/categories/Miscellaneous/ Recent content in Miscellaneous on Hugo -- gohugo.io /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/26.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/26.1/ SE-42115 # Added Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-in-sql-server-2025 SE-36090 # Added Support for Oracle 26ai https://oracle-base.com/articles/26/articles-26 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.4/ SE-38015 # Removed support for PostgreSQL 13 which is now at EOL and Added Support for PostgreSQL 18 https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ SE-36629 # SICS 25.4 ships with Amazon Corretto JRE version 21.0.9.10.1 https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.3/ SE-38705 # SICS 25.3 ships with the Amazon Corretto JRE version 21.0.8.9.1 https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ SE-36612 # Added support for Microsoft Edge WebView2 that allows to embed web content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) in SICS using the Edge (Chromium) web platform. The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge as the rendering engine to display the web content in SICS. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ This is a result of the SWT library upgraded to version 3.126.0. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.2/ SE-35337 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.15.6.1. Added support for Microsoft Edge WebView2 that allows to embed web content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) in SICS using the Edge (Chromium) web platform. The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge as the rendering engine to display the web content in SICS. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ This is a result of the SWT library upgraded to version 3. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/25.1/ SE-32821 # MySQL has been dropped as a supported platform effective from 25.1 Customers looking for a lower cost DBMS platform should target PostgreSQL. SE-31992 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.14.7.1. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.4/ SE-31692 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.13.11.1. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.3/ SE-28024 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.12.7.1. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.2/ SE-27107 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.11.9.1. SE-27522 - Asynchronous logging # This release has a new option for asynchronous logging. Configuration details are explained in the System Administrator Guide, under chapter Technical Logging / Log4j Logging. Asynchronous logging is per default disabled. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/24.1/ SE-25052 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.10.7.1. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.4/ SE-22928 # Removed support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 which is now at EOL for support from Microsoft. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2012-r2 SE-22292 # Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2022. SE-22292 # Removed support for PostgreSQL 11 https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ SE-22144 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. SICS is now shipped with Amazon Corretto 17.0.9.8.1. SE-29529 # Updated source name=“JNDI” Instead of “SICSServerJNDI” in sics-database-sources.xml. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.3/ SE-21157 # The <caseSensitiveCnuUserNames> tag in the datasource definition controls how the retrieval of the SICS user from the database table handles case. The default value is false, which means that SICS presumes that the user id stored in SICS is in uppercase and it will convert the authentication user id into uppercase in order to retrieve it. In a situation where the authentication user id and the SICS user id are in lowercase or mixed case, then you must set the value to true <caseSensitiveCnuUserNames>true</caseSensitiveCnuUserNames> /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.2/ SE-18797 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. Removed the dependency on Apache Xalan to fix CVE-2022-34169. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/23.1/ SE-17418 # Removed support for Microsoft Window 8.x which is now at EOL for support from Microsoft. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/windows-8-1-end-support-january-2023 SE-17616 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version. Apache Solr upgraded to version 9.0. https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/upgrade-notes/major-changes-in-solr-9.html This is a significant upgrade of Solr for Operational Reporting Server, and SICS Search. Be sure to export and import your ORS data as detailed in the system admin guide. See: SICS Operational Reporting Server - Setup and Configuration. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.4/ SE-16384 Eliminate XSD violations # Remove violations of the XSD strict enforcement, partially to support the new .NET Core client and partially to just be correct. Example: SicsWsAdministrationEntryPoint.isAvailable The modifications to the schema are detailed in the XSD Changes section of the system documentation. https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#cos-element-consistent If the {particles} property contains, either directly, indirectly (that is, within the {particles} property of a contained model group, recursively), or ·implicitly·, two or more element declarations with the same expanded name, then all their type definitions must be the same top-level definition, that is, all of the following must be true: /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.3/ SE-13088 # Removed support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 which is now at EOL for support from Microsoft. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-sql-server-2012 Removed support for Oracle 12c which is now at EOL for support from Oracle. https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-tech-chart-069290.pdf SE-6370 # Added Support for PostgreSQL 11+ https://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/11/postgresql-11-A4.pdf SE-3237 # First delivery of P&C and Life API Server .NET Core Clients. The new clients are compatible with both Windows and Linux. The new clients have not yet been tested with our automated test framework. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.2/ SE-11844 # Unicode support in Microsoft SQL Server is now fully implemented via the use of the <unicodeMode>true</unicodeMode> datasource setting. SE-11416 # 3rd party libraries used by SICS has been updated to their latest version, giving SICS access to new functionality and the latest security patches. eMessaging # SICS eMessaging Server now uses JAX-WS for creating and consuming Acord SOAP messages. This was changed to remove the dependency to XMLBeans 3. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/22.1/ SE-9505 # Support for Windows Server 2022 SE-11259 # Microsoft Edge is now supported as a replacement for Internet Explorer /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.4/ SE-8919 # The Axis 1 generated stubs has following minor changes: 1. Array wrappers # Each array type class has been wrapped inside their corresponding wrapper class. Axis1 client (Old) In the example below, you can see that the chainedOperations method was returning an array ChainedOperationResponse[] for all the chained operation responses and also accepting an array ChainedOperationRequest[] for all the chained operation requests. To migrate, simply wrap all array references to their corresponding wrapper classes. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.3/ No changes # No technical changes in release 21.3. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.2/ SE-1277 # SICS now offically supports MySQL compatible databases. SE-6251 # IBM DB2 was removed as a supported platform. All DB2 related libraries & JDBC drivers were also removed from the delivered software. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/21.1/ SE-4218 # Background # 3rd party libraries are starting to require Java 11+. To enable SICS to get access to new functionality and the latest security patches, SICS now requires Java 11+ and is shipped with Amazon Corretto 15.0.2.7.1. JDBC Driver Versions # DBMS JDBC Driver Version Oracle 19.9.0.0 Microsoft SQL Server 9.2.0 MySQL 8.0.23 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.4/ SE-3307 # Background # In SE-3307, SICS eMessaging Server was upgraded from using Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack to its successor: Apache Axis2 Web services engine due to security vulnerabilities in the Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack and also as a technology upgrade to achieve significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis. Axis 1 generated client stubs are deprecated, and new client stubs were generated based on Axis2 XML bean data bindings. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.3/ SE-3611 # SICS now supports display scaling at 100% & 200% accurately with both fonts & icons displayed at their highest fidelity. Other scaling percentages will work but may introduce some blurriness as the icons are rescaled. We will continue to improve the look of the icons as our capability grows. The runtime argument -Dswt.autoScale=quarter must be present. This is included in the shipped .bat files. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.2/ SE-1861 # Adding a new column to an existing table when a default value needs to be set results in SQL to update the entire table. For a table with a large number of rows, this causes a large transaction log in Microsoft SQL Server. To prevent this, large table updates on Microsoft SQL Server will be batched into increments of 10k rows when the Optimized Schema is in use. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/20.1/ No technical changes. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.9.5/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.9.5/ SE-1424 # Background # In SE-1424, SICS API Server was upgraded from using Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack to its successor: Apache Axis2 Web services engine due to multiple high-risk security vulnerabilities in the Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack. SOAP encoding has been deprecated and is no longer supported by Apache Axis2. SICS API Server with Unrestricted (%NONE%), Axis or .NET Framework (DotNet) compatible WSDL/XSD files was previously using the RPC/encoded style but is now changed to use the RPC/literal style. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.8.6/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.8.6/ SE-80 # Apache Log4j upgraded to Apache Log4j 2 # Changed to use XML configuration file ’log4j2.xml’ for all SICS products. SICS Desktop - runtime/conf/log4j.properties replaced by runtime/conf/log4j2.xml SICS Servers - WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml replaced by WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.xml The Log4j 2 configuration syntax is different then Log4j 1.x, but most, if not all, of the same functionality is available. See: Log4j - Migrating from Log4j 1.x - Apache Log4j 2 Apache Solr upgraded to version 7. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/sics_docs_installation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/sics_docs_installation/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/memory_settings/background/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/memory_settings/background/ SICS is programmed in Java. The SICS programs are compiled into so-called Java byte code format. The SICS Java byte codes are grouped into a number of compressed files called jars. These jars constitute the main part of a SICS installation. In order to run SICS, one must start a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), a computer program in its own right, and tell it where the Java byte code for SICS is stored, i. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/hw_and_sw_requirements/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/hw_and_sw_requirements/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/memory_settings/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/memory_settings/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/database_maintenance_launcher/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/database_maintenance_launcher/ Introduction # SICS SysAdmin Utility is shipped with a command-line utility for maintenance work on SICS databases. Being a command-line utility means it is a headless application, well suited for automation. The command-line utility is implemented as a Java program which is launched from a class named com.csc.sics.launcher.DatabaseMaintenanceLauncherMain. The SICS Database Maintenance Launcher has the following capabilites: Create a new SICS database Update an existing SICS database to a higher version Create SICS reporting tables and views Create SICS reporting stored procedures and functions Usage # Bootstrapping # In order to execute the SICS Database Maintenance Launcher, a few JAR’s from the lib folder of the SICS SysAdmin Utility must be added to the Java class-path. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/desktop_launcher/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/desktop_launcher/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/java_launcher_application/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/java_launcher_application/ /sicsdocs/technical/misc/opensource_reports/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/opensource_reports/ Third Party Software Notices And Information # The Product is delivered with Open Source Software (OSS) components potentially developed or owned by third parties. OSS components may be used according to the terms and conditions of the specific licence under which the relevant OSS components are distributed, but are provided “AS IS” by such third parties and DXC. Artifact Version Licenses angus-activation 2.0.3 EDL 1.0 angus-mail 2.0.4 EPL 2.0GPL2 w/ CPEEDL 1. /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.7.2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /sicsdocs/technical/misc/technical_changes/4.7.2/ SE-6148 # The SQL Server jTDS JDBC Driver has been replaced by Microsoft JDBC Driver. Please read the instructions in /conf/sics-database-sources.xml. Driver class name has changed # SQL Server database <source> definitions need to change the driver class name in the <driver> element to com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver. Example: <source name="SQLServer"> <driver>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver</driver> <accessor>com.csc.troll.accessor.JDBCDatabaseAccessor</accessor> <interface>com.csc.troll.accessor.SQLServer2000Interface</interface> <dataSource>jdbc:sqlserver://hostname;sendStringParametersAsUnicode=false;selectMethod=cursor</dataSource> <useParameterizedSql>true</useParameterizedSql> <statementCacheSize>100</statementCacheSize> </source> SQL Server Windows Authentication (aka ‘Database remote OS authentication’ in SICS) with Microsoft JDBC Driver # In order to use SQL Server Windows Authentication, the integratedSecurity property (URL parameter) must be set to true (;integratedSecurity=true) on the <datasource> URL.