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PCVUE 9.0 - NEW MAJOR RELEASE - |
Main features added:
- Windows 7 & 2008 compatibility
- Bacnet driver
- SIEMENS STEP7 Smart GEnerator
- Full Latvian language supported
- Better support of Terminal Server technology
- And many more...
For all enhancements check the ReadMe file here... |
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PCVUE 8.10 - Service Pack 6 - |
Several enhancements have been added:
- New limitation for the Note animation.
- New management for the file Saved.dat and AlarmSaved.dat in Terminal Server environment.
- Optimization: The time to load trend objects has been drastically reduced.
- New: The verb ALARMDISPLAY now supports the modes MASK_DISPLAY and UNMASK_DISPLAY.
- Support for analog values encoded in 4 bits for equipment variables.
- Improvement of redundancy behaviour for Internal variables in specific downgraded case.
- OPC Client: It is now possible to map more than one variable on an OPC ItemId.
- Manager Toolkit: The SV Manager wizard has been improved.
- Manager Toolkit: Components based on the SV Manager SDK can now be notified when a variable timestamp changes.
Several anomalies fixed.
For more details check the ReadMe file here... |
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PCVUE 8.2 - Service Pack 1 - |
Main features added:
- The DBImport tool enables you to import data to HDS tables. The format supported gives you the option to import files created when using the HDS export feature.
- New 65 000 I/O license option.
For more details check the ReadMe file here...
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PCVUE 8.10 - Service Pack 5 - |
HMI
- Improvements of the alarm viewer sort feature.
- It is now possible to delete both temporary and permanent events from the event configuration dialog boxes.
Programming
Scada Basic
- New: Function 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: Function 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]]);
Communication
Improvement for existing protocols
- The S-BUS and IP-SAIA protocols now support PLC time stamping.
- 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-stations
- Added support for flow regulation of subscription requests from a remote station in a networking architecture.
- A system variable called SYSTEM.<AssocName>.Localhost now indicates whether the local station is active or not within the association named <AssocName>.
Webvue
- 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).
Miscellaneous
Several anomalies fixed. For more details check the ReadMe file here...
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PCVUE 8.2 - New Major Release |
Main features added:
- Vista compatibility
- Full Japanese language supported
- Import Isagraf, FL and Autocad configuration
- Web scheduler
- Microsoft IIS7 supported for Webvue
For more details check the ReadMe file here... and the Release brochure here... |
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PCVUE 8.10 - Service Pack 4 - |
HMI
- Enhancement: When using the sort feature of the alarm viewer, the list was not re-sorted when a value change occured on the sort key field.
- SPR #12821: Enhancement to ensure normal operations when opening a mimic which style properties was corrupted.
- SPR #12758: Fix of a fatal error when using the Text display register or Send register animations with a text length greater than 80 characters.
- Enhancement: Optimization of the loading time of mimics that use animations with expressions.
- SPR #12681 - Enhancement: The Broadcast button is now hidden when a user accesses the variable dialog box (from a trend viewer for example) qnd he doesn’t have any development rights
- SPR #10852 & #12014 – Fix: The initial mimic of the default user was not opened after logout of another user.
- Enhancement: Better CPU performances when using flashing colours.
Communication
Cimway 7.3
- New Cimway version (7.3).
New protocols
- Protocol Ferromatik Release 1.0: Protocol for Ferromatik moulding machines.
- Protocol NC9300 Release 2.1: Protocol for Nissei moulding machines.
- Protocol Injecvisor Release 2.1: Protocol for Toshiba moulding machines.
Improvement for existing protocols
- SPR #12740: Fix of handle consumption in some specific condition of connection – write request – disconnection when using the XBUS IP SLAVE protocol.
- Enhancement: Better management of N writes type requests in Multiple mode when the Enable sequencing writes option is not activated. This enhancement only applies to old generation protocols.
Multi-stations
- SPR #12678 – Fix: The first login on a client station was not logged when using a remote HDS server and the multi-station connection between the client and the HDS server was not already established.
- SPR #12750: Fix of a fatal error on a client station when the Minimum and Maximum properties of a variable were defined by the value of another variables and a cross configuration does exist. Example: The Minimum of variable V1 is the value of variable V2 and the Maximum of variable V2 is the value of variable V1.
- Enhancement: Better management of data logging when only the timestamp of a variable changes.
- New: The availability rate is now taken into account as a criterion for choosing the active server in single active server associations. When the availability rates are equal, existing criteria apply, insuring compatibility for existing applications.
- Enhancement: Optimization of switching times for multiple active server associations when data are timestamped at the PLC level.
- Enhancement: To ensure normal operations when a variable is recorded in an ODBC archive unit, even though it is not configured on the archive server. This issue only occurs when the variable is produced by another station.
Programming
Scada Basic
- New: Verb “ALARM”, mode “ALARMON” now allows the dynamic modification of the property indicating whether an alarm is On at 0 or 1.
Syntax : ALARM( "ALARMON" , <AlarmName>, OriginValue);
If OriginValue is 1 the alarm <AlarmName> will be On when the bit <AlarmName> changes to 1
If OriginValue is 0 the alarm <AlarmName> will be On when the bit <AlarmName> changes to 0
- Enhancement: To ensure normal operations when a threshold is reached and is logged even though the register variable is not configured.
VBA
- Fix on the MouseLeave event management for AVI graphical objects. The event was not raised.
Webvue 3.1
- SPR #12684 - Enhancement: The verb ALARMDISPLAY modes SELECTED and SELECNAME are now supported in the WebVue context.
- SPR #12627: Enhancement of timestamps management.
Smart Generator Component
- New: Smart Generator for FactoryLink. This Smart Generator allows importing FL applications.
- Enhancement: Support of Expression Templates and Expressions on variable in the XML Generic Import.
Development Kit
SV Manager Toolkit
- New: An Application Wizard is now available to generate a Microsoft Visual C++ project in order to use the SV Manager.
- Enhancement of SV Manager sample projects.
- SPR #12794 & #12827: Fix pertaining to the management of the Size parameter of the CimwayWriteFrame method.
- Fix on alarm commands with the SetDataSet function.
- Enhancement of the _svmgrVarStatus and _svmgrQuality structures. The _svmgrQuality ConvertFormatVarStatusToQuality(_svmgrVarStatus VarStatus) function is added for conversions.
Web Services Toolkit
- SPR #12627: Enhancement of timestamps management.
- Fix of disconnection occurring because of unattended session time-out.
Miscellaneous
- Enhancement: To ensure normal operations when sending a recipe containing variables of bit type set with a value different from 0 or 1.
- SPR #12820 - Fix: The timestamp stored by the HDS for trended bits and alarms was incorrect when the archive producer is not the variable producer. This was occurring in a specific case when the update rate of the trend group is different from 0.
- Enhancement: New option in the General parameters offering the ability to manage thresholds in a strict manner (strictly greater or strictly less).
- Enhancement: Ability to configure VCR snapshots with a 1 minute precision.
- Enhancement of the on line configuration import with SCADA Basic verbs of type: VARIABLE(« IMPORT »), EXPRESSION(« IMPORT ») …
- Enhancement: Event action counters are added to audit information.
- SPR #11543: Enhancement of event actions management in case of expressions like 1>0, NS>S.
- SPR #12624, #12471, #12630: Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements related to user management, user rights configuration and operator login.
- SPR #12515 - Enhancement: It is now possible to add the value (in the case of a control) or a threshold value (in the case of exceeding a threshold) in the text of an email sent on event. The corresponding substitution string is #C as for the log window and archives configuration.
- SPR #12595 - Enhancement: It is now possible to define the maximum size of email attachments sent on event.
- Fix of a fatal error on OPC client disconnection. The issue was occurring in the event that an OPC client calls the RemoveGroup method without having called the RemoveItems method first.
- Other fixes and enhancements:
SPR #12071, 12705, 12719, 12776, 12789, 12813, 12819, 12834, 12840, 12896, 12946, 12549.
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PCVUE 8.10 - Service Pack 3 - |
Programming
Scada Basic
- New optional parameter to the mode LOAD
for the APPLICATION function
to enable to launch an executable program
with a wording folder.
- New optional parameter to the mode CAPTION
for the WINDOW function to enable to change the mimic title in both languages.
- Management of chinese characters for variables.
Communication
Cimway 7.27
- Cimway start and stop time optimization.
Improvement for existing protocols
- IPNL Version 1.04: Management of 2 types of Hilscher products:
NL-MPI and
NT40-MPI.
- Modbus 2 Version 4.2
LNS
- Enhancement of the traces.
User rights management
- In Advanced user accounts mode: An user account is locked after 3 wrong tries of password confirmation.
Development Kit
- Add a function to modify the alarm priority (or alarm level)
- Access to Cimway Api available
Miscellaneous
- Add a new parameter in "General Operations" menu in Alarm section: Enable the end of maintenance when alarm is on ack.
- The maximum number of expressions is configurable in the file C\UivConf.dat.
- Several bugs fixed.
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PCVUE 8.00 - Service Pack 8 - |
Communication
- Cimway start and stop time optimisation.
- Modbus2: New release 4.6.
Lonworks
User rights management
- For 21CFR part11: Account locked after 3 wrong password entered during an electronic signature confirmation.
Miscellaneous
- SvMgr: new function allowing to modify alarm level.
- Several bug fixing.
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PCVUE 7.20d - Service Pack 4 - |
Miscellaneous
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PCVUE 8.10 - Service Pack 1 - |
Communication
Improvement for existing protocols
- XBUS IP MASTER/SLAVE protocol: New "Message Time-out management" for a sharing connection.
User rights management
- Strong password management for a better security.
- Security improvments.
Programming
Scada Basic
- Enables the VARIABLE function with the IMPORTFILE/IMPORTBUFER mode to import the expressions.
- Management of summer time for SVBATCH function.
Multi-stations
- Improvement: In case of 3 levels architecture the "level 2" station can forward the logs actions.
Miscellaneous
- Improvement on the Printer Status for the redundant on-line printing.
- Several bugs fixing.
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PCVUE 8.00 - Service Pack 7 - |
Communication
Improvement for existing protocols
- MODBUS 2 protocol (Sorhodel): New version 3.8.
- SNCF_IP: More than one FIP board management.
- XBUS IP MASTER/SLAVE protocol: New "Message Time-out management" for a sharing connection.
User rights management
- Strong password management for a better security.
- Security improvments.
Programming
Scada Basic
- Enables the VARIABLE function with the IMPORTFILE/IMPORTBUFER mode to import the expressions.
Client OPC
- Improved behaviour with DCOM server.
Webvue
- Network dongle management for Web clients.
Miscellaneous
- Improvement on the Printer Status for the redundant on-line printing.
- Several bugs fixing.
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PCVUE 8.10 - New major Release - |
HMI
- All configuration options not directly associated with the HMI are now gathered together in a new dialog accessible from the menu command Configure.Project.General Operation.
- All configuration options associated with the HMI are now accessible from the menu command Configure.HMI Options.
- New explorer style interface for Configuration Options, Domains & Natures, Events, OPC communication, Multi-station, E-mail and Archives.
- Facility to modify ODBC requests by copying the QUERY.INI file from the DB folder to the Bin folder of the software.
- Addition of Chinese language for the HMI.
- Import/Export tool for strings used in the HMI (mimics, libraries etc.) to ease translation.
- Sending an E-mail depending on an event or on a SCADA Basic or VBA program.
- Tab controls on mimics so that you can display different pages in the same mimic.
- System look & feel option for the appearance of button shapes for text or rectangle objects.
- Ability to substitute variables of all types in symbols, not just temporary variables (variable%).
- Filtering data by SQL expression for the AIGrid (table) component.
- Monitoring variable values in the AIGrid (table) component.
- Trend Viewer: Indicating the period for which there is no data when 4,000 or more values are returned from a historical query.
- Trend Viewer: Option to cancel historical queries.
Managing variables
- Change to continuous monitoring of a variable for display. From now on you can only configure continuous monitoring if the station is a producer of that variable.
- Change in the way variables are managed when using and alarm synthesis (TREATMENT, GROUPALARM): To confirm the configuration without having defined all the variables in an alarm group.
- Change: In the process of acknowledging an alarm via a variable, that variable is now forced to 1 when the alarm is acknowledged. It is returned to zero when the alarm is On and Not Acknowledged. As before, the variable's transition to 1 causes acknowledgement of alarm. This feature is configurable by entering TREATMENT, ACKALARMBYVAR in the file VAREXP.DAT
- Change: In the process of masking an alarm, you can associate a Bit variable with an alarm so as to mask it. The masking and unmasking of an alarm also forces the value of the associated variable. This feature is configurable by entering TREATMENT, MASKALARMBYVAR in the file VAREXP.DAT
- Improvement to formatting of the values of Register variables in the backup file SAVED.DAT.
- Change: Processing of value X outside of the range [1, 1] for ACOS (X) and ASIN (X), for values of x<=0 for LOG (X), y =0 for x/y and MOD (X, Y). Their results will be displayed as “*” rather than 0 for the three types of expression: directly in an animation, in an expression model and in an expression on a variable.
Programming
Scada Basic
- Instruction APPLICATION mode LOAD: New optional parameter to start a program with a Start from path (Working Folder).
- Instruction CRONTAB mode NETWORKBROADCAST: New parameter to apply a CRON.DAT file either remotely or to all stations.
- Instruction EMAIL mode SEND: For sending an e-mail.
- Instruction EVENT modes ADDPROGEVT, DELPROGEVT, ADDEMAIL, DELEMAIL: To manage events that run SCADA Basic programs or send electronic messages.
- Instruction HISTORY mode UNIT, sub-modes SetReadServer and RestoreReadServer: Dynamically to assign the server station for an archive unit that handles read requests, and to restore the original configuration.
- Instruction HISTORY mode SETPRIMARY_UNIT, sub-mode Forceprimary_Unit: Enables you to specify the primary archive unit for reading the data.
- Instruction LAN modes SET_READ_SERVER and RESET_READ_SERVER: Option for dynamically choosing the server station in an association that runs requests for a client station.
- Instruction LAN mode SET_AVAILABLE_RATE: Dynamic option to change a server station's availability rate.
- Instruction LAN modes SET_MAIN_SERVER and RESET_MAIN_SERVER: Options to force a server station to primary and to remove the primary status of a specified primary server station.
- Instruction TREND mode REFRESH: Re-runs a request for historical data.
- Instruction WEBVUE mode LIST: To obtain the name of the remote host.
VBA
- Calling the Supervisor's VBA Help from the VBA Editor.
- New VBA function Project.SendEmail.
Communication
New protocols
- GEMLAN-T protocol - Release 2.0
- Hilscher NetLink protocol - Release 1.01: for Siemens Ethernet/MPI and Profibus-DP gateways.
- LEYCOMIV protocol - Release 1: Special protocol with a specific configurator.
- PPI protocol - Release 1.0: For Siemens S7-200 PLCs.
- S7-ISO protocol - Release 1.0: For Siemens S7 PLCs.
- SNCFIP protocol - Release 2.00: To support several FIP cards on the same PC.
- SPA-bus protocol - Release 2.0: For ABB devices.
- Unitelway Slave protocol - Release 2.1.
Cimway 7.23
- New parameter (Modem handshaking) on the network configuration dialog to enable/disable use of the Request To Send (RTS) signal when the COM port is open.
- New counts of Read/Write request flows on the CimWay frames. These counts are displayed in the communication selector for the CimWay equipment.
- Optimizing subscription times in CimWay where the frames have a null scanning period.
- New DLL for access to reading/writing of CimWay frames as well as modification of the frame address, so as to allow access by VBA.
- New system variables:
- SYSTEM.EQT.ACTIVEFRAMECOUNT: This variable contains the number of active frames. A frame is active when at least one variable is linked to the frame.
- SYSTEM.EQT.OKEQTCOUNT: This variable contains the number of accessible devices. It replaces the system variable SYSTEM.EQT.OK_NUMBER (which is updated for compatibility if it exists in the project).
Improvement for existing protocols
- IPPAM protocol - Release 1.9: Store the time-stamp in the cyclical check frame.
- IPPOSM protocol - Release 1.8: To obtain various analytical data from a SMP 250 mass spectrometer using a TCP/IP connection.
- S7 IP MASTER protocol - Release 4.05: The MW address range has been increased from 255 to 65535.
- SAIA protocol - Release 4.0: The DLL supports the Serial SBUS protocol as well as IP mode.
- XBUS IP MASTER/SLAVE protocol - Release 4.13:
- The MODBUS default address is 1 (no longer 0) for XBUS IP MASTER.
- New WAGO_DALI equipment.
- New Reals and Double words in Time-stamped mode.
OPC Client
- Runtime OPC XML.
- OPC Mapping.
- Updating of a variable's value even when the Quality indicates that it is bad (i.e. the QUALITY_GOOD = 0xC0 bits are not set).
- Optimized multi-task processing on remote OPC servers.
- New feature for monitoring that an OPC server is working.
LNS
- New facility for customized extracts of LONWORKS.
Multi-Station
- Managing associations of historical data servers.
- Managing lists of historical data servers.
- When a Trend request occurs in a multi-station network, the primary unit is transferred to the historical data producer. The SCADA Basic modes SETPRIMARY_UNIT / SETPRIMARY and FORCEPRIMARY allow the unit to be used as the server to be selected from the client station.
- New NS LAN status for external variables when those are no longer accessible from the station or association that produced them. From now on, such a variable will be shown in the Variable Selector as NS COM LAN.
- In a multi-network, detection of a failed connection has been improved.
- New system variables:
- SYSTEM.<ClientStationNumber>.<ServerStationNumber>.VARREFRESH_COMPLETED: Produced by <ClientStationNumber> for each server identified <ServerStationNumber> to which the client is connected. It changes to 0 on reconnection to the server <ServerStationNumber> and to 1 when all variables produced by <ServerStationNumber> have been refreshed. <ServerStationNumber> represents the identifier of a station or an association.
- SYSTEM.<AssociationName>.<StationName>.MAIN becomes 1 when the station <StationName> is primary in the association <AssociationName>, else 0.
- SYSTEM.<AssocNumber>.<StationNumber>.ACTIVE_NUMBER that contains the identifier of the remote station that is using station <StationNumber> as the active server of the association <AssocNumber>.
- SYSTEM.<StationName>.OK_NUMBER that contains the identifier of the remote station <StationName>.
- SYSTEM.<AssocNumber>.<ServerNumber>.SWITCH.PASSIVE_COMPLETED: When the server identified as <ServerNumber> in the association <AssocNumber> goes from active to passive, this variable becomes 1 when all of the server's variables have been refreshed. It is forced to zero at the start of that switching.
- SYSTEM.<StationNumber>.<AssocNumber>.ACTIVESTATION: This Text variable contains the name of the remote server station belonging to the association <AssocNumber> that updates the station identified as StationNumber, i.e. the active server for the station StationNumber.
Web Services Toolkit
- Supports the transfer of SSL V2 (Secure Sockets Layer) data to ensure the security of data transmitted via Internet (HTTPS).
- Web Services have been standardized.
- Supply of two Web portals with the demonstration project SVWEBDEMO. The portals can be customized to suit your project. (See the document ConfigurationGuide_SV_WSDemo.doc for more information on customizing the demonstration Web portals.)
Webvue 3.1
- Supports the transfer of SSL V2 (Secure Sockets Layer) data to ensure the security of data transmitted via Internet (HTTPS).
- Optimization of data read and write, plus refreshing of mimics and viewers.
- Russian as a presentation language.
- Chinese as a presentation language.
- Support for arc and sector shapes.
- Support for transparent color.
- Support for the SCADA Basic instruction TREE.
- Support of the Beep on alarm.
- Trend Viewer: Support for the legend and printing Compatibility of timescales and values.
- A parameter in the WebVue configuration to set the polling period for Trend Viewer, Log Viewer and Alarm Viewer.
- System policy used if the IpQueryLevel parameter in the file WEB\WEBVUE.DAT of the project is set to 4096.
Smart Generator Component
- Automatic generation of the supervisory applications for these software platforms: Schneider Electric - Unity, Wago - CoDeSys, plus a generic interface for XML.
Development Kit
- Update of the kit for accessing variables. Version 5.00 is incompatible with previous versions. It is necessary to include the new SVMGRAPI2.H file, to restore the missing callbacks and to recompile the whole set. These new features enable you to make up an access kit in an environment different from that of Visual Studio:
- __stdcall for all of the methods and functions
- pragma pack 1
- Addition of a method SetSimulatedVariables for modifying the parameter Simulated across all variables.
Miscellaneous
- Sentinel Driver version 7.3.0.
- Management of the Web client on a PC with a server encoded key only (limited to 1 mimic).
- In the Project Selector: an option for selecting a project name longer than 12 characters.
- New demonstrations for the libraries and the Web Service.
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