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| A Newsletter for Unisys EAE and Agile Business Suite Clients | April 2022 | ||
Secure, Low-Code Development: AB Suite Release 8.0By Thangathen Ponnusamy, Senior Product Manager, Agile Business Suite
With this new release, you can take advantage of low-code development on ClearPath® MCP and Microsoft® Windows® platforms. And, for the first time ever, AB Suite is now supported in the ClearPath OS 2200 environment. As we welcome OS 2200 clients to AB Suite family, our initial focus will be to ease the transition from Enterprise Application Environment (EAE) to AB Suite on OS 2200 by providing a runtime environment that’s similar to EAE in terms of behavior, performance characteristics, etc. Aside from this exciting announcement, AB Suite 8.0 includes a number of noteworthy new enhancements. Read on to learn about all the great things built into this release. Low-Code Development TechnologyThe development environment for AB Suite 8.0 is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2019. As part of this integration, you’ll see a new start window that streamlines the launch experience so you can access your code faster. Likewise, you can quickly search for AB Suite project templates by their title or description. And thanks to integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server 2020, you'll increase agility and responsiveness by continuously building, testing, and deploying your applications as market demands change. Additionally, with more capability added to the Diagram, you can draw composition relationships to all available types. You'll be able to take advantage of the new Array type. You’ll enhance the debugging experience with Set Next Statement, which allows you to change the point at which logic executes in a debug session. And a streamlined Import experience offers a cleaner look, fewer options, and a more responsive design. SecuritySecurity continues to be a strategic focus for the AB Suite team, and Release 8.0 offers several enhancements designed to further protect your mission-critical applications. For instance, AB Suite for ClearPath MCP now supports Secure FTP code transfer, allowing you to execute secure file transfers between the Builder Client and Host FTP Server. FTP over TLS 1.2 is now supported between the Builder Client and Host FTP Server, as well. With DMSII Structure-Level Encryption (SLE), you’ll be able to encrypt complete datasets/tables and all associated sets/subsets (indexes). Plus, because it’s very easy to configure and has effectively no limitations – unlike DMSII Field-Level Encryption – you’ll have another mechanism for safeguarding your persistent data. When it comes to AB Suite for Windows, we now support Microsoft SQL Server® Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), which secures your database by protecting SQL Server data and log files using symmetric key encryption and AES algorithms. You’ll also be able to take advantage of encrypted RATL over TLS 1.2 when exchanging data between Client Tools and the Windows runtime. New Feature SuggestionsThis release also includes several updates drawn directly from our clients’ New Feature Suggestions. For example, the AB Suite for MCP HUB now supports data packets of 65KB – up from the previous limit of 2KB – allowing much larger data transfers between AB Suite 8.0 applications. We’ve also increased the limit on the size of a non-persistent string from 262KB to 6MB, so you can manage much larger data strings internally, as well as pass and receive larger method parameters. Easier UpgradesUsing our ExportAS feature, you’re able to follow a simplified, phased approach when upgrading from We would like to thank all of the clients and Unisys associates who participated in Tech Preview and Beta Test programs. Your feedback and inputs were invaluable in bringing this release to life. |
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Agile Business Suite (AB Suite®) Release 8.0 was officially made available in January 2022! 
