Note: The Loftware Connector for Oracle 4.0 requires Loftware Printer Server Premier Edition version 10.0.

What fixes are available in this release?

• With Oracle 8 and above, when you change the filters from “Legacy” to “New” the memory state inside the database JVM is maintained as “legacy.” LPS now correctly handles the “New” business rules in the Oracle instance.

• When an Instance Expansion filter executes in a Filter Chain, during group expansion the connector communicates with LPS to determine if the label exists.  When Connector 4.0 is executing Filter Chains, the Connector is not appending the LPS_PRINTER_TYPE (if in use) to the label when communicating with LPS. LPS checks the root labels directory and if the label does not exist LPS will report an error back to Connector.

What fixes are available in this release?

• In version 3.0.2.1 of the Loftware Connector for Oracle, installation errors were logged in the lwloadjava.log. This logging has been restored in this release.

• Instance Expansion Rules are now functioning correctly and are providing error messages. Job XML assembly now reacts properly with legacy parsers used by the Oracle Connector.

• Verbose Logging trace files are now operational. The trace files are now in the following location: <install_dir>\<user>\rdbms\<sid>\<sid>\trace.

Note: The Loftware Connector for Oracle 4.0 requires Loftware Printer Server Premier Edition version 10.0.

• Updated the look and feel of the Connector Console user interface.
• Added support for Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2.
• Added the ability to import and export Loftware Oracle Connector configuration information to an XML file.
• Added support for JDBC compliant databases.
• Added the ability to turn on or off individual filters without deleting them from the Filter Manager in the console.
• Add Save As Capability to Connector Filters.
• Allow Filter triggers in the console to be based on incoming xml data.
• Added ability to turn off XSLT transforms using the SkipXSLTransforms property in the LPSConnector.property file.
• The XML created by the Connector Instance Expansion filter can be modified so that labels can be sent to multiple printers.
• Improved error handling and logging in the Connector Console for Oracle.
• Allow over-writing data values on Print Attribute Substitution.

What fixes are available in this release?

• The Default Servers check box on the LPS Servers page now remains selected when Show/Hide Printers is selected.
• Print Attribute Substitution Filter is able to modify the literal _QUANTITY if _QUANTITY exists and a value has been assigned.
• You can now delete an LPS Server in the Loftware Oracle Connector if the LPS server cannot be reached by the server name.
• Replace forward slashes (/) in printer model names to a space.
• When in the Modify Filter view, clicking the browser Back button no longer produces an error.
• Settings in the Connector Console do not update to the File Drop Service until the service restarts.
• LPSTemplate.setData(string,string) now truncates data if the data string being passed is too long.

• Filter and label group definitions allow for notes/comments to be added and modified.
• Filters can be given more descriptive names/aliases. These names appear in configured filter list for easy filter identification.
• Lists can be sorted on selected columns for filters, labels, and printers.
• Label groups are now defined from the Manage Labels section, along with labels and label types.
• Text box sizes have been increased to make more field data viewable.