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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.

ProGen Plus 9.6 update 2 (PG96002) is now available for download from our web site:

http://www.bcdsoftware.com/iseriessupport/progen/updates/current/

This update addresses a reported problem where in a Style F program, a lock was being generated in Factor 1 for the LDA when additional data areas are defined in the program.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

We have posted a new update for ProGen Plus 9.6.

Update PG96001 addresses a reported issue where long EVAL operations were not being split across lines correctly. You can download this update from our web site:

http://www.bcdsoftware.com/iseriessupport/progen/updates/current/

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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.

ProGen Plus 9.6 is available for download. This release consolidates fixes made since version 9.5, paving the way for the next major release. You can upgrade directly to version 9.6 from any release higher than 8.0.

Note that ProGen 9.5 and higher requires a new license key. If you are upgrading to ProGen 9.6 from a release earlier than 9.5  please contact our sales office for your new key before beginning the upgrade.

These changes are included:

• Resolved issue where the transfer of a definition from one environment to another caused the CMP process to go into MSGW status.
• Resolved issue where ZWRKPDF option 13 was not listing referenced objects.
• Upgrades now retain any RPG source files in GN#LIB.
• The current version is now reflected correctly in data areas and message files.
• Resolved issue with a CPF5218 error when loading an empty subfile list.
• Resolved issue where the D spec for a timestamp was missing in the source.
• Generation command ZCRTOBJ now points to the environment library in order to find the validation module master file.
• Resolved issue where conditional attributes are stripped out when moving a block of fields to a different location.
• Resolved a reported issue with function key messages.

As noted above, these are for the most part fixes to version 9.5, though not all of them were previously available.

Looking forward, we have a further set of minor enhancements and new features we’ve been working on over the last couple of years to incorporate, which we will most likely release as version 9.7 later this year. After that we’ll start work on the main features in the upcoming version 10.

Please let us know if you have any questions about ProGen 9.6!

We recently had an issue come up with the Style N shell that I thought I should let you know about, and I’ll take the opportunity to list recent Knowledge Base articles that may be of interest to you. I’ve also recently updated the formatting of the ProGen Plus 9.5 guide, and made some corrections and clarifications to the text.

Style N Shell Fix
This week a customer ran into a problem with ILE Style N programs that use the fold/unfold, where the *SFLMODE program field is not updated properly. The problem is that the SFLMODE DDS keyword is not defined for Style N shell. This keyword updates the *SFLMODE (RPG ILE name @@SFLMODE) field with the current state of folding/unfolding. Read more…

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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