Many of these improvements were made in direct response to suggestions from our customers. We thank you for your time and valuable input. We hope you continue to help us ensure that our products meet all your needs.
NOTE:Note for X users: InfoConnect Desktop Pro for Unisys with X also includes Reflection X Advantage. For features and fixes, see the Reflection X Advantage Release Notes.
NOTE:Reflection Desktop for NonStop Add-On is a separately licensed product for connecting to HP NonStop hosts (Tandem 6530) that you can use with InfoConnect Desktop. For features and fixes, see the Reflection NonStop Add-on Release Notes.
The following outline the key features and functions provided by this version, as well as issues resolved in this release:
InfoConnect Desktop Pro for Unisys with X includes the following security improvements:
Applied code changes to address security vulnerabilities associated with the FreeType library used in Reflection X Advantage.
Updated InfoConnect Desktop Pro for Unisys with X HP UX packages with the Java 8u131 critical patch update.
Updated InfoConnect Desktop Pro for Unisys with X Solaris, Linux and AIX JVM packs to 8u144.
This service pack includes a number of product enhancements.
This property can be used to set up mouse wheel mapping. To map wheel up or down events, use the MouseButtonCombination object, but with WheelDirection set instead of the Button (Left or Right).
This reduces errors due to failure to recognize a completed transmit. It also improves performance. (With previous methods, the screen draw state had to be checked multiple times.)
The ability to copy to or paste from 4 different buffers was added to InfoConnect Desktop (this is a Legacy InfoConnect feature). The CopyToBuffer and PasteFromBuffer methods were added to the VBA and .NET API to make this functionality available for automation.
Prior to this enhancement, HLLAPI RECEIVE FILE (91) failed if an optional id (shortname) was not included with the host file name in the HLLAPI Data String
This setting gets or sets a value indicating whether to retain formatting so that copied text is pasted in the same way as it is displayed in the terminal.
The terminal sends this string in response to a primary device attributes request.
When enabled, this setting retains formatting so that copied text is pasted in the same way as it is displayed in the terminal.
Previous to this enhancement, actions were always added at the end of the sequence.
By mapping the mouse wheel Up or Down actions to send Up or Down keys, you can set up the mouse to page up or down through large tables of data without touching the keyboard.
NOTE:If you create a mouse map for IBM and assign it to VT, some actions like Up or Down will not work.
These actions can now be assigned in the Select Actions dialog box. They allow you to select which items (for example, which keyboard map) to use for a session.
The UI Designer now has a Remove Image button that you can use to remove the image.
Before this fix, if you tried to add a new button with text in its Label field, the text was not displayed.
Before this fix, there was no way to change the ordering of toolbars after they were added in the UI Designer. Toolbar ordering was based on the order in which each toolbar was added (or imported) at design time.
From this menu, you can:
Hide the selected toolbar.
Open the Toolbar Selection dialog box from which you can:
Select which toolbars to display
or
Open the Classic UI Designer to modify toolbars.
This is a Legacy InfoConnect feature and is now supported when using the Classic MDI user interface mode. You can access this feature from the Edit menu.
This allows you to set up this action to open a document in user data subfolders.
InfoConnect Desktop includes software fixes that resolve several previous issues.
Changed the value that InfoConnect returns at byte 82 in the CopyOIA buffer so that it is consistent with the value returned by Host Explorer and Extra!. This change corrects problems with a specific application.
Changed the CASL Save statement to make the file name parameter optional. If the statement doesn’t include a file name, the session name is used.
Fixed problems that caused this CASL error when using the BusyCursor function. This function does not display the cursor as an hourglass but it no longer displays an error.
When layouts that included sessions with Extra! Basic startup macros were opened, the macros sometimes ran against the wrong sessions. When the last session was loaded, that session's macro ran against the session that had focus when the layout completed loading. (If the layout was saved with another session in focus, the macro ran against the wrong session.)
When loading a layout, Extra! Basic startup macros now run against the appropriate sessions.
When accessing 5250 terminal popup windows, the following error messages were displayed: CPF5192 Data sent to device not valid and RPG9998 Internal Failure in compiler or subroutine.
This service pack supports the Ignore EUI Command Error and CursorProgressIndicator so that InfoConnect Desktop no longer crashes when accessing IBM 5250 terminal popup windows.
When attempting to use VBA to access the COM Object, the following error occured: System.MissingMemberException: Public member 'Sessions' on type 'MarshalByRefObject' not found
The InfoConnect Desktop COM API Stream method is now returning protected text as expected.
When a CASL statement ended with a semicolon, two error prompts were displayed and it was not possible to close them except by closing the Workspace.
Those characters were not translated properly when InfoConnect Desktop was running those macros and this resulted in issues on the Host screens and applications.
Using Extra! .ftb files that contained custom SQL commands resulted in errors In InfoConnect Desktop. This error occurred only when using .ftb configurations that contained custom SQL statements.
Macros and forms under the ProjectLegacy() section are now saved in Template files.
In InfoConnect Desktop 16.1, terminal keystroke name was case sensitive. In prior versions, it was not.
This method now works as expected.
ThisTerminal.VBProject was not pointing to the active document's VBProject but to the VBProject of the document that was last opened in the workspace. This property now points to the correct project.
Fixed problems with QuickPads Docking locations. The locations are now saved when QuickPads are closed and re-selected.
Fixed problems with text visibility that occurred when using a black background in the QuickPad Designer. When text or group box controls are added into a “Black” background QuickPad, their default foreground color is set to “White.”
Fixed problems with QuickPads shrinking after switching sessions.
Fixed the Show ToolTips setting in the Manage QuickPads dialog box so that ToolTips are hidden if this option is unselected.
In the Ribbon UI Designer, when importing an .etb file with Use small buttons selected, some images (like Back, Forward, Live Screen, Send File, Receive File, SendKey, Capture etc) changed to the large size of the image or to a different image when they were clicked.
Before this fix, the toolbars were stacked vertically when a session was reopened instead of maintaining the positions that they were previously arranged and saved in.
Menus now display images by default.
The Preview button in the Classic UI designer now displays an image of the toolbars and menus you are designing so you can see how they look before you save them.
This service pack fixed problems with custom file selection. In previous versions, the selection dialog box always opened with the built-in files displayed.
Now, after selecting a custom file, that file is selected and displayed in the list when the dialog box used to select the file is reopened. If a compound session document file is used, these files are shown as Embedded.
InfoConnect Desktop had an issue with some keys in the extended area of the keyboard. (eg PgUp, Arrow, num keys). If the keyboard map included entries for a key both in the extended area and in the numeric keypad area, the same key action was used regardless of the Num Lock state.
This problem has been fixed so that keys in the extended area are now distinguished from identical numeric keypad keys.
Fixed problems that occurred in IBM5250 sessions when external commands that executed in the Windows environment were sent with file paths that included spaces.
Companion installers created for all users had problems with .access file parsing errors which prevented the Workspace from opening.
The RSC - FTP response “426 Data Connection destroyed” occurred when performing a TLS file transfer to a Unisys Host
TLS FTP transfers to Unisys hosts now work as expected.
The IP address and Port configured in the printer profile is now used for the connection instead of the IP address of the display session.
Before this fix, the File > Save As… menu command failed to save session files when the user’s My Documents folder was redirected to a network share and the network connection was slow.
This error occurred when exiting a Host session that was running within Administrative Web Station (AWS). After selecting Send as a compound session, the following error message was displayed:
An error occurred while saving your document. Please try again or save the document to a different location.
Before this fix, problems occurred if 6530 Copy Append (or Copy Input) actions were added to the desktop QAT, and then clicked in a non-6530 session.
Before this fix, if an invalid URL was entered in the Server URL field, the URL was saved, and problems occurred when users tried to create sessions.
Now, if a badly formed URL is entered in the Server URL field, the following message is displayed when the user clicks OK.
The URL you entered is not a valid address...
When copying multiple columns of alpha-numeric data from a spreadsheet and pasting them into a 5250 terminal window, errors occurred if the terminal had numeric-only characters. Now, with the Align Text to input fields setting enabled and the Wrap text to next input field disabled, data is pasted across columns and honors the field attributes.(alpha characters are not pasted in numeric only fields).
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