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

• Add support for real-time connection and query monitoring
• Improve the InstallShield release process
• Restore support for the DISC Licensing server
• Expand the methods available in the OmniSearch Java and .NET classes
• Improve the multi-process and multi-thread communication approaches provided using the Boost libraries
• Improve multi-user access on Microsoft Windows

• Support the REGISTER ODBC command
• Rename the 'versions' program to 'odxversions'
• Improvement Omnidex running as a Windows Service and a Linux daemon
• Resolve an issue with HAVING clauses involving COUNT (DISTINCT …) with Omnidex Grids
• Improve the stability of Multi-Index Aggregations

• Improve the stability of Multi-Index Aggregations dealing with composite keys, SAMPLE functions, and parsed indexes
• Resolve an issue with COUNT(column) constructs with Union Views

• Resolve an issue with aggregations that have partition qualifiers containing repeating control breaks
• Resolve issues with DROP SEGMENT for Omnidex Grids
• Resolve an issue with HAVING clause processins for Omnidex Grids
• Enhance Omnidex Grid processing to continue processing nodes on error conditions
• Add support for $uniquekey in $segment()
• Add support for applying Omnidex criteria before building HDC tables

• Improve the stability of $segment functions
• Add support for AUTOCOMPLETE option in SELECT
• Enhance Omnidex Grids to avoid duplicate loading of OFX's on non-partitioned tables
• Improve stability of TOP/SKIP paging
• Improve stability of SELECT statements with multiple COUNT (DISTINCT …) clauses
• Add support for multiple databases in Omnidex Grids

• Add support for MAX_THREADS option on SELECT statements
• Add support for summing double datatypes with more than 256 distinct values with MIA
• Add support for unlimited SQL statement lengths
• Improve the stability of Multi-Index Aggregations dealing with sums, and count(distinct) mixed with other aggregations
• Add support for licensing through proxy servers

• Use Omnidex Network Services by default, rather than OdxNet Network Services
• Add support for POWERSEARCH option in QUALIFY statements

• Resolve minor issue with the licensing server

• Resolve minor issue with the licensing server

• Add support for the SET QUALIFY_COUNTS PREINTERSECT statement
• Improve the query plans for QUALIFY statements
• Resolve an issue with samelist qualifications followed by empty criteria

• Enhance InstallShield to clean up the registry from earlier versions of Omnidex.
• Resolve issues in InstallShield with starting Omnidex as a Windows Service

• Resolve an issue with the NOAUTORESET option in QUALIFY statement using ODBC
• Expand InstallShield's ability to remove older versions of Omnidex

• Further improvements to InstallShield, including issues with 32-bit Microsoft Windows installations
• Resolve an issue with references to numeric literals in Omnidex Grid processing
• Resolve an issue with with cached sysinfo writing incorrect machine information

• Disallow CASE_INSENSITIVE option on OMNIDEX indexes; require CUSTOM index instead
• Improve connection/disconnection performance
• Resolve an issue with comparing index segment creation timestamps against index timestamps
• Add support for POWERSEARCH option in the CREATE ENVIRONMENT statement
• Enhance optimizer to prefer QUICKTEXT indexes over OMNIDEX indexes in criteria unless criteria is double-quoted
• Enhance UPDATE INDEXES command to automatically generate log files
• Enhance delimited files to not require OFX due to the HEADER_ROW option
• Improve error handling of ODXSQL connecting using the -odbc or -jdbc option
• Prohibit connection options in the ODXSQL command line
• Add support for $SAMPLE function in Omnidex Grid environments
• Add support for unlimited SQL statement lengths
• Avoid using PRIKEY optimization when using the $SAMPLE function
• Avoid using index partition qualifiers when criteria contains wildcards
• Add support for ODXSQL SET QUALIFY_COUNTS PREINTERSECT
• Enhance delimited files so that an OFX is created for each delimited file within a table PHYSICAL clause, allowing delimited files to be shared
• Resolve an issue with DETACH of an OST with the DELETE option
• Resolve an issue with error occurring on LEFT OUTER JOIN's to a nested subquery

• Add support for the POWERSEARCH option on criteria using LIKE contruct
• Resolve an issue with nested subqueries in the FROM clause that use DISTINCT operations
• Resolve an issue with aliases for nested subqueries in the FROM clause
• Resolve an issue with HAVING clauses that contain invalid partition qualifiers
• Resolve an issue with NOT (a and b) with POWERSEARCH
• Resolve an issue with exit handlers on non-pooled network processes, calling fork/exec instead of just fork.

• Improve handling of file permissions on Linux
• Resolve an issue with the idleTimeout setting in Omnidex network services configuration
• Resolve an issue with double-nested query in the FROM clause

• Add beta support for VX/RMS files
• Add support for multiplexing one socket connection rather than using dual sockets
• Resolve an issue with locking OFX files, seen in high concurrency situations
• Resolve an issue with aggregations on bitmap indexes returning an error if the partition qualifiers exceed the highest value in the bitmap index
• Remove Omnidex Administrator from Start menu until development completes
• Change the default translation table to not alter the upper 128 characters.

• Production release of support for VX/RMS files
• Install service files for Omnidex on Linux installations

• Support for Oracle 12c
• Support for REQUIRED_OPTIMIZATION settings of NO_EMBEDDED_WILDCARDS and NO_EXTENDED_WILDCARDS.
• Support for SINGLE_OFX option to produce one OFX for multi-file delimited files.
• Improve handling of error conditions from Windows WMI interface so that licensing is not disabled.
• Improve how statements are logged to the Omnidex logs to handled escaped characters, quotes, and statement options.
• Improve error handling of file permissions on index directories and files.
• Improve handling of VMS-style filenames and directory names for VX/RMS files.
• Improve optimization of QUALIFY statements that have not A and not B …' syntax.
• Improve error message for memory allocation failures to include source location.
• Fix issue in UPDATE INDEXES command due to reading index tree in boundary condition.
• Fix issue with Idle Timeout and hanging of threads, appearing then as orphan processes.
• Fix issue with indexing of especially long string fields
• Fix issue with qualifications on composite indexes with especially wide columns
• Fix issue with table PHYSICAL clauses containing multiple wildcard sets, some of which are empty.
• Fix parsing of date fields with negative time zones, found with Omnidex log files
• Fix issue with qualifications on bitmap indexes where values become localized at beginning of bitmap
• Fix issue with ODBC/JDBC clients receiving a connection error indicating no driver was available.

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