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Global 3000 V5.0 was released in October 2000. A fully 32-bit successor to v4.5, Global 3000 v5.0 provides numerous functional enhancements and makes maximum use of the new Global Application Explorer (GX) interface.

Users running Global 3000 v5.0 with the new GX interface will also benefit from the new menu handler ($MENU32) and the new online documentation.

Key new features include:

• A new consolidated customer search window employs fuzzy logic technology which enables the operator to enter a 'nearest match' search.
• The customer/supplier account browse windows provide short-cut key access to customer/supplier enquiries, notes and actions or (for customers only) attributes.
• The appearance of the product search window can be configured on an operator/program basis using 5 different sequences (product code, description, group, lookup code and product type). The detail section can show either static information such as analysis information, alternate products etc or detailed stock levels accumulated from all the locations at which the product is stocked. The 'preferred view' for a given operator and program can be stored via a single keystroke, and 'fuzzy logic' product name searches are also now available.
• The Debtors Ledger Aged Debt and Creditors Ledger Aged Credit Reports now save all the report selection criteria on an operator by operator basis and use them as defaults the next time the report is printed.
• The Debtors Ledger and Creditors Ledger Status Lines now show company and current period.
• Sales order entry informs user that notes exist for the customer placing the order. Notes and actions may also now be displayed and amended within sales order entry.
• Passwords may now be set up for un-holding orders and credit check override.
• General Ledger Data Export to Host for the Open data interface may now (optionally) invoke Excel at runtime.

The release of Global System Manager V8.1l on 1st June 2000 introduced a number of technology enhancements, including:

• The ability to run 32-bit programs on GSM (Windows NT) configurations. Most Global applications are now either converted to 32-bit technology or in the process of being converted.
• Release of the 32-bit Global Development System product. Developers of software for the GSM environment can now use effectively unlimited memory space for programs, which will enable more functionality to be introduced more rapidly and with greater reliability.
• Support for Speedbase SQL Server on GSM (Windows NT) configurations. Global 3000 users can now choose between SQLServer, Pervasive.SQL (aka Btrieve), C-ISAM or 'native Speedbase' databases.
• The introduction of Global System Manager Service Packs that allow new features to be easily introduced without the need to re-install GSM.
• See section 2.10 in the 8.1l notes for further details
  
  

For more details of these and other recent and upcoming developments, please contact Steve Rogers at Global Business Systems Tel: (44) 020 7831 8811, Fax: (44) 020 72690881, Email: srog@tissoft.co.uk).

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Global System Manager 8.1l notes