For your information, Open Abal has been qualified and is fully operational on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 operation system.

All documentation relating to Open Abal and Lightweight Terminal Services will subsequently be only available on the Open Abal Wiki.

This interactive WIKI provides up to date information and very detailed descriptions of all language instructions, examples of usage and support tools.

To join us as a member of this rapidly expanding community, gaining access to the Open Abal Wiki, please send an email request to either

• i j m @ a m e n e s i k . c o m

or to

• m a i l @ s o l o g i c . f r

providing your name and email information.

A new dynamic library is available for Open Abal, allowing production of PDF documents.

The PDF library of Open Abal allows production of PDF documents comprising:

1. Standard PDF document structure
2. ZLIB Compression
3. Password controlled encryption
4. Interactive Form Fields
5. Inter-document Linkage
6. Embedded documents of compliance level PDF/A-3b
7. JPEG Image Handling
8. Factur-X Compliance

The PDF library of Open Abal is currently available for use with the following operating systems:

1. Ubuntu 20.04
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3
3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5

This version of Open Abal is currently available for down load from the Open Abal depot.

End user documentation of the PDF library, its functions, and example of its usage in Open Abal applications, can be found here on the Open Abal Wiki PDF

WINDOWS WSL

The MICROSOFT WSL tool (Windows Sub System for LINUX) allows the installation of a LINUX system alongside a WINDOWS system.

The newly installed LINUX system can access the WINDOWS files through the logical drives declared under the /mnt folder

The WINDOWS system can access the LINUX files via the WINDOWS FILE EXPLORER through the \\wsl$SYSTEM-NAME folder

The programs running on the LINUX system can access the internet ports and services of the WINDOWS system.

The programs running on the WINDOWS system can access the internet ports and services of the LINUX system.

This allows perfect integration between the two systems.

OPEN ABAL

The MYSQL, POSTGRES, MARIADB and ODBC versions of Open Abal and LTS for UBUNTU 20.04 can be installed on a UBUNTU 20.04 WSL system.

Open Abal applications can be developed on Windows using the WABAL64DEV package which contains the Open Abal Development tools for Windows :

1. otr64.exe
2. old64.exe
3. ao64.exe
4. amake64.exe
5. genmake64.exe
6. avnor.exe
7. sandr.exe

The resulting programs can then be launched under LTS on the WSL UBUNTU machine using your WINDOWS WEB browser.

For further information concerning OPEN ABAL with WSLplease contact AMENESIK, SOLOGIC or consult the corresponding page on the Open Abal Wiki WSL.

INXSQL, The SQL database interface of Open Abal, has been adapted to offer database access via ODBC .

The ODBCversion of Open Abal has been tested with the following database engines:

1. SQL SERVER 18 on UBUNTU
2. SQL SERVER 18 on RED HAT
3. SQL SERVER 18 on AMAZON RDS

The ODBCversion of Open Abal is currently available for the following operating systems:

1. Ubuntu 20.04
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3

This version of Open Abal is currently available for down load from the AMENESIK Open Abal depot.

The start of the year 2024 has seen a huge evolution concerning Open Abal.

1. Open Abal is now available for the following operating systems and open-source database engines:
   • Ubuntu 20.04
     • MySQL
     • MariaDB
     • PostgreSQL
   • Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 9.3
     • MySQL
     • MariaDB
     • PostgreSQL

    

   These versions are all available for deployment in the cloud using the Amenesik Enterprise Cloud.

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2. A new feature has been added to the Open Abal language allowing the declaration of SQL COLUMNS ( OPEN ABAL KEYS ) and SQL INDEXES (OPEN ABAL LINKS ) on the PRIMARY INDEX of SQL TABLES ( OPEN ABAL MULTIPLE INDEX SEQUENTIAL INDEX FILES ).

   The full collection of KEY types are available for definition of KEY/LINKS on the PRIMARY INDEX.

   • KA : declares a traditional BINARY string COLUMN/KEY.
   • KB : declares a traditional BCD (binary coded decimal) NUMERIC COLUMN/KEY.
   • KD : declares a numeric Y% M# D# formatted DATE COLUMN/KEY.
   • KF : declares a four byte FLOAT or 8 byte DOUBLE COLUMN/KEY.
   • KH : declares a 64 bit integer COLUMN/KEY.
   • KL : declares a 32 bit integer COLUMN/KEY.
   • KS : declares a UTF8 string COLUMN/KEY.
   • KT : declares a numeric H# M# S# formatted TIME COLUMN/KEY.

A presentation of Open Abal was held on the 9th October 2023, in Conegliano, Treviso, Italia.

For all of those of you that were present at this meeting, and have received your connection details:

• the link to the test server can be found here: Conegliano Open Abal
• the link to the Open Abal Wiki can be found here : Open Abal Wiki