Mapping Suite Versions on IBM i

Mapping 7.1

Release date: 2012
Supported OS: IBM i 5.4, 6.1, 7.1
End of availability: 31 Dec. 2018
End of support: 31 Dec. 2019

New:

• XPS format
  

Mapping 7.2

Release date: 2014
Supported OS: IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
End of availability: 31/12/2019
End of support: 31/12/2020

New:

• "Microsoft Office" ribbon style menus for Designer and Connect
• Main applications have been renamed

Mapping OPALE 10.0

Release date: 2018
Supported OS: IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
End of availability: N/A
End of support: N/A

New:

• Compatible with Power 9 range of processors

• Compilation in V7 level of programs

• Support for Intermec IPL input language

• Revamped IBM i screens: Standardised colours, added scrollbars and clickable function keys

• Search and Sort screen for Mapping formats and components

• Search and Sort screen for overlays, fonts and logos

• HTML e-mailing with PDF attachment

• E-mailing: Increased number of recipients

• Connector to Chorus Pro government portal for companies working with the French administration

• Composition: Support for specific instructions in target print language

• Translation tool for menu items makes it easy to translate the application in virtually any language

• Compilation in V7 program level supporting the improvements offered by the latest system libraries

• Warning message before deleting an object telling the user in which formats the object is used, and making deletion impossible

• Improved resource management: Links between formats and objects are updated when something is deleted, the table of links is repaired automatically

• Improved format copy between libraries

• In Zebra, improved support for FNC / GS1 barcodes

• Improved security: OPALE is not compiled using QSECOFR rights, which means the QSECOFR account is not needed outside of installation

• Industrialization: Automatic testing and benchmarking system (Mapping internal)

Mapping OPALE 10.1

Release date: March 2019
Supported OS: IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
End of availability: N/A
End of support: N/A

New:

• Automated duplication of Mapping environments

• Ability to list all Designer formats where a given resource is used (overlay, font...)

• Added new columns in Spool/Action relationship screen:

- Designer format

- Sequence

- Processing mode

- Delete

- Keep

- Send fonts

- Send overlays

• Ability to retrieve a value from the spooled file and use it in the rules

• Integrity check for the list of objects (lstobj.txt) when importing new Designer formats and on demand

• If components are used in a Designer project, they will be hidden by default in design mode. However, they can still be displayed on demand

• New "R" option to look for a given line in the printer configuration screen

Roadmap

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• Graphical workflows available through PASE (support for AIX code)

• PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) output

• PDF 1.7 output

• Interactive PDF output

• AZTEC barcodes