Each new version of Omnidex brings a collection of improvements, from new features to increased performance. Here are the primary features and enhancements in the major releases of Omnidex:

The following table shows the individual releases of Omnidex 5.3, including their release dates and features.

• Initial release

• Omnidex now supports, real-time connection and query monitoring.
• Improvements were made to the InstallShield release process.
• Support for the DISC Licensing server was restored.
• Expansion of the methods available in the OmniSearch Java and .NET classes.
• Improvements to the multi-process and multi-thread communication approaches provided using the Boost libraries.
• Improvements for multi-user access on Microsoft Windows.

• Support for the REGISTER ODBC command to register the ODBC driver
• Rename the 'versions' program to 'odxversions'
• Improvements when running Omnidex as a Windows Service
• Improvements when running Omnidex as a daemon on Linux
• Resolve issue with HAVING clauses involving COUNT (DISTINCT …) with Omnidex Grids
• Stability improvements with Multi-Index Aggregations

• Stability improvements with Multi-Index Aggregations dealing with composite keys, SAMPLE functions, and parsed indexes
• Resolve issue with COUNT(column) construction with Union Views

• Fix aggregations that have PQ's that were repeating control breaks (HygenicsData)
• Fix DROP SEGMENT for Grid processing
• Fix HAVING clause problem with Grid processing
• Continue processing nodes on error condition in Grid UPDATE FOR commands.
• Support for $uniquekey in $segment()
• Support for applying Omnidex criteria before building HDC tables.

• Further fixes for $segment functions
• Support for AUTOCOMPLETE option in SELECT
• Avoid duplicate loading of OFX's on non-partitioned tables in grids
• Fix problems with TOP/SKIP paging
• Fix problems with empty segments
• Fix problems with multiple count(distinct)'s
• Support multiple databases in Omnidex grids

• Support for MAX_THREADS option on SELECT statements
• Support for summing double datatypes with more than 256 distinct values with MIA (Glaxo)
• Support unlimited SQL statement lengths
• Further fixes for MIA and sums, and count(distinct) mixed with other aggregations
• Support for licensing through proxy servers

• Remove Beta designation for 5.3
• Use Omnidex by default
• Support POWERSEARCH option in QUALIFY

• Minor changes for licensing server

• Minor changes for licensing server

• Support for SET QUALIFY_COUNTS PREINTERSECT
• Improvements to QUALIFY explain plans
• Fix problem with samelist qualifications followed by empty criteria

• Enhance InstallShield to clean up the registry from earlier versions of Omnidex.
• InstallShield fixes to improve starting Omnidex as a Windows Service

• Fix problem with NOAUTORESET option in QUALIFY statement using ODBC
• Further InstallShield fixes to remove old versions of Omnidex

• Changes to InstallShield:
  • Remove multiuser prompts
  • Removing the cached version of sysinfo
  • Fixing creation of omnidex.cfg file (32-bit Windows only)
  • Fix missing odxodbc.dll on (32-bit Windows only)
• Fix for references to numeric literals in grid processing
• Fix problem with cached sysinfo writing incorrect machine information

• Disallow CASE_INSENSITIVE option on OMNIDEX indexes; require CUSTOM index instead
• Further improvements to connection/disconnection performance
• Fix issue with comparing index segment creation timestamps against index timestamps
• Support POWERSEARCH option in the CREATE ENVIRONMENT statement
• Prefer QUICKTEXT indexes over OMNIDEX indexes in criteria unless criteria is double-quoted (DNB, DS)
• Automatically generate log files on UPDATE INDEXES command, located in a log subdirectory of the index directory by default.
• Do not require OFX due to the HEADER_ROW option for a delimited file. (HD)
• Improve error handling of ODXSQL connecting using the -odbc or -jdbc option.
• Disallow connection options in ODXSQL command line.
• Fix build_config.bat to bypass internal licensing step.
• Support $SAMPLE function in Grid environments (HD)
• Don't use PRIKEY optimization when using the $SAMPLE function. (HD)
• Support for unlimited SQL statement lengths (HD)
• Avoid using index partition qualifiers when criteria contains wildcards.
• Support for ODXSQL SET QUALIFY_COUNTS PREINTERSECT (DNB)
• Create an OFX for each delimited file within a table PHYSICAL clause, allowing delimited files to be shared
• Fix issue with DETACH of an OST with the DELETE option (HD)
• Fix issue with error occurring on left outer joins to a nested subquery (DS)

• Support POWERSEARCH option on criteria using LIKE contruct
• Rename 'versions' program to 'odxversions'
• Fix issue with LEFT OUTER JOIN's to nested subqueries
• Fix issue with nested subqueries in the FROM clause that use DISTINCT operations
• Fix issue with aliases for nested subqueries in the FROM clause
• Fix issue with HAVING clauses that contain invalid partition qualifiers
• Fix issue with NOT (a and b) with POWERSEARCH
• Fix issue with exit handlers on non-pooled network processes, called fork/exec instead of just fork.

• Better handling of file permissions on Linux
• Fix issue with idleTimeout setting in Omnidex network services configuration
• Fix issue dealing with double-nested query in the SELECT … FROM clause

• Initial beta release for VX/RMS Driver
• Support for multiplexing one socket connection rather than using dual sockets
• Fix to locking of OFX files, seen in high concurrency situations
• Fix issue where aggregations on bitmap indexes returned a 999/314 if the partition qualifiers passed to dbigetkeys exceeded the highest value in the bitmap index. (HygenicsData)
• Remove Omnidex Administrator from Start menu until development completes
• Change default translation table to not alter the upper 128 characters.

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