SOURCE: BLD FLASH 9643
SOURCE MATERIAL DATED: 10/96
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                        IBM PSM NEW RELEASE INFORMATION
 
 Effective  September 27, 1996, new releases of IBM's Printing Systems Manager
 products for AIX are generally available.  These releases were announced  un-
 der  "Planned  Availability Dates" in announcement letter 296-029.  These new
 releases represent a modification level change to version 1.2.0, which became
 generally available on March 29, 1996.
 
      5765-273  IBM Printing Systems Manager for AIX, version 1.2.1
      5765-541  IBM PSM Graphical User Interface for AIX, version 1.2.1
 
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 The main purpose of this modification level is to  provide  translation  sup-
 port, but also contains new features and function:
 
 
    o_  NATIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT
 
 National  Language  Support is being offered for the following language sets,
 for use with both "man pages" and the message catalogues:
 
         LANGUAGE                   AIX v3.2.5         AIX v4.x
         ----------------------   --------------   -----------------
         German                   De_DE: IBM-850   de_DE: ISO-8859-1
         English, U.S.            En_US: IBM-850   en_US: ISO-8859-1
         Spanish                  Es_ES: IBM-850   es_ES: ISO-8859-1
         French, Canadian         Fr_CA: IBM-850   fr_CA: ISO-8859-1
         French                   Fr_FR: IBM-850   fr_FR: ISO-8859-1
         Japanese                 Ja_JP: IBM_932   ja_JP: IBM_eucJP
         Chinese, Simplified(*)                    zh_CN: IBM_eucCN
 
    * Note:  Simplified Chinese is only supported at AIX v4.1.4 and later.
             Support for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) is not provided at
             this time.
 
 
    o_  NEW ATTACHMENT TYPE FOR PSF PHYSICAL PRINTERS
 
 You can now receive the same type of information on the state of PSF physical
 printers that you  received  for  non-PSF  AIX-attached  printers  under  PSM
 v1.2.0.
 
 
    o_  FILE-REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
 
 The  function  of  file-reference documents is to group printable document so
 that the end user can print multiple documents by specifying  a  single  file
 name on the print command.
 
 
    o_  IMPROVED PSM GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)
 
    The PSM GUI has been updated to allow the PSM administrator to:
 
        - Use the 'pdspace' command to backspace PSF physical printers
          that use the Intelligent Printer DataStream (IPDS).
 
        - Monitor job status at your preferred (customized) level of
          detail.
 
 Additionally, "problem" object are now represented by blackened icons instead
 of by greyed icons, allowing for a clearer view on the desktop.
 
 
    o_  WINDOWS CLIENT NOW INCLUDES WIN32S VERSION
 
 In  addition  to  the  16-bit WIN-OS/2 clients shipped with PSM, a 32-bit PSM
 Windows 3.1 client is now also included.  This client supports  the  National
 Language Support (NLS) versions of the PSM servers.
 
 Additionally, this new client acts as the beta version for the PSM Windows 95
 client;  however,  it  will only support 16-bit printer drivers at this time.
 Should you install this client on a Windows  95  system,  you  will  need  to
 use/install  the  16-bit  printer  drivers that are available for Windows 3.x
 rather than the 32-bit printer drivers that are available for Windows 95.
 
 
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                         INSTALLATION RECOMMENDATIONS
 
 IMPORTANT!!  It is highly recommended that previous versions of PSM  and  PSM
 GUI  be  removed using the AIX SMIT facility prior to installing this new re-
 lease.  Currently defined printers and PSM user-defined objects will  not  be
 affected by removing the software.
 
 DO  NOT  USE THE SMIT "UPDATE SOFTWARE" OPTIONS TO INSTALL THIS RELEASE.  In-
 stead, remove the existing PSM software and install the  new  software  using
 the SMIT "Install from ALL Available Software" option.
 
 The procedure under AIX 4.2 would be:
 
 1.  Reject all prior maintenance for the PSM filesets.
     (fastpath:  "smit reject")
 
 2.  Remove the existing filesets for PSM.
     (fastpath:  "smit remove")
 
 3.  Install  the new filesets; do not select 'ALL' as the value for the field
     "SOFTWARE to install" unless you need to use all of the NLS filesets  for
     all available languages.  Instead, perform a prompt on the field, and se-
     lect only those filesets that you will use.
     (fastpath:  "smit install_all")
 
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                             ORDERING INFORMATION
 
 The  new  release is a non-chargeable upgrade which may be ordered via normal
 channels.  It will not be shipped automatically to current licensees.    Note
 that  service  for  release  1 of the PSM products will end on June 30, 1997.
 Current users of PSM version 1.1 are strongly encouraged to  upgrade  to  the
 latest levels of code.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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