Glink Professional and Enterprise Editions, updates 8.0.3 are now available. Your local distributor can download them for installation on production sites. These updates are available free of charge to customers with a service contract for Glink Professional or Enterprise Edition. Customers with a service contract for Glink Standard Edition can upgrade at a special discount. Customers with no service contract must purchase a license upgrade.

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This release is based on the R8.0 source tree, and is regarded as a maintenance update of that release.

The release is primarily a maintenance release that corrects errors detected in the 8.0.2 release.

The details of errors corrected are listed in the announcement for our technical list.

The release does have some minor functional improvements, mainly related to IBM 3270/5250 emulation modes:

• IND$FILE host command is now configurable allows for user-written CICS transactions to do file transfers
• Transliteration for IND$FILE ASCII transfers can be configured for customers transferring files in various character sets
• 3270 color emulations now support setting background colors Default low intensity colors are more readable Defaults to black background for 3270/5250 emulation modes

All of the latter for customers who prefer the original IBM 'look'.