Valence 2_0_20090904_0_RC2

[richard.milone]

This is the second "Release Candidate" of Valence 2.0. If you are currently trialing a previous version of Valence, or if you had a previous version on trial that has expired, you may download and install this release candidate of Valence 2.0. Existing Valence customers may also install this new version to begin working with it, which should have no effect on your current Valence installation. For those of you with "live" deployed applications, please do not port them over to this release candidate of Valence 2.0 except for testing purposes. The final Valence 2.0 version will be released by the end of September with an installation process that will overwrite this release candidate. To download visit http://www.cnxcorp.com/valence/try. This version is encoded to automatically expire on November 30, 2009.

Version: 2_0_20090904_0_RC2

Release Date: 2009-09-04

System Requirements:

• Any hardware running the IBM i operating system V5R3 or higher.
• If at V5R3, then 5722-AC3 Cryptographic Access Provider is also required. V5R4 or higher, Cryptographic Access Prover is not required.
• A personal computer running Windows XP, Windows Vista, MacOSX or Linux (for installation only).
• A compatible browser on client computers. This version of Valence has been extensively tested with Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 and Safari 4. Google Chrome is also very likely to work fine, but we do not currently QA test Chrome with Valence.
• If you would like to use the new PDF or Email capabilities of Valence 2.0 then you need 5722JV1 *BASE and option 6, Java Developer Kit 1.4. This is installed on most newer systems by default. After installing this version of Valence, just try to run the PDF and email examples. If they work then you know for certain your system has the correct configuration. Note that even though Java is required, you do not need to know or use Java to develop PDFs or send emails. You will use the Valence RPG Toolkit procedures, but these procedures use certain Java functions behind the scenes.

New Features in Valence 2.0:

• See the release notes for Valence 2.0 RC1 for a description of new features added from Valence 1.2 to Valence 2.0.

New Features and Bug Fixes from RC1 to RC2:

• New file-based AutoCode grid inquiry. Includes features to download to PDF or CSV and other formatting options.
• New AutoCode feature for creating charts based on an SQL statement.
• Corrected bug affecting Internet Explorer when viewing Valence RPG Toolkit documentation.
• If attempting to kill your own session in "Who's Logged In," will now prompt to confirm. If confirmed it will route back to VVLOGIN.
• Could not delete libraries that were added in Environments until they were saved.
• Tree drag-and-drop example added with immediate database update.
• Corrected bug in original grid AutoCode (sql based).
• In options and nav tree maintenance, can now visually select an icon to attach to the option or folder.
• Fix to vvPDF_addTable: Was choking if the last parameter was not passed.
• Made slight adjustment to Apache server instance configuration to accommodate V6R1 (FusionWidgets directive was causing server instance to bomb).
• Upgraded Fusion Charts and Fusion Widgets from 3.0 to 3.1.
• Updated documentation

Migrating from Valence 1.0 - 1.2:

Valence 2.0 significantly alters the development methodology of Valence programs as well as changes the names of all the Valence RPG Toolkit procedures to be more closely aligned with their function. The benefit of this is that developing applications with Valence 2.0 will be faster and easier, but the downside is that existing applications developed for Valence 1.X will not run under Valence 2.0 without significant changes. In addition, because of the new design there is no automated way to migrate your Valence Portal data from a previous version of Valence to Valence 2.0. The CNX development team will assist licensed Valence customers who are current on maintenance to port their existing Valence applications and Valence Portal data to 2.0 at no charge. At this time our plan is to make all future versions of Valence backward compatible with with your Valence 2.0 applications wherever possible.

Installing Valence 2.0 RC2 over Valence 2.0 RC1:

If you have Valence RC1 already installed, this version will completely overwrite that version. Any settings in the Valence Portal and any development work you have placed in the /valence-2.0 path or VALENCE20 library will be completely overwritten. Copy any of your work out of those locations prior to installing RC2. Before installing over RC1, be sure that VALENCE20 Apache server instance is ended and that there are no locks on the VALENCE20 library.

• End the VALENCE20 server instance configuration with command "ENDTCPSVR SERVER(*HTTP) HTTPSVR(VALENCE20)"
• Check for locks on the VALENCE20 libary with command "WRKOBJLCK OBJ(VALENCE20) OBJTYPE(*LIB)". Do not proceed until all locks are cleared.

Support:

If you need assistance with installing this release please email support@cnxcorp.com.