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Patch P006 "SEPTEMBER-2017" for WinCC OA Version 3.15 September 2017

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Summary:
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Enhancements and bugfixes for WinCC OA.

Prerequisites:
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Besides the prerequisites of the final version of WinCC OA 3.15, no additional

prerequisites are necessary.

If WinCC OA 3.15 is already installed, a reinstall is automatically done.

During the reinstallation the files of the existing WinCC OA 3.15 installation
will be deleted.

If WinCC OA 3.15 is not already installed it is not necessary to install the

final version beforehand.

General installation notes:

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To install a patch properly complete following steps:

- Download the required exe files.

- Copy the exe files to the plant.
- Stop the project properly.

- To install the patch simply double-click the .exe file.

- Perform additional installation steps if required and described

in the ReadMe files.

- Start the project or the specific processes.

Additional installation steps:

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If RDB is used:

Before stopping the project and starting the patch installation,

you have to ensure that all RDB buffer files (WinCC OA Project/db/buffer)
are processed and data is written to the Oracle database.

Please run WinCC_OA_Home\data\RDBSetup\ora\win_upgrade 8.15 or

unix_upgrade 8.15 to apply latest changes to the DBSchema.

If you are using Oracle forwarding or DRS please add the parameter
"schema_user_second" (as defined in the RDB_config_template.sql) to
your RDB_config.sql and run the sync_setup again.
 If P004 was not installed before and the BACnet addon is used a reimport
of BACnet_3.15/dplist/BACnet_All.dpl is necessary in order to update BACnet
data point types and master data point settings.

Enhancements and new features:

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27780: New trend attributes "gridColorX" and "gridLineTypeX" to define

the color and style of the grid lines along the x-axis are
available.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

22504: With the config entry "trendStatusPattern" of the [ui] section

it is possible to define custom marker icons.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

24569/1-4489620870: The automatic scaling of the trend is improved now

to prevent changes to the min/max values of the displayed
trend area in case the trend leaves the stop mode.

25559: The trend ruler line type can be changed with the new config
entry "trendRulerLineType" of the [ui] section.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

13638/1-4928249726: Now it is possible to modify the presentation of

the tree widget with stylesheets.

Short example for a stylesheet:

TreeWidgetQT { color: black; }
TreeWidgetQT::item { padding: 25px; }

27764: The new format type "HTML" can be used in table cells.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

24686: In GEDI it is possible to define fore/back colors for

hovered cells of tables now.

27804/1-4935525056: With the new table attribute

"columnHeaderAlignment" the alignment of column headers can be
changed.

7041: Now it is possible to define the lowest UI manager number in

config file which gets automatically assigned to each mobile
UI.

Example and current default:

[webClient]
lowestAutoManNumMobileUI = 200

27303: getVersionInfo() has a new key: "platform_subdir"

 This returns a string telling the subdirectory used for this
specific platform as used below the bin and bin/widgets
directory. For example for ITC this is "linux-itc".

25239: When using DRS and RDB syncronization now it is possible to

forward data from DB schema 1 to DB schema 2 with different
credentials. Until now the credentials (user, pwd) for both DB
schema had to be the same.

After following the additional installation steps the feature

can be enabled as followed:
- make sure the DRS system is up and running.
- in RDB_config.sql set "schema_user_second" accordingly and
also set "whatpackage=fwd" and "whatinstall=1"
- run sync_setup
- verify that "useMappingForForwarding" in ARC_LOG table was
added and is set to "1"

26576: The BACnet driver supports the input mode "polling on use" now.

15793, 15795: With the OPC DA and OPC HDA server it is possible to
access data from distributed systems from now on.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA documentation

in the chapters:
Drivers -> OPC Data Access -> OPC Server -> Accessing WinCC OA
data
Drivers -> OPC Historical Data Access -> OPC Historical Data
Access Server

24639: Now the SNMP manager is able to communicate with redundant

agents.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

27969: The new simplified Video OA license model is available now.

Existing licenses are still valid.

Further details can be found inside the WinCC OA

documentation.

Solved problems:
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25703/1-4921538545: SIMATIC SCADA Export Plugin cannot be installed

with latest TIA Portal version V14 SP1.

5341/1-3815552255: The setText-method of the tree widget is

unnecessary slow.

18735/1-4724487324: A table cell has no default-tooltip.

22598/1-4787940174: Nested references are displayed on a wrong

position.

26323: Colors are not shown correctly when the native painting engine
 (-graphicssystem native) is used and the color depth of the
X11 server is not set to 32 bit (True Color).

26980/1-4928456086: Within the table widget the selected color is not

shown correctly.

27020: When using an ITC device the device syncronizes its time with
the server with the wrong timezone.

18795: The user/password dialog appears in ULC UX even though the user
already entered this information into the browser.

26448/1-4615256263: Russian characters cannot be used correctly in ULC

UX.

28136: The minimum size of a panel is not applied when ULC UX is used.

26517: BACnet driver looses connection to device if the Log_Buffer of

many TrendLog objects is read very often.

27170: The EIP driver sends unintended commands.

26426/1-4912800376: When using IEC61850 engineering an incorrect

RCB state is shown when selecting an RCB.

11416: OPC AE client generates several alerts if the configured

severity does not match the alert severity and the config
entry "twoStateConditionsOnly" is set to "yes".

25285: OPC AE client alerts appear acknowledged after a severity

change although they are not acknowledged.

23394/1-4818927186: The OPC UA client connection timeout is not

configurable resulting in problems with unreachable servers.

Now the connection timeout is defined by half of the value

of the existing config entry "uaCallTimeout".

26462/1-4920388875: Incorrect memory handling when activating

unconfigured OPC UA redundant server connections.

26413: If system errors from HW-configuration in STEP7 were generated

with another DB number than DB49 the S7 driver address panel
shows alert address strings in the selection combobox like
"SFM #13 (....)".

27860: The S7 driver does not process received EventIDs from a PLC
correctly resulting in log entries about "unknown event IDs".

27087/1-4935178176: The S7+ driver does not set invalid bits unless
the connection to a PLC was established at least once.

26336/1-4911391676: SBUS driver does not poll devices which are listed
after a disconnected device.

26399: Sending logfiles with mobile UI or Desktop UI to the server

does not work if the logfiles are bigger than 100kB.

4212: Video playback does not work after changing recording parameters
 of a camera during recording.

27057: In CTRL++ using a class without a constructor results in a

crash of the CTRL/UI manager.

26117/1-4764669936: The EVENT manager crashes after incorrect memory

handling.

26275/1-4871486886: Summary alerts do not show the correct state when

alerts are used where CAME and WENT have to be acknowledged
separately.

27612/1-4944949936: Increasing memory utilization using

dpQueryConnectAll().

26277: Using dpQuery for historical values with ValueArchive is very

slow.

17742/1-4708278147: The RDB manager issues an incorrect error message

when deactivating an archive-config.

21567/1-4767821128: RDB manager stores incorrect values when high

integer values are written after a project upgrade.

26846: Reading alerts using queryRDBDirect = 1 does not return the

correct result when more than one DP group is used.

27616: With RDB when the primary database is available again after an
connection error, the RDB manager immediatly uses again the
primary database even though the switch should only be made
once the secondary database connection fails.

22365/1-4682616975: When using value archives a change of the archive

file is made twice after changing from daylight saving time to
standard time.

26460/1-4911286645: When multiple large alert queries, which span more

than one AlertSet (historical alarm directory), are executed
in parallel the returned result of the queries is not
complete.

26849/1-4917392977: Due to a defective archive set the startup of an

archive manager can be blocked.

Now in such a case an error message is shown and the defective

archive set is set to offline.

27669: Leaving the split mode results in both servers being stopped.

Now the CTRL script archiv_client.ctl is sending the commands

to restart one server and to leave the split mode.

Information: In a distributed system the patch providing this

solution needs to be installed on every system. Otherwise
leaving the split mode is not possible for a connected system.

9364: The additional value panel of the AES cannot display the
information correctly if an additional value of an alert
contains the character "|".
27333: Within the AES-configuration the format for columns using the
attributes "_came_time" and "_gone_time" cannot be configured.

4862: The configuration of the width of table columns is limited to

1280 pixels.

26796/1-4820333466: Archive managers cannot be used for error state

calculation.

27950: Disabling the cyclic update of user groups by setting

"checkADAuthIntervall=0" (section [ui]) does not effectively
disable the update.

24073/1-4831049192: The mass configuration Excel addin does not

support umlauts when used together with a UTF8 project.

4824: System overview in split mode does not show the DIST-systems
correctly.

25279/1-4877778202: Improper handling of recursions with Debug()

functions results in a crash of the UI.

25644/1-4873276371: Mixed variables are not handled correctly when

passed to a function by reference.

27240/1-4942434395: Assignment to a struct/class member of type

mixed/anytype does not work.

26659/1-4925689445: When using the mobile UI with the ETMTREE

responsive template, parts of the panels are cut off.

5504: A double-click is not handled correctly if a

double-click-script is not defined.

15012/1-4629842685, 1-4758336476: It is possible to open or change

scripts from objects in encrypted panels in GEDI.

26364/1-4736118727: Within the shape/group-selector of the GEDI the

first object gets selected for no reason.

26394/1-4887892205: Shapes are incorrectly positioned after saving a

panel without doing changes.

26563: Changing dollar parameters of overridden references in GEDI

results in duplicate property entries within the resulting
panel file.

27763: getDollarValue() and isDollarDefined() does not work for

$-parameters only defined in a reference loaded with
addSymbol().

26566/1-4787000966: Selecting a single object takes unnecessary long

time in panels containing many objects.

27242/1-4906667076: Within GEDI a panel for a device class cannot be

opened by double click in the project view.
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