| MapForce® Server 2020 (October 9, 2019) | Advanced Edition | MapForce Server | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Extended support for Global Resources |  | |
| Support for OAuth 2.0 in Web services calls | | ||
| | JSON Lines support | | |
| | Database schema independency | | |
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
Version 2020 of Altova MapForce Server became available on October 9, 2019. Learn about all the new features below and update to the latest version.
| MapForce® Server 2020 (October 9, 2019) | Advanced Edition | MapForce Server | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Extended support for Global Resources | | |
| Support for OAuth 2.0 in Web services calls | | ||
| | JSON Lines support | | |
| | Database schema independency | | |
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
MapForce Server supports Altova Global Resources, which offer an easy way of making file, folder, and database references configurable and portable across multiple environments and across multiple Altova software products.
A typical usage of Global Resources is to define a database connection once and reuse it across all Altova applications that support Global Resources (e.g., MapForce, XMLSpy, StyleVision, and now MapForce and FlowForce Servers). For example, you can create a database connection on the machine where a MapForce mapping was designed and then reuse the same connection on the machine where MapForce Server runs the mapping.
You can also create multiple variations of the same Global Resource, known as "configurations". This lets you easily switch file or folder paths (or even databases) depending on your needs. For example, you could create a database resource with development and production configurations. This makes it easy to retrieve data from either the development or production database by indicating the desired configuration as a parameter for MapForce Server at runtime.
Starting with Version 2020, Global Resources are also supported by FlowForce Server for seamless support for automating data mapping jobs. Extending support for Global Resources to FlowForce Server has been a common customer request for improving efficiency of data mapping automation.
In addition to support for Global Resources, MapForce Server 2020 supports the same new functionality for processing Web services and database mappings added in MapForce 2020:
Learn about all the additional functionality that has been added in each release of MapForce Server.
| MapForce® Server 2019 (April 2, 2019) | Advanced Edition | MapForce Server | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 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 2019 (October 17, 2018) | Advanced Edition | MapForce Server | ||
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| | Support for Protocol Buffers | | |
| Additional functionality for node functions | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| MapForce® Server 2018r2 (April 17, 2018) |
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| Support for Teradata 16 and MariaDB 10 databases |
| Support for node functions (Advanced Edition) |
| MapForce® Server 2018 (October 3, 2017) |
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| MapForce Server Accelerator Edition is renamed MapForce Server Advanced Edition |
| Ability to choose Global Resources via API |
| Support for Sybase 16, PostgreSQL 9.6, MySQL 5.7 |
| Support for MapForce 2018 execution files |
| MapForce® Server 2017 release 3 (April 4, 2017) |
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| New MapForce Server Accelerator Edition optimized for high performance server platforms |
| Windows Server 2016 Support |
| OSX 10.12 (Sierra) Support |
| Support for MapForce 2017 Release 3 execution files |
| 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 2016 Release 2 (February 16, 2016) |
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| Support for REST Web services included in data mappings created with MapForce 2016r2 |
| Significant speedup of EDI mapping execution |
| Support for pending server licenses to automatically transition to a new license when a current license expires |
| MapForce® Server 2016 (September 30, 2015) |
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| Support for numerous databases updated to include newest versions: IBM DB2 10.5, SQL Server 2014, PostgreSQL 9.4, MySQL 5.6, and Oracle 12C |
| Support for Windows 10 |
| Support for new Linux versions: Debian 8 & Ubuntu 15 |
| MapForce® Server 2015 Release 4 (June 10, 2015) |
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| Support for TRADACOMS EDI standards |
| 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 |
| MapForce® Server 2015 (September 17, 2014) |
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| New API for control of MapForce Server – Allows MapForce Server to be executed natively by programs written in C# and VB.NET in Windows, from other Windows apps via a COM interface, and from Java programs in Windows, Linux, and MacOS |
| MapForce® Server 2014 Release 2 (March 19, 2014) |
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| Bulk insert for databases – Performance is much faster than the typical method of using individual insert statements for each row |
| Support for macOS 10.9 – Adds to previous support for Mac OS |
| MapForce® Server 2014 (October 29, 2013) |
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| Powered by RaptorXML – MapForce Server now supports execution of data mappings and instance documents based on XML Schema 1.1 as well as all other standards supported by RaptorXML |
| MapForce® Server 2013 Release 2 Service Pack 1 (June 12, 2013) |
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| Mac OS support – MapForce Server 2013 is now available for the Mac OS platform |
| MapForce® Server 2013 (April 29, 2013) |
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| Cross-platform support – MapForce Server 2013 is available in versions for Windows and Linux platforms |