Progress Software

Anthony Cross, Laurent Kieffer

February 2016
 Modernization and Digital Transformation Projects

Gartner Report:
2016 TOP FIVE IT PRIORITIES

Other
13% 87%
application modernization
and/or extending
App Mod of application capabilities
Ent Apps
Extending 46%
Applications
41%

Modernization and Digital Transformation Projects Are Behind Growth in

Enterprise Application Software Market, August 2015

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 Overview of OpenEdge 11.6 Enhancements

Platforms and Installation

WebSpeed support in Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge
Server Technology
Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
OpenEdge ABL
OpenEdge Business Process Management
OpenEdge DataServers
OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer
OpenEdge Database
OpenEdge SQL
OpenEdge Mobile Documentation :
OpenEdge Getting Started: New and Revised Features

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Custom Installs
 OpenEdge 11.6 Custom Installs

Build customized install images for individual

deployments

Reduce the footprint and increase deployment efficiency

Decrease install process costs

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 Platforms and Installation

Platforms
Power HA 7.1 certification
Documentation:
Java8 Runtime certifications
OpenEdge Getting Started: New and Revised
HP Helion cloud certification for CentOS 6.5 and Features
Windows 2012 R2 64-bit OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and
Configuration
Installation
Online:
OpenEdge custom installation bundle utility Install help
PDSOE
Telerik controls 11.5.1 rolled up
Infragistics controls are upgraded to version
14.2.20142.2092
Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET v2014 Vol 2 CLR 4.0
OEBPM
JBoss EAP Configuration files

Service Pack fix

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 Why upgrading to 11.6 can be easier
Less overhead for client installs

Better customization capabilities

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 WebSpeed support in Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge

Migrating classic WebSpeed

Developing WebSpeed Applications in Documentation:
PDSOE Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge:
Using PDSOE to develop new application Introducing PAS for OpenEdge
Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge:
Security for WebSpeed Applications Application Migration and Development
Securing a migrated classic WebSpeed Guide
Application Pacific Application Server for OpenEdge:
Administration Guide
Options for securing WebSpeed Applications OpenEdge Management: Pacific
Application Server for OpenEdge
Configuration

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Strengthened Security
 OpenEdge 11.6 Security

Enhanced Progress OpenEdge application protection with

comprehensive support of the latest TLS/SSL security technology

Minimize risks from malicious attacks that can cause irreparable

damage to your business

Supports the most modern SSL standards (TLS1.2 with fail-back to

TLS1.1, TLS1.0 and SSLv3) - SHA 256

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 Server Technology

SSL security updates

OpenSSL Library is upgraded to 1.0.1m Documentation:
OpenEdge Application Server:
OpenEdge supports TLSv1.1and TLSv1.2 Administration
protocols OpenEdge Development: Messaging and
OpenEdge supports digital certificate validation ESB
whose signatures use SHA2 (256 or 512) OpenEdge Getting Started: Core Business
message digest algorithms Services - Security and Auditing

Application Server Refresh

Reload r-code
Trim file system allocation
Recover process memory

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 Why should you upgrade for Security?

Production ready - Tested using security

audit tool

Spring Security integration with ABL

sessions

Security updates via Java & Tomcat

distributions Out of the box standards

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 Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge

OpenEdge Data Object changes

The Mobile OpenEdge project type is replaced
Online Help:
with two new OpenEdge project types:
Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
Data Object
ABL Web App
Changes to OpenEdge project type
WebSpeed (WebHandler)
REST (Mapped RPC)
Data Object (Annotated RPC)
Profiler Editor
References Update to Telerik assemblies
Assert API in ABLUnit

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 Advanced Business Language (ABL)

Enumerated types (video) Using enums

Reflection (video) Using Progress ABL Reflection
Documentation
New attributes and startup parameters for OpenEdge Development: ABL Reference
parsing XML OpenEdge Development Internationalizing Applications
- Support for newer ICU collations
Serializing classes to binary and JSON
formats
Single-line comments
Additional information from XREF and
XREF-XML options of COMPILE
RadForm subclasses in GUI for .NET
Support for Newer ICU Collations

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 OpenEdge DataServers

SSL Support
Support for DataServer in PAS for Documentation:
OpenEdge environment OpenEdge Getting Started: Core Business Services -
Security and Auditing - SSL Security
ROWID area restructuring Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server
New wire-protocol driver support Data Management: DataServer for Oracle

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 OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer

User Interface enhancements

Documentation:
Graph enhancements (OpenEdge
OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer:
Management only) Getting Started
Alerts enhancements (OpenEdge OpenEdge Management: Pacific Application Server for
OpenEdge Configuration
Management only)
OpenEdge Management: Database Management
Database enhancements OpenEdge Management: Resource Monitoring
OpenEdge Management: Alerts Guide and Reference
Security enhancements

Pacific Application Server enhancements

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 OpenEdge Database

Restart a Replication Agent

without Restarting the Target Documentation:
Database OpenEdge Data Management: Database Administration
OpenEdge Replication: User Guide
Replication information in Virtual Online Help
System Tables (VSTs) Database Administration Utilities
PROUTIL PARTITIONMANAGE
Copy Qualifier

LOBs data Included in Database

Analysis Commands

Message Buffer Size Startup

Parameter (-Mm) Enhanced

Enhancements to the dbman

Command
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SQL Enhancements
 OpenEdge 11.6 SQL Enhancements

Continued commitment to extensive SQL

enhancements in Progress OpenEdge 11

Additional capabilities support OpenEdge Analytics360

and complex SQL statements

SQL Standards Enhancements

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 OpenEdge SQL

OpenEdge SQL
enhancements Documentation:
Authorized data truncation OpenEdge Data Management: SQL Development
(new in 11.5.1 release) OpenEdge Data Management: SQL Reference
OpenEdge Development: Internationalizing Applications
Autonomous schema update
Support for newer ICU
collations

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 Why upgrading to 11.6 for SQL is important
Performance Improvements

More Standard SQL statements

Applications or Analytics that need to access the OpenEdge

Database

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 OpenEdge Mobile

Submit operation
getErrors() API Web:
Cloud Data Object open source project on GitHub:
CRUD Sample
http://clouddataobject.github.io/
Progress Data Service Template Progress Data Objects Guide and Reference:
in the Telerik platform https://documentation.progress.com/output/pdo/
Push Notifications
Documentation:
OpenEdge Development: Web Services
Online
Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge

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OpenEdge 11.6
Telerik UI for WinForms

On en Parle ?
Oui
Non
 OpenEdge Product: GUI for .NET
Telerik Product: UI for WinForms
Demo Showcasing the Telerik UI for WinForms
Progress Developer Studio Visual Designer

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 What is the OpenEdge GUI for .NET?

Modern UI for OpenEdge applications using Microsoft WinForms

Desktop enterprise business applications
Microsoft and third-party control providers results in hundreds of UI components
Data-centric UI controls
ADO.NET maps well to OpenEdge ProDataSet
Visual Designer in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
WAIT-FOR event model for .NET forms

More than just GUI supports most .NET classes

Expands your ABL program with .NET libraries
Object-oriented programming directly in ABL

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 Sample Transformation Side-by-side

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