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1. Overview

The modeFRONTIER^TM 3.0.1 is a patched release of the modeFRONTIER^TM system containing new enhancements and bug fixes for the previous version 3.0.0.

Supported Platforms

2. Platforms in Beta Testing

modeFRONTIER^TM 3.0.1 is under testing on the following platforms:

3. JAVA Virtual Machine

The modeFRONTIER^TM 3.0.1 supports Java 2 SDK features and capabilities and was tested successfully against the JDK 1.4.0 version or greater (1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2). The modeFRONTIER^TM packaging includes the JRE (JAVA Runtime Environment) for most of the available platforms. If the proper JRE for your architectures is not yet included in our product, please upgrade your system downloading it from your platform's vendor web site.

Prior to the "4. Java 2 Runtime Environment JRE" installation, you should check you have installed the full set of required patches for your target architecture. Follow your target architecture patch installation procedure before proceeding.

Most of the third part JRE vendors provide information on the Java Environment installation and integration, please follow their recommendations for an efficient system tuning.

For the UNIX architectures the user can choose between the use of the modeFRONTIER^TM embedded JRE libraries or his already installed JRE/SDK virtual machines.

The switch between the user's system installed JRE/SDK libraries and the modeFRONTIER^TM embedded JRE libraries can be done commenting out the following line in the modeFRONTIER^TM startup script modeFRONTIER301/bin/frontier:

    Before...

    # Set JRE PATH
    PATH=${FRONTIERHOME}/jre/bin:${PATH}
    export PATH

    ...after

    # Set JRE PATH
    #PATH=${FRONTIERHOME}/jre/bin:${PATH}
    #export PATH

5. Compatibility with Previous Releases

The version 3.0.1 IS COMPATIBLE with the previous version 3.0.0 but fixes an important bug found in the Output Variables extraction module. The RELATIVE Mining Rule failed with some configuration of the Output File.

For example the rule TYPE=RELATIVE, TAG=OutputB, OCR=1, ROW=1, COL=1 will extract the number 22 from the following column wise formatted file.

  OutputA    OutputB    OutputC
    11         22         33

The same rule will extract the number 33 if some of the columns get exchanged.

  OutputA    OutputC    OutputB
    11         33         22

To avoid this inconsistency the extraction module has changed and all the modeFRONTIER^TM 3.0.0 existing projects can be loaded with the version 3.0.1 but the RELATIVE Mining Rules MUST be reassigned.

6. Fixed Bugs in modeFRONTIER^TM 3.0.1

   BugID   Category           Synopsis
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     99    Mining Rules       RELATIVE Minig rule failed with specific output file.
    100    Licensing          The checkout of the mf_batch32 and mf_batch64 FEATURE
                              failed on some WINDOWS/UNIX architectures.
    101    Report             Correlation 3D Chart had wrong format for the 2D view
                              in the reports.
    102    Report             There was fixed number of classes in Frequency Chartwas.
    103    Print              The virtual column was present in the DOE Table print.
    104    Charts             Manual scaling was wrong for parallel charts.
    105    Work Flow          Cut and Paste failed for the Sub System node.
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