New Features in Panther 5.51 This document describes the new features in   Panther 5.51

Panther Client

38604                    Add -ro option to allow initial screens to be opened Read-Only

38638                    RW utilities binherit; f2asc and rw6to7 can execute without libjpeg.so

38645                    Support word wrap fields in sm_*copyarray()

38674                    What.exe does not report SCCS versions for Object files compiled from C++ src

38679                    Support for Microsoft Visual C++ 2017

38622                    MNS_APPLIC on underlying scr goes away after dialog with MNS_SCRN_POPUP closes

38577                    Security Enhancement: Data for password fields is now encoded in memory

38541                    PR_AUTO_RESIZE_NO_TOUCH enables auto-resize when screen height/width are

                               changed programmatically

Panther Web Broker

38666                    Backwards Compatibility flag for message handling in HTML templates

38647                    Fix 64-bit Windows support for graphs in Panther Web

Database Driver

 Oracle

 38533                   Add new OCI drivers that use no OCI 7 OCI 8 functions only

Odbc

 38677                   DB Importer supports ODBC 3 Date and Time types

 38636                   Support ODBC 3 for Linux and UNIX

Misc

 38670                   Driver option to allow @dmengerrcode to be set at end of fetch

 38668                   Introduced variable    @dmengsqlstate

 38583                   Improve support for Store Procedure output parameters

 Panther Java Interface 

 38628                   Add method ww_read to interface FieldInterface

 37429                   Add sm_xml_export to CFunctionsInterface.java; new PR_JAVA_USE_CODESET

                               property

 38681                   var2bin support for new JAVA_USE_CODESET setup option

 Panther Tuxedo Interface 

 38631                   JIF Editor works without the presence of a Tuxedo Client software installation