Volume 6, Issue 12 December 15, 2003

This NewsCast is being provided to you as part of your Group 1 product maintenance and support plan. It is not intended for distribution outside of your Group 1 user base. Group 1 has taken the best security measures possible to protect your identity on this announce-only distribution list.
Inside this issue of NewsCast, look for articles concerning the following topics:

1. Technical Services Documentation Updates
2. Technical Services Pending Product Updates
3. Local User Groups - Attend a Meeting Today!
4. Group 1 University - Something for Everyone!
5. Points of Interest . . .
6. FAQ Updates
7. IMPORTANT - Unix Platform Update

    Archives and Links

Group 1 recently sent the documents listed below to the primary user contacts on a maintenance plan via mass fax, mail, or with your product shipment. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support. (Please have your user ID and password handy.) For our Fax-on-Demand system (FOD), please call 301-918-0781 and select menu option 4 to retrieve the document number indicated below. For List Services, visit the Technical Support - List Services area of our Web site to subscribe at www.g1.com/support.

On our Web site, customers may NOT have access to all information listed below. It is only accessible if your company licenses the particular product and/or platform addressed by the announcement.

CODING PRODUCTS

REF#: C1P26GBC - Greenbar listing for the December 2003 US Postal Database. Details load counts.
LOC: WEB and FOD #6150 DIST: Web and FOD only PLAT: IBM Mainframe

REF#: DPV260GC - Greenbar listing for the December 2003 Delivery Point Validation Version 2.6.0 Details load counts.
LOC: WEB and FOD #6152 DIST: Web and FOD only PLAT: IBM Mainframe

INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS

REF#: MCz240S1C03 - This one-page letter notifies customers of the availability of SortStream Canada 2.4.0 Product Update S01 for download from the Group 1 Web site, login to Support, Product Updates. S01 corrects two defects: 1-7708242 where a synchronization error occurs when processing a Lettermail job containing a batch that did not meet the minimum requirements for a mailing and 1-7716949 where an invalid postal code error is issued for US-entered Global Direct mailings. For details on the defects and corrections, please review document MCz240S1C03.
LOC: WEB and FOD #4632 DIST: Mass Fax PLAT: All LIST SERVICES: Can/Int'l Products

POSTAL PRODUCTS

REF#: MUz636S1C03 - This two-page letter notifies customers of the availability of Product Update S01 for download from the Group 1 Web site, login to Support, Product Updates. S01 corrects three defects listed in detail in document MUz636S1C03. Palletization customers will need to install both Palletization Plus S01 and MailStream Plus S01. Customers running MailStream Plus without Palletization Plus are NOT required to install the update at this time. NOTE: MailStream Plus/Palletization Plus 6.3.6 Product Update C01 MUST be installed prior to installing the S01 Product Updates.
LOC: WEB and FOD #4681 DIST: Mass Fax PLAT: All LIST SERVICES: Postal Products





The following documents have recently been posted to the Pending Product Updates area of the Group 1 Support site. Once a Product Update becomes available, Group 1 will notify the primary user contact for that product via mass fax. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support/. (Please have your user ID and password handy.)

On our Web site, customers may NOT have access to all information listed below. It is only accessible if your company licenses the particular product and/or platform addressed by the announcement.

There are no Pending Product Updates at this time.






Have you attended a Local User Group meeting in your area recently? These meetings are a great way to share information with others. Local User Groups are a great source of knowledge and experience, as well as a great place to discuss what is happening in the industry and how it may affect your organization. Check the list below and attend a meeting at your next opportunity.

Local User Group chapters are open to ALL Group 1 customers. Membership and registration are handled on a local level. Group 1 clients are invited and encouraged to join the group of their choice.

OHIO AREA

Location: Banc One Center, Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Contact: Scott Saffell - scott_w_saffell@bankone.com and Jane Damschroder - jdamschroder@checkfree.com
Please click here for a summary of the September 25, 2003 meeting.

PENNSYLVANIA AREA

Location: UGI Utilities, Inc, 225 Morgantown Rd, Reading PA
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 (The Snowdate will be February 18, 2004)
Time: TBA
Topic: There will be an offsite meeting at Vertis, Inc. More details will be available at a later date.
Contact: Susan Miller - smmiller@ugi.com
Please click here for a summary of the November 19, 2003 meeting.





Sign up today for one of several excellent education classes Group 1 is offering throughout the month of January. Classes others than those listed below may be available upon request. Please call 1-800-859-4133 for class dates and locations. These classes give you the opportunity to get answers to your questions and share experiences using Group 1 products. For more information about Group 1 University's offerings or to register online, visit our Web site at http://www.g1.com/education.

January 26-27, 2004
eLearning - $500/student
January 28, 2004 eLearning - $250/student
January 29-30, 2004 eLearning - $375/student

The following Public Seminars (Traditional Education Classes) are currently being offered:

January 6-7, 2004
January 13-14, 2004
January 20-21, 2004
$1000/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
January 8-9, 2004
January 15-16, 2004
January 22-23, 2004
$750/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
January 5, 2004
January 12, 2004
January 19, 2004
$500/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
Call for January Dates
List Conversion
$500/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
Call for January Dates
Generalized Selection
$500/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
Call for January Dates
$500/student
Maryland, California, Illinois
Call for January Dates
$500/student
Maryland, California, Illinois




. . .Several changes have been made to the Group 1 Service Source. The Service Source outlines all of the customer services provided by Group 1's technical post-sales departments and provides guidelines to help you use Technical Services as effectively as possible. The Service Source is maintained online and is available by selecting Service Source Online from the Support site menu. It is also available in Adobe PDF format by visiting www.g1.com/support/orientation/servicesource.pdf.

. . . Visit our Online Discussion Forums to learn how this customer's inquiry was answered:

"I am trying to call the code1 code C1MATCHL from a C program. C1MATCHL uses the following COBOL Copy members (P9IN, P9OUT, P9AUDIT). In the C program, can I define structures equivalent to the COBOL Copy members (P9IN, P9OUT, P9AUDIT) and then call C1MATCHL using these structures as input variables? Do we need any API for doing this task?"

Click Here to see the answer to this question.




Take a look at some of the recent updates and additions that have been made to this valuable section of our Web site. The FAQs are listed by product so you can easily find the questions that apply to your specific products. There is also a link to the FAQ Submission Form if you have a question/answer you would like to have considered. Below are a few of the most recent additions and updates to this area.

Which products and platforms are affected by Language Environment (LE)?

Please click here for the answer to this Language Environment (LE) question.

Why don't the IBM system library names listed in the Group 1 documentation match those of my company's MVS or VSE operating system?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

For a complete list of all available FAQs, please visit the FAQ area of the Support Web site at www.g1.com/support/faq.





Effective June 30, 2003, Hewlett-Packard (HP) officially ended the support period for the 10.20 version of their HP-UX operating system. Therefore, in order to stay current with the direction of this operating system vendor and to continue providing state-of-the-art software for your HP-UX platform, Group 1 Software will be increasing the minimum supported version of the HP-UX operating system to 11.0 effective March 1, 2004.

If you are currently operating on HP-UX 10.20, please make plans to upgrade your system to an 11.x version of HP-UX before March 1, 2004, in order to continue receiving technical support from Group 1. If you have any questions, please contact us via email at support@g1.com or by phone at 1-800-367-6950 and select menu option 4 to speak with a Technical Support Representative.





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Below are some links that may be of interest to our customers:

Group 1's Web Page - http://www.g1.com. The Group 1 Software Web site provides customers with valuable information concerning different areas of the company. From this Web site, you can access education information, recent press releases, support, and much more useful information.

USPS Web Site Business Section - http://www.usps.com/smallbiz

The USPS Web Site - www.usps.gov. This Web site allows customers to check out the latest information regarding postage rates and fees, news and events in the postal community, locations of local post offices, and provides various other links. There is also a place where postal service customers can track the status of a package or access other online mailing forms.

Canada Post - http://www.canadapost.ca/splash.asp. This is the direct link to the Canada Post Web site. Follow this link to view a quick and free course in Canadian NDG sorting (http://www.canadapost.ca/business/ndg/default-e.asp).

USPS PostalOne - http://www.pilot.uspspostalone.com. This is the direct link to the USPS PostalOne Web site.

USPS Rapid Information Bulletin Board System - http://ribbs.usps.gov. This is the National Customer Support Center for the United States Postal Service. It provides you mail-service updates, current weather conditions, and other interesting facts pertaining to the Postal Service.

Postal Rate Commission - http://www.prc.gov. The Postal Rate Commission Web site provides information about the organization, its function and procedures, along with postal rates and fees. It also provides a location where you can voice your opinion to the Consumer Advocate.

Nonprofit Mailers - http://www.nonprofitmailers.org. The Alliance is the primary representative of nonprofit mailers before the Postal Rate Commission, at the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Headquarters, and on Capitol Hill.

Postcom - http://www.postcom.org. Postcom is the Association for Postal Commerce. Its Web site provides you with up-to-date information regarding what is going on in the "postal world." It includes links to other helpful sites, as well as a place to contact your US Senators or Representatives.




We welcome comments and suggestions regarding Newscast. Please send them to cc@g1.com. Please be sure to include "NEWSCAST" in your subject line. Please look for your next issue to arrive in your e-mail box on or near December 26, 2003.

Newscast - Volume 6, Issue 12
Date: December 15, 2003
Editor: Becki Dustin (cc@g1.com) Asst. Editor: Denny Derr
Phone: 1-800-367-6950

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