Version change and compatibility

Compatibility

openFT V12.1 is compatible with openFT V12.0, i.e. all V12.0 functions can be used unchanged and without restriction in V12.1.

openFT V12.1 is no longer supported on SX servers.

Change of version

Before performing installation with IMON, the following activities must be performed in all the instances present:

1. Back up the operating parameter settings, the partner list entries and, if applicable, the FTAC environment in procedure files, for details, see section “Backing up the configuration data”.

2. Back up the following openFT system files to the instance ID (standard instance: $SYSFJAM) in case you should need to revert to the earlier version:

   SYSRQF
   SYSLOG
   SYSKPL
   SYSKEY
   SYSFSI

   Instead of backing up the SYSLOG as a file, you can, for example, simply back up the content of SYSLOG in CSV format and then evaluate the log records at a later date. To do this, use the command SHOW-FT-LOGGING-RECORDS LAYOUT=*CSV. Following installation, openFT then works with a new SYSLOG file.

3. Make sure that there are no requests in the request queue when you perform the version change.
   Reason: Requests are not taken over from V12.0 to V12.1. As a result, unfinished requests are lost on migration and may even cause requests for which their is no correspondence in the local system to persist on partner systems.

4. Delete the files SYSOPF, SYSRQF and SYSPTF, and possibly also SYSLOG (if the old log records are no longer required in the new version). The SYSLOG file can only be taken over to an offline log file.

5. Leave the SYSKPL and SYSKEY files so that they can be taken over into the new version, if authentication is still to be used there. In this case, you must not delete these files!

After completion of the IMON installation of openFT (and possibly of openFT-FTAM or openFT-FTP), openFT recreates the files SYSRQF, SYSOPF and SYSPTF on the first access attempt.

Taking over settings

If you want to continue to work with the old operating parameter settings, partner list entries and, if applicable, FTAC settings, you should run the procedures generated during the back-up operation (see point 1).

Notes on openFT-FTP

When using openFT-FTP, you should note that after installation the FTP server is automatically deactivated.

If you want to use openFT-FTP for inbound requests, you have the following possibilities:

• You take over the operating parameter settings from openFT V12.0 provided that the openFTP server has been activated there.

• You activate the FTP server manually using the command MODIFY-FT-OPTIONS ...,ACTIVE-APPLICATIONS. When doing this, note the following:
  ACTIVE-APPLICATIONS=*ALL activates all protocols,
  ACTIVE-APPLICATIONS=*FTP only activates the FTP protocol.

For details, see manual "openFT (BS2000) - Command Interface ".

An error message FTR0852 will be output if the configuration files SYSOPF, SYSPTF, SYSRQF, SYSLOG, SYSFSA and SYSKEYdo not match with the current openFT version.