Ingres 9.2 Migration Guide - Actian

Ingres ICE FeaturesIngres ICE Security EnhancementsThe security model for Ingres/ICE has been enhanced to provide additionallevels of control for access and for content. The model also assists in themaintenance of large numbers of Internet users by defining profiles and roles.Profiles enable Internet users to register themselves by automaticallytransferring a predefined set of privileges to the user when the first login isattempted.Password authentication for intranets may be specified as OS for use withdomain servers and authentication servers.Ingres ICE Session Management EnhancementsIngres/ICE uses cookies to identify individual sessions. The session identifierenables maintenance of session context between pages. Sessions have aconfigurable inactivity timeout that when reached rolls back any uncommittedtransactions.Storage ManagementHTML Templates--Document content is made available through HTML templatefiles. In Ingres II 2.5, access to the template files is abstracted to preventexposure of queries and schema.Document Cache Management--All files accessed within Ingres/ICE are subjectto cache management, which specifies when the file may be closed orremoved.Macro Language ExtensionsMacro language extensions in Ingres II 2.5 include:• User identification• State maintenance• Variables• Conditional statements• Variable testing using the IF or SWITCH macros to provide conditional flowwithin template pages• Include statements• The FUNCTION macro, providing a mechanism for invoking C callableshared libraries and dynamic link librariesFeatures Introduced in Ingres II 2.5 221