What’s New in UniVerse 11.2

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What’s New in UniVerse 11.2
Dr. John F. Nunziato, Product Manager

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Credits and Acknowledgements
Presenters
• Dr. John F. Nunziato, Principal Product Manager
Developers
• John Zagnoli, Director Software Engineering
• Neil Morris, Principal Technical Support Engineer
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Abstract
 This session will cover features added to UniVerse release 11.2 and
explain how these features work, and the benefits provided to the user.

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Agenda
Major features introduced in 11.2
Other features
Summary
Additional resources
Next steps
Questions and answers

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Some Items You Need to Know (Preface)
 11.2 is the largest UniVerse release in a decade
 11.2 laid the foundation for future releases of
UniVerse
We have instituted “Continuous Integration” in QA
and “Agile” in our engineering lab

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Major Features Introduced in
UniVerse 11.2

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Major Features Introduced in UniVerse 11.2
Account-based
licensing
Audit logging
Local functions &
subroutines
Replication
performance monitor
64-bit

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Functionality
Account-based licensing is:
• A way for customers to break up their licenses by groups of
physical data accounts
Available in UniVerse 11.2.0 and higher
Who should use it?
• ASP sites that have multiple end users accessing one server
• Customers who want to monitor who uses what physical
accounts

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Architecture
Configured by $UVHOME/acct_licn.def file, no restart
of UV required. Also, the user can configure using
XAdmin
Account-based licensing record definition
• Uses a ‘logical’ account ID to specify a group of 1 or more
physical data paths
• Each logical account has a # of database and # of connection
pooling licenses to reserve; with optional comment
• Remaining licenses use a ‘default’ group

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Architecture
Order of licensing checking
• Base license
• Account-based licensing
• If the license limit is reached, then a License Limit Exceeded
message displays
Additional memory requirements are minimal
• Example: 1 MB, assuming a configuration of 1,000 groups,
10 physical paths per group, and 128 bytes per group
• Configured for 3 x example or 3 MB

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Example of the acct_licn.def File

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Overview
Introduced at UniVerse 11.2.0
Database auditing tracks the usage of database
resources and related authentication and
authorization operations
Helps satisfy compliance requirements
• HIPPA, HITECH, PCI, SOX
Configurable through XAdmin

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Audit Logging – XAdmin Control Panel
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Audit Logging Design
Comprehensive
• Covers all types of resources and operations
Flexible
• Configured through events and policies
• Can be before or after starting the system
Secure
• Config file is encrypted and can be password protected
• Audit log file can be encrypted
These statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development plans are subject to change or withdrawal
without further notice.
Any reliance on these statements is at the relying party’s sole risk and will not create any liability or obligation for Rocket

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Audit Logging Design
Classifies events and resources and audits them based on the classification.
Enables you to configure the location and number of audit files before UniVerse starts.
Customize U2 Database Auditing without having to stop and restart UniVerse.
Writes audit records to a UniVerse hashed file or group of files.
Protects the audit file against unauthorized access and modification.

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Audit Logging File(s)
File(s) can grow rapidly
Should regularly monitor
• Archive regularly
• Purge when necessary
Can read like any hashed file
• Can NOT write directly
• Can NOT delete
64-bit dynamic file
Block size 4k
Modulo 5000
Approximately 20MB
64-bit dynamic file
Block size 4k
Modulo 5000
Approximately 20MB
64-bit dynamic file
Block size 4k
Modulo 5000
Approximately 20MB
64-bit dynamic file
Block size 4k
Modulo 5000
Approximately 20MB

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Audit Logging - Licensing

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uv
config
control
uv
config
control
Audit Logging – Architecture
uvsmm
daemon
Shared
memory
audlog1 audlog2 ….8
uv
uvconfig
U2audit
config
staging
UV
Daemonsconfig
control
cache
refresh
map
refresh
audman
writestagedlogadmin initiated
audman
admin options
admin user
read staging
and clear
refresh
enable
disable

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Audit Logging - Security
Configuration file is encrypted; modifications are only
possible through audman utility (or XAdmin) and always
logged regardless of policy
No direct modification of audit logs via normal UniVerse
commands (privileged audman utility only)
Audit logs can be encrypted to prevent modification
outside of UV environment
UniVerse system utilities write to encrypted staging area
before being added to audit logs

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Audit Logging – Log File Options
audlog1 audlog2
write
write
1) Log suspended
read
2) Log offloaded
to archive storage
3) Log cleared
4) Log resumed

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Audit Logging – Log Switching
audlog1
write
5) Log suspended
read
6) Log offloaded
to archive storage
7) Log cleared
8) Log resumed
audlog2
write

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Audit Logging – Log File Information

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Audit Logging – Log File Information

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Audit Logging – New Features
Performance
• Throughput
• Scalability
Versatility
• Multiple log types
• Re-configure without shutdown
These statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice.

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Local Functions and Subroutines

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Local Functions and Subroutines
Compiler is backwards compatible
• No new keywords
Allows multiple subroutines/functions per source file
CALL/CALL @ statements check current object first
• Will check catalogs like normal if not found
Provides scoping restrictions within each source file

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Examples of Local Functions and Subroutines
A=1
B=0
CALL MySub(A); *Call a local subroutine
CRT “A is now 2: “:A
CRT “B is now 0: “:B
STOP
*Define the local subroutine
SUBROUTINE MySub(B)
B+=1
RETURN

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A = 1
CALL MySub(A); * Call a local subroutine
CRT “A is now 2: “:A
STOP
* Define the local subroutine
SUBROUTINE MySub(B)
A = 0; *local variable for MySub
B = A + B + 1
RETURN

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A = “”
CALL MySub(A); * Call a local subroutine
PRINT A
CALL SameNameSUBR(A); *Call a local subroutine
PRINT A
“CALL *SameNameSUBR(A); *Call an external subroutine”
PRINT A
STOP
*Define the local subroutine
SUBROUTINE MySub(B)
B = “In local MySub”
RETURN
*Define another local subroutine
SUBROUTINE SameNameSUBR(B)
B = “In local SameNameSUBR”
RETURN

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Forward Compatibility

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Replication Performance Monitor

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Replication Performance Monitor – XAdmin
View different aspects
Buffer usage Latency Data volumes
Find XAdmin in the U2 DBTools download (free)
Gives deeper insight into your Replication system
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Replication Performance Monitor – XAdmin

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64-Bit Advantages
64-Bit Memory Addressing / 64-Bit Compilation
A 64-bit system architecture that is running a 64-bit
edition of UniVerse can support up to 1,024 GB of
both physical and addressable memory
Improvements in parallel processing and bus
architectures enable 64-bit environments to support
as many as 64 processors and provide almost linear
scalability with each additional processor
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UniVerse 11.2 Platforms
Generally available as of November 14th, 2014
(64-bit releases available as of release 11.2.3 (May
2014) for LINUX, Windows, and Solaris)
Platforms supported: (32- and 64- bit)
• Windows – XP, Vista, 7, 8
• Windows Server – 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2011, 2012
• UNIX – AIX, Solaris x86, Solaris SPARC, HP/UX Itanium
• Linux – RHEL, SuSE

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UniVerse 11.3 Platforms
 Release 11.3.1 and higher will be 64-bit only
releases for all platforms.
These statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice.

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EDA with Single Server Replication
Combines
• Replication
• External Database Access
• All in a single database instance (single machine)
Keep your data local to UniVerse, while having the
UV engine translate it to a foreign DB for BI

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Other features
SSL libraries updated
- SHA-256 support
XML libraries updated
U2 Dynamic Objects - XML support
New U2 Basic XDOM functions

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Other features
Array re-dimension in subroutines & functions
Clear named COMMONs programmatically
Support for centering text via dictionary formatting
Support for long pids in Solaris & RHEL
TIMEOUT supports greater precision

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Added in 11.2.3
Replication with DataLink compression
• Designed for minimizing traffic when replicating over WAN
links to disaster-recovery sites
• Seamless to application

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Summary
 Account-based licensing to allow for multi-tenancy
systems
Audit logging for HIPAA, SOX, PCI and many more
industry standard compliance formats
Local functions and subroutines for improved
application performance and coding efficiency
Replication Performance Monitor for visibility
64-Bit

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Summary
 Additional Features
• EDA with Single Server Replication
• SSL Libraries Updated
o SHA-256 Support
• XML Libraries Updated
• U2 Dynamic Objects – XML Support
• New U2 Basic XDOM Functions
• Array Re-dimension in Subroutines and Functions
• Cleared Named Commons Programmatically

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Summary
 Additional Features
• Support Centering Text via Dictionary Formatting
• Support for Long PIDS in Solaris and RHEL
• TIMEOUT Supports Greater Precision
• Replication with Datalink Compression

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Additional Resources
Title Link
GitHub for Sample code https://github.com/RocketSoftwar
e/multivalue-
lab/tree/master/U2/Demos
Rocket Blog http://blog.rocketsoftware.com/bl
og/author/mbyrne/

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Additional Resources -Technical Documentation

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Next Steps
 Download and Install
• Download free version of UniVerse 11.2 at:
http://www.rocketsoftware.com/trials?f[0]=im_field_trial_product_family%3A1551
 Read Rocket Blog
• http://blog.rocketsoftware.com/blog/author/mbyrne/

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