Release R10

Temenos Application Framework C Version (TAFC)

Release Notes

Product: TAFC R10

Version: SP54
Type: Update release

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Document History

Version Amendments Name Date

0.1 Initial version of Release notes for TAFC Neelima 17-Jan-2018
R10 SP54

Riswana
1.0 Reviewed and Baselined 17-Jan-2018
Table of Contents

1. Important release information............................................................................................................4

1.1 Release Highlights..........................................................................................................................4
2. Installation of the software..................................................................................................................4
2.1 Software requirements..................................................................................................................5
Component..........................................................................................................................................5
Release................................................................................................................................................5
Platform...............................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Compilers used..............................................................................................................................5
Platform...............................................................................................................................................5
Compiler version.................................................................................................................................5
2.3 Third party libraries distributed with TAFC.....................................................................................5
3. Incidents addressed in the TAFC R10 SP54 patch release....................................................................8
4. Patches incorporated in the TAFC R10 SP54 patch release..................................................................9
R10_ORACLEDF_RTC2402301..............................................................................................................9
1. Important release information

This section outlines new features in TAFC R10 and contains important information for
upgrading clients. If you are upgrading from an earlier release of jBASE, please read and
understand all the release information details for each release before starting the installation.

jBASE - TAFC is the new name for jBASE. This name has been introduced to ease client
understanding and avoid questions such as "I run an Oracle database, why do I need a jBASE
database". The Temenos Application Framework C Version or TAFC is the new name for the
runtime part of the jBASE product; the database portion will continue to be called jBASE.

1.1 Release Highlights

From R10 SP23 a new component called TAFC logger is introduced. A new jBC API is
introduced which jBC programs can use to log messages in TAFC. The log files would be
created under” $TAFC_HOME/log/default” if default TAFC instance is used.
e.g.
Logger( <<LABEL>>, <<LEVEL>>, <<MESSAGE>>)
Logger("ACCOUNTS", TAFC_LOG_INFO, "Bad Number")

2. Installation of the software

Transfer the archive to the target machine and untar the archive to a suitable directory.

Upgrading jBASE (TAFC)

If you have an earlier version of jBASE or TAFC installed you should stop all jBASE/TAFC
processes, services, and save any system configuration files before proceeding with the
installation of TAFC.

Amend your .profile

Change the “export TAFC_HOME=” statement in the .profile file to point to the TAFC_R10
release.
For example
export TAFC_HOME=/usr/tafcRxx (where your TAFC_R10 resides)

NOTE: Your profile will have another environment variable, JBCGLOBALDIR, this should be
as follows:
export JBCGLOBALDIR=$TAFC_HOME
NOTE: For installation or upgrade of Direct Connect Drivers (DCD) see separate Installation
Guide document.

2.1 Software requirements

The following table shows the minimum recommended Temenos components and release
numbers which are designed to run with TAFC.

Component Release Platform

Supported Operating Systems

Windows Server 2005 64-bit
Temenos Application Framework C Version RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
R10 GA
– TAFC AIX v5.3
Solaris 10 SPARC
HPUX Itanium2 11.31 V3

Oracle Direct Connect R10 GA Minimum recommended 11gR1

DB/2 Direct Connect R10 GA Minimum recommended version 9.5

Minimum and recommended SQL

MSSQL Direct Connect R10 GA
Server 2008

2.2 Compilers used

Platform Compiler version

AIX v5.3 IBM XL C/C++ v8.0.0.20

Windows 32-bit (Internal only) Visual Studio.NET 2005 SP1

Windows Server 2005 64-bit Visual Studio.NET 2005 SP1

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)

HP Itanium2 11.31 V3 HP C/aCC++ B3910B A.06.27

Solaris 10 SPARC Sun Studio 11

2.3 Third party libraries distributed with TAFC

Internationalization library ICU 4.0 is required for Locale, Time zone and Multi Byte character
set support.

XML library

Xerces 3.0.1 and Xalan 1.11.0 are required for XML transformation within TAFC.

Java JRE library

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.0 is used for Java support and CALLJ functionality within
TAFC.

DCD Multi Database – DataFramework

T24 data is separated into volatile and non-volatile and are being stored in different databases.
The non-volatile tables are used for analytical and reporting purposes and the volatile tables are
actually the transactional tables. Hence Direct Connect Drivers are enhanced to connect to
multiple databases. Config-XMLxxx utility is also enhanced to configure multiple databases. Up
to 10 databases can be configured and connected. It allows creating tables in different databases,
creating READ-ONLY tables, and configures ASSOCIATE property to the volatile table of the
database.

Disk Space Requirements

Before upgrading you TAFC installation please ensure you have sufficient disk space available.

Upgrading jRemote Resource Adapter

If you have deployed an earlier version of the jRemote Resource Adapter (artefact jremote-ra.rar)
on a JEE application server it will be necessary to update the connection factories configured for
the resource adapter.
Connection properties host port used to specify the server hosting jAgent are not to be used
anymore and have been replaced by the following properties: hosts ports loadBalancing
These properties specify a comma-separated list of server names and port number, and also
whether connections should be load-balanced among the list of available servers.
E.g. t24-ds.xml on JBOSS:
Change
10.44.1.70
20002
to
10.44.1.70, 10.44.1.80
20002, 20003
true
Solaris Caveat regarding malloc change R10_RUNTIME_RTC123948

This change requires taking the whole TAFC R10 SP8 because this update changes to use a
better malloc subsystem in the libc library, whereas the rest of the libraries will still be linked
with the older malloc library. Using there incompatible malloc systems is a known problematic
area and is likely to cause memory issues and segmentation violations. The recommended option
is to take the full TAFC R10 SP8.
A possible workaround is to add "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libc.so" before running TAFC
programs.

SP15: DCD Driver Caveat regarding change R10_ORA_RTC298350

All indexes will need to be dropped and recreated due to RTC298350 when applying SP15 and
above.

SP17: Caveat regarding change R10_RUNTIME_RTC345139

In Windows platform, this change expects the directory type as “UD” while using FILEINFO to
get the statistics of a directory. For existing directory use the jchmod to convert a normal
directory to a jBASE type [UD type] directory.

SP23: Caveats regarding new TAFC logger component

TAFC logger component has multiple component dependencies. So clients are recommended to
take full pack instead of updates for R10 SP23.

SP31: Caveats regarding jODBC installer

The jODBC installer provided from this release need latest VS 2005 runtime installed.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235317(v=vs.80).aspx
3. Incidents addressed in the TAFC R10 SP54 patch release

Runtime Incidents

R10_ORACLEDF_RTC2402301
4. Patches incorporated in the TAFC R10 SP54 patch release

R10_ORACLEDF_RTC2402301

Fix the issue of CREATE-FILE in a different SCHEMA of the same RO database.

To Test:

1) Configure to 3 database in config-XMLORACLE

a. FIRST LIVE DATABASE
b. RO DATABASE WITH ONE SCHEMA
c. RO DATABASE WITH SECOND SCHEMA
2) Create a file in the 3rd configured DATABASE.

Before Fix:

testsrv-~/cust/RTC2385186: CREATE-FILE ARCF TYPE=XMLORACLE DATABASE=DB1

SCHEMA=schema2
[ 417 ] File ARCF]D created , type = XMLORACLE
[ 417 ] File ARCF created , type = XMLORACLE
testsrv-~/cust/RTC2385186: jstat -c ARCF

DIRECT CONNECT DRIVER: XMLORACLE Version: PB201603.129711

Type = XMLORACLE

DATABASE INFO : -
Server = Oracle
User Schema = schema1
FILE INFO : Key = VARCHAR(255) Record = XML
Table = ARCF, File = ./ARCF

AFTER FIX:
testsrv-~/cust/RTC2385186: CREATE-FILE ARCF TYPE=XMLORACLE DATABASE=DB1
SCHEMA=schema2
[ 417 ] File ARCF]D created , type = XMLORACLE
[ 417 ] File ARCF created , type = XMLORACLE
testsrv-~/cust/RTC2385186: jstat -c ARCF

DIRECT CONNECT DRIVER: XMLORACLE Version: PB201603.129711

Type = XMLORACLE

DATABASE INFO : -
Server = Oracle
User Schema = schema2
FILE INFO : Key = VARCHAR(255) Record = XML
Table = ARCF, File = ./ARCF