 Workstation APL2 Version 2 Service Level 12The IBM APL Products and Services group is pleased to announce Service Level 12 for Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0. This new service level is available for all Workstation APL2 platforms including AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows. Along with fixes for customer reported problems, Service Level 12 contains the following enhancements: All platforms: - AP 127, AP 227 and the SQL workspace allow calls to stored procedures, including support for output parameters and result set fetching.
- New external function DATATYPE returns information about the internal type of data objects in the APL2 workspace.
- New external operators PEACHP and PEACHT allow automatic distribution of computation across multiple processors.
- New Associated Processor 15 provides access to structured storage.
- Performance of access to lf-delimited text files is improved in Processor 12 and the Processor 10 built-in file functions.
- Processor 12 supports 5 new data types when viewing a file as a simple vector.
Windows: - ActiveX controls are supported in AP 145 dialogs.
- LOADAPI and CALLAPI support accessing Windows APIs by address.
- The characters in the APL Assist toolbar may be customized by the user.
- Function execution properties are displayed in and settable from the object editor.
Further information on the new facilities will be found in the updated APL2 User's Guide and on-line help after installing Service Level 12. A complete list of fixes included in this level will be found in the updated README (Unix systems) or Service Information (Windows systems) file. The APL2 Service Level 12 download is available to customers with a Software Maintenance contract, through the Support link. | 
