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VC/m 2.1 Release Notes

What's new?
Release 2.1 contains a number of bug fixes in various areas.  It also includes the following new functionality:

  1. Manipulation of read-only flag on text and binary components
    VC/m can now be configured to manipulate the read-only flag on text and binary components.  By default, new installations of VC/m will write all files as read-only, except for the master copy which will be read-write.  Existing VC/m installations can enable this feature after upgrading by executing the following command:
        >set ^%vcvc("setReadOnly")=1
    On UNIX platforms the default mode settings for all files is 666 for read/write and 444 for read-only.  This can be changed by entering the following commands:
        >set ^%vcvc("unixReadOnly")="mode"
        >set ^%vcvc("unixReadWrite")="mode"
    where mode is the appropriate UNIX file mode specification.

  2. Automatic creation of sub-directories
    For a component specification which contains a partial file path (eg /myDocuments/inProgress/reports/customer.doc), if these sub-directories do not exist in the destination location, VC/m will automatically create them whenever a transfer is performed.

  3. Port to Caché on OpenVMS
    VC/m 2.1 now runs with Caché 3.2 or later on OpenVMS platforms.

  4. Port to HBOM on UNIX
    VC/m 2.1 now runs with HBOM on UNIX platforms.

  5. serverLink
    A new web-server interface is now supplied as an alternative to the WebLink interface.  ServerLink provides the interface between the web-server and the database engine.  The WebLink interface is still usable for those database engines that have WebLink support.  The following table summarises the currently supported configurations:

    Database engine Web-server WebLink serverLink
    Caché IIS, PWS or Apache Yes Yes
    MSM IIS, PWS or Apache Yes Future
    DSM IIS, PWS or Apache Yes Future
    HBOM IIS, PWS or Apache No Yes
    GT.M IIS, PWS or Apache No Future

  6. Apache Web-server
    VC/m 2.1 now runs with the Apache web-server in addition to the Windows-based web-servers IIS and PWS.

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