Uniplex Business Software Version
9.20 - Key Features
Uniplex Business Software Version 9.20 was released February 1st,
2002. This release of the V9 series of the Uniplex UBS software
suite of applications contains several new features/enhancements
to the product, including product updates to the major modules,
better cross platform support between PC and character environments
with new mail functionality in the form of support for POP3 (Post
Office Protocol version 3), Improved IMAP support and a new LDAP
client.
Uniplex UMS has been further enhanced with the addition
of the internet standards DSN (rfc 1891) and MDN (rfc 2298) which
are used to report on the status of messages sent and received
(or not received).
The content of this release has been geared to customer
demands for more functionality for the Uniplex Mail component
of the suite, which, we have renamed the Universal Mail Server
(UMS). Other changes are oriented to delivering key enhancements
to existing applications within the suite that have been identified
as most important by our users, and new functionality to extend
the utility of Uniplex within our customer organizations.
Updates to Existing Applications
New ring menus for reading email headers (v9.20)
Optimization of Uniplex mail store for internet-only client access.
(v9.20)
Generic PCL5 printer definition added (v9.20)
Support for MDN (Message Disposition Notification) (v9.20)
Support for DSN (Delivery Service Notifications) (v9.20)
New option for umd_runix allows reading from STDIN (v9.20)
More efficient File Manager "caching" (v.9.10)
Updates to the dictionaries and supplemental dictionary use (v.9.00
& v.9.10)
Updated list of converters to incorporate new products (v.9.00
& v.9.10)
Improved file recognition capabilities (v.9.00 & v.9.10)
Command line interface for Mail (v.9.00)
Addition of Euro Symbol support (v.9.10)
Use of "trashcan" mailbox (v.9.00)
Addition of a goto top/bottom in mailbox (v.9.00)
Include original mail message in reply (v.9.10)
Keep together following paragraph in word processor (v.9.00)
Over 150 program fixes (v.9.00)
A Further 120 program fixes (v.9.10)
Major New Features
Uniplex Business Software, Version 9.20 adds a POP3 (rfc 1939)
server, which complements the existing IMAP4r1 (Internet Message
Access Protocol, rfc 1731) server introduced in V9.10. This is
in line with Uniplex' stated aim of making the Uniplex Mail module
into a standalone Mail engine supporting all major mail clients
on multiple platforms. In a move away from our proprietary standards
for remote email, we have embraced the MIME (Multi-purpose Internet
Message Extensions) technology standard in UBS Mail this maintains
compatibility across the diverse mailing systems encountered on
the Internet.
Delivery Status Notifications (DSN - defined in
RFC 1891) and Message Disposition Notification (MDN - defined
in RFC 2298) have both been added to Uniplex Mail to provide the
same level of mail message status reports that Uniplex has had
from the beginning.
Uniplex Datalink has been completely re-written
to allow the interaction between Uniplex Structured Query Language
(USQL) and the Uniplex Database Forms, thus simplifying the manipulation
of valuable legacy data and allowing that data to be integrated
with the Uniplex Spreadsheet and Word Processor. Uniplex Datalink
interacts with the most current third party databases, such as
Oracle, Informix On-Line, Dynamic Server and Ingres, which are
not supplied with Uniplex II Plus.
Uniplex Document Access under version 9.20 provides
further comprehensive document recognition and file conversion
facilities to support the exchange of information between a community
of Uniplex users and the users of other software packages.
The Uniplex Mail client has been changed to allow
headers of messages received from the Internet to be read. There
have also been several minor enhancements such as MDN/DSN support
and print format improvements.
The Uniplex Mail Store import program, umd_runix
has been altered to allow it to be used as a local Mail Delivery
Agent (MDA). This means that mail received by SMTP is processed
immediately and delivered into the Uniplex mail store. Apart from
the obvious benefits in speed of receipt over the old uclock periodic
collection method, this produces improvements in load balancing
by eliminating the intermediate step of SMTP spooling received
emails. For customers who do not use the Uniplex Mail client,
there is a new configuration parameter that switches off Mail
Notifications and Time Manager alarms completely.
The Pcap and Fcap files now contain generic
entries (pcl5 and pcl5color) for Hewlett-Packard PCL5 printers.
These support the Euro Sign on most printers (but not LaserJet
III printers), and have other improvements. They should be used
in preference to the hpIVecma entries from the APP that were previously
used for such printers.
Note: Some second-line platforms do not have all
three Datalinks available. Also, not all platforms have the LDAP
client.
