Version 2021 Release 2 and Release 3 added important new features to MapForce Server. Learn more below.
Windows Server Core is a minimal installation option for the Windows Server operating system that has no GUI and only includes the components required to perform server roles and run applications. In response to customer requests, all Altova Server Software products including MapForce Server can now run on Windows Server Core.
Like MapForce 2021 r2, MapForce Server supports connecting to the latest version of IBM DB2 for iSeries databases.
Learn about all the additional functionality that has been added in each release of MapForce Server.
| MapForce® Server 2019 R3 (April 2, 2019) | Advanced Edition | MapForce Server | ||
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 |  | Support for JSON Schema draft-06 and draft-07 |  | |
| | Handling of Web services errors | | |
| | Dynamic username and password for Web services | | |
| | Support for unstructured request/response bodies in REST Web services | | |
| | Database output logging (tracing) | | |
| | Transaction roll-back for database error handling | | |
| | Support for EDIFACT 2018B | | |
| | New functions: charset-encode / charset-decode | | |
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| | Support for Windows Server 2019 | | |
| | Support for macOS 10.14 | | |
| MapForce® Server 2017 (October 4, 2016) |
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| Database table actions Update-If and Insert-Rest executed as a bulk SQL Merge |
| Enhanced database support – support for ADO.NET database drivers, native support for PostgreSQL, support for Progress OpenEdge, support for SQL Server 2016 |
| Support for MapForce 2017 Execution Files |
| MapForce® Server 2015 Release 3 (February 25, 2015) |
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| Support for string processing as XML, JSON, EDI, CSV, and FLF |
| Support for Web Services Security (WS-Security) |
| Support for Excel 2013 Strict Open XML files |
| Support for SQLite 3.x databases |
| Support for additional new data mapping features included in MapForce 2015 Release 3 |