Reflection Desktop 17.0 Update 1 Release Notes

1.0 Introduction

Reflection Desktop products are full-featured desktop applications that allow you to run host applications, transfer files, and integrate host data into the latest Windows and Office software applications.

  • Reflection Desktop for IBM provides access to applications running on IBM mainframe and AS/400 systems.

  • Reflection Desktop for UNIX and OpenVMS provides access to applications running on UNIX, Linux, and OpenVMS systems.

  • Reflection Desktop provides access to applications running on IBM, UNIX, Linux, and OpenVMS systems.

  • Reflection Desktop for X provides access to applications running on UNIX, Linux, and OpenVMS systems. It also includes Reflection X Advantage, an X server that allows you to view your UNIX or Linux desktop and work with X client applications from a remote workstation.

  • Reflection Desktop Pro includes Reflection Desktop along with Reflection X Advantage, and provides access to applications running on IBM, UNIX, Linux, and OpenVMS systems, as well as X clients.

  • The Reflection Desktop for NonStop Add-On is a separately licensed product for connecting to HP NonStop hosts (Tandem 6530).

The Reflection Desktop 17.0 Update 1 Release includes several resolved issues.

2.0 Resolved Issues

2.1 Update 1 (Version 17.0.434)

Reflection Workspace

  • Resolved an issue that occurred after certain October 2020 updates for Microsoft Office were installed.

    After installing these updates, Reflection VBA macros did not work. When loading the Reflection Workspace or when loading a Reflection host session (3270, 5250, or Unix and OpenVMS), the following error message was displayed:

    Error initializing VBA components. One of the VBA components is missing or corrupt. VBA needs to be reinstalled.

    You could dismiss the error message and continue using the product, but the VBA programming language and VBA macros were unavailable for use.

    For additional information about this issue, see "Error initializing VBA components..." when loading a Reflection or InfoConnect Workspace or a host session

  • Fixed an issue that caused certain EHLLAPI applications to fail to restart after they were closed.

Reflection Desktop for NonStop Add-On

  • Updated the pcre3.dll Perl regular expression library to mitigate security vulnerabilities detected by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) dependency checker.

3.0 Installing Reflection Desktop

Maintained customers are now eligible to download the latest product releases at https://download.attachmate.com/Upgrades/. You will be prompted to login and accept the Software License Agreement before you can download a file.

3.1 System Requirements

For information about supported platforms and hardware requirements, see System Requirements in the Refection Deployment Guide.

NOTE:Reflection Desktop 17.0 requires a 64-bit operating system.

For more information about installing, see the Reflection Help and the Reflection Deployment Guide.

4.0 Previous Releases

For information about the Reflection Desktop 16.2 release, see the Reflection Desktop 17.0 Release Notes.

5.0 Contacting Micro Focus

For specific product issues, contact Micro Focus Support at https://www.microfocus.com/support-and-services/.

Additional technical information or advice is available from several sources: