General Communication Service R6.3 Build Version 6.3.0.

1 Release A Notes
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These release notes contains important information not mentioned
elsewhere in our documentation and about departures from expected
behavior. For the latest information read this entire file carefully
through.
-------Contents
-------Part A Change Notes
A.1 GCS R6.3 Release A
Part B Known Issues
B.1 GCS Connection Tool: Database is in use by another application
B.2 GCS Connection Tool Help Window close error
B.3 GCS Connection Tool MML connection sharing
B.4 Very long bus list with Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 Agent
B.5 Mouse cursor position disappears if GCS Connection Tool is idle
B.6 Nodes are not reflected when imported from NetAct to Access using NetAct U
I of NCT
B.7 Compacting GCS database has to be done only using GCSCompactDB.exe but not
with ODBC administrator panel
B.8 GCS Connection Tool will not close when Exit button is clicked in Windows
Vista and 2008 server OS.
B.9 Should not install lower version of GCS if GCS 6.3 is already installed

------------------Part A Change Notes

------------------A.1 GCS R6.3 Release A
---------------------GCS R6.3 Release A General Communication
CS R6.2, GCS R6.1, GCS R6.0 and GCS R5.x
However upgradation from GCS R4.x is not
rst before installing GCS R6.3 version.
GCS R6.3 is backward compatible with GCS

Service (GCS) R6.3 is upgradable from G

versions.
supported and it must be uninstalled fi
R6.2, GCS R6.1, GCS R6.0 and GCS R5.2.

The main feature added in this release is User Mangagement Feature. With this fe
ature enabled user will be able to access
only those nodes to which user has access.
1. Supported operating systems are
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows

XP 32 bit
2003 32 bit Standard and Enterprise edition
Vista 32 bit Business Edition
Vista 64 bit Business Edition
2008 Server 32 bit Standard and Enterprise edition
2008 server 64 bit Standard and Enterprise edition
7 32 bit Standard and Enterprise edition

Windows 7 64 bit Standard and Enterprise edition

------------------Part B Known Issues
------------------B.1 GCS Connection Tool: Database is in use by another application
-------------------------------------------------------------------GCS Connection Tool can sometimes give above mentioned error message
that can be safely ignored. Press "Yes" to continue.
B.2 GCS Connection Tool Help Window close error
------------------------------------------------In some workstations closing GCS Connection Tool while help window is
left open may crash GCS Connection Tool and/or node manager that has
opened it. It is recommended to close GCS Connection Tool help window
before closing GCS Connection Tool and node managers.
B.3 GCS Connection Tool MML connection sharing
------------------------------------------------GCS does not restrict use of MML connection to one user only as it should.
B.4 Very long bus list with Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 Agent
----------------------------------------------Bus list for Q1 Agent managed buses can be very long. Due to a limitation
in Nokia Siemens Networks Q1 protocol, answer to bus list query cannot exceed ab
out 1000
characters. If answer is longer than this limit, it is truncated.
B.5 Mouse cursor position disappears if GCS Connection Tool is idle
--------------------------------------------------------------------Mouse cursor disappears from the GCS Connection Tool, if it is idle
for more than 30 seconds. Cursor reappears on mouse movement.
B.6 Nodes are not reflected when imported from NetAct to Access using NetAct UI
of NCT
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nodes are not reflected after importing from NetAct UI of NCT until the applicat
ion is restarted.
This has been observed when NCT is launched from Node manager.
B.7 Compacting GCS database has to be done only using GCSCompactDB.exe but not w
ith ODBC administrator panel
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GCS database dbs.mdb file has to be compacted only using GCSCompactDB.exe. If th
e compacting is done from
ODBC data source administrator dialog by selecting the DBS32 data source name, i
t is clearing the security
permissions of dbs.mdb file which would cause an error "Unable to open GCS datab
ase because the database file
(dbs.mdb) is in read only mode when the connection tool is opened as a normal use
r. To resolve this problem add
the write permission to "Everyone" user for the dbs.mdb file and this can be don
e by the administrative user only.
B.8 GCS DB Configuration Tool not closing automatically on Windows Vista
-----------------------------------------------------------------------GCS Connection Tool will not close when Exit button is clicked while GCS DB Conf

iguration window is left open. This is observed only on Windows Vista and Serve
r 2008 OS. However on XP and windows 2003 server the tool will be closed. GCS DB
Configuration Tool window should be closed before closing the GCS Connection To
ol.
B.9 Should not install lower version of GCS if GCS 6.3 is already installed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------GCS lower version (GCS5.x/6.0/6.1/6.2) cannot be installed if GCS6.3 is already
installed. GCS6.3 must be uninstalled before installing GCS lower version.