Other New and Enhanced Features

Other New and Enhanced Features

Amongst other revisions in this version of LANSA Composer are:

• The FTP configurations user interface has been reorganized for better clarity and simplicity.

• The FTP configurations and activities now support connection timeout and response timeout values, specified in milliseconds.

• HTTP Outbound configurations support a range of new values for the Content Type that applies to the file being sent by the HTTP_POST activity.  The new values include the special value Automatic that specifies that the activity should determine an appropriate content type according to the file extension of the file being sent.  Automatic is now the default value for new HTTP configurations.

• The HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST activities will now retrieve the response content file, if requested, even when an error status is returned by the remote HTTP server.  This enables the solution to receive and examine the response content to determine the details of the error, if applicable.

• A new Test button in Database Configurations provides a means to test the database configuration using the currently entered database configuration values (not necessarily saved values) - in a similar fashion to that already provided for FTP and some other configuration types.

• The Processing Sequence Editor now supports drag-and-drop re-ordering of the processing sequence items.

• The Processing Sequence Editor previously had an option to show tree lines that more clearly show the relationship between processing sequence items.  This option is now on by default, and the tree lines are also available in the Processing Sequence Log window and in printing support for both the Processing Sequence and the Processing Sequence Log.

• Improvements to processing sequence run-time performance have been achieved by eliminating, reducing or deferring some types of database operations and by other processing changes.

• Several groups of new built-in variables provide access to:
  
  - pending controlled end request (*SHUTDOWN)
  - transaction document envelope attributes;
  - trading partner send and receive processing sequences;
  - lists of trading partners by trading partner groups;
  - timezone description and UTC offset values.

 

• LANSA Composer now provides a web service (SOAP) interface for running Processing Sequences.

• When connected to an IBM i server, the LANSA Composer client now provides direct access to the IBM i joblog for the associated LANSA server job from the client user interface in several places, including from the Tools menu, from the Transformation Maps Prepare Log window and from the Processing Sequence Log display (when shown in connection with processing sequence runs initiated through the LANSA Composer client).

• On IBM i servers, the COMPOSER REQUEST(ABOUT) command will now list the LANSA listener, HTTP listener and JSM port numbers in use.