TOP Server Release Notes (5.9.170.0) June 26, 2012

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TOP Server Release Notes (5.9.170.0) June 26, 2012
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TOP Server Release Notes (5.9.170.0) June 26, 2012
General
Windows 2000 Operating Systems are no longer supported for Versions 5.9 and higher.
Server Admin
Fixed an issue where the User Access Control was not applied consistently to all the functions that required it in the Server Administration User Interface.
Removed the “Modify Server Settings” privilege from the Default User’s list of privileges in the User Manager. The setting never allowed the Default User the privilege even when it was enabled.
Fixed an issue where privileged changes made in the User Manager were not applied to the active Configuration session.
Fixed an issue where the Help button located on the User Manager page linked to the wrong help file topic.
Fixed an issue where the server’s Administration icon in the notification area of the Windows Taskbar was disappearing on Windows 7 64 bit operating systems.
Server Runtime
Fixed an issue where Ethernet Encapsulation would not initialize properly when the user switched from an invalid COM port to Ethernet Encapsulation.
Added support for automatically persisting channel and device diagnostics data to disk.
Added support for automatically persisting OPC diagnostics data to disk. OPC Diagnostics capture must now be enabled through OPC DA Settings (located in the server by clicking File | Project Properties).
Server Configuration
Added tag description length validation on both Automatic Tag Generation and CSV Import.
Server Installation
Updated the OPC DA 2.0 Automation Wrapper examples in the install to run correctly on 64 bit operating systems. They will now run under WOW64.
Fixed an issue where uninstalling the Wonderware InTouch Client Driver would inadvertently unregister the shared components required by Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk HMI for loading its projects.
Native Client Interfaces
IFIX PDB/NIO Interface
Added the new "Use iFIX Startup Configuration File" setting, which allows iFIX users to enable or disable a special iFIX configuration file that is used by the server to automatically start scanning items before iFIX requests item data.
OPC DA Server Interface
Fixed an issue where the server set errors for individual properties in the “IOPCItemProperties::GetItemProperties ()” call to “E_FAIL” rather than to “OPC_E_INVALID_PID”.
Fixed an issue where two updates occurred for each tag that was added to a group on an initial update. This could occur if a client requested an “Advise” on a group before any items were added and subsequent active items were then added to the group.
Plug-Ins
DataLogger
Added the new "Item data set to good quality" Event Expression trigger to the Start and Stop condition pick lists.
EFM Exporter Plug-In
This new server plug-in allows the export of Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) data from EFM-enabled drivers. At this time, support is for EFM export to Flow-Cal format (CFX) Versions 5, Report Types 1 through 4.
Advanced Tags Plug-In
Fixed an issue where XML project files created from previous versions of the server failed to load.
Fixed an issue where the Average Tag value was reset when the Data Tag or Run Tag was bad quality.
SNMP Agent Plug-In
Fixed an issue where using the '%' character in the Community string name would reformat the name and make it unreadable in the Event Log when used as part of an Event Log message.
Drivers
All Drivers
Most drivers have been enhanced to support non-normalized floating point values, which are values that exist outside of the normalized floating point range. These enhanced drivers include a setting that allows users to specify how the non-normalized values should be handled.
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet
Fixed an issue where the Device ID could become corrupt if any three octets of the IP contained exactly three digits and the remaining octet was set to 44.
Updated the “Supported Devices” list in the help file to display support for RS Logix V20.
Added the ‘#’ symbol to the ControlLogix Predefined Tag addressing syntax as an alternative to the ‘@’ symbol. Previous usage of the ‘@’ symbol conflicted with the dynamic tag addressing syntax used by the server.
Added the new device-level internal tag "_FailedConnection” that indicates the driver failed on its attempt to connect to the device.
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Slave Ethernet
Logix LINT arrays no longer allow a data type of Date array.
Fixed an issue with the reading of and writing to Logix LINT data.
Fixed an issue with the reading of String type values that are less than 32 characters.
Fixed an issue with the reading of and writing to the following array types: Char, Byte, Short, Word, Long, DWord, Float, and Double.
Beckhoff TwinCAT
Fixed an issue where a repeating Event Log message occurred when multiple TwinCAT devices were located on a single channel.
Bristol BSAP IP Ethernet
Fixed an issue where communications appeared to stop when the response time exceeded the request timeout.
DNP Master Ethernet
Added the new internal tag “_TimeSyncStyle”.
Fixed an issue where the driver would fail to send confirmations to unsolicited responses. This occurred if the slave failed to respond to a Link Status Request, and instead sent its own Link Status Request.
DNP Master Serial
Added the new internal tag “_TimeSyncStyle”.
Fixed an issue where the driver would fail to send confirmations to unsolicited responses. This occurred if the slave failed to respond to a Link Status Request, and instead sent its own Link Status Request.
Enron Modbus
This new serial driver communicates with a range of devices that support the Enron Modbus protocol, which are primarily used in Oil & Gas applications. It supports real-time communications as well as Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM), where EFM data is collected and logged via the EFM Exporter Plug-In.
Fisher ROC PLUS Serial
Added support for the use of legacy tag names as part of Automatic Tag Generation. This enhancement was made to resolve a change introduced in the 5.8 release where tag formats created via Automatic Tag Generation were different than previous versions. This tag format issue only affects users who upgraded to version 5.8 and triggered tag regeneration.
For new installations of Fisher ROC Plus driver (server version V5.9 and up), the default setting for this checkbox is ‘checked’ so legacy tag names are used.
Fisher ROC Serial
Added support for the use of legacy tag names as part of Automatic Tag Generation. This enhancement was made to resolve a change introduced in the 5.8 release where tag formats created via Automatic Tag Generation were different than previous versions. This tag format issue only affects users who upgraded to version 5.8 and triggered tag regeneration.
For new installations of Fisher ROC Serial driver (server version V5.9 and up), the default setting for this checkbox is ‘checked’ so legacy tag names are used.
GE Ethernet
Fixed an issue with importing tags from GE Proficy's tag database (.CSV and .SNF formats). The driver was failing to correctly import symbolic structure tags that were part of a ladder block.
GE FANUC Focas 1 HSSB
Enhanced the driver’s Open model to support the Series 30i device.
Fixed an issue where the driver was not communicating after the device was disconnected and then reconnected.
Modbus RTU Serial
Increased the character limit of the tag Description field from 64 to 255.
Added the new device-level internal tag "_FailedConnection” that indicates the driver failed on its attempt to connect to the device.
Modbus ASCII Serial
Increased the character limit of the tag Description field from 64 to 255.
Added a new option for handling illegal address exceptions that allows users to deactivate tags when an illegal address is detected.
Modbus TCP/IP Ethernet
Increased the character limit of the tag Description field from 64 to 255.
Fixed an issue where the driver was posting continuous "Failed to start unsolicited communications messages" in the Event Log when Port 502 was in use by another application at startup.
Added the new device-level internal tag "_FailedConnection” that indicates the driver failed on its attempt to connect to the device.
Modbus Plus
Increased the character limit of the tag Description field from 64 to 255.
Modbus Unsolicited
Increased the character limit of the tag Description field from 64 to 255.
OMNI Flow Computer
This new serial driver communicates with OMNI Flow Computers, which are primarily used in Oil & Gas applications. It supports real-time communications as well as Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM), where EFM data is collected and logged via the EFM Exporter Plug-In.
OPC DA Client
Fixed an issue in the Tag Import Browser where parent node tags would be imported even when only a child node was selected.
OPC UA Client
Fixed an issue where tags containing the “GUID” Node ID type were not being validated correctly.
Fixed an issue in the Tag Import Browser where parent node tags would be imported even when only a child node was selected.
Productivity 3000
Changed "First word Low" to “First word high” in the Data Handling page (located in Device Properties) to reflect how the driver actually handles data when the option is checked.
Siemens TCP/IP Ethernet
Fixed an issue where the Byte Order (Big Endian or Little Endian) for a tag could unexpectedly change. This occurred when there were two or more devices under one channel that had tags pointing at the same address, but with a different Byte Order selected. This could result in an incorrect Byte Order for one or all of those tags.
Added support for the Date data type for the Siemens DATE_AND_TIME (DT) data block memory type.
Added write support for the Siemens TIME_OF_DAY (TOD) data block memory type.
UCON (User Configurable Driver)
Fixed an issue where the configuration client would crash when the driver attempted to automatically generate tags while disconnected from the Runtime.
Prevented a deadlock issue that could occur if multiple pieces of outgoing data were queued while the driver was processing incoming data. This change affects the Transmit and Transmit Byte Commands.
Fixed an issue where the “Update Tag” command no longer fails when used in an unsolicited mode tag and the tag type is “Dynamic ASCII Format”.
DWord tags that use “ASCII Integer” or “ASCII Integer (packed 6 bit)” now support the full DWord range.
The “Update Tag” command now updates a numeric data tag that uses the “Byte from 2 ASCII Hex Chars (hh)” or “Nibble from 1 ASCII Hex Char” format.
Fixed an issue where transaction commands were unavailable from the Edit menu if the Transaction window was selected.
Increased the character limit for Tag Group Names and Tag Names to 255.
Added the new Custom Checksum “Custom #13 (8-bit)”. This checksum sums the bytes and then subtracts the sum from zero.
Weatherford 8500 Serial
Added the new device-level internal tag "_FailedConnection” that indicates the driver failed on its attempt to connect to the device.
WITS Level 0 Passive
This new serial driver supports Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) Level 0, which is used primarily in Oil & Gas applications. It is a “passive” driver that receives data from devices configured to send updates without solicitation from the driver.
WITS Level 0 Active
This new serial driver supports Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) Level 0, which is used primarily in Oil & Gas applications. It is an “active” driver that receives data from devices configured to send updates when solicited (polled) from the driver.
Yokogawa Controller Serial
Fixed a threading issue where the driver would report the wrong value for a tag if there were multiple devices in a project and one of the devices responded with a negative number.
Fixed an issue where a crash could occur if a device responded with unexpected packets.
Yokogawa DXP
Fixed a graphical issue where the text "User Function" was cut off by the drop down box in the "Communications Parameters" wizard page.
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