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PROIV Product Documentation and Release Information

The PROIV Documentation is split into three main categories:

PROIV Product Documentation - the Online Documentation which serves as a Help file and product manual.
This is available in a variety of formats:
- Online - browse through the most up-to-date version of the manual.
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help format (CHM), as shipped with the PROIV product. The file must be downloaded locally to run correctly.
- PDF format to allow viewing/printing of a single document. (Not available for all releases)
- An online version is also distributed as part of the PROIV Control Panel, and can be accessed by any of the Help links.
Release Notes - contain upgrade information and installation prerequisites, details of new and enhanced functionality and lists fixed items since the previous release.
Miscellaneous - documents including Developer Guides, Install Guides, and Functional Overviews.

For documents in PDF format, it is recommended that you download Adobe Reader to read them.

Version 7 Version 6

Browse Online - Latest Version
View Versions 7.1.9.0 and 6.2.7.0 online.

PROIV Documentation - CHM
To use this documentation you may need to save the file to your PC and when completed use the Unblock option shown in the Properties of the file.

PROIV Documentation - PDF
PDF versions are only released periodically. The latest version available as PDF is 6.1.2.0.

Earlier versions of the PROIV Documentation can be found in the Downloads section.

NorthgateArinso are pleased to publish the PROIV product maintenance release schedule covering 2011/12.
Releases will be made available at the end of each listed calendar month:

Version 7 Maintenance Releases

September 2011
February 2012
June 2012
October 2012

Version 6 Maintenance Releases

November 2011
March 2012 *- this will be the last 6.2 maintenance release

Version 7 Version 6

Latest Release
Latest Release Notes for current releases 7.1.10.0 and 6.2.65.0.

Previous Release
Release notes for previous releases 7.0.7.0 and 6.2.59.0.

Release Notes for earlier versions of the PROIV can be found in the Downloads section.

General Documentation covers documents that we publish beyond the standard PROIV Documentation and Release Notes. Unless stated these are not version or release specific.
The most recent publications are at the top.

PRO-ISAM Configuration Parameters.pdf Download File
Guide to setting up PRO-ISAM with ISAMDEF settings, including SHMSIZE, MAXFILES, Spinlocks and SEMMNU.

PROIV SSOs and Web Services - Developer Guide.pdf Download File
A guide to calling external Web Services using PROIV SSOs.

PROIV Reality v14 Windows Installation Guide.pdf Download File
PROIV Reality v14 Windows Installation Guide

PROIV Genfile Caching Overview.pdf Download File
This document provides an overview of Genfile Caching. It defines the functionality, outlines the issues it addresses, explains the benefits it provides, and details how it is enabled and configured.

PROIV_Assure.chm Download File
New Assure Help file v1.0.0.3 released with PROIV Assure v1.0.2.0. To use this documentation you may need to save the file to your PC and when completed use the Unblock option shown in the Properties of the file.

OpenVMS Install Guide_6.2.pdf Download File
OpenVMS Install Guide Version 6.2 r4

PROIV Licence Server Overview.pdf Download File
The document describes how to use the PROIV Licence Server which is a component of the PROIV Control Panel.

PROIV Pro-ISAM to RDBMS conversion.pdf Download File
This document describes how to convert a Pro-ISAM application to use an RDBMS. The document also contains information that is useful to users whose application already uses an RDBMS. This document is in PDF format.

PROIV Product Documentation and Release Information

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