What’s new in 6.3

No major new functionality has been added to this release.

Problems solved in IBM Rational SDL and TTCN Suite 6.3

Call Ticket	Internal number	Synopsis	Release Notes Text
5018585	TLOG#32722	experiencing some problems with abbreviation facility included with simulator	Faulty error message "Name was ambiguous" for similar enum literals, like SCH_HD, SCH_HM, SCH_H (one literal name is a substring of some other literal names), has been fixed.
7020638	TLOG#36084	Capitalization in SDL Make	Compile errors for Lower case capitalization mode with ctypes package have been fixed. Messages like "ctypes.c(54) : error C2065: 'type_SDL_shortint' : undeclared identifier" are not printed any more.
4051741	TLOG#41345	How to get past redeclaration of global_namespace?	"Illegal redeclaration of name global_namespace" error that appeared when using several import specifications in one system has been fixed. Now, CPP2SDL tool appends the name of import specification to the name "global_namespace".
7029627	TLOG#44439	Problem to print PS files	When printing to Postscript files on Linux it can happen that the generated Postscript is not correct. The problem can appear when using tools to convert Postscript to pdf and the converter complains because fontnames are missing. This problem has been seen when using locales having UTF-8 fonts. This has been fixed in 6.3.0.
3041982	TLOG#45342	Support for Visual Studio 2008 for SDL Suite	IBM Rational SDL and TTCN Suite now supports Visual Studio 2008
3042046	TLOG#45378	Defect in the Help Manual regarding the supported compilers for Windows Vista	The problem in the user documentation has now been corrected.
3043229	TLOG#46610	Crash during co-simulation from batch mode (command line)	Crash when co-simulate executable built by VC8 in batch mode was fixed.
02971,140,702	TLOG#49543	Error : ERROR 261 Answers are not mutually exclusive	SDL Analyzer treated external synonyms without values as equal (for example, SYNONYM X Integer = EXTERNAL;) and if two or more external synonyms were used as decision answers, "ERROR 261 Answers are not mutually exclusive" was reported.
3041489	TLOG#44886	Unable to Generate Cextreme Code from Commandline using sdtbatch	Now it is possible to generate CExtreme code with the sdtbatch command by specifying options file in the command line.

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