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| By | New JCapper Platinum 2025-2026 Full Program Update Incoming | |
| jeff 1/11/2026 9:50:54 AM | I expect to publish the first JCapper Platinum 2025-2026 Full Program Update on or before Wed 1/14/2026 this coming week. • New Features include something many of you have been asking for - a new EICA2.csv File that gets populated during a SQL Calc Races (same column structure as the Full EICA.csv file populated during DBBuilds.) • Also, on 1/8/2026, Visual Crossing elevated the security protocol for their API from TLS 1.1 to TLS 1.2 with no advance warning. Those of you running the JCapper TrackWeather Module under Win 10 or Win 11 (with anything close to current Windows Updates) likely did not notice the change - your TrackWeather Module continued to ping the API, parse JSon, and write Weather Data to the TrackWeather Table. BUT, I still have three old Win 7 laptops. The change to TLS 1.2 "broke" the TrackWeather Module on those machines - rendering it incapable of calling the Visual Crossing API. I spent about a day and a half working to solve this and eventually did. Several years ago Microsoft published a Windows Update (KB3140245) that enables TLS 1.2 for older operating systems like Win 7. Despite KB3140245 being installed on those machines, all three were unable to call the Visual Crossing API. I eventually came up with a script (contained in a .BAT file) that writes four entries to the Registry. (AI only got me part of the way there.) After running the script in an elevated command prompt followed by a system Restart, the TrackWeather Modules on all three of those machines are now calling the API, getting JSon, and writing Weather Data to the TrackWeather Table. I'm including the .BAT file in the new program update. Nobody in the JCapper User Community reported any downtime from this, which has me wondering: Am I the last software developer on the planet still running Windows 7 laptops? Don't answer that.  -jp .
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| jeff 2/4/2026 9:10:02 AM | New JCapper Platinum 2025-2026 Full Program Update rel date 02-03-2026: Q. What's New? A. Primary Key Feature: Calc Races EICA2.csv File The Main Module now generates an EICA2.csv file populated with the Full EICA Column Set when you run a Calc Races. Same field mapping as the full EICA.csv file populated during a DBBuild. Every factor in the program with the exception of odds and odds based factors because the odds aren't known when you hit the CalcRaces button. Keys to making it work: 1. Check the box on the Installer to get new current version .mdb files. 2. Operate JCapper in SQL Mode box on the User Sys Defs Screen persisted as checked. 3. Full EICA Column Set persisted in the Enhanced Settings Module. This is something many of you who qualified for the NHC in March have been asking for and it's the primary reason I am publishing this program update. -jp . ~Originally posted by: jeff on: 2/3/2026 at: 11:08:05 PM~ ~Edited by: jeff on: 2/4/2026 at: 9:10:02 AM~
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