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For information on installing HCL Z and I Emulator for Windows, for information about the new features added in this version, refer to the Installation Guide and Quick Beginnings guide.
Names and license terms for third-party components are referenced in license.txt, which is located in the ZIE for Windows installation directory or in the product installation image.
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- Japanese Language Support
- License Configuration Change
- Disable Licensing Enhancements
- Menu Customization Utility
- Color Mapping Customization using CMP Configuration file
- ActiveX Control Support
- Bundling EHLLAPI Libraries with a Sample
- Support for HTTPS with TLS 1.3 Connectivity
- Enabling Non-Admin users to install Refreshpack Update Installer using Auto-upgrade feature
- Print Screen Feature Supports “.Doc” file Format
- Scroll-Bar Functionality
- Express Logon Feature support for VBScript Macro
- Enhancement of initial Configuration Definition file (pcsinst.ws$)
- Support for Group Policy template files in ADMX/ADML formats
- Provision to disable Kerberos Auto-Signon feature during Installation
- New Configuration Keyword to Suppress the Pass-through Certificate Validation
- Tab Key functionality for PasteText () API
- Enhancing the HACL sendkeys () API
- Password update for Bypass Signon using Password Substitute (5250)
- Fixes for Internal Defects
OneDrive allows you to synchronize files and folders between your computer and the user's OneDrive cloud.
With this release, all ZIEWin configuration files can be stored on a local OneDrive path so that they can be accessed through OneDrive cloud storage from anywhere. Similarly, the customized macro directory and customized toolbar icons can be stored in a OneDrive location.
In this release, support for simplified Chinese (CHS) and traditional Chinese (CHT) locales is added. Additional packages for CHS and CHT locales are included.
A new group policy, "Disable Licensing," is introduced to control the user's ability to disable the licensing.
HACL C++ and HACL VB sample projects are bundled with the package; users can build and run the samples.
This Refresh Pack contains fixes for APARS and internal defects.
The interoperability feature allows the ZIEWin Users to use the ZIEWin sessions from other HCL terminal emulator clients, such as ZIEWeb and Web Client. ZIEWin users can use the “Session Manager Online” utility to store the new sessions and migrate the existing sessions to ZIE server, these sessions are then converted to ZIEWeb Session formats for the ZIEWeb and Web Client usage.
ZIEWin client communicates with the ZIE server over HTTP/HTTPS connectivity using JSON data format. For more information on ZIEWeb-ZIEWin interoperability, refer to https://help.hcltechsw.com/zie/ziewin/2.0/doc/qb/interoperability.html
Azure Virtual Desktop provides an application virtualization service that runs on the cloud to any device. ZIEWin supports the Azure Virtual Desktop only on 64bit Windows Operating System. ZIEWin application can be published in an Azure Virtual Desktop setup to access all its features through the internet.
The file transfer policy restriction enforced in the "Data Transfer" utility disables the switch to send/receive buttons based on the policy settings set by the user.
ZIEWin Trial version package is reintroduced in this version to try out and evaluate the product for up to 30 days. The trial version can be used without configuring any licensing by using “Disable License” option.
With this release, OpenJDK JRE is no longer bundled with HCL Z and I Emulator for Windows. The features dependent on Java, viz., 'Run Applet Java' and 'HACL Java Automation' will work with system JRE.
This release contains fixes for internal defects to improve the productivity and quality.
Support has been added for Japanese Locale.
The License configuration can be modified.
For more information on acquiring a license for connecting to the Host, refer to the topic HCL ZIE License Manager.
The Menu Customization Utility can customize the menu items of the emulator sessions.
In this release, ZIEWin packages a new ActiveX Control file, pcsctrX.ocx. OLE containers can host ActiveX controls. An OLE container control lets you add OLE objects to your applications. OLE objects include ActiveX Controls (.OCX files) and OLE objects created in other applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
After adding pcsctrX.ocx into an OLE container or an Automation Client, the user can start a ZIEWin session in the ActiveX control by providing Session ID (optional) and the ZIEWin Workstation profile.
This embeds the ZIEWin session in the application. This ZIEWin session inside an ActiveX support operations based on HACL Automation Objects and EHLLAPI emulator APIs.
For more details, please refer to: ZIEWin 2.0 ActiveX Controls.
The ZIEWin package includes the EHLLAPI x64-bit libraries and required header files. It enables the static linking of the EHLLAPI libraries (pcscal32.lib, whlap32lib) for EHLLAPI automation. This package also includes a sample that uses libraries by static linking and a “readme” file with instructions to build and use the sample.
ZIEWin supports HTTPS connection over TLS 1.3 to connect to the HCL Licensing Server and ZIE License Server.
The Auto-upgrade feature allows Windows users who are not part of the “Administrators” group to install the “Refreshpack Update” installer for future updates with the base version as 2.0 or above.
In this release “Print-Screen” feature provides the “.doc” file format support. Users can choose to print the collected print screens in either “.doc” or “.txt” file formats. Additionally, a new option, "over-write" is introduced to overwrite collected screens to an already existing print file.
Using the mouse wheel scroll option, users can scroll up and down on the session screen, in case the host data exceeds more than one screen.
The ZIEWin VBScript playback macro is enhanced to support the “Express Logon Feature” while recording a macro.
The initial configuration definition file “pcsinst.ws$” template file has been improved to include the customized “Menu” items configuration support.
Along with the ADM file formats, the "Doc_Admin_Aids.zip" package contains the ADMX and ADML group policy templates.
In this release, the ZIEWin installer has a new option to disable the Kerberos Auto-Signon feature during the installation. When it is disabled, the windows logon credentials are not intercepted by ZIEWin.
When the “Pass Through Host Certificate Validation” is enabled, a warning pop-up message displays that the connection was made to an untrusted server.
Users can suppress this message by adding the new keyword “SuppressPassThroughPopup=Y” under the “[Security]" section in the pcswin.ini file.
The PasteText () EHLLAPI and HACL functions are enhanced to process the <Tab> key functionality. With the new change, the tab character in the Windows clipboard, when pasted to the ZIEWin emulator screen causes the cursor to move to the next unprotected field.
The "SendKeys ()" HACP API is enhanced to retrieve the return code and return the code to the calling application using HACL automation.
With this release, it is not required to enter the old or Expired Passwords to update the new password.
This release contains fixes for internal defects to improve the productivity and quality.
The License configuration can be modified.
For more information on acquiring a license for connecting to the Host, refer to the topic HCL ZIE License Manager.
Find documentation and links to other resources at the Z and I Emulator for Windows Information Center.
For information about hardware and software requirements for installing Z and I Emulator for Windows, refer to the System Requirements for Z and I Emulator for Windows.
For instructions on how to install Z and I Emulator for Windows, refer to the Installation Guide for ZIEWin.
For support information and managing product cases, refer to the HCL Software Customer Support Portal..
For additional information on Z and I Emulator for Windows, read through the blogs and articles on 'Z and I Emulator for Windows' available on the ZIE for Windows Blogs.
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