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                    "relnotes.txt" for PRO/5(R) 
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CONTENTS
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1. NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS
2. WHAT'S FIXED/CHANGED
3. NOTES
4. KNOWN ISSUES
5. SUPPORT

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1. NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS
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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 6.21
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o Added a new SETOPTS bit (SETOPTS byte 9, bit $80$) which causes NUM() and 
 console and file input read with the READ or INPUT verb to reject scientific 
 notation that does not include a + or - after the E. 

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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 6.20
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o No new features in this release

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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 6.00
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o 64-bit architecture support

o AES-256 encryption

o Utilities mrebuild and mkrecover support encrypted MKEYED files

o Updated SAVEP algorithm

o Updated to FLEXnet version 10.1.3

o Ability to interrupt a READ verb that is waiting for socket data by 
  pressing <Ctrl>+C

o Ability to specify interpreter arguments when using the BASIS Web Utility(BWU)

o New _labels utility that provides a UI to the _label utility for converting 
  program line numbers to labels

o Increased the maximum size of filenames from 64 to 255 for _resolve utility

o Added DICTIONARY=path and DATA=path modes to override the dictionary/data 
  paths specified in the config.tpm file
  
o Typing "PRINT CTL" at the console prompt now correctly shows
  a value based on the last field separator encountered by a recent
  READ or INPUT statement.  It no longer gets altered by console
  mode keyboard activity.  Interrupted programs can now be restarted
  or single-stepped with CTL still set to the correct value.

  The following can be performed at the console prompt to test the
  setting of the function keys:
       input a$; ? ctl <then press the desired function key>
  In lieu of
       ? ctl <then pressing desired function key>
  which will no longer set the value of CTL due to this bug fix.  


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 5.00
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o New ENCRYPT() and DECRYPT() functions are available to encrypt and decrypt a 
specified string.

o A new CRYPTPASS= mode is available for use with the MKEYED verb.  The use of 
this mode creates an encrypted MKEYED file with the specified password.

o A new SSL mode is available for use when connecting to an SSL-enabled PRO/5 
Data Server or BBj PRO/5 DS Server.

o A new FCBDUPS keyword is available for use in the configuration file. This 
option, when used in combination with FCBCACHE, turns off an FCBCACHE feature 
that scans the prefix without performing any disk I/O to determine if a file is 
already in the FCB cache.

o A new FCBDUPS mode is available for use with the OPEN verb:
	Example: OPEN(1,MODE="FCBDUPS")"file"

o This product* was built with the FLEXlm 9.2 libraries.  BASIS recommends using 
this product with a 9.2 version or greater of the BASIS License Manager.  


* The SCO Open Server port (10045) was built with FLEXlm 8.2a libraries.
  The SCO UnixWare 7 port (10765) was built with FLEXlm 8.4a libraries.


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 4.11
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No new features in this release.


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 4.10
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o The OPEN verb now supports a new PASSWD= mode option for recoverable
multi-keyed files. This option protects records from being read or written by
unauthorized utility programs. See the product documentation for additional 
information about the OPEN verb and the mkrecover utility.
 
o Mkrecover supports a new -L option. The -L option functions the same as the 
-l option, except it leaves the log file blank when completely successful. 

o New INFO(2,6) function reports the PRO/5 or VPRO/5 license expiration 
date.

o New LINFO(handle,0,2) function reports the expiration date of a license 
obtained via LCHECKOUT().


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 4.02
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No new features in this release.


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 4.01
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No new features in this release.


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 4.00
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o The PRO/5 licensing model has been updated and now uses BBj licenses.
This simplifies the licensing process because the same license is being
used regardless of the product.

o The SETTRACE verb now supports timestamping to aid in profiling
BBx programs.  Two new modes have been added to the verb - "TIMED", 
and "UNTIMED". TIMED causes the trace log to always include time 
stamps, even if it is being written to the console.  UNTIMED 
suppresses the time stamps for trace logs that are being written 
to a file.  When no valid mode is specified, the default behavior 
is to include time stamps in a log file but suppress them when 
logging to the console.

o A profiling utility (_prof.bbx) has been added to the product 
distribution.  This utility is a performance analysis tool which
aids developers in optimizing their code.  When combined with a 
timestamped SETTRACE output file, _prof.bbx can identify performance 
bottlenecks due to slow or inefficient code via a comprehensive 
set of timings and statistics.


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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 3.11
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No new features in this release.

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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 3.10
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o  LICENSE PASS-THROUGH

Licenses can now be issued and controlled for BBx applications in
the same manner as BASIS products. This new FLEXlm license
feature is managed through LCHECKIN and LCHECKOUT.

o  Added LISTING.MSB to the conversion utility suite.  This 
program is used to aid in the conversion from MicroShare Basic 
to PRO/5.

o  PRO/5 was built against the 7.0g FLEXlm libraries.

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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 3.01
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o  IMPROVED MKEYED FILES

PRO/5 now defaults to creating MKEYED files with 1024-byte nodes 
which provides greater search efficiency and file performance. 
Previous releases only utilized 1024-byte nodes when the length 
of an MKEYED file key exceeded 64 bytes. 

For existing MKEYED files, use the mrebuild utility to convert 
them to the larger node size. 

o  IMPROVED DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF FILE CORRUPTION

This version can detect file corruption better than past versions, 
so it may detect corruption and report an error=7 on a data file 
that seemed to work fine with an older version of PROGRESSION/4 
or PRO/5. 

   ==> Before using this version of PRO/5, please use the <==
   ==> accompanying utility "mrebuild" to rebuild all of  <==
   ==> your data files to ensure their integrity.         <==

o  NEW SETOPTS BYTE

PRO/5 SETOPTS byte 8, bit $80$ now forces the FID() to report 
Mkeyed files as type $06$. When this bit is set, recoverable 
and 64-bit Mkeyed files are reported as standard Mkeyed files. 
In addition, recreating these file types using the INITFILE verb 
or the FILE verb in conjunction with the file's FID() will result 
in standard Mkeyed files.

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NEW FEATURES/BEHAVIORS IN 3.00
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o  64-BIT FILE SUPPORT REPLACES 4GB SUPPORT

In revision 3.00 of PRO/5, 4GB MKEYED file support has been 
replaced with support for 64-bit MKEYED files. If you currently 
have 4GB MKEYED files you will need to convert them to 64-bit 
MKEYED files by using the mrebuild utility. Any 2GB MKEYED dynamic 
files that are nearing the 2GB limit and you would like to allow 
them to continue to grow, you will need to convert them to a 
64-bit MKEYED file.

o  NEW CONVERSION UTILITY

A stand-alone conversion utility has been provided with your 
PRO/5 software to generate a 64-bit MKEYED file from a 2 GB or 
4 GB MKEYED file.

The stand-alone file conversion utility, "mrebuild" can generate
a 64-bit MKEYED file from an existing 2 GB or 4 GB MKEYED file. 
The generation of the 64-bit file is achieved without 
modification of the original file. Additionally, it can generate 
"highly recoverable" 2 GB or 64-bit MKEYED file.

The recovery utility "mkrecover" has been modified to attempt to
recover either a "highly recoverable" 2 GB or 64-bit MKEYED file.


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2. WHAT'S FIXED/CHANGED
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FIXED/CHANGED IN 6.21
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o The OPEN verb can now open encypted files as a raw stream of bytes using ISZ=-1

o It is no longer possible to write to encrypted files without the correct 
  password

o Fixed a problem where the 64bit Linux port did not recognize the system 
  interupt (CTRL+C)

o Fixed a problem with PRO5CPL where the FILE verb was not accepting the MODE 
  option

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FIXED/CHANGED IN 6.20
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o Fixed a problem where 64 bit ports would return an incorrect integer value
  in call/enter list under some conditions
  
o Fixed a problem where it was not possible to lock a file that was opened 
  with the O_CREATE mode option.  This problem only occurred on some Unix 
  operating systems including 64-bit AIX and Digital Unix.  

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FIXED/CHANGED IN 6.00
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o KEY= parameter is no longer ignored when writing to TCP server socket

o _dir utility no longer displays the first rem of a program

o Fixed - the !ERROR 36 in _browse utility

o Fixed - a problem in pro5cpl that left a trailing semicolon on statements 
  beginning with a label and ending with a REM

o Fixed - a race condition that occurred when two processes tried to create a 
  temporary file at the same time and chose the same name for it

o Fixed - a problem where, during the installation of a single user (uncounted) 
  license via the UPDATELIC verb, it did not generate a valid error message

o Fixed - INFO(3,2) did not report the user name when the USERID environment 
  variable did not exist and the -u command line option was not specified
  
o Fixed - the SQL engine was incorrectly using a 32-bit int for a value that was 
  too big for a signed 32-bit int

o Removed the genwrapper script which created scripts to run PRO/5 and the 
  PRO/5 Data Server

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FIXED/CHANGED IN 5.00
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The BasisRunLM script for blmgr84a no longer returns the error message: 
	No such file or directory
	
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FIXED/CHANGED IN 4.11
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PRO/5 no longer issues an error when attempting to write to a socket 
after reading from the same socket with a -SIZ mode.

PRO/5 and Visual PRO/5 no longer exit after losing a connection to 
the license server. They now continuously retry to connect to the 
license server without interruption.


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FIXED/CHANGED IN 4.10
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PRO/5 and Visual PRO/5 releases the enterprise license when disconnecting 
from the data server.
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Mkrecover now returns meaningful result codes for automated scripts.

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FIXED/CHANGED IN 4.02
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Fixed SQL select statements using COUNT(*), which would 
intermittently fail with a syntax error.
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TCP sockets no longer report an !ERROR=3 on a READ during heavy 
traffic.
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PRO/5 no longer waits for terminal I/O to take place before
processing a hangup signal.


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FIXED/CHANGED IN 4.01
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Anomaly in BACKGROUND verb.


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FIXED/CHANGED IN 3.11
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Multi-user access to non-LFS files no longer issues !ERROR 60's 
for the 1x75 ports.
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MREBUILD can now be used on SORT files


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FIXED/CHANGED IN 3.10
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A READ RECORD on a channel opened to a socket now returns any 
available partial data instead of issuing an !ERROR=0 or 2.
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The Basic Web Utility limits purges to old records instead of
removing all session records.
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BXRCV has been updated to handle MicroShare Basic specific 
program conversions.
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_ddedit.utl now allows you to change a field type to variable 
length.
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The following 95 QA memos have been fixed in this release:

02812   02895   02898   03413   03487   03498   03504   03524
03533   03555   03883   03971   03973   04050   04261   04276
04386   04404   04472   04758   05219   05544   06031   06104
06186   06366   06412   06426   06427   06428   06430   06432
06455   06456   06479   06498   06504   06516   06528   06533
06536   06562   06574   06583   06588   06617   06623   06674
06690   06695   06708   06709   06712   06722   06724   06725
06757   06773   06778   06780   06803   06821   06827   06828
06838   06858   06860   06861   06862   06892   06895   06898
06902   06922   06923   06933   06943   06970   06984   06999
07000   07007   07047   07050   07059   07094   07104   07117
07132   07140   07208   07226   07268   07270   07276

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FIXED/CHANGED IN 3.01
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PRO/5 now properly waits for a program specified in a printer 
alias EXECOFF mode to terminate before continuing.
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The BLM can now serve concurrent development and runtime licenses.
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The last few bytes of a serial print job now print correctly.
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Core dumps no longer occur on multiple, quickly executed OPENs and
CLOSEs of a printer channel.
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Problem with defunct processes that was specific to the DG/UX port
has been fixed.
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Error 16's no longer occur with BACKGROUNDed programs.
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Hang Up signals which were occasionally being ignored are now 
honored.
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A linefeed no longer occurs after the first Data Server OPEN().
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Closing a channel in a BACKGROUND program under SCO now works 
correctly.
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Error 0 and file corruption problem that was specific to the 
DG/UX port has been fixed.
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Opening an alias with a lock file no longer causes a core dump 
under DG-UX.


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3. NOTES
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The mrebuild utility requires minimum available disk space equal 
to the size of the file(s) to be converted.
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"Nag" mode is the absence of a valid license file which halts the
operation of the BASIS product. A message box appears randomly 
every 15-30 minutes reminding the user of the absence of a valid
license. Pressing OK resumes the operation.
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The LOCKMAX entry in the configuration file is now ignored. This
value is now fixed at 7fffffff for 2GB files and is automatically
adjusted to ffffffff for 4GB files.
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Version 2.x has improved upon its detection and handling of 
corrupt files. It can now identify corrupted files more safely 
and easily, allowing you to find and fix the corruption in a 
timely manner. Previous versions of PRO/5 did not perform the 
extensive integrity verification that 2.x does, so consequently 
it would not report all instances of file corruption. 

After upgrading to PRO/5 2.x for the first time, you may 
encounter more !ERROR=7's which indicate that the files in 
question may be corrupt. This error does not indicate that there 
is more file corruption with PRO/5 2.x, but rather that it is 
able to more accurately determine the file's integrity and alert 
you of potential corruption.
***  If you are upgrading to 2.x for the first time,  ***
***  from a version lower than PRO/5 2.0, we ***
***  recommend you verify the integrity of your data  ***
***  files BEFORE installing version 2.x. ***
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The default value for the maximum line length for the printer
alias is 80. Earlier versions of PRO/5 had an undocumented 
default value of 132.
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The DATE() and JUL() functions provide an easy method to store 
and manipulate four-digit years in a standardized way. For 
specifics on PRO/5's and Visual PRO/5's Year 2000 compliance, 
visit the BASIS web site at:
 http://www.basis.com/announcements/etc-19980508-y2k.html


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4. KNOWN ISSUES
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The SELECT verb may not properly optimize on a WHERE clause that 
references an alternate index.


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5. SUPPORT
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