New features of Version 8.10 SP5

(with respect to Version 8.10 SP4)

· HMI

· Managing variables

· Managing alarms

· Managing historical data

· SCADA Basic programming

· VBA programming

· Communication

· WebVue 3.1

· Smart Generator Component

· Development Kit

· Miscellaneous

· Known issues

HMI (8.10 SP5)

• Improvements of the alarm viewer sort feature.
• SPR #12946: Fix of a regression pertaining to bilingual configuration of associated labels. Only labels for the current language were visible in the configuration dialog box.
• SPR #12898 – Fix: Under some circumstances, the log viewer scroll bar disappeared.
• SPR #12970 - Fix: Under some circumstances, the Gradient Register Colour animation was not correctly saved. The issue applies to both ASCII and Binary mimic formats. If you encounter this, to be 100% sure of fixing the problem, you need to check/correct the animations configuration and re-save the mimics and symbols that contain them using this version.
  If not re-saved, the previous, incorrect, load processes is still executed for compatibility purpose: Despite the problem, some configuration may be correctly loaded (depending on the overall animation configuration).
• SPR #13176 – Enhancement: It is now possible to delete both temporary and permanent events from the event configuration dialog boxes.
• Fix of a fatal error due to the use of a deleted expression in a graphic animation.

Managing variables (8.10 SP5)

• SPR #13117 – Enhancement: In case a register is time stamped at the PLC level and defined with thresholds, when a threshold was triggered, the underlying bit variable did have the true PLC timestamp, but the ‘PLC’ flag (indicating a timestamp coming from the PLC level) was lost.

Managing alarms (8.10 SP5)

• Fix: A regression prevented the use of the Enumala feature with source variables of type OPC, DDE and LNS.

Managing historical data (8.10 SP5)

• SPR #12549: Fix of an inversion of the triggering bit values when configuring a log report. If configured at 0, the log report was stored at 1 and vice-versa. This issue had no impact on the runtime feature as long as no configuration modification was done.
• SPR #12912 – Fix: Variable of type Chrono was not correctly stored in log reports. Question marks were stored instead of the actual values.
• SPR #11154 & 12778 – Fix pertaining to the configuration of the storage folder of an archive unit of type ‘Free’. In case the storage folder is defined by a text variable, the field was truncated to 12 characters instead of 40.
• Fix pertaining to timestamp consistency for trended alarms and bits. Timestamps stored in databases for trended alarms and bits could be inconsistent in case of historical data server redundancy (HDS archive units).
• SPR #12817 – Fix: Bit changes logging on an ODBC archive unit. Events were correctly stored, but were never displayed in the Log Viewer.
• SPR #12880 – Fix: Under some circumstances, deleting an archive unit containing one or more log reports was causing a fatal error.
• SPR #13109 – Fix: Text attributes containing accentuated characters where not correctly returned by HDS requests.
• Enhancement: Register variables changes incremented automatically due to the treatment WatchdogSV object are no longer logged in historical data.
• SPR #13196 – Fix: Extended attributes stored in an ODBC archive unit were not correctly returned if they contain non-occidental characters. This only occurred when the ANSI option was activated on the project.
• SPR #12767 – Fix: Timestamp format was incorrect for data stored in a VCR archive unit if the Supervisor was run on a PC with German regional settings activated.

SCADA Basic programming (8.10 SP5)

• SPR #12831 – Enhancement: Allows the use of constants without the explicit conversion to double (using TOD()) for the period parameter of the SVTREND verb.
• New: Verb ALARM, mode RESETANDSETALARM allows to explicitly reset and set an alarm that is On, possibly simulating its disappearance and re-appearance.
  Syntax: ALARM(“RESETANDSETALARM”, <AlarmName>);
• New: Verb SVBRANCH, mode RESETANDSETALARM to explicitly reset and set all alarms that are On, belonging to a branch and corresponding to a filter, possibly simulating their disappearance and re-appearance.
  Syntax : SVBRANCH(“RESETANDSETALARM“, Branch [, Filter [, AlarmType]]);
• SPR #13054 – Enhancement: To ensure normal operations in case the verb TREND mode SETYRANGE is used and the referred Trend Viewer object does not exist.
• SPR #13133: Fix of a fatal error when using the verb SVTREND.
• SPR #13239 – Enhancement: It is now possible to delete an event when using the verb EVENT(“IMPORTBYFILE”,FileName) and EVENT(“IMPORTBYHANDLE”,HBuff). The following syntax must be used in the import file: DEVTPROG,event_name (without quotes).
• SPR #13238 – Enhancement: Expressions are now saved when using the verb VARIABLE(“SAVE”).

VBA programming (8.10 SP5)

• SPR #11777 & 12558 – Fix: Under some circumstances, the VBA online help was not open when pressing F1.
• SPR #13174 – Fix: When using the method LoadFromFile of the Grid object, the number of lines in the grid was not automatically adjusted according to the number of lines in the file.

Communication (8.10 SP5)

New communication protocols

• Citilog Release 1.0: Protocol for Citilog video matrix control.

Improvements to existing protocols

• SPR #13030 – Fix: Not all items were browsed in case the OPC server is configured as OPC1.0A or OPC2.0 with a flat organization of the address space.
• SPR #11944 & 12671 – Fix: Read/Write support for array of bytes/word mapped to Supervisor text variables.
• SPR #12804 – Fix: Incorrect behavior if a floating point frame is received containing badly formatted data.
• Fix of a regression concerning connection sharing on protocols S7-IP-MASTER and XBUS-IP-MASTER.
• Fix of a fatal error on protocol Ferromatik when connecting to more than one device.
• Enhancement: The S-BUS and IP-SAIA protocols now support PLC time stamping.
• Enhancement: On protocol XBUS-IP-MASTER, PLC time stamping can now be enabled/disabled using a SCADA Basic script with the following verb:
          CIMWAY("SENDMSG",comm_object_name,"DisableTS");
          CIMWAY("SENDMSG",comm_object_name,"EnableTS");
  Where comm._object_name is the name of a Network or a Node object.
  By default, PLC time stamping is enabled.

Multi-station

• New: Added support for flow regulation of subscription requests from a remote station in a networking architecture.
• Performance enhancement: When starting a client station, variable subscriptions to active stand-by servers are delayed. The delay parameter is stored in the LanConf.dat file:
  [WATCHOBJS]
  DelayBeforeStartWatchOnActiveStandby=600
  Value is in seconds, default value is 10 minutes.
• Fix: In case a client station can not subscribe to a passive server due to time-out, variables were forced invalid (NS COM) even if the subscriptions to the active server were correct.
• SPR #12954 – Enhancement: A system variable called SYSTEM.<AssocName>.Localhost now indicates whether the local station is active or not within the association named <AssocName>.

- This variable is of type Bit,

- Value is set to 1 if the local station is active in the association,

- Value is set to 0 if the local station is passive in the association,

- Status is NS if the local station does not belong to the association.

WebVue 3.1 (8.10 SP5)

• Enhancement: It is now possible to take advantage of automatic logout on inactivity as defined at the user profiles level. To activate this option for WebVue, add the parameter EnableLogoff=1 in the [Parameters] section of the WebVue.dat file (located in <MyProject>\Web directory where <MyProject> is the name of your project).

Smart Generator component (8.10 SP5)

• SG WAGO – Fix of an issue in case a variable is mapped on an address that is a multiple of %MW124.

Development Kit (8.10 SP5)

Web Services Toolkit

• Fix: The PingSession method of the SessionContext web service was returning an incorrect server timestamp.

Miscellaneous (8.10 SP5)

• SPR #12806: Project names can now have up to 255 characters.
• SPR 7968 & 11494: Fix pertaining to the Supervisor automatic exit due to operating system stopping or session closing.
• SPR #13130 – Fix: System variables named SYSTEM.LOCALHOST.USER and SYSTEM.LOCALHOST.PROFILE were staying with status NS and not updated on user login. This issue was not impacting the system variables playing the same role but including the station name: SYSTEM.<StationName>.USER and SYSTEM.<StationName>.PROFILE.
• SPR #13269 – Fix: If a time-table action was not executed because of the enabling bit, the time-table stopped working.
• SPR #13214 – Fix: Under some circumstances, the runtime time-table edition dialog-box did not display the time-table configuration (it was empty).
• SPR #13242: Fix of a fatal error in case an email is sent due to a threshold variable change.
• SPR #13198- Fix: UTC/Local timestamp conversion was incorrect for some particular time zones in case DST is activated.
• Other fixes and enhancements:

SPR #12409, 12680, 12782, 12905, 12921, 13216, 13233, 13242, 13250.  

Known issues (8.10 SP5)

• An issue has been discovered pertaining to broken connection detection. It only impacts bi-medium networking architectures over TCP/IP. A patch will be available soon, please contact the Technical support department prior to deploying such a configuration on-site.