an exception message when command EXIT ALL was used in a FINALIZE routine. Handling of the FINALIZE routine has been improved, so now 'exit all' and 'exit module' are handled correctly. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | 330917 / C2105-098 Opening a sortfile after sorting caused an error, because the file was still locked by the operating system. Opening the sortfile is now retried several times. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | 330923 / C2105-099 Input parameter ('accept') is not properly passed from script to COBOL program for reasons as yet unknown. Better logging information has been constructed, when the accept file is read into the COBOL program. |
CHANGE | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330932 / C2105-105 Divide by zero did not result in the expected zero result on OS2000 migrated software. Divide by zero now results in zero result in these systems, on any other platforms it will throw a 'Divide by zero' exception. |
FIX | AMT 88 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 330900 / C2105-106 AMT Screens Combobox raised OnSelect Event too often, due to timing issues. The timing of the event raising code of 'startupdatingfields' and 'endupdatingfields' has been improved. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330933 / C2106-008 Array items of a (sub)group field of a former DMS table were not initialized properly, because the AMT Generator generated the wrong statement (INITIALIZE sub-group-array (index)). The Generator generates the right statement now. |
FIX | AMT 88 | High |