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What's New in Release 4.1?

bullet Large File Support.  You can now create DVDs that contain files greater than 2 GB without using a tape drive during mastering.  Previously, a tape device was required during mastering in order to save very large libraries or objects without partitioning them.
 
bullet Additional Tape Formats.  When using a tape device during CD Mastering, CD Builder can now initialize the tape to any of the latest media formats.

What's New in Release 4.0?

bullet New Install Options.  New options *BASIC2, *INTERMED and *CUSTOM are now supported for the automatic install option on the Create CD Image command.  Automatic install allows a user to  restore the data from your CD set by inserting the first CD and keying LODRUN *OPT.

With the *BASIC option, CD Builder includes an install program on your CD which will restore each saved library when a user runs the LODRUN command.

*BASIC2 is similar to *BASIC, except that MBROPT(*ALL) and ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) are specified when restoring each library.  In addition, the installing user is prompted to sign off and sign back on with a different profile if they do not have *ALLOBJ special authority.  This option is useful for restoring libraries that contain source files and other multi-member files.

The *INTERMED option allows you to have more control over how the libraries on the CD set are restored, without requiring complicated programming.  At install time, CD Builder sets up the environment and then calls a user-specified program once for each library to be restored.  The user install program can set the restore parameters as necessary for each library, and can perform any necessary actions before and after each library is restored.

The *CUSTOM option gives the programmer complete control over the restore.  When a user runs the LODRUN command at install time, control is passed directly to your custom program.
 
bullet Sample Source.  Source for several types of automatic install programs is now included.  See file SAMPLES in library CDB.
 
bullet Generic Names.  Generic library names (such as test*) may now be specified on the Create CD Image command, making it easier to include several libraries that all have a common prefix.
 
bullet Better Messages.  Messages prompting the user to insert a CD now refer to a specific CD number in a multi-CD set ("Insert CD number 3 into OPT01") rather than simply the "next" CD.

Also, at CD mastering time, you can now specify the message queue to which install-time messages should be sent.  Special values include *SYSOPR, *USRPRF and *WRKSTN (system operator, user profile, workstation).
 
bullet New Commands.  Two commands are now available for use by automatic installation programs:

  Restore CDB Install Parameters (RSTCDBPARM)
  Check for File on CD (CHKFCDB)

The RSTCDBPARM command is used at CD install time to restore parameters values into library QTEMP that can be used by CD Builder to tailor the install process. 

The CHKFCDB command can be used within an install program to ensure that the proper CD is loaded, and to prompt the user to load a different CD if necessary.
 
bullet Restoring Large Libraries.  The following new parameters have been added to the Restore Large Library (RSTLIBCDB) command, making it easier for install programs to control how libraries are restored:

  Database member option (MBROPT)
  Allow object differences (ALWOBJDIF)
  Auxiliary storage pool ID (RSTASP)
 
bullet New Error Threshold.  You can now specify a number or *NOMAX for the number of errors that may be encountered during the creation of your CD image before CD Builder aborts the process.  Previously, CD image creation would halt if a single error was detected when adding a library to the image.  The new ERRLVL parameter allows you to continue creating the image if, for example, a single object is locked and could not be saved.  A final message indicates the number of errors that were encountered, and special messages are placed in the job log to highlight the errors.
 
bullet QPGMR No Longer Required.  Previously, QPGMR authority or greater was needed to create a CD image or to restore certain CD images with LODRUN.  This is no longer the case.  Now, any user that is authorized to the necessary libraries, OS/400 commands and CD Builder commands can create CD images and restore from those images.
 

What's New in Release 3.1?

bullet Target release.  You can now specify V3R2M0 for the target release when mastering CDs.  This makes it possible to create CDs that can be restored to  machines running V4R1 of the operating system when the CD mastering machine is at V4R5 or later.
 
bullet Volume ID.  You can now specify your own CD volume ID for use on your CDs and on CD Builder reports.  In the past, a random volume ID was generated.
 

What's New in Release 3.0?

bullet The Start CD Mastering (STRCDM) and End CD Mastering (ENDCDM) commands were updated to accommodate other changes in this release.  The ENDCDM command now has no parameters. The parameters that were formerly associated with the ENDCDM command have been moved to the STRCDM command.
 
bullet The Create CD Image (CRTCDIMG) command was enhanced to handle up to 100 libraries. Previously, the limit was 20.
 
bullet New options on the Create CD Image command make it easy to submit the request to batch.
 
bullet Save While Active support is now provided for the Create CD Image (CRTCDIMG) and Save Large Library (SAVLIBCDB) commands.
 
bullet The *BASIC install program provided with the Create CD Image command now continues installing libraries, even if an error is encountered while installing one of the libraries in the set. Completion messages indicate clearly whether any libraries had restore errors.
 
bullet *NONE is now supported for "Tape device", allowing you to create CD images without using a tape drive. New commands Add Save File to CD Image (ADDSAVFCDB) and Copy Save File From CD (CPYSAVFCDB) were added to support the DEV(*NONE) option.
 
bullet The "Insert next CD" message now shows the CD device name.
 
bullet The restore of a multi-volume save now works correctly, regardless of the order in which libraries were saved.
 
bullet CD Builder now automatically adds libraries QTEMP and QGPL to the library list when they are required.