New features are listed in documents
"Getting Started: New and Revised Features (NeRF)" which are available for each release from
Progress ESD download center:Where is the ESD / Product Download Center?This is an extract for OpenEdge Management features only, which were added in OEM 11.3, 11.4, 11.5 and 11.6 releases:
OpenEdge Management – New Features added from OEM 11.3 – 11.6 releases
Remote AdminServers Management — A new page, Manage Remote AdminServer, is added to OEM to add, configure, and monitor remote AdminServers. You can access this page from the Management Console Bar using Options > Configuration > Remote AdminServer Configuration. You can also use this page to view configured remote AdminServers based on the following criterion: online, offline, or auto-discovered.
Table partitioning — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer enable you to horizontally divide table data by defining a partition policy.You can set partition policy details to specify conditions for displaying data that is stored by the partition policy. This physical divide of data between partitions improves performance, maintenance, and availability of data.
The key features of table partitioning are:
• establishing connections with table-partitioned databases
• enabling databases to support table partitioning
• creating table partition policies
• managing partition policy details
• Security improvements — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provide the following security improvements over release 11.3:
• a form-based login page and the ability to log out of OpenEdge Management
• a new PSCTrend role is assigned to the trend database user
• encryption of passwords using the SHA-256 hashing algorithm
• the ability to configure an auto-logout session
• SSL communication with remote AdminServers — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge
Explorer provide secure communication with remote AdminServers using a Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) connection.
• Layout improvements — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provide a new
layout for the administration options and help pages.
• Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge) — PAS for OpenEdge is a platform that provides Web server support for Progress applications. Apache Tomcat is used as the Web server for hosting the applications. Client access to PAS for OpenEdge is through the HTTP/HTTPS protocols. The key features that OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provide for PAS for OpenEdge are:
• Creating, configuring, and managing PAS for OpenEdge instances
• Registering and managing PAS for OpenEdge instances as Windows services
• Using log files for monitoring PAS for OpenEdge instances
• Installing, configuring, and managing ABL Web applications on PAS for OpenEdge
• Viewing and managing ABL application sessions, requests, connections, and agents
• Using graphs for reviewing CPU and memory usage by PAS for OpenEdge agents
• Configuring APSV, REST, and SOAP transports for accessing ABL application logic
• Managing the deployment of APSV, REST, and SOAP transport services
• Log file viewer and monitor improvements — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provide a standard log file viewer for viewing log file data across all managed OpenEdge resources.
Since PAS for OpenEdge is designed to create a new application log file each day at midnight, OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer enable you to set the log file name template based on the date. Additionally, you can disable information alerts for log file name changes.
Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version 3 — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer support SNMP version 3 for responding to administrative information queries from your SNMP management console or manager. SNMP version 3 is used to add to the functionality of version 2c by providing multiple levels of security enhancements that is based on authentication and privacy.
• Table partitioning support for read-only and merge partitions — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer enable you to set a table partition policy detail as read-only. A new PartitionMergeUtility class enables you merge partitions when you move table data from one partition to another.
• Operator role permissions to the Database Administration Console (DAC) — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provides the administrative function of customizing permissions for the Operator role. Depending on the permissions level, you can control the Operator access to databases and database connections.
• Support for creating private database connections — OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer enable you to control the visibility of new database connections. As an administrator, you can control which connections you want to share with other administrators or operators.
• Secure connections to OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer — In the OpenEdge Proenv utility, you can use the new –ssl parameter with the fathom command to connect to OpenEdge Management
Dashboard improvements – The Dashboard has been re-designed to offer improved usability with the following features:
• A new menu is available to quickly navigate to the sub-menus.
• Hover menus have been removed to ensure smoother navigation on touch-screen devices such as tablets.
• Collection views are displayed as tabs to access, configure, and organize views easily.
• An Adminserver status viewlet is included in the Default collection view to display the number of running and offline AdminServers.
• A Help Me option, in the console footer bar, has been provided to access context-sensitive help related to the active console page, and OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer documentation.
New graphs – Graphs in OpenEdge Management are now designed to be more interactive and provide the following features:
• The new graphs belong to the Historical family which show multiple points in time, and their interpretation is in the form of line chart, area chart, column chart, stacked area chart, or stacked column chart.
• All graphs, except viewlets, have three options at the top-right corner for customization. Using these options you can select a period, ranging from 2 hours to 2 weeks, to display the data collected for that period, reload the graph, and select different forms of graphical interpretation.
• The legend of each graph defines different colors of the graph, and shows maximum, minimum, average, and last graph values for selected time period.
• By default, 15 days of graph data is stored for each database resource.
Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge) improvements – OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer provides the following improved features for PAS for OpenEdge:
• Supports multiple ABL applications per PAS instance.
• Provides metrics for ABL applications, REST, SOAP, APSV, and WEB transport services.
• Supports configuration of APSV transport properties.
• WEB transport support for PAS for OpenEdge – PAS for OpenEdge now supports deployment of WebSpeed applications and allows you to:
• Manage WEB transport services.
• View WEB transport metrics.
• Configure WEB transport properties.
• Manage WEB handlers.
• Supports validation of configuration properties to ensure a successful connection.
New OpenEdge database views – A database’s home page provides two new database views:
• Database configuration view in Informational Views – Displays general information such as details, features, and other parameters of your database.
Note: The Database Configuration view is a replacement of the General Details view. It does not allow you to modify your database configuration properties.
• Performance Summary view in Operational Views – Provides summarized information about your database and all other operational views associated with it. Use the clickable links on the page to find historical data for particular information for 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, and 4 weeks.
Display of alerts – Alert features provide the following improvements:
• All alerts are now displayed in a grid frame of the Alerts page.
• Five of the most recent alerts are displayed on a resource’s home page and its monitoring summary page. When there are more than 5 alerts, use the See complete list option to open the Alerts page and see all the alerts associated with the resource
Other improvements include:
• The User Activity view in Operational Views of a database's home page has been re-designed to be more functional and display the database user management pages in different tabs.
• A Database connection home link has been provided in a database's home page to access the Database Administration Console page and manage the database.
