Gissing ConteX MCS R3.74 - release notes + details

Spring 2007 Newsletter

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Gissing ConteX MCS R3.74 is available immediately to supported clients. Please contact your Gissing Support representative for further details.

Major enhancements in this release include the addition of dedicated handlers to support optimised input and output connections to Gissing RealtimeXL V3.0 and the addition of an entirely new handler to support Reuters Marketlink IP 2.0 (MLIP2) (see article elsewhere in this newsletter).

Please note that only currently supported clients with an existing license for MLIP 1.5 are entitled to an upgrade to MLIP2 under their compatibility maintenance arrangements. Clients with MLIP serial or MLIP 1.x connections will need to contact their Gissing account manager to find out more about the arrangements for adding MLIP2 support to their Gissing ConteX MCS configurations.

Release notes for Gissing ConteX MCS R3.74:

New handlers added:

MLIP2O	Reuters Marketlink IP 2.0 output handler added
RTXLI	Input handler for Gissing RealtimeXL ConteX MDI added.
RTXLO	Output handler for Gissing RealtimeXL ConteX MDI added

Kernel/Config changes:

None

Handler updates:

BBGO	Added enhanced Bloomberg MPF simulator/monitor (requires Java) No longer coalesce packet 2s containing scaling factor fields into packet 8s Improved page contribution to send multiple rows per packet (packet 9 and packet 13 Added Price and Size scaling factor fields (“p” and “v” respectively)
BTSG	Added option to advance trade date at midnight rather than waiting for SessionSync message from Bloomberg
CSVI	Improved PFS record ordering
MKLO	Image optimization added
PFS	Added custom field for date stamps which enables date stamps to be displayed on DRI rows. Added PFS formatting option for hyperlinks with ID
RTRI	Enabled to work with new MKLO image optimisation feature
SSLI	Enabled to work with new MKLO image optimisation feature
STAT	Now populates COLS field of status page records consistently Added ability to filter unnecessary status pages from output
TC2I	Allow hostname to be entered for TCPO output connection Several PFS improvements to reflect changes in TCPI. Now supports PFS templates that can subscribe to chains that are subscribed to by dynamic templates of the same name.
TCPI	Now ignores unused PFS page groups
TRVI	Enabled to work with new MKLO image optimisation feature
XRSO	Added extra logging