Welcome to Release Day 2024.1 

These pages are designed to give you highlights of the innovative new features now available within the latest versions of the solutions you rely on. The products you use on a daily basis fall within suites that solve similar business requirements. These suites fall into three major portfolios, Infrastructure Protection & Data Security, Intelligence & Automation, and IBM i & Additional products. This new structure has been created to build solutions that meet specific organizational needs, and ultimately create the best experience for our customers.

You'll notice a Fortra Release Rocket beside some release announcements, denoting a major release. Note that you'll still see timely bug fixes and minor releases throughout the year to provide you with the best usability and experience for your Fortra products. 

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The Latest from Halcyon

Halcyon’s multi-platform solutions reduce the complexity of managing critical IT systems, core applications, and business processes running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Our mobile apps have been designed for IT support staff to remotely manage their vital IT systems. They provide a dashboard of alerts in a single view, so issues can be quickly resolved via smartphone or tablet. 

Recent product releases include:

  • Level 1 Message Management Suite 7.0 Fortra Release Rocket
    • The communications between Halcyon Enterprise Console and Halcyon IBM i can now be set to be encrypted. This is controlled within Device Manager on the PC, not within Halcyon IBM i. 
    • Message Communicator now allows you send emails via Microsoft using OAuth authentication. 
    • Dump Product Data (DUMP) now includes a parameter allowing you to specify the 'Save file OS level' (OSLVL). 
    • An upgrade using HALINST/INSTALL can now specify *SAME for the "Control Monitors" (CTLMON) parameter. This will only start Monitors that are already running at the time of upgrade. 
    • Print Action Log (PRTACTLOG) now allows you to only include actions in Error status. 
    • Print Alert Log (PRTALTLOG) now allows you to only include actions in Error status. 
    • Exports now support the use of a user password that includes space/blank. 
    • The Action Monitors now raise more errors to the Halcyon Message Log. 
    • Print Communications Log (PRTCMNLOG) now includes parameters to allow selection of an *ADHOC email address. 
    • The Delete Phone (DLTPHONE) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Pager (DLTPAGER) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Email Address (DLTEMLADR) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Message Queue Recipient (DLTMSGQRCP) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Broadcast Group (DLTBRDGRP) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Roster (DLTROSTER) command is now available. 
    • The Delete Escalation List (DLTESCLST) command is now available. 
    • Exports using *NETMGR Transfer Mode are now allowed for any user authorized to the Source and Target Environment and do not require *ALLOBJ permission. 
    • Options have been added to the Halcyon Utilities Menu (HALUTIL) to start and end the Monitors. 
    • The Change Phone (CHGPHONE) command is now available. 
    • The Create Phone (CRTPHONE) command is now available. 
    • The Create Pager (CRTPAGER) command is now available. 
    • The Change Pager (CHGPAGER) command is now available. 
    • The Change Email Address (CHGEMLADR) command is now available. 
    • The Create Message Queue Recipient (CRTMSGQRCP) command is now available. 
    • The Change Message Queue Recipient (CHGMSGQRCP) command is now available. 
    • The Hold Device (HLDDEVICE) and Release Device (RLSDEVICE) commands are now available. 
    • Fixes: 
    • All Halcyon libraries are now set to *PUBLIC *USE authority. This should not be changed as it enforces correct user authority to the objects within the libraries. 
    • The Message Communications Monitor no longer errors when creating direct attached devices on V7R5. 
    • Acknowledge Alert (ACKALT) now correctly acknowledges an alert in the current Environment if you use the 'Export name' on the *SYSTEM Remote Location. 
    • Export Job Lists (EXPJOBLST) now exports to a Remote Location Group. 
    • Sending an email with an attachment no longer fails with an encoding error. 
    • Output Queue Monitor now correctly adds "insufficient authority" messages to the Halcyon Message Log. 
    • Changing a phone or email address to *USER authority now allows you to set the user profile. 
    • Halcyon Install (HALINST/INSTALL) now supports passwords that include spaces/blanks. 
    • Print Alert Log (PRTALTLOG) now allows all possible values for "Action". 
    • Work with Alert Log (WRKALTLOG) no longer lists EXPORT as a valid Action within [F17=Subset]. 
    • Start Monitors (STRMON) now shows an error if the user is not authorized to the IBM 'Start Subsystem (STRSBS) command. 


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