These Release Notes inform you of the enhancements and new features provided with Version 3.5.1 of Entire Output Management; they cover the following topics:
Unless otherwise indicated, the information in these Release Notes applies to Version 3.5.1:
for both Entire Output Management (NOM) and the Output Management GUI Client (NGC),
on all supported platforms.
Before you can install Entire Output Management on a mainframe computer, the following Software AG products must have been installed at your site:
Adabas Version 8 or above;
Natural Version 8.2 or above; the Natural installation must include the Software AG Editor component;
Entire System Server Version 3.6.3 or above;
Entire System Server Version 2.1.12 for UNIX/Windows, or above (optional; for UNIX/Windows access);
System Automation Tools Version 3.5.1 or above;
Natural Security (optional; required for UTM users under BS2000);
EntireX Version 10.3 for z/OS, Version 10.3 for BS2000, Version 9.6 for z/VSE, or above (optional, for multi-node support and Open Print Option);
Entire Network (optional, for multi-node support);
Before you can install Entire Output Management on a UNIX system, the following Software AG products must have been installed at your site:
Adabas Version 6.6 for UNIX, or above;
Natural Version 9.1 for UNIX, or above;
Entire System Server Version 2.1.12 for UNIX, or above;
System Automation Tools Version 3.5.1, or above;
EntireX Version 10.3, or above (optional, for multi-node support, cross-platform access, and Open Print Option) (*).
(*) Fix 5 has to be installed using the Software AG Update Manager. The libraries are delivered as a separate component under Infrastructure > Libraries > EntireX Libraries in the Software AG Installer (see the webMethods documentation, Installing webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations Products).
Output Management GUI Client Version 3.5.1. requires the following products:
Natural for Windows, Version 9.1 or above; Development version or Runtime version;
EntireX Version 10.3 or above; Development version or Runtime version (*);
Entire Output Management Version 3.5.1 (or above) for Mainframes/UNIX.
(*) Fix 5 has to be installed using the Software AG Update Manager. The libraries are delivered as a separate component under Infrastructure > Libraries > EntireX Libraries in the Software AG Installer (see the webMethods documentation, Installing webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations Products).
Entire Output Management Version 3.5.1 does not support any Output Management GUI Client version below 3.5.1.
A migration of Entire Output Management to Version 3.5.1 is possible from Version 3.4.3, but not from earlier versions. Output Management GUI Client does not require any migration.
For a detailed migration description, see Migrating from Previous Versions in the Installation and Customization documentation.
In addition to performing the migration procedure, you have to perform the following:
Recatalog with the new version all your user exits and all programs which use Entire Output Management application programming interfaces.
If you use the program NOMTP in the library
SYSNOMS, recatalog it (because the parameter data area
NOMTP--P used by it has been modified).
Under UNIX, adapt the scripts used to run Entire Output Management to suit your requirements. See Scripts in the Installation on UNIX documentation.
All solved problems of the previous version are included in this version.
With the new system administration function Default Code Pages you can specify the code pages which are to be available in Entire Output Management. The defined code pages can be used in report and node definitions for mainframes.
The system administration function Node Definitions has been revised and enhanced. In addition to UNIX and Windows nodes, you can now also define mainframe nodes.
With the new system administration function Email Message Definitions, you can define certain error situations which will trigger the sending of emails to specified email addresses. You identify an error situation by its Natural or Entire Output Management message number. You can specify which email text is to be sent and to whom. In this way, you can inform the appropriate persons whenever a certain error situation occurs.
In addition, Entire Output provides a set of standard emergency emails, which are sent automatically in the case of certain severe error situations.
See Email Message Definitions for details.
A new system default option Perform search in advance when opening the search dialog is available: It applies to the search for active reports in a folder and may be used to prevent time-outs caused by searches in environments with a large number of active reports. Depending on this option, when you open the Search dialog, the result list may initally be either empty or already filled with the search results based on the current search criteria. .
The source of a report is now selected on the Report Definition > General Attributes screen (fields Node name and Ident. source). With PF7, you can specify the identification values for the selected type. See Attributes of a Report
The new option Read binary = A in the UNIX/Windows Indentification Attributes can be used if a report is to be created as a text file and the print data from the data source already contain ASA control characters.
With previous versions, the separator pages specified in the Printing Attributes of a report were printed on all printers assigned to the report. Now you can specify for each assigned printer in the Printing Attributes whether or not the separator pages are to be printed on it.
With previous versions, it was necessary to invoke the Natural editor in a separate Natural session in order to edit a separator page (text member) or user separation routine (subprogram). Now buttons are provided next to the separator pages and user routine specified in the report's Printing Attributes and Separation Attributes respectively. They can be used to invoke the editor directly, allowing you to edit the separator page or separation routine in question.
With the new option Allow to edit separator pages and separation routines in user definitions, the system administrator can allow/disallow the use of these editing functions for individual users.
The dialog layout for the attributes of active reports has been improved to be more user friendly.
The functions to print active reports and active bundles have been enhanced. With previous versions, it was only possible to select a single active report or active bundle for printing. Now you can select multiple active reports or active bundles simultaneously for printing. In addition, you have the option to either print them all on the same printer or print them on different printers.
The function to list the monitor subtasks has been enhanced to be more user friendly.
In the
Monitor
Defaults, the specification of the jobcard entry
NOSTATISTICS (deactivation of statistics-data writing) can be
omitted, as it applies by default now.
If statistics data are to be written for Optimize for
Infrastructure (O4I), the jobcard entry STATISTICS=ON has to be
specified explicitly.
The functions for Transferring Objects from one environment to another have been enhanced: Now you can also export/import mainframe nodes.
For the importing of objects, the fifth RMIMPORT
parameter (node number) is now obsolete.
As of this release, reports from SAP Spool are no longer supported.
Existing data referring to SAP Spool reports which were created with previous versions of Entire Output Management are still available for retrieval. They will be removed with the next release.
Before you install Version 3.5.1, you should run the program
CHCKOLD provided in the library SYSNOM in your old
Version 3.4.3 environment to find out if you still have SAP Spool reports.
As of this release, the Entire Output Management interface to Con-nect is no longer supported.
Existing data referring to the Con-nect interface which were created with previous versions of Entire Output Management are still available for retrieval. They will be removed with the next release.
Before you install Version 3.5.1, you should run the program
CHCKOLD provided in the library SYSNOM in your old
Version 3.4.3 environment to find out if you still have Con-nect
interface-related objects.
As of this release, the following printer types are no longer supported:
CON-NECT
ECL 2.1.1
XML
Before you install Version 3.5.1, you should run the program
CHCKOLD provided in the library SYSNOM in your old
Version 3.4.3 environment to find out if you still have definitions for these
printer types.
In previous versions, it was possible to define report attributes for more than one identification source, which could lead to inconsistencies. As already communicated in the Version 3.4.1 Release Notes, this was rectified and you can now only define reports with identification attributes for one identification source.
Old report definitions, however, may still contain attributes for more than one identification source. When you open such a report definition, you will be prompted to choose which identification attributes are to be kept.
To find out if you still have report definitions with multiple
identification attributes, you can run the program CHCKIDNT
provided in the library SYSNOM.
As of this release, the line command LF (Link folder) is no longer available, because its functionality was redundant. The same applies to the corresponding NGC command Link on the context menu for folders.
As before, the linking of a folder to another user's folder is done via the Linked Folder fields, as described under Attributes of a Folder.
The printing attribute Style of reports will be removed with one of the next releases.
The System Defaults field Automatic user definition - and the functionality attached to it - will be removed with one of the next releases.
The user exit NOMEX008 will be removed with one of the next releases.