General Communication Service R6.

0 Release Notes ==================================================== These release notes contains important information not mentioned elsewhere in our documentation and about departures from expected behavior. For the latest information read this entire file carefully through. -------Contents -------Part A Change Notes GCS R6.0 Part B Known Issues B.1 GCS Connection Tool: Database is in use by another application B.2 GCS Connection Tool Help Window close error B.3 GCS Connection Tool MML connection sharing B.4 Very long bus list with Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 Agent B.5 Mouse cursor position disappears if GCS Connection Tool is idle B.6 Nodes are not reflected when imported from NetAct to Access using NetAct U I of NCT B.7 Compacting GCS database has to be done only using GCSCompactDB.exe but not with ODBC administrator panel B.8 GCS DB Configuration Tool not closing automatically on Windows Vista.

------------------Part A Change Notes ------------------GCS R6.0 General Communication Service (GCS) R6.0 is an upgrade to General Communication Service R5.0 GCS R6.0 is backward compatible with GCS R5.0 on Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server Standard and Enterprise Editions. The main feature added in this release is the support for Windows Vista. Other features included in this release are as below: 1. Supported operating systems are Windows Vista 32-bit Business Edition,Windows XP Professional,Windows 2003 Standard Edition and Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition 2. Scheduled import functionality from NSN NetAct database. 3. Fixed the problem 1-331960032 Waypoint BSC is missing mandatory parameter 'PS W'. ------------------Part B Known Issues ------------------B.1 GCS Connection Tool: Database is in use by another application -------------------------------------------------------------------GCS Connection Tool can sometimes give above mentioned error message that can be safely ignored. Press "Yes" to continue. B.2 GCS Connection Tool Help Window close error -------------------------------------------------

In some workstations closing GCS Connection Tool while help window is left open may crash GCS Connection Tool and/or node manager that has opened it. It is recommended to close GCS Connection Tool help window before closing GCS Connection Tool and node managers. B.3 GCS Connection Tool MML connection sharing ------------------------------------------------GCS does not restrict use of MML connection to one user only as it should. B.4 Very long bus list with Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 Agent ----------------------------------------------Bus list for Q1 Agent managed buses can be very long. Due to a limitation in Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 protocol, answer to bus list query cannot exceed ab out 1000 characters. If answer is longer than this limit, it is truncated. B.5 Mouse cursor position disappears if GCS Connection Tool is idle --------------------------------------------------------------------Mouse cursor disappears from the GCS Connection Tool, if it is idle for more than 30 seconds. Cursor reappears on mouse movement. B.6 Nodes are not reflected when imported from NetAct to Access using NetAct UI of NCT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nodes are not reflected after importing from NetAct UI of NCT until the applicat ion is restarted. This has been observed when NCT is launched from Node manager. B.7 Compacting GCS database has to be done only using GCSCompactDB.exe but not w ith ODBC administrator panel -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GCS database dbs.mdb file has to be compacted only using GCSCompactDB.exe. If th e compacting is done from ODBC data source administrator dialog by selecting the DBS32 data source name, i t is clearing the security permissions of dbs.mdb file which would cause an error "Unable to open GCS datab ase because the database file (dbs.mdb) is in read only mode when the connection tool is opened as a normal use r. To resolve this problem add the write permission to "Everyone" user for the dbs.mdb file and this can be don e by the administrative user only. B.8 GCS DB Configuration Tool not closing automatically on Windows Vista -----------------------------------------------------------------------In Windows Vista GCS DB Configuration Tool is not exiting automatically after cl osing GCS connection Tool. And it is working fine in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. It is recommended to close GCS DB Configuration Tool window before closing GCS Connection Tool.