INTERBASE EXPRESS UPDATE KIT FOR InterBase 6, 7 & 2007
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Welcome to the InterBase Express Update Kit for 
BDS 2006 and InterBase 6, 7 & 2007!

Please report all issues to Quality Central 
(qc.borland.com).  IBX bugs/suggestions go in 
the add-on\InterBase components area.  Whenever
possible please include a test case against the 
employee sample database that comes with 
InterBase.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 1. What's New in the IBX Update Kit
 2. Installing the IBX Update Kit
 3. Uninstalling the IBX Update Kit
 4. Fixes since BDS 2006 original release
  
1. WHAT'S NEW IN THE IBX UPDATE KIT
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For detailed information on new features of this 
release, refer to the online help.  
In the help contents, choose "What's New in Delphi".

IBXpress100.bpl breaks the earlier interface. 
Any package that depends on ibxpress.dcp 
will require recompiling after installing this update.
You will get an error message that a function is missing 
and do you wish to load this package later.  Answer Yes 
to this (you will get it twice) and then rebuild the 
package.  Answering no placed the package into a special 
location in the registry and you can never have it 
load on startup again without manually modifying 
the registry.

ReportBuilder has a package named rbIBEXx.dpk which 
falls in this category.  Also the Bold packages will
require a recomile (you can find a copy of the package
itself in CodeCentral also).  If you have previously 
installed IBClientDataSet (see below) it will also require
a recompile.

2. INSTALLING THE IBX UPDATE KIT
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Double-click on the IBX Update Kit setup file 
(IBX_BDS2006_11.EXE) to automatically launch the
IBX 10.11 setup program.  Follow the setup steps from there.


3. UNINSTALLING THE IBX UPDATE KIT
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The installer was switched to Wise and the option to 
store the backup of the previous files is given.  Follow
the normal uninstall option in the Add/Remove programs
on the control panel.

4. Fixes/Changes since BDS 2006 release
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1.  IBDatabase.pas - Added support for the IBDatabase param 'instance_name'.
      User instance_name when you need to set a port to something other than the
      normal 3050.
      
2.  IBDatabase.pas - IBDatabase added OnlineDump.  This implements the new
      online dump feature of IB 2007.  It takes two arrays as parameters.  The
      first array is an array of file names.  The second is an array of sizes.
      They should match up with each other.  IOW, file array element one matches
      size element one.  Only the final file is allowed to not have a size 
      associated with it.  The final two parameters are Full and Overwrite.  
      Passing true for Full does a full dump, false incremental since the last dump.
      Passing true for Overwite will overwrite existing files, false will raise 
      and error if the files exist.
      
3.  IBQuery, IBTable, IBDataset, IBStoredProc - Added PSSetCommandText where 
      WideStrings are passed.
      
4.  IBScript - Added support for commit retaining and rollback retaining.

5.  IBScript - Added support for the IN 2007 batch script API.  Like ISQL calling
      'Batch start' starts a batch update and calling 'Batch Execute' will execute
      the batch statements.  Only insert, update and delete statements are 
      supported by this API.

6.  Services - Added support for the instance_name parameter.

7.  IBConfigService - Added two properties for database and transaction.  For
      the features added since 7.5 some of are straight SQL DDL.  In the past
      IBConfigService would just create an INDatabase and INTransaction as needed.
      It still will, but if you supply a databsae and transaction it will use
      that first.  This is needed for some features like the new journaling
      that requires exclusive access to the database.
      
8.  TIBJournalInformation - New class for displaying and setting Journal settings
      on a database.  Mainly this is access from the IBConfigService component.
    properties (see IB documentation for full information on these properties)
      HasJournal - Boolean, true if journaling is turned on.
      HasArchive - Boolean, true if archiving has been turned on    
      
      CheckPointInterval - Integer
      CheckPointLength - Integer
      PageCache - integer
      PageLength - Integer
      PageSize - Integer
      TimestampName - Boolean
      Directory - String

9.  IBConfigService - New property JournalInformation. Read and write to this to
      manipulate journaling information on a database.  Call GetJournalInformation
      to retrieve the Journaling information for a database.
    a) CreateJournal - create a journal based on the JournalInformation.
    b) AlterJournal - alters a pre existing journal system.  Not all properties 
         can be altered.  See the IB documentation for limitations.
    c) DropJournal - drops a journal system.
    d) CreateJournalArchive - creates an archive.  Takes an optional directory
         parameter.
    e) DropJournalArchive - Drops an archive.
    f) GetJournalInformation - retrieves journaling information for this database
         and stores it in the JournalInformation property.
    g) JournalInformation (property) - Access to the underlying IBJournalInformation
         field.
         
10. IBSecurityService - Fixed bug where modifying a users was actually trying to
      create a user.
      
11. IBVersionInfo - fixed a bug in the IsMinimumVersion function.

12. IBConfigService - Design time component editor now has a GetJournalInformation
      menu option.  This is only registered if you have IB 2007 client installed.