| Change | Public release note |
| versioning | New version numbering scheme: this release is ProTop 315. From now on, each ProTop version number will be a single integer and they will increase monotonically. The next release will be ProTop 316, etc. |
| packaging | ProTop deployment packaging: We no longer have separate deployment packages for each point release of OpenEdge. The packaging has been simplified so there are now only two package options: Windows (.zip file) or Unix (.tar.gz). Each package contains four versions of the ProTop r-code, in procedure libraries: - protop-v10.pl (OE 10.x 32-bit r-code) - protop-v10-64.pl (OE 10.x 64-bit r-code) - protop-v11.pl (OE 11.x r-code) - protop-v12.pl (OE 12.x r-code) The appropriate PL for the environment is added to the ProTop propath by the installer. The packages also contain x-coded source for the dc, lib, and util directories. The non-core libraries (rp2017, s2k_demo, and spawn) are still distributed as plaintext source. The source code for the core libraries is packaged separated |
| feature/bugfix | Enhancements, refactoring, and bug fixes related to object-access (CRUD) statistics: - corrected the logic for calculating the range of monitored tables & indexes when the bases are negative - added lib/utblstats.p as a simple example of how to use lib/usertablestats.p - improved the explanatory text when lib/xrange.p displays results - added highlighting for unmonitored tables and indexes to lib/xrange.p - fixed dc/config.p to determine the deployment type more reliably |
| feature | Added the commit hash to the ProTop version string. |
| feature | Added an updated CA certificate to the certs directory, for sites where the agents communicate with the portal via HTTPS. |
| feature | Modified protop.pf to reduce the memory utilization in temp-table buffers (-Bt). |
| feature | Added a "memAvailable" metric to the OS information in Linux. |
| feature | Added CDC Queue Monitor, hotkey = “C”. Monitors the list of _cdc-table-policy policies showing the newest and oldest entry per policy plus the queue depth and lag time. Using the table-policy rather than assuming cdc_* as a table name is more flexible as it covers both non-default naming schemes and “minimum” configuration (which does not create shadow tables). |
| feature | Improved the reliability of reporting some primary broker parameter values in older databases that lack an _DbParams VST (typically pre-11.5). Fixed parameters include -hash (and thus -hash%), -pica, -recspacesearchdepth, -DbCheck, and -MemCheck. |
| feature | Added information about free disk space to the alert body for the fsPctUsed, inPctUsed, and osWr alerts. |
| feature | Made a change to facilitate trending of Pro2 queues in the ProTop web portal. |
| feature | Added a function to the installer to determine if the AVM is in a 32-bit or 64-bit process. (Thanks to Jeff Ledbetter of Roundtable Software!) |
| feature | Disabled downloadable update scripts. |
| feature | Renamed otrx.sh to zOldTRXDetaiils.sh. |
| feature | Added filtering capability to the UserIO browser to facilitate analysis of a subset of connection types in a database with a large user count. The shortcut key is "3". The user can specify comma-separated lists of connection types to include or exclude. Exclusion takes precedence over inclusion. |
| feature | Updated some proutil -C dbanalys command lines to include a "-Bp 10" parameter, to avoid polluting the buffer pool when running a dbanalysis. |
| feature | Changes to the installation process: - the installation now happens in the current directory ($PROTOP) - the log, tmp, and rpt directories are subdirectories of $PROTOP - deprecated inscfgvars.p - improved logic and logging in install.p - the Unix install script was renamed from pt3inst.sh to pt3inst. |
| feature | Improved the formatting of SQL statements in the lastStatement function in vstlib.p. |
| feature | Added wstub/zOldTRXDetails.batx, for feature partity with Unix, to collect context info for aged transactions on Windows. |
| feature | Suppress dbmonitor check for running pt3agents for remote resources. |
| feature | Added "private_dirty" memory-use reporting on Linux. |
| feature | Provided variables to adjust the frequency of checks (by dbmonitor) for new config files from the portal and for agents needing to respawn. |
| feature | Updated estub/termcap (added limited color support for bin/uemacs). |
| feature | Expanded width of xnote field and shrank the width of SAName. |
| feature | Removed propath delimiter from envPRP and put it in the templates (protopenv, protop.ini) where it belongs. |
| feature | Added propath to "&" (protop properties) screen to help debugging. |
| bugfix | Rewrote protop.bat, which launches ProTop RT on Windows. Fixed a "fatal error" issue and cleaned up the code. |
| bugfix | Fixed errors in the CDC data collector when the CDC database feature is not enabled. |
| bugfix | Fixed vstlib.p so we now use the same lock table timeout logic in both the "fast" (11.4+) and "slow" branches. |
| bugfix | Added a new variable "DFCMDI" to localenv.x; this can contain an alternative "df" command line to use for inode information, e.g. "df -pix"; also some related bug fixes. |
| bugfix | Added a missing END statement in procedure check4upd. |
| bugfix | Fixes in dashboard.p: - corrected a bug in the dynamic find in _database-feature that prevented checkPICA from running and populating pica-related metrics - use _DbServiceMgr if it is available |
| bugfix | Fixed a bug in pro2qlen.p in the orphaned table logic. |
| bugfix | Fixed the use of the PROCESS-ARCHITECTURE pre-processor on older releases where it is not available. In that case we now default to 32 bits. |
| bugfix | Corrected the calculation of areaMaxPct in procedure getAreaVarInfo in vstlib.p. |
| bugfix | Fixed Windows logic for finding the pt3agent in the process list, so it is the same as the Unix logic. |
| bugfix | Improved some debugging messages and dbmonitor's logic for detecting running pt3agents on Windows. |
| bugfix | Added MNTCMD variable to permit an alernate "mount" command for the df data collector. Also added logic to optionally disable the use of DFCMD or MNTCMD, and lastly added a sample df.sh for asynchronous use in cases where ordinary df might hang. |