January 11, 2022 — Gravic Releases Shadowbase for Other Servers Version 6.700

Gravic released Shadowbase for Other Servers Version 6.700 (T1123^AAI, T1124^AAE, T1125^AAG, T1126^AAF, T1127^AAE, T1128^AAE, T1129^AAF, T1130^AAE). This is a full release that includes one mature feature, four deprecated features, fourteen special notes, and nine new features, several corrected problems, and other changes.

WARNING: A new license file is required to install and run HPE Shadowbase for Other Servers software version 6.700. This is due to a change in the format of the license file, current license terms are still valid and remain in force. Contact the HPE License Manager to request a new license file. DO NOT INSTALL HPE Shadowbase for Other Servers software version 6.700 until a new license file has been obtained.

New features summary:

• HPE Shadowbase Log Source for Oracle supports the collection of additional Oracle types
• HPE Shadowbase Log Source for Oracle User Exits, which enables column filtering during replication
• Replicating Oracle column names that have spaces
• PostgreSQL target replication via ODBC (for Windows and Red Hat Linux clients)
• MySQL target replication via ODBC (for Windows clients)
• Target side support for replicating SQL/MX Sequence Objects from one SQL/MX table to another SQL/MX table
• The Visual Studio project for User Exit development added back into the Windows release of HPE Shadowbase
• Support for updated versions of the MySQL ODBC driver on Windows and Red Hat Linux
• And more

Problems corrected summary:

• DBS mapping under certain circumstances no longer improperly includes quote characters
• IBM Db2® collector username and password prompt is fixed
• In an Oracle Log Source environment, Shadowbase now supports replicating from both archived and online logs
• When forwarding one DOC to another using a TFS, the new DOC preserves the same TX ID as the old one
• In OSS Direct Writers for SQL/MX target environments, sockets that are not in use now closes when the connection between source and target systems is broken
• The SBMON LIST command is enhanced when run against the OPCOL and DOC objects to more accurately reflect the progress of TRS and TFS objects
• HPE Shadowbase now attempts to use any of the official Microsoft ODBC drivers
• An issue where INVALID_NUM_PROCESSING would not properly work for MySQL targets is fixed

For More Information:

• Reference the release announcement
• Reference the SOFTDOC