dynamo

Release Notes

 Last Revised: 10/24/11

Purchase Order Processing
Transfer Order Processing
Accounts Payable
General Ledger
System Management Software
File Management Software
Dynamo Tools

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Purchase Order Processing
Date Application Description
12/31/08 Special Order Inventory Detail New report to assist in confirming Special Order Inventory G/L account balance (GLR menu)
09/01/08 PO Receiving Significant new enhancements
  • Support for Motorola hand-held scanners for PO Receiving
  • Support for changes in cost, quantity, date received, line item type after updating receipt
  • Support for single receipt linked to multiple vendor invoices
  • Enhanced Unvouchered Receipts Listing
  • Support for receiving by skid# and printing of skid manifest
  • Received value displays on PO Receipt display
09/13/07 PO Processing Fields added to identify how PO was delivered to vendor
12/01/06 PO Processing Dynamo Purchase Order Processing programs re-designed.  Enhancements include:
  • PO Processing displays streamlined with longer field descriptions oriented in a single column
  • Shipping Information provides selection of carrier & service, i.e., UPS Three Day Select
  • Full validation for any entered Shipping Address
  • Two PO heading notepads entered, one that prints on the PO, and one for internal use
  • Additional fields indicating source of PO, Date New separate from Date Ordered, Date Cancelled, Status code and description
  • PO Detail allows scrolling up and down to manage all line items
  • Separate Detail Properties view for optional fields
  • Notepad replaces message line for each line item
  • Support for discount% or multiplier per line item
  • PO Timestamps track all activities
  • Receipt Processing separated from PO Maintenance
  • Multiple Receipts per PO without changing PO#
  • Quick link to Vendor Inquiry
  • Emailed PO's include Excel compatible attached file with PO line items
  • New option to merge line items from another PO
  • Improved integration with Accounts Payable
12/01/06 PO Inquiry Application re-designed.  Enhancements include:
  • Additional PO selection options by Vendor Acknowledgement# and Warehooperator
  • etention of selection list retained to facilitate scanning through a list of PO's
  • Displays streamlined with longer field descriptions oriented in a single column
  • Detail allows scrolling up and down to display all line items
  • Quick link to Vendor Inquiry
12/01/06 PO Printing New format including variable sized columns
12/01/06 PO Receiving New application, separated from PO Processing
  • More efficient entry, bypassing fields not related to receiving process
  • Supports single receipt for items on multiple PO's
  • Each receipt updated individually
Transfer Order Processing
Date Application Description
     
Accounts Payable
Date Application Description
11/02/07 Vendor Inquiry - Returns Added display of Returns on systems running compatible Vendor Returns Processing.
11/02/07 A/P Invoice Update Terms that have multiple payments, such as 3x3 30/60/90 that include a cash discount, now distribute the cash discount evenly over all payments, as opposed to taking it on a single payment.
10/25/07 Vendor Inquiry - Monthly History Added information for Receipts and Returns for systems running compatible Purchase Order Processing and Vendor Return Processing.
10/10/07 Vendor Label Printing Prevent error when the vendor's name and address are completely blank.
09/27/07 Payment Selection Maintenance Added warning message when operator manually selects an invoice for payment that was entered with a payment method of S for separate check when there are other invoices on the payment.
09/08/07 A/P Payment Search Added Bank Code.
08/26/07 A/P Invoice Maintenance Added payment method to display of invoices.
05/13/07 Payment Selection Maintenance & Register Payment Method can now be changed.  Payment Selection Register now shows Payment Method for the Payment, as opposed to Payment Method for the invoice.
03/15/07 A/P Payment Selection Corrected a problem that under rare circumstances a credit used would exceed the credit available.
03/02/07 Vendor Inquiry - Purchase Orders Added Value Open to display for systems running compatible Purchase Order Processing.
02/19/07 Terms Code Maintenance Added warning message about changing reserved terms codes 90-99.
01/26/07 Form 1099 Processing Vendor name comment stored within {braces} is removed from 1099 form just as it is for checks.
01/17/07 Vendor Inquiry - A/P Invoices Added PONO, Received Value, Billed Amount, and Balance on systems with compatible Dynamo Purchase Order Processing.
08/21/06 A/P Parameter Maintenance The maintenance of the G/L Account Numbers previously maintained using A/P Parameter Maintenance have been moved to G/L Interface Maintenance on the GLU menu in order to consolidate G/L Account interface entries to fewer menu selections.
08/04/06 Change Vendor# Prior to this program correction, if you changed multiple vendor numbers in the same batch, to the 'next available vendor#', all these vendors were changed to the same 'next available vendor#'.
10/31/05 Payment Selection Corrected logic related to Payment Cycle Code which was not working properly.
10/10/05 AP Vendor# Added concept of an Accounts Payable Vendor# which can be used when payment is sent to a buying group, or credit card company, or anyone other than the vendor that supplied the product or service.  The A/P Vendor# is assigned to a vendor using the Accounts Payable Option of Vendor Maintenance (VML).  In most cases, this A/P Vendor# should be left blank.  But when the check is to be sent to another vendor, then enter the vendor# who should receive payment in this field.  Payment Selection (APP) will automatically group all vendors with a common A/P Vendor# into a single payment.  The Original Vendor's alpha sort name has been added to the Payment Selection Register (APP) so that the originating vendor can be identified.  Due to this extra column, the Payment Selection Register is now printed in landscape mode (when printed to a laser or inkjet printer) and the invoice Note is no longer truncated. 
10/10/05 Vendor Inquiry The section that lists Accounts Payable Checks will now show any pending payment at the top of the list instead of at the bottom.
07/18/05 Check Register Modified to allow re-printing of any batch.
07/18/05 1099 Processing Modified to support IRS changes for 2005 to 1099 Dividend and Miscellaneous.  Note: Choose box 16 for Section 409A Income which actually prints in box 15b.
07/05/05 Vendor Maintenance Consolidated multiple menu options for Vendor Maintenance into a new single menu option that includes sections to maintain: Address and Basic Information, Vendor Contacts, Accounts Payable Options, Purchase Order Options, and Vendor Notepad.  Includes address verification to vendor and check addresses including zip+4 for servers running the Linux operating system.
03/15/05 Vendor Inquiry Modified to display information about who has vendor record locked when accessing Vendor Contacts.
02/02/05 Change Vendor Number Corrected a problem when changing a vendor# to one that already exists, where the original vendor alpha sort in several Accounts Payable files was not changed.  This would cause vendor invoices and/or payments to appear out of sequence on some A/P reports.
01/31/05 A/P Invoice Search Added option to search by word or phrase contained within Invoice Note.
12/20/04 A/P Invoice Search & Payment Search Selecting the highlighted invoice or payment now provides the same drill-down detail provided in Vendor Inquiry.  You might use this option to determine the G/L distribution of the invoice, knowing only your Purchase Order#.
12/15/04 Bank Balance Inquiry Added option for operator to enter date to display bank balances as of a particular date.
12/04/04 Ageing The ageing display and hard copy that appears in Vendor Inquiry and in Display A/P Ageing (APR) now includes display of the pending charges that have been entered but not yet updated.
10/03/04 Help Key F3 When help key is touched on a PC running FacetWin, the help text is now displayed in a web browser.  Note, this feature requires a specific FacetWin properties box be checked.
08/08/04 Invoice Maintenance Added option to manually enter invoice number to be maintained or touch F2 to display invoices numbers in invoice# sequence.  Previous option of listing invoices with most recent first is still supported but requires using the F5 key to display.
07/26/04 Invoice Data Entry Dynamo A/P has always supported a Payment Method of S for Single, which causes the invoice to print on a check all by itself.  However, if this invoice is reversed, or adjusted by a negative amount, it is desirable that the reversal or adjusting entry appear on the same check.  But if the invoice and reversal/adjustment are both coded as an S, the original invoice will print on one check, but the reversal/adjustment will not print at all, since Dynamo does not print negative checks.  Modifications were made to the Invoice Data Entry program to not allow Payment Method of S for credit transactions, and now automatically changes the Payment Method from S to blank on both the original and reversal/adjustment transaction during the reversal/adjustment process.  Note, that this does not apply to Miscellaneous Vendors, since all invoices for Miscellaneous Vendors use Payment Method S and print on separate invoices.  Reversals and Credit Adjustments to invoices for a Miscellaneous Vendor will continue to use Payment Method of S, and can be combined onto a single check using Manual Payment Processing.  Whew!
06/26/04 Terms Code Maintenance Modified to support cash discount rates with three places to the right of the decimal as long as the discount rate is under 10%, i.e., 9.425% is supported, as well as 10%, 10.25%, but not 10.125%.
06/10/04 Manual Payment Processing Payment reversals will now always have a reversal date equal to the G/L posting date.  Previous versions set the reversal date to the actual date the reversal was made which can cause a problem with bank reconciliation when the G/L posting date is in a different accounting period.
05/29/04 Bank Reconciliation Modified to allow reconcile date 5 days into future.  Required when month ends before holiday weekend where electronic statements dated last day of month are received a few days prior.
02/25/04 Check Printing Reduced the white space between lines of the address on addresses with 5 lines so that the postnet bar code and entire address fit within the dimensions of the window of the envelope.
02/05/04 Invoice Data Entry Changed the G/L posting date warning message described in the 11/25/03 note, not to warn on future dates that are within 30 days.  This allows you to enter the last day of the current month as the G/L posting date without the warning message.
01/19/04 Vendor Inquiry Modified hard-copy option to print multiple years of Vendor Monthly History and to include the Vendor Name on all pages of the hard-copy.
01/05/04 Bank Reconciliation Significant change to the main display in order to separate transactions into more categories.  Checks are now separate from other payments; deposits from credit card transactions are now separate from regular deposits.  NSF Checks and funds transfers now are listed in their own category.  The sequence number for manually entered non-check transactions has been eliminated.  Reversed payments now appear as separate transaction showing the reversal date with a negative payment amount, as opposed to previously where the original transaction was changed to have a zero amount.
01/05/04 Manual Payment Entry When reversing a payment, the selection of previous payments now only includes those payments eligible for reversal.  This would exclude payments already reversed, other payment reversals, and all payments that have cleared bank reconciliation.

Payment reversals now reflect the date the reversal was made instead of the date of the original payment.

Allow selection of a zero invoice for payment.
01/05/04 A/P Invoice Maintenance Changed the sequence that invoices display to be the same as in Vendor Inquiry where the open invoices appear first, followed by those paid, with the most recent invoices appearing first.
11/25/03 Invoice Data Entry Relaxed restrictions on entry of G/L posting date.  An invoice batch may be assigned any G/L posting date as long as the G/L period is open.  This enables entry of a very old invoice to the correct period as long as you open the G/L period first.  Remember to close it once the G/L Posting Report has been printed and updated.  If you enter a G/L posting date that is more than 90 days in the past, or 10 days in the future, you will be warned that the date may be entered incorrectly.
11/08/03 Bank Balance Inquiry New program added to APU menu which displays all asset bank accounts including G/L account balance, value of pending transactions, and net balance.  This is useful for displaying the up-to-date bank account balances, even if the Accounts Payable or General Ledger transactions have not been updated.
11/08/03 A/P Invoice Search Added display of invoice note.  Use the ArrowRight key to display note.
11/04/03 Bank Reconciliation Modified to permit a zero amount transaction to be created during Bank Reconciliation.
10/24/03 Check Printing Added support for a descriptive field within the vendor name that can be used to differentiate multiple vendors with the same name.  The descriptive field must be enclosed within braces as in Treasurer of State of Ohio {Payroll Tax} or Treasurer of State of Ohio {Sales Tax}.  The descriptive information will appear on all reports, but is excluded when printing the check.
09/20/03 A/P Payment Selection Register Invoices are now presented in invoice# sequence within vendor even when multiple payment selections have been run in the same batch.
08/23/03 A/P Manual Payment Entry List of invoices previously entered now excludes invoices already selected for payment, as opposed to an error message after selecting an invoice already selected.
06/11/03 Payment Selection Maintenance When entering a new payment for a miscellaneous vendor, the actual vendor name will display once an invoice has been selected for payment.  Displays actual vendor name for miscellaneous vendor payments when maintaining existing payment for miscellaneous vendor.  After selecting an invoice for a miscellaneous vendor, only invoices for the same vendor appear in the selection list when adding additional invoices to the same payment.
05/22/03 A/P Invoice Data Entry Completed logic for interface with Purchase Order Processing.  Supports entry of PO# as first entry, fills in vendor and terms from purchase order.  Operator selects receipt related to invoice number.  Invoice amount defaults to value received.  Prevents duplicate invoice for single receipt.  Requires update to Purchase Order Processing.  Contact Excellware for details.
04/26/03 A/P Payment Selection Corrected problem where multiple runs in the same batch did not always combine the same vendors transactions into a single payment.
03/21/03 A/P Historical Invoice Register Added option to print for a single vendor.
03/15/03 A/P Invoice Maintenance Added PO# to F2 display of invoices.
03/10/03 A/P Invoice Data Entry Enabled ArrowUp and ArrowDn keys during initial entry of invoice amount and freight.
02/24/03 A/P Check Printing Corrected a problem with the page number on full page remittance advice printing.
12/21/02 Vendor Inquiry & Vendor Maintenance Added ability to delete a vendor contact and paste it to a different place within the same vendor or to a different vendor.  After deleting the contact, use the RightArrow key to paste as indicated in the prompt at the bottom of the screen.
01/31/02 Form 1099 Processing Modifications required to support new format of 1099-Misc which now have 2 per page instead of 3 as in former years.  Disable support for 1099 forms for miscellaneous vendors since there is no place to store the TIN/Social Security Number.  Always set up a specific vendor when a form 1099 is required.
10/15/01 A/P Manual Payment Update Modified so that reversed payments change bank rec amount to zero, and payee name to "Reversed Payment" instead of removing the bank rec record.
04/28/01 All Modified to enable logging of all disc activity for replication at a branch office.
12/09/00 A/P Manual Payment Update Modified to post separate G/L transaction for each side of transfer of funds transactions instead of combining with other manual payment transactions in batch.
12/09/00 Payment Selection Modified to select invoices that have a zero amount.  Modified not to delete payments that result in negative payments that also include discounts. Rather, delete as many credits as required to make a
positive payment, then take a partial credit to cause payment to be zero.  This informs the vendor that you are taking the discount.
02/09/00 A/P Invoice Search New program that allows you to search for an invoice for an operator entered invoice#.  This can be useful when the invoice was posted to the incorrect vendor.  Search by Purchase Order or amount also supported.
General Ledger
Date Application Description
01/25/07 G/L Period Ending Date Maintenance Modified to separate the status (Open/Closed) of any period for Accounts Payable and General Ledger from Sales Order and Inventory Postings.  This enables you to close the period for Sales and Inventory postings, yet remain open for Accounts Payable and General Ledger postings.
11/19/06 Change G/L Account# New program added to GLU menu that allows you to change an existing G/L Account# to an unused G/L Account#.  All transaction history is moved to the new account.
11/17/06 G/L Transaction Report Corrected a problem where the beginning balance was not correct when the report started on the last day of an accounting period.
08/21/06 G/L Parameter Maintenance The maintenance of the G/L Account Numbers previously maintained using G/L Parameter Maintenance have been moved to G/L Interface Maintenance on the GLU menu in order to consolidate G/L Account interface entries to fewer menu selections.  Note that the new G/L Interface Maintenance selection includes maintenance of G/L interfaces for Sales and Accounts Receivable applications as well, which may not be used in the version of Dynamo installed on your server.  Contact Excellware for more information.
05/14/05 G/L Transaction Report Modified to include end of year automated posting of retained earnings account when printing report that spans fiscal years.
03/24/05 Standard Financial Statements Corrected a problem where the headings showed the current year instead of the year selected when the general ledger month ends before the calendar month.
11/08/04 G/L Posting Report Added option to print report in sequence the posting was entered or created in addition to the prior method of sorting the entries by G/L Account#.
10/03/04 Help Key F3 When help key is touched on a PC running FacetWin, the help text is now displayed in a web browser.  Note, this feature requires a specific FacetWin properties box be checked.
08/06/04 Standard Financial Statements Added option to compare to same month last year, or previous month.  Added option to consolidate multiple companies into a single report.  Note that the chart of accounts should be the same for the companies being consolidated.
01/23/04 Export G/L Data Modified to include ending balances in export file.
01/19/04 Standard Financial Statements Added operator options to print Income Statement with only YTD values, or to bypass printing the Income Statement or Balance Sheet.
12/29/03 G/L Posting Report Modified to set the beginning balance of a future year when a transaction is processed for a fiscal year prior to the last.  Prior to this change, the beginning balance would not be set until exiting the G/L Period End Date Maintenance program (GLU). 
09/11/03 G/L Transaction Report Corrected some situations where the beginning balance was incorrect on the report.
05/22/03 G/L Posting Entry & Maintenance Retain most of the original posting note on a reversal.  Only the last portion of the posting note is replaced with a reference to the original posting.  Previously the entire original posting note was replaced.
03/23/03 G/L Trial Balance & Financial Statement Printing Modified to inform operator when there are un-updated transactions that will be excluded from the report.
03/21/03 Standard Financial Statements Added a sub-total for Total Expense.
03/21/03 G/L Posting Entry & Maintenance Modified to allow operator to enter batch# or accept default.  Modified to retain most of the original posting reference during a reversal.
02/24/03 Delete Updated General Ledger Posting Added an option to un-update the posting, but leave on file for manual correction and re-updating.
02/22/03 G/L Posting Report Added option to print all postings through operator entered date.  This is useful when it is desired to print all postings through a recent month-end date, but exclude postings to the new month.
04/26/02 G/L Posting Report Prior to this change, the default value for the "Update G/L Transactions (Y/N)" was Y which means that the operator could simply touch the Enter key to accept the default value of Y and the transactions would be updated.  Some customers requested that the default value be removed to prevent accidental updating.  Effective with this change, there is no longer a default value, so you must enter Y to update.  If you touch the enter key without the Y or N first, then a small window will appear allowing you to highlight either the N or Y option before proceeding.
System Management Software
Date Application Description
10/10/11 Dynamo Configuration Maintenance Added system wide default function key group code.
08/21/11 Dynamo Configuration Maintenance VSIFAX (Y/N) option replaced with Print to Fax option: V=VSIFAX, D=DynaFax.
07/27/11 Menu Menu will display 'BBj' in top right when running BBj except in Dynastart.
05/29/11 My Profile & Preferences Replaces Operator Preference Maintenance but also includes fields maintained in Operator Info Maintenance. 
05/19/11 Menu Added Dynastart which enables launching Dynamo from a web browser without any terminal emulation software installed.
01/29/11 Menu D option Exclude non-local file systems on Linux and solaris systems.
12/22/10 Menu I option Show Basis Product License Level
12/04/10 Menu I option Show Security Enhanced Linux (SElinux) current mode.
07/05/10 Server Backup Modified to sort files before saving to tape and to include Dynamo programs and files in front section of tape.
04/25/10 File Utility F2 Explore option now includes additional file properties including date, time, size, etc.  F5 option to change sort and selection options.
04/24/10 File Utility Added option to Email file as attachment.  Body of email includes basic file information.
04/13/10 File Utility When using the Display/Maintain/Print Data option, the number of records is now displayed in the window border.  This is especially useful when using a WHERE clause.
04/06/10 Company Information Maintenance Added BBj Prefix which will be included in PREFIX when running BBj in order to use BBj compiled versions of program to improve performance.
03/31/10 BBj All Dynamo Tools programs located in the CD/ folder now have a BBj compiled version in the CD/BBj/ folder.  This folder is placed in the PREFIX before CD/ in order to minimize program conversion from bbx to BBj format when running BBj.
02/16/10 Menu In order to make it clear when running BBj and not bbx, (BBj) will appear below the login ID on the menu, when running the Dynamo Tools menu in BBj.  The BBj script has also been revised to support dynamically created config.bbx configuration files.
02/06/10 Printing The PRT/ folder has traditionally been used for printed reports.  Printed reports are now being saved in the tmp/ folder.  This change was made to eliminate the need for operators to manually delete printed reports, as documents in the tmp/ folder are automatically removed when they are more than one day old.  In addition, this change makes it easier to view reports using a web browser, when the workstation is not local the the server.
01/19/10 Program Editor Display statements that are invalid in bbx, but valid in BBj, in yellow instead of indicating a syntax error.  Eliminated work-around that caused program editor to hang when listing multi-line statements in 64-bit version of AIX.  Upgrade pro5 if you encounter this problem.
01/18/10 Printing When printing PDF the Comment field entered before printing is stored within the PDF file in the 'Keyword' field.
01/10/10 Menu Enabled Dynamo Installation Directory (SMSDIR) to be located on a pro5 data server with no files or programs on the local workstation or server.  Example: SMSDIR="/<server,port=1100>/u/CDI/".
12/11/09 Notepad Text Enabled option to print notepad text to printer using Shift+F7 keys.
11/23/09 Dynamo Configuration Maintenance (SMC) This file maintenance application now includes a view for BBx options.  The BBx Options Maintenance has been eliminated from the menu.
11/23/09 Menus The SMS, SMU, SMC, and PFM menus were reorganized so that the applications that most operators will need access to are listed on a single menu (SMS).
11/09/09 Menus File name followed by ArroowUp can be used to launch vi or wordpad editor to edit html or other text file.
07/23/09 File Maintenance Applications Improved logic used to advance to next or previous record in file using ArrowDn and ArrowUp keys.  Display all key segments.  operator is prompted with message when advancing to end or beginning of file.
07/21/09 Menu: I option Added display of path to Java in BBj section.
06/27/08 Menu: V option Software Versions now include option to display Linux Software Packages in install date or package name sequence.
06/13/08 Printing to Text or Adobe PDF file When printing any report to a Text file or Adobe PDF file while using a PC running FacetWin, at the end of the report, Dynamo will prompt operator to Display the Report File.  The Adobe reader, Windows Wordpad, or Microsoft Excel will be launched to display the report file.
06/13/08 Reports New style reports that can produce tab delimited files (when the operator selects the Print to Text File option) will now have an .XLS extension instead of .TXT.  This file extension better identifies the file contents and will enable the file to be opened using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc.
10/03/07 Display System Status Changed name from Display Terminal Status.  Now includes Remote Location & Device Status which provides VPN status for branch locations.
04/21/07 Printer Administration Added many features including display of version and scheduler status, display of printers in multiple sequences, display of print queues with jobs pending, display of pending print jobs, options to cancel or move a print job, option to perform a communication (ping) test with networked printers, display of print queue status messages, etc.
12/15/06 Records Display Removed extraneous brackets with negative value on repeating fields as in LOCN[-2][1] which is not displayed as LOCN[1].
11/27/06 Display Terminal Status Modified to automatically remove records and kill process for sessions that are still active, but no longer attached to the workstation.
10/24/06 Printer Selection Re-enabled the Vertical Spacing (6/8 lines per inch) setting that was disabled since the recent change to Printer Control Maintenance.
10/19/06 Login Menu Prevent infinite loop causing apparent screen lockup when security configuration for operator prohibits access to all companies and menus.
05/05/06 Printer Control Maintenance & Listing Printer Control Maintenance (SMC) was revised and no longer requires a technician to edit the config.bbx file to add printers.  Although creating print queues with the application appropriate for the server operating system is still required, making an operating system print queue available to Dynamo is now a much simpler process.  In addition, you no longer need to exit Dynamo for the new or changed printer to become active.  Printer Control Listing added to SMC menu.
02/11/06 Printing Reports to Display Reports that have more than 132 columns, that typically print in landscape orientation on laser and inkjet printers, now will display properly when printed to the display.  The ArrowRt and ArrowLf keys are used to scroll the display left and right making for more readable reports.
02/01/06 Server Backup New program Server Backup Log added to SMS menu.  General File Maintenance moved to SMU menu.  Daily server backup email format changed to be more readable and include last 30 backups.  Direct link to Excellware web page with additional information in case of failed backup.
11/10/05 Printer Selection Added logic to attempt to enable a disabled printer when printing using the operating system spooler.
10/19/05 Fax Logs & Options (PFM) Added the Queue Name to the Outbound Fax log.  You need to use the ArrowRt key during to scroll to the right to see the Queue Name.  This is useful when multiple fax queues and modems are used for sending to determine the specific queue that delivered the fax.
10/14/05 Fax Logs & Options (PFM) Added Inbound Fax summary by Month, Date, and Hour and detail for systems that use fax modems for inbound faxing.
09/30/05 File Utility (SMU) The File Utility can be accessed from the SMU menu and from the error routine menu using the F for Files option.  To prevent accidental loss of important data, the operator must have a security level of 9 for the SMU menu, have supervisor status, or assume temporary supervisor status by entering a supervisor ID and password, for the following File Utility options: Erase, Initialize (Delete all records), Rename, Move, Export to Tab Delimited Text File. 
08/25/05 File Utility (SMU) When erasing a data file, offer option to erase the template file.
07/07/05 File Utility (SMU) Consolidated Display Data & Search Data options into a single Display/Maintain/Print Data option with simplified KNUM/Where clause selection, option to delete & re-arrange fields to be displayed/printed.  Added option to edit and delete records directly from display option.
06/22/05 Printer Administration (PFM) Replaces program named 'Enable all Spooled Print Queues' to also provide printer status information on CUPS based Linux systems.  Display includes printer queue name, connection data, accepting & enabled status, and the number of jobs waiting.  Some options are still under construction.
06/14/05 File Utility (SMU) Modified file name used for exported tab-delimited data to use the new standard file name extension of .tsv.
06/05/05 Program Utility (SMU) Created HTML format search output used when emailing to provide improved readability with color and grid lines.
05/06/05 Fax Administration (PFM) Replaces program named 'Display/Change Fax Modem Status' with better support for multiple fax modems, options to enable, disable, accept, reject and configure to send and/or receive.
04/14/05 Export/Import Data Dictionary (SMU) New program to facilitate transferring selected data dictionary records from Excellware to customer systems.
03/24/05 File Utility (SMU) Added option named Compare to Data Dictionary to display all differences between existing file structure and template and that contained in Data Dictionary.  Once variations are reviewed, file and template can be automatically archived and converted to the match the definition stored in the Data Dictionary.
03/18/05 Security Listing (SMS) Added options to include one or all operator ID's, and all or a list of menu codes.  Prior to this enhancement, all operator ID's and menu codes were always printed often resulting in a lengthy report.
03/18/05 Menu Control Maintenance (SMS) Now displays the number of operators affected by a change in security level.  F2 option will display Login ID's of operators affected by change.
02/17/05 File Utility (SMU) Added F2 option when entering the WHERE clause to allow pasting of field names.
01/20/05 Menu Processor Entering selection number followed by arrow up on selection that is for new file maintenance will invoke Data Dictionary Maintenance for selected file on systems with the File Management Software (FMS) installed.
01/05/05 Menu F Option When using the Files option at the Main Menu, an option was added to sort the files by size or name.
12/27/04 File Utility When selecting a record using the Display Records or Search Records option, upon exiting the display of the record, the highlight bar moves down to the next record instead of the first record in the display.
11/12/04 Display Terminal Status Improvements made to display so that after viewing an individual session, the next session in the list is highlighted instead of returning to the first session in the list.  New option added to display only those sessions currently with an error to facilitate using Double Vision to quickly locate a session that has encountered an error.
11/19/04 Notepad & Message Entry Added word-wrap feature so that last word on line is moved down to next line while typing in notepad text and Dynamo messages.  Modified Enter key logic to enable more accurate 'pasting' from Windows applications or displays that include graphics characters.
10/20/04 Disc Utility (SMU) Added option to erase files.  Program pauses before each file is erased for confirmation.
10/15/04 Record in Use message Improvements to error 0 processing that now provides more information about who is using a locked record.
10/07/04 Printing to a File Added end-of-line and end-of-page options to printer options when printing to a file to facilitate opening these files using a Microsoft Windows application such as MS Word.
10/01/04 File Utility (SMU) Added option to Compare to Data Dictionary.  Normally used by software developer to convert a data file to a new format.
08/20/04 Menu F Option The F Menu option to display files was enhanced to allow scrolling up and down through list of files.  Using the F menu option on the main menu now displays all files.
08/12/04 Help Added the option to display these Release Notes when using the F3 key.  Refer to the entry below on 07/02/04 if this option does not work for you.
08/12/04 Printer Selection Added an option to touch Ctrl+C to abort printer selection during the entry of any printer option.  This eliminates the need to enter a valid email address, or fax#, before being given the option to cancel.
08/10/04 Hotkey Corrected problem when using the Hotkey (F1) on IBM 3151/3153 terminals that would cause the screen to display in graphics characters under certain circumstances.
08/05/04 Dynamo Messaging Improved broadcast message option to support sending message to multiple operator lists, to edit the recipient list after adding operators from an operator list, and to save the recipient list within the broadcast option.  Also added distribution list which shows all operators who were sent the message.  When sending message to all operators currently logged in, a new option allows further selection by company code.
07/29/04 Hotkey Corrected a security problem where under certain circumstances the operator could hotkey to an application on a menu where they were not authorized.
07/29/04 All Data Entry Text deleted with Ctrl+G, or Shift+F10 on some keyboards, is now retained and can be pasted/restored in a different field than the one it was deleted from.  Previously the deleted text could only be pasted/restored back to the same field.
07/27/04 Date Entries The logic to determine the year was enhanced to always use the year closest to today's date when the operator leaves off the year.  For example if an operator enters 115 on 07/27/04 the date displayed will be 01/15/05 since that is closer to 07/27/04 than 01/15/04.  Similarly if today's date is 02/15/05, and the operator enters 1215 and touches enter, the date displayed will be 12/15/04 because that is closed to 02/15/05 than 12/15/05.  Try not entering the year when you enter a date.  In most cases the Dynamo System Management Software will assign the desired year.
07/15/04 Report Writer Engine Many reports, especially those in Accounts Payable & General Ledger use a common Report Writer Engine.  This Engine was modified which will affect several reports.  Since most A/P & G/L reports are printed to laser printers, and these reports are often stored in 3-ring notebooks, when there is room on the right side of the report, the report will be moved to the right to prevent the paper holes from punching through printed information.  Another change was made to use larger type size when possible.  This affects programs such as the A/P Invoice Register where the top portion requires smaller type, but the section with the breakdown by G/L account# can use the standard 10 character per inch type.  Prior to this change, the entire report was in small type.  Now the type will be small when needed, but large in other sections of the same report.
07/02/04 Help Text Display Dynamo uses the F3 function key to display help text.  When using a PC running the FacetWin terminal emulation program, help text for Data Entry Help, Rules for entering Dates, and Selecting records from a list, are now displayed using the internet browser when an active connection to the internet is available.  If this option does not function for you, then verify that the 'Enable Run Program Escape Sequence' box is checked on the Options tab of the Facetwin properties.
06/26/04 Template Comparison Utility New program added to SMU menu to facilitate software upgrades, primarily for use by software developers to identify field changes.  Note that the Display Added Programs was moved from the SMU to the SMC menu to make room for this new program on the SMU menu.
06/10/04 Printing Enhancements The Security Options in Operator Info Maintenance (SMS) now include four Y/N indicators to limit printing to special printers by operator ID.  The special printers include printing to a fax machine, printing to a file, creating an Adobe PDF file, and internet emailing.  operators that have an N indicator will not see the option in the list of printers, unless running a special program that specifically calls for one of these printers.  This means that an operator will still be able to fax or email orders, but not necessarily fax or email a customer listing.

In addition, these special printers (PFAX, PFIL, APDF, MAIL) as well as DISP which is used to print to the display, must now be included in any Printer Group maintained using Printer Preference Maintenance (SMC).

Although printing to a file (PFIL) and internet email (MAIL) are included at no additional charge as part of the Dynamo System Management Software, printing to a fax machine (PFAX) and creating Adobe PDF files (APDF) requires the purchase of third party software.  Contact Excellware to obtain a quote for these software options.
06/03/04 Printing to a file The file name created when printing to a file was changed to the format PRT/PROGNAMEnnn.TXT instead of PRT/PROGNAME.nnn so that Windows text editing programs such as Notepad, Wordpad, and MS Word recognize the file type by its extension (TXT).
05/08/04 Dynamo Print Spooler (SMU) Print Spooled Reports (SMU) has been renamed Dynamo Print Spooler and now includes the following enhancements:
  1. Uses a highlight bar to display print jobs instead of reference by a sequential number, which provides the ability to scroll forward and backward pages.
  2. Allows filtering of job list by login id, so you can see only your jobs, or those of another operator.
  3. Supports security to prevent printing, deleting, or canceling a print job that the operator would not have the security to print.
  4. Supports printing partial report by page number range.
  5. Ability to print report to display with pause between display pages.
  6. New option to cancel a job currently printing.
  7. More information regarding who and when a job was spooled and printed.
04/24/04 Displaying Records Dynamo often displays records with a highlight bar.  In many cases it is desirable to display more than 80 characters on a line, so the program shifts to 132 column mode.  Changes were made to eliminate the black sections that would appear on a PC or color terminal when shifting from 80 to 132 columns.
04/22/04 Printer Preference Maintenance (SMC) When defining a printer preference by IP address, you may leave the last octet as zero (192.168.2.0) to apply to all devices in that sub-net at that location.  This eliminates the need to enter a preference for each specific IP address.  Format used to display existing records improved to show more entries per screen.  Added ability to scroll down when all entries did not fit on single page.
04/16/04 FacetWin Build 467 of FacetWin supports option to stretch fonts used in terminal emulation creating a larger window with more readable type, especially in 132 column mode.  These options are selected from the Facetwin Terminal Emulator program by clicking File, Properties, Appearance.  The most popular configuration has the Stretch Font box checked, and the other three boxes in the Maximized options section unchecked.
04/16/04 Opening a Data File If a file cannot be opened because another operator has the file locked, you are now informed who has the file open on Linux, SCO Open Server, and SCO Unixware systems, as has been the case for AIX systems.
04/15/04 Error Routine The error routine displays information on a red background when a program encounters an error.  This routine was changed to eliminate the automatic display of "Possible Causes and Corrective Action" when a program encounters an error 0.  An error 0 is typically cause when a record is locked by another session.  After an error 0, the error routine will now try again after one minute.  There is also a new option to display session information about all operators that have the file open.
04/03/04 Menu Control Maintenance Entry of memory pages by menu selection are no longer applicable and have been eliminated.
03/23/04 File Utility (SMU) Added option "Search Data" to allow operator to enter a WHERE clause and display records matching selection.
01/24/04 Email Log (PFM) Added log listing all emails sent by Dynamo.  Purge program on PFM menu now purges both faxes and emails.
File Management Software
Date Application Description
02/25/14 Data Dictionary Maintenance Merged View Maintenance and File Maintenance Configuration with Data Dictionary Maintenance, now a File Maintenance Application. Added the Path field to enable defining a data file in a custom location.
09/15/11 File Maintenance Configuration Added display of View Type.  Omit view expanded to Option.  Option values Y=Omit View, R=Refresh Primary View upon exit from secondary view.
08/28/11 Data Dictionary Maintenance Copying a field from another company/folder used F2 option now also copies field notepad.
07/07/11 Data Dictionary Maintenance Added support for password type field (*).
09/18/10 View Maintenance Added support for conditional field values <blank> and <non-blank>.
07/03/11 Data Dictionary Maintenance Added support for BBj file types XKEYED (MKX), JKEYED (MKJ), and VKEYED (MKV).
08/21/10 Data Dictionary File/Field Rename Added option to rename a file.
07/24/10 Data Dictionary Maintenance Copy Field option now includes the ability to specify a Folder and a Company code to enable copying from development or archived directories.
07/22/10 File Maintenance Configuration The Display Fields which are displayed when the operator selects the 'Select existing record from list' option, now includes an index for repeating fields.  Zero can be used to include all indexes.
Dynamo Tools
Date Program Description
10/08/11 CDS074 Enabled option to check for supervisor status and return without error if supervisor, and return with error but no prompting if not a supervisor.
10/04/11 CDS340 Added option for 2nd login and password and pubnet directory list format.  This feature required eliminating built-in command to request binary file transfer.  Applications must now call CDS340 with B option to enable binary transfer when required.
09/09/11 CDS069 Corrected bug that limited timeout to 300 seconds. Max is now the bbx limit of 32,767 seconds.
08/21/11 CDS184 MIME Content-Type is now set based on extension of file name.
08/15/11 CDS037 Re-enable character echo when there is no information to be displayed.
08/11/11 CDS236 Enhancement to support tag names longer than maximum template field name of 32 characters.
06/27/11 CDW038 Added support for popup windows when using Chrome browser, inline style format, and BBj tokenized programs.
06/27/11 CDS037
CDS038		 Added support for external programs saved in BBj tokenized format.
06/05/11 CDS069 Make tab act like enter when at end of field.
06/04/11 CDS069 Added entry type modifier 'e' which acts the same as 'E' which allows the operator to abort using the window close button (red X on Windows, red circle on Mac, etc.)
05/30/11 CDW000 Added option for Dynamo Standard table with will alternate rows using background-color inline style and set cell style inline for compatibility with Google mail.
05/28/11 CDS030 When BBj operator Authentication is enabled, CDS030 will use BBj login and password maintained in Dynamo Configuration Maintenance to launch BBj session.
05/26/11 CDS037 Modified to use all rows and columns available, even if more than 132 columns or 25 rows.
05/18/11 CDS274 Added support for BBj client-side variables.
04/21/11 CDS069 Modified to prevent leading spaces for L type fields, and trailing spaces for R type fields.  This change enforces the minimum length as the minimum number of non-blank characters.
03/08/11 CDS055 Modified to treat three blanks as input date as null, instead of 3/22/1052.
03/02/11 CDS080 Corrected problem where data did not convert as entered.  For example 1.35 would display as 1:34 due to rounding of a continuous fraction.
01/25/11 CDS028 Fields populated by AWD routine are now displayed when adding a new record.
01/17/11 CDS084 Added option to redirect email to developer instead of intended email address when running in a development or test environment.
11/22/10 CDS052 Added option to disable F5 Print Hard Copy.
11/19/10 CDS036 Added option to pass file name after action code which will use a private
file channel to prevent releasing of extract.
10/20/10 CDS052 Added option to pass the minimum key value/size, useful when non-blank keys are required.
10/07/10 CDS038 Return # of records processed in primary file in S038.RECORDS.
08/09/10 CDS257 Importing notepad text now validates text to prevent invalid characters, especially pasted high-order ASCII characters.
07/22/10 CDS037
CDS038		 Corrected title alignment problem in repeating fields when all indexes are displayed.
07/22/10 CDS036 Display Record ID in decimal or hexadecimal when primary record key is binary.
06/17/10 CDS084 Modified so that when S084.FILEOUT$ is passed as a specific file name, the file will not be erased upon return to the menu even if defined in a folder that includes 'tmp' in the path name.
06/17/10 CDS036 Modified so background tasks wait 60 seconds before exiting with an error 0 when attempting to extract record locked by another session.
06/17/10 CDS063 Modified so background tasks that encounter an error 0 will log the error, wait 60 seconds, and try again, as opposed to aborting background task.
06/07/10 CDS084 Y6.SIZE$ added to indicate initial page depth/orientation.
05/01/10 CDS069 Quietly skip commas during data entry to enable pasting of copied numbers that include commas.
04/27/10 CDS063 Added 'Last CDS069 Prompt' to top section of error report to eliminate need to scan down to find it in the CDS069 section when a background task calls CDS069.
04/24/10 CDS184 Added period to the end of attached file name when there is no file extension to prevent certain email clients including Outlook 2003 from presenting the attachment with a .DAT suffix.
04/13/10 CDS037 Added option to include F5=Other Option to prompt.  MODE$ on CALL/ENTER list replaced with S037$ which now contains multiple fields.
04/06/10 CDS063 Added option to return dump.htm file name in global variable SMS_CDS063.DF and to EXIT to calling program and not abort when error is encountered in background session including stored procedures and triggers when this global is present.
03/31/10 CDS064 Modified logic used to determine unique work file name to be based on a random number, and to use fewer characters.
03/22/10 CDS063 Added Max KNUM, active KNUM, Key Size, and Record Size to Open Files table in error report.  Useful in resolving error 1's, error 17 (invalid KNUM), and error 46 when wrong KNUM is active and program does not specify KNUM=.
03/15/10 CDS063 Added bbx/BBj version and release information to top section of error report.
03/02/10 CDS191 New routine to set, check, and clear 'WorkingOn' Identifier which is cleared automatically when a session record is removed during logoff, or session record purging procedures.
02/09/10 CDS069 Modified so that display (Q) mode for a date clears existing date from screen.
01/23/10 CDS028 Added option for Called Program Views to cause primary view to be refreshed which is helpful when a secondary view modifies fields displayed in the primary view.
01/23/10 CDS028 Added option for Called Program View to write record and exit instead of displaying the list of views.
01/12/10 CDS094 Modified not to erase PDF file unless defined in the tmp folder.
01/08/10 CDS052 After the called routine veto's a delete, accept and write the record when there is no C=Change option.