---------------------------------------------------------------------- ELOQUENCE B.07.10 - patch PE71-0709110 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This patch provides enhancement and/or defect fixes for the eloqcore program as released with Eloquence B.07.10. This patch will be integrated in the Eloquence B.07.10 release. Eloquence B.07.10 must be installed before applying this patch. Severity: PE71-0709110: BUG FIX Superseded patches: PE71-0706130: BUG FIX PE71-0706040: BUG FIX PE71-0704300: ENHANCEMENT, BUG FIX PE71-0602284: BUG FIX PE71-0602100: BUG FIX Note: This branch of eloqcore patches DOES NOT support the new MEMSIZE feature to extend the available variable memory. Please refer to the patch PE71-0709111 for this functionality. Patch PE71-0709110 ------------------ Platforms: All * DBFIND was modified to NOT reset the current record number when called from eloqcore. This fixes a potential backwards compatibility problem. * Fixed a problem with CALL DLL and string struct member variables (#3309). Passing a string member variable by reference in a CALL DLL statement resulted in corrupted data passed to or from an Eloquence DLL. * Improved internal diagnostics on LOAD DLL or CALL DLL failure (#3402). Additional diagnostics on LOAD DLL or CALL DLL failure causes is available if the -t option or the K1 debug flag is set. Platforms: Windows * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.22" Patch PE71-0706130 ------------------ Platforms: All * The previous patch PE71-0706040 introduced a problem that could cause a hang in asynchronous DLG operation (#3361). Platforms: Windows * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.20" Patch PE71-0706040 ------------------ Platforms: All * A DLG connection could abort unexpectedly with an error message as below (#3361): N0: tcp_poll: select() failed. [4] Interrupted system call Platforms: HP-UX * If using a HP terminal type on HP-UX, the IDLOK terminal option is disabled to workaround a problem in the HP-UX xcurses library. The EQ_USE_IDLOK environment variable may be used to specify the use of the idlok terminal option. A zero value disables use, a non-zero value enables this option. Platforms: Windows * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.18" Patch PE71-0704300 ------------------ Platforms: All * A SORTORDER configuration option was added to eloq.config and the user/group specific configuration files. SORTORDER may be used to specify the sort order that is used for string comparisons performed by the SORT BY statement and the LEX function. If SORTORDER is not defined, an OS specific collating sequence is used as defined by the LANG, LC_COLLATE or ELOQLANG environment variables. This is backwards compatible to previous eloqcore versions. If SORTORDER is present it specifies an Eloquence specific collating sequence. Syntax: SORTORDER spec spec - The collating sequence is defined as a language specifier and either a "fold" or "nofold" modifier separated by a @ character, such as "french@nofold". A "fold" sort order interleaves upper- and lowercase characters, such as AaBbCc...Zz, where a "nofold" sort order separates upper- and lowercase characters, such as "ABC...Z abc...z". On HP-UX and Linux the available collating sequences are installed in the /opt/eloquence6/lib/nls/collate directory. On Windows they are installed in the lib/nls/collate subdirectory below the Eloquence installation directory. * This patch incorporates the database client library B.07.10.09. This database client library version fixes problems related to database caching. This library also changes the DBFIND behavior to reset the current record number. For details please refer to patch PE71-0704100. * Handle segment total overflow more gracefully (#2960) A program that exceeds the limit of the backwards compatible program format may fail to load. This change attempts to work around the problem. For new programs it is recommended to use the newer program file format introduced with A.06.00. * SYSID$ could return garbage when the hostname exceeded 20 characters (#3069). Eloquence was improperly terminating the string when the hostname was truncatedto 20 characters. Platforms: HP-UX and Linux * The EQ_SHELL environment variable may be used to specify the shell that is used by the non-interactive COMMAND "!..." statement to process system commands (#3355). By default the /bin/sh shell is used. * The IDLOK terminal option is enabled by default. It was initially disabled to workaround a problem in the HP-UX xcurses library. The EQ_USE_IDLOK environment variable may be used to specify the use of the idlok terminal option. A zero value disables use, a non-zero value enables this option. Platforms: Windows * The keyboard mapping was incomplete (#2913). The following keys and key combinations are now correctly handled: Alt+L - move to end of display Alt+S - halt / single step (also Shift+F1) Alt+G - advanced step (also Shift+F2) PAUSE - equivalent to Alt+S (halt / single step) also in combination with Shift and/or Alt Ctrl+PAUSE - equivalent to Ctrl+Y (suspend program execution) * Some special keys were not correctly handled and caused eloqcore to abort unexpectedly (#3065). * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.16" Patch PE71-0602284 ------------------ Platforms: Windows * A WAIT or SLEEP statement on Windows could cause the next DLG DO to return a rule value of -32768 (#3033). * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.8" Patch PE71-0602100 ------------------ Platforms: All * When caching is enabled a status code -809:225 could be returned on a database request. This patch incorporates database client library B.07.10.03 that fixes this problem. For details please refer to patch PE71-0602090 Workaround: To workaround this problem the EQ_DBACHE environment variable may be set to disable the use of caching: EQ_DBCACHE=0 * Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.7" Installation: ------------- Please download the patch archive that corresponds with the installed release. The patch files follow the conventions below: PE71-0709110-hpux-ia64.tar.gz ^ ^ ^ | | Architecture / OS specific build | Operating system Patch ID HP-UX: In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with gzip and tar. Gzip is included with HP-UX. Installation requires root privileges. cd /opt/eloquence6 gzip -dc /path/to/PE71-0709110-hpux.tar.gz | tar xf - Files: bin/eloqcore newconfig/config/eloq.config share/doc/PE71-0709110-README Linux: In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with tar. Installation requires root privileges. cd /opt/eloquence6 tar xzf /path/to/PE71-0709110-linux.tar.gz Files: bin/eloqcore newconfig/config/eloq.config share/doc/PE71-0709110-README Windows: Two options are available for patch installation. The patch is available as self extracting archive for automatic installation and as a zip archive for manual installation. Both patches are equivalent. Installation requires administrative capabilities. For automatic installation of this patch, please download the patch file PE71-0709110-win32.exe file. Before installation, please consider closing all applications and execute the patch installation program. Installation does not require a reboot unless the patched files were active. For a manual installation of the patch, please download the patch file PE71-0709110-win32.zip file and unpack its contents. Then perform the following steps: * Please copy the eloqcore.exe file into the bin subdirectory of your Eloquence installation (for example C:\Programs\Eloquence\bin). * Please copy the eloq.config.sam file into the etc subdirectory of your Eloquence installation (for example C:\Programs\Eloquence\etc). * Please copy the PE71-0709110-README.txt file into the share\doc subdirectory of your Eloquence installation (for example C:\Programs\Eloquence\share\doc). Files: eloqcore.exe eloq.config.sam PE71-0709110-README.txt