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This is a followup to our October 19, 2011 Minimum OS/400 Release Level Notification for BCD products.

As of later this month V5R4 will be the minimum OS/400 release level supported by most BCD product releases as well as any software updates we create.

The following versions of our products are the last releases that can be installed on OS/400 V5r3:

• WebSmart ILE 9.0
• WebSmart PHP 4.0
• Clover 3.0
• Presto 3.8
• Catapult 7.71
• Nexus 4.03
• ProGen Plus 9.6
• Spool-Explorer/400 4.52
• File-Flash Plus 4.5
• DbGen 2.5
• Docu-Mint 6.6

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Technical Support.

As part of our ongoing development strategy and planning efforts here at BCD we are scheduling future internal IBM i system upgrades. This will affect the minimum OS/400 release level supported by BCD products. Our product line currently requires a minimum OS/400 release level of V5R3. As of January 1, 2012 V5R4 will be the minimum OS/400 release level supported by most BCD products and updates released after that date.

As our products continue to evolve and new products are introduced it is generally our intention to keep in step with IBM OS/400 release levels, while also giving our clients enough time to plan for this change. This allows us to develop using current technology and to make this technology available to you in our product family.

IBM discontinued support for V5R3 on April 30, 2009.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Technical Support.

Docu-Mint update DN66002 is now available for download from our website:

http://www.bcdsoftware.com/iseriessupport/docu-mint/updates/current/

This update addresses a reported problem where a WWU OBJTYPE(*ANY) was returning fewer results than WWU OBJTYPE(*FILE).

Please let us know if you have any questions!

We’ve recently published a couple of new updates:

• DN65R001 – Resolves an issue where the WWU command was showing duplicate records when child object type of *ANY was used (FS#7819). Also corrects release level displayed on some screens.
• DN65R002 – Resolves an issue where the Total Objects in library was not being updated (FS#7821). Also corrects release level displayed on some screens.

These are both included in accum update DN65RA01, which updates your release level to 6.60.

Applying Updates at V6R1
If you want to apply these updates and you are already at V6R1, you need to get a new version of our support library, BCDSUPPT.

Please refer to Knowledge Base article 8965 for instructions on how to download and install the new version of BCDSUPPT.

Updated Docu-Mint 6.5 User Guide
Finally, we have updated the formatting and made some minor corrections to the content of the Docu-Mint 6.5 User Guide. You can download the guide from myBCDSoftware.com.

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Please let us know if you have any questions!

The BCD Product Development team has run a series of tests of the following versions of our software at V7R1:

• Catapult 7.6
• Spool-Explorer 4.5
• Exodus 5.1
• WebSmart 8.2
• Presto 2.2
• ProGen 9.5
• DBGen 2.5
• Docu-Mint 6.5
• File-Flash Plus 4.5
• Nexus 3.6 and 4.0

No problems were encountered.

If you have any questions about this, please contact Technical Support.

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