Updates

Updates History

This page is a record of the updates that have been prepared for Catapult. The objective of the page is to help you identify whether any problems you might be having currently at an older release of the software have been addressed in more current versions.

Catapult 6.18 - 2007/10/09

Poller: 6.18, Console: 6.18
Features:

• A change to the Exodus code in Catapult allows users to specify a specific CCSID for both the iSeries EBCDIC encoding and the PC ASCII encoding. The Data Area SP_CCSID can be modified to indicate the expected CCSID's so that a proper translation is performed on any data sent to and from the iSeries

Resolved:

• Using a replacement value inside the user defined Fax Number field in a split segment now works correctly.
• An issue with the &i replacement value has been resolved.
• An issue submitting documents to the ECM with a qualified share name has been resolved.
• Added in a message to indicate that the PDF generator failed to create the pdf temporary file after it has finished the generation process. This was incorrectly distributing a plain ascii text file with a .pdf extension that wasn't a correctly formatted pdf file.
• Resolved issue where the compression ZIP password was being incorrectly updated.

Catapult 6.16 - 2007/07/04

Poller: 6.16, Console: 6.16
Features:

• When a new rule is created, the Console will load the correct OS dependant decimal symbol instead of always loading a decimal point.
• The option for specifying the maximum number of lines per page when overriding the Page setup has been enabled for use with RTF documents. This option will add extra page breaks based on the number of lines placed on each page
• When Catapult submits a document to Nexus and gets returned a message stating No Distribution rules match it will now flag that document as a warning and not an error.
• Catapult will now send out a warning email to the administrator if no distribution rule matches a given Nexus document.

Resolved:

• Resolved issue with faxing when using a fax number from inside a distribution group.
• Resolved issues associated with using a group to assign return addresses to split segments.
• Resolved issue where less than requested number of copies for an RTF document were printed.
• Encrypting compressed file issue has been resolved

Catapult 6.14 - 2007/03/12

Poller: 6.14, Console: 6.14
Features:

• A new default translation table has been added that will be installed with a fresh installation of Catapult.
• A character in the default translation table has been changed to more properly reflect the ECBDIC to ASCII conversion
• There has been a change in how Nexus and Catapult talk to each other, involving the share and path that points to the ECM folder on the IFS. For more details, please contact Technical Support. Nexus sites that are currently configured do not need to be modified to continue functioning.

Resolved:

• There have been some changes regarding how Catapult interacts with the operating system. As a result, there have been improvements in the response time regarding Catapults system tray, as well as improvements in the response time of the Office suite while the Poller is running.

Catapult 6.12 - 2007/01/29

Poller: 6.12, Console: 6.12
Features:

• Additional files will now have individual History and Request records added that indicates each file was successfully processed.

Resolved:

• Made a change in how extensions are handled when using wildcards in the Network File path field.
• When using a wildcard (* or *.*) with additional files, Catapult will no longer add directories to the list of potential files, and therefore will not display the warning message indicating it could not find a file named '.'.
• The level check when right clicking the Poller icon in the system tray and choosing to view the server status has been fixed.
• The level check when running the poller monitor has been fixed.
• When splitting a report and emailing to a distribution group, multiple group entries with *ALL as the key will all receive the report now.
• A problem involving poller configuration passwords when upgrading from 5.XX to 6.XX has been resolved.
• A problem involving curly brackets { and } has been fixed in RTFs.
• A problem submitting Network files to Nexus that had file names longer than 32 characters has been resolved.

Catapult 6.11 - 2006/12/19

Poller: 6.11, Console: 6.11
Features:

• There is now a new option in the Page Setup when creating a PDF report that lets you specify the maximum number of lines per page. This is used for correctly breaking pages on reports that don't already include page break control characters.
• Added in request and history list logging for CC and BCC emails.

Resolved:

• Solved reported problems with the Server status window accessed from the Poller application right click menu.
• Changed the Catapult library label version.
• Changed the iSeries installation to not automatically load the Catapult website.
• Solved a problem with an unsupported formatting code not being filtered properly.
• Resoved some start/stop issues when running Catapult as a service. To address the reported problems all registry keys have been reverted to using Local_Machine instead of Current_User.
• Resolved a problem where the Poller would attempt to process both Spool File and Network Polling options rather than just the option currently selected in the grab rule.
• Fixed a problem that triggered an Out of Bound error when moving the first column of the rule listing and then clicking on a folder.
• If you had a Network Polling rules that sent an "Other" file type as a link, when you saved the rule it would revert to sending it as an attachment. This has been resolved.

Catapult 6.10 - 2006/11/21

Poller: 6.10, Console: 6.10
Features:

• Zip file names will now be automatically parsed before they are created for bad characters. If any are found, they will be converted to underscores. This will prevent creation failures.
• Added the ability to disable all spool file previewing from the console.
• Support has been added for the following European language Font Encoding when creating PDF or RTF documents: Central European (i.e. Polish), Cyrillic (i.e. Russian) and Greek. Users can select a Font Encoding by Overriding the default values in the Page Setup tab of the Download Category.
• Users can select a default Font Encoding from the Console Configuration. This setting will be used for all new rules that are created.
• New iSeries installation process allowing you to choose the initial Library.
• If you have a rule selected when creating a new one, it will default to the same folder.
• All context sensitive help has been updated to reflect the new user guide.
• The OVRSCOPE parameter in OVRDBF statements have all be hard coded to use *ACTGRPDFN in case the iSeries default value has been changed to *CALLLVL.
• Some small general UI changes.
• You can now turn off the informational message asking if you would like to load the spoolfile list automatically When clicking the "Show Spoolfile" checkbox back on. The option is available in the console configuration.
• When the console loads the list of spoolfiles (when clicking the "Show spoolfile" checkbox), the first spoolfile in the list will automatically load into the view screen.
• The Nexus page under the Parse/Split Category has been removed. This functionality is still available in the main Nexus Category.
• Lots of changes to how Nexus works. You can now choose a library when specifying which Nexus site you'd like to use. Nexus 2.53 and below will only have the choice of XL_SMSLIB.
• Some small changes to error reporting when the Poller fails to connect to a network resource.

Resolved:

• Fixed a problem where user would need to login again when shutting down the Poller.
• Fixed a problem where any additional files would be included twice if the rule created a compressed zip file, and then again separately.
• Fixed a problem involving split sections not receiving Title/Footer page data when created.
• A problem involving viewing spoolfiles, where the console would report an ambiguous error, has been fixed. The console will report an error code and more direct error message.
• Fixed a problem that would cause the Poller to loop if the email address field included the &E replacement value.
• Fixed a problem involving changing split rules from iSeries polling to Network polling. The split section was not being disabled properly.
• Fixed a problem when splitting very large reports that are then saved to a network location.
• Fixed a problem with the Poller crashing when trying to poll an IFS directory with poll-a-dir.
• Incorrect decryption of poll-a-dir profile information has been fixed.
• Several small changes to UI and Poller.
• Fixed a problem involving the profile information for network polling rules.
• Fixed a problem involving the Target filename being converted when opening certain network polling rules.
• Fix for a problem involving European language iSeries machines when run with a US language console PC.
• Assorted small changes and fixes.
• Your choice for automatically loading the spoolfile list is retained correctly when you permanently dismiss the window.
• A problem involving grab rule security has been resolved. This caused some rules to have consistent invalid security settings requiring SECADM authority to open them.
• Nexus search values are replacing correctly now. You no longer need to use &W1 instead of &W0 for your first search value.
• Fixed a problem when connecting to a Poll-A-Dir network folder.
• Selecting to have your polled PC file moved after processing now works correctly.
• Some elements in the Grab rule UI have been moved or modified.
• In some circumstances underline characters were being interpreted wrong in the console's viewer.
• Several Nexus related fixes, including support for Nexus 3.
• Other miscellaneous fixes.

Catapult 5.72 - 2006/09/18

Poller: 5.72, Console: 5.72
Features:

• Added the ability to disable spool file viewing via the console. Please contact Tech Support for more details.
• The specified archive file name you provide when compressing a report will now be checked automatically for bad characters, making it easier to use with replacement values.
• You can now use Replacement values inside Title and Footer pages that you add to your documents.

Resolved:

• A problem involving imbedded font tags not displaying properly in documents generated as RTF has been resolved
• A problem involving viewing spoolfiles has been fixed. This was causing the console to crash under certain circumstances when trying to view a spool file.

Release 5.71 - 2006/05/23

Poller: 5.71, Console: 5.71
Resolved:

• A Problem involving European language iSeries and US region Windows OS which caused the console to hang has been resolved
• If a rule fails to connect to a network resource when saving a report, the request will now be flagged as an error
• Putting a negative bottom margin was causing the sequence number to become negative, this has been fixed.
• Resolved a problem with the ZDSTSPLF command where it received a level check.

Release 5.69 - 2006/04/20

Poller: 5.69, Console: 5.69
Resolved:

• Resolved an exodus problem that sometimes caused message overflow errors to occur
• Resolved a problem during PDF creation that added a '\' character before parentheses

Release 5.68 - 2006/03/07

Poller: 5.68 Build 17, Console: 5.68 Build 8
Resolved:

• Fixed an access violation that occured while trying to modify a rule if you did not have a default printer installed in windows 2000 and 2003.
• Extracted Data Values will now work correctly when the rule is run using ZRUNRULE
• In certain circumstances unassigned split segments were trying to send with a return address of **D-O-N-T-S-E-N-D**. This has been fixed.
• A problem using Catapult on ports other than 2015 has been resolved.
• The Console will no longer hang if you try and view a spoolfile that includes '{' and '}' characters that aren't part of formatting tags.
• PDF and RTF documents will no longer convert a slash followed by numerics into their octal ASCII equivalents.
• Resolved a problem where the port numbers in the exodus system list were not displaying correctly in the console configuration.
• Fixed an access violation that occured while trying to modify a rule if you did not have a default printer installed in windows 2000 and 2003.

Release 5.66 - 2006/01/17

Poller: 5.66 Build 17, Console: 5.66 Build 8
Features:

• There is now an option to enable a socket Keep alive message in the Poller configuration. This can be enabled if you find the Poller and iSeries stop communicating during long idle periods.
• Added support for Nexus 3 ECM document additions. You can now distribute documents to multiple ECM folders based on your distribution rule.

• Placing a comma in the fax number for a group will work correctly in rules that use split sections.
• When emailing a spoolfile to support, the attachments are no longer showing up in the body of the email.
• A new control character added to *SCS spoolfiles (only useable by certain printers) is now being trapped and removed. This was causing accented 'u' characters to show up in reports.
• You can no longer place a non integer value in the Font Size Select box when overriding the default spoolfile formatting attributes.
• The incremental split section replacement character &i is now using the correct split number.
• The Report subject replacement character &s will no longer create a loop when an &s is part of the replaced value.
• Users that had previously set up an anonymous user login will no longer be prevented from signing onto the Poller configuration.
• The filtering options for 'Pending only' and 'Errors only' in the Requests and errors list is now displaying the correct request.

Release 5.65 - 2005/08/09

Poller: 5.65 build 2128, Console: 5.65 build 1794 update 0
Features:

• Upgraded email component to help remove Catapult generated emails from spam blacklists (such as SpamAssassin). SpamAssassin was arbitrarily picking up the series of characters embedded in a MIME tag used to separate attachments within the email.

• Modification to how the Poller 'fixes' file paths to remove invalid characters. In some cases it was removing backslash characters incorrectly.
• Catch Windows message when re-connecting to a Network resource. The Poller was incorrectly flagging the request in error in this case.
• Resolved a problem encountered with embedded font tags in *RICH downloads when creating PDF and RTF documents in the Poller. This problem would only occur when Split/Parsing from *STARTOFREPORT to *ENDOFREPORT and the font tag is past the key value in the report.

Release 5.63- 2005/04/05

Poller: 5.61 build 2091, Console: 5.63 build 1789 update 0
Resolved:

• Resolved a problem encountered while downloading extremely large spool files.

Release 5.62 - 2005/03/22

Poller: 5.61 build 2091, Console: 5.62 build 1787 update 0
Resolved:

• Resolved a looping problem in the Poller when the Split/Parse group had certain combinations of duplicate keys and email addresses.

Release 5.61 - 2005/02/18

Poller: 5.61 build 2091, Console: 5.61 build 1786 update 0
Resolved:

• A problem copying GrabRules with Extracted Data Value processing has been resolved.
• A problem with Email Header/Footer Text using Extracted Data Values has been resolved.

Release 5.60 - 2005/02/16

Poller: 5.60 build 2085, Console: 5.60 build 1785 update 0
Features:

• Catapult 5.6 installs into a new directory and creates a new Program Group in the Windows Start Menu (rather reusing the the existing Catapult entries). This will allow multiple versions of Catapult to be installed on one machine. This means that if you have created short-cuts on your desktop for Catapult programs, you will need to update them to point at the correct executables. If you run Catapult Poller as a Windows Service, you will need to replace the Windows Service. See Appendix C item #9. Note that the path to use will be 'c:\program files\esdi\catapult 5\poller', not as listed in the manual. If you run the Poller as a Sheduled Task, you will need to remap what the Scheduled Task points to. The new path is 'c:\program files\esdi\catapult 5\poller'.
• Catapult now supports extracting up to 10 additional data values from the report data to use as replacement values for filenames, addresses etc. Use &X0; through &X9;.
• Call-out program functionality has been added to allow end users to create programs that will query in-house databases to return values to Catapult. Use &B0; through &B9;.
• Additional values can now be attached to Group Entries. This will allow user specific values to be stored with the group (for example: PDF password). Use &A0; through &A9;.
• CSS Style sheets are now supported for HTML generation.
• Support for *NONE in overlay graphics in PDF/RTF/HTML generation.
• Catapult Poller can now chop large files downloaded in *RICH and *RPT format into smaller sections. The Poller Config has been updated to include a file size (in pages). The Poller will chop up large files after the Split/Parse process, before the file is formatted into PDF/RTF/HTML.
• PDF passwords now support replacement values.
• Zip passwords now support replacement values.
• Catapult Poller can now send separate emails for 'Grouped' addresses. So, rather than sending out one email with bob@here.com;joe@there.com;bill@elsewhere.com, Catapult will send out three separate emails. This will help to keep email addresses private.
• Optionally open favourite windows: History List, Request and Errors List, as well as Poller Status when Catapult Console starts.
• Exodus now supports OS/400 Password Level 2.
• Exodus now Blowfish encrypts the iSeries password passed between the client and the server on startup.
• The Print functionality now includes the option to not attempt to wait for the print application to complete (typically Adobe Acrobat/Reader or Microsoft Word). The print time out can simply be a timer, allowing the Catapult Poller to simply move on to the next request after the specified time.
• 'Where Used' screen to show which GrabRules use any particular Group.
• In the Email thread, if there is a connection error to the email server, add Request Details for each of the files that should have been emailed.
• Catapult 5.6 installs into a new directory and creates a new Program Group in the Windows Start Menu (rather reusing the the existing Catapult entries). This will allow multiple versions of Catapult to be installed on one machine.
• Catapult now uses a replacement to the external Exodus communications layer previously used. Configuration screens have been updated to reflect this. Granularity was added for handling and logging communications errors. The Windows path no longer needs to be updated to include the path to Exodus.
• Added options to handle Windows Fax Services "Queued" messages (see Poller Configuration).
• Added an 'Email Cache' directory for the Mail thread to use. This will ensure that file name conflicts do not occur with the main Poller thread.

• Validate that the 'General' folder is not modified or deleted.
• When creating a Quick Rule from the Preview Spool Files window, the selection criteria was not being populated correctly.
• Validate the Page Selection range.
• The error checking process of the automatic update download in Catapult Console has been improved to report conversation timeouts more consistently.
• In Catapult Poller error checking during spool file downloads has been improved to report conversation timeouts more consistently.
• Resolved crashing problem in the Console when there is a default printer assigned to Windows, but the printer is invalid.
• Resolve problem/silent crash retrieving the font list during the Catapult Poller startup on machines with extremely limited resources.

Release 5.16 - 2004/10/22

Poller: 5.16 build 1928, Console: 5.16 build 1659 update 0
Features:

• The Poller Monitor now has options to send alert emails when the Poller ends.
• The Poller Monitor now has options to pop-up alerts to the desktop when the Poller ends.
• The Poller can automatically email the Catapult administrator on startup and shut down.

• A crashing problem has been resolved in the Catapult Poller. This problem generally manifested itself in the following sequence: the Poller would start up and process one or more requests. Unexpectedly, and with no messages being logged to the error log, the PC side of the Poller would silently crash. This problem would only occur on GrabRules that involved Splitting/Parsing.

Release 5.15.2 - 2004/10/07

Poller 5.15 build 1918, Console 5.15 build 1655
New Features:

• Added functionality to enable and disable submitting the base spool file as well as document(s) created from the split/parse functionality to the Nexus WOW. *** Note *** Please review any GrabRules that submit documents to the Nexus WOW to ensure that your GrabRule will function as you expect.
• Added Nexus Wow Data values as replacement variables. Up to nine values can be extracted from a report and used in file names, descriptions, etc. The variable names are &W1;, &W2;, ... &W9;, and correspond with the Nexus Search Criteria number. &W1; will contain the first value retrieved by the first Nexus Search criteria. Similarly, &W2 will contain the first value retrieved by the second Nexus Search criteria defined.
• When submitting documents to the Nexus WOW, first attempt to logon to the shared IFS folder.
• Added support to download and send spool files to techsupport for V5R1 through V5R3.

Resolved:

• Using *ALL as a key value for emailing now works as expected. In certain situations, it would only email to the *ALL recipient.
• Resolved a problem when saving split segments with overwrite and emailing, where each recipient would receive the same segment - the last one created in most cases.
• Temporary files should now be cleaned up in a timely fashion.
• The Poller Monitor now exits correctly when Windows is shut down.
• A problem submitting documents to Nexus WOW has been resolved when more than one search key is defined.
• A problem with the OK button not being enabled after viewing a GrabRule has been resolved.
• RTF generation has been modified to better handle characters in Column 1, Row 1 of reports.
• Several lists in the Console have been updated to use a more modern control.
• An obscure problem where unaddressed split sections would be emailed to a group has been resolved. This would only occur if the base spool file was being emailed to a group, the report was being split, and not all the splits where being assigned to an email address based on a key value.

Release 5.12 - 2004/05/11

Poller: 5.12 build 1873, Console: 5.10 build 1584 update 0
Features:

• In the Poller config, queues that the user is not authorized are shown greyed out. This will give an indication which queues cannot be processed by the Poller if the Poller uses the same user profile.

• A problem with ZRUNRULE not creating the Parse/Split and the Bookmark section of the GrabRule has been resolved.
• A problem with the Show Spool file has been resolved. Queues encountered that the user did not have authority to would cause the search to end prematurely.
• Occasionally the Mail thread would get behind, leaving the last request in Pending state until the next request entered the queue. This has been resolved.

Release 5.11 - 2004/05/10

Poller: 5.11 build 1872, Console: 5.10 build 1583 update 0
Features:

• Added GrabRule created by and modified by information to the General tab in the GrabRule wizard.

• Resolved a memory leak issue when splitting and creating many PDF's from a large spool file. The symptoms exhibited included receiving Error Code = 6 from the Poller after creating a large number of PDF's.
• Resolved problem in the Console when attempting to copy GrabRules without a GrabRule selected.
• Resolved a problem in the Console when copying email groups that could occasionally lead to a loop on the iSeries.
• Fixed problem with Toggle All Rules Active/Inactive, which would pop an AV message.
• Modified how the sort order is handled for the GrabRule column in the Console.
• Fixed size limitation for email address.

Release 5.10 - 2004/03/29

Poller: 5.10 build 1783, Console: 5.10 build 1550 update 0
Features:

• Integration with the Nexus Document Repository. Catapult GrabRules can be defined to automatically populate the Document Repository. This includes extracting search values from within the document.
• New spool file preview function from the GrabRule wizard. A list of spool files subsetted to meet the selection criteria can be displayed. A selected spool file can be downloaded and displayed one page at a time.
• A Poller Monitor has been created to help monitor the Catapult Poller PC operations remotely. This program can be added into your Start Up group so that you can always keep an eye on the status of your Poller.
• New Console feature to group GrabRules within logical folders or by GrabRule number. GrabRules can now be grouped logically be function, user, etc. You can drag GrabRules between folders, or update the folder using the GrabRule wizard.
• Added GrabRule Process Sequence. This will allow spool file Requests to be generated in a priority sequence rather than by GrabRule number sequence.
• The FontStart tag has been updated to optionally include Character spacing and Leading. Read more about the Catapult rich text facilities for formatting your reports.
• Include additional files when a spool file is distributed by email, print and fax. The file name supports the standard replacement values, so the name can be dynamic.
• Catapult Poller now includes a series of bar code fonts to use. This third party font set is licenced to use on your Catapult Poller PC by Catapult.
• Improved automatic overriding of document properties for PDF and RTF.

• When creating the final spool file name, invalid characters are removed and replaced with underscores. Invalid characters are most often introduced when using key values extracted from the report data as part of the file name.