CoolTools Install Pack

If you are running CoolTools Version 1 , please read the notes here before installing Version 2.

Software License Agreement     By installing any of our software you indicate your acceptance of this license agreement

Click on the link below to download the 30-day free trial or to reinstall CoolTools.

CoolTools V2 Install File (12.0 Mb)

CoolTools V2 User Guide

Before installing please read the license agreement. By installing the software, you signal your acceptance of the conditions of this agreement. 

Instructions for installing CoolTools can be found here and are also given in the "Installation" section of the User Guide.

If you run into any problems during installation, or during your trial, or if you are in any way not 100% satisfied with the results you obtain, please contact support@ariadnesoftware.co.uk. We will be very happy to advise you on how to get the best out of CoolTools.

This is a full working version of CoolTools. You can evaluate CoolTools free of charge for up to 30 days, but at the end of your 30-day trial period, you will need to enter a license key to continue using the software. If you need more time to evaluate CoolTools, email  sales@ariadnesoftware.co.uk and we will normally be happy to grant an extension to the trial period and will send you a temporary license key. 

Once you've finished your evaluation, email us at sales@ariadnesoftware.co.uk to arrange to purchase the product. Buying CoolTools is very simple. For details, see the notes here.

CoolTools Fix Packs

PTF Exit Program

To download the latest fix pack, click on one of the links below.

Notes:

CoolTools Documentation

Software License

CoolTools V2 User Guide

Important Notes for Version 1 Users

If you are currently running CoolTools Version 1  in production, please read the notes below before replacing CoolTools Version 1 with Version 2.

You can tell which version(s) of CoolTools  you have installed by doing WRKLICINF and looking for license programs 2SPLTLS (CoolTools  Version 1) and 2SPLTLS (CoolTools Version 2)

Also, if you are running Version 1, you will be using the objects from library SPLTLSV1R1. Version 2 installs into library SPLTLSV2R1. You may need to modify library lists to run the new version.

We recommend strongly that all production applications are re-tested thoroughly using Version 1 in your development environment before you switch over to running Version 2 in your production environment.

All CoolTools versions are packaged as separate licensed programs and install into different libraries. This means that all versions of CoolTools can coexist and run alongside one another on the same machine. You can switch an application from using one version to using another simply by changing the library list of the job to include the appropriate version library or by specifying a different library name when you run the command. Hence it is quite a simple matter to test your applications using the new version while continuing to run the older version in production.

Please note that while ariadne makes every effort to ensure that CoolTools functions in the same way with the same parameters from one version to the next, it is not possible to guarantee this. This is why you should re-test your applications against a new version before going live with it as it is possible that in some cases different parameter settings will be necessary to obtain the same results as before.

ariadne software accepts no responsibility for any damage, expense or loss of income incurred as a result of unforeseen and unwanted effects resulting from installing new versions of its software or applying PTFs.

Version 2 License Keys

Version 2 of CoolTools  is available free of charge to customers who have licensed CoolTools Version 1 and who have paid their initial purchase invoice and who are either in their first year since purchase (and therefore on their free maintenance period) or who have paid their latest annual maintenance invoice.

Please read the important notes regarding changes between Version 1 and Version 2.

However, in order to run Version 2 you will need a new license key. Simply e-mail sales@ariadnesoftware.co.uk requesting a key for Version 2 of CoolTools  and, so long as your maintenance payments are up to date or not yet due, we will send you a key. Please quote your system serial number(s) and processor group code(s) in your e-mail.

Minimum OS/400 Release Level

The minimum OS/400 release level required to run V2 of CoolTools is OS/400 V5R1M0.

If you are running V4R5M0 or an earlier version of OS400, you will not be able to install V2 of CoolTools.

Product Library

The product library for CoolTools V2 is now SPLTLSV2R1. If you have installed the CoolSpools Plus product, however, it is COOLSPV5R1. CoolSpools Plus bundles CoolTools with CoolSpools, Communiqué and Slipstream.

You may need to change library lists in job descriptions and other system objects in order to pick up the new version of the code rather than the old.

This change of library name has the advantage that it allows you to run both V2 and the earlier versions on the same machine. You are therefore able to test V2 before swapping your production applications over to the new version, as we strongly advise you to do.

Licensed Program Id

The licensed program identifiers for the various CoolTools versions are as follows:

WRKSPLFPDM standard options

The default standard WRKSPLFPDM option numbers, and command strings that underlie them, have both changed.

However, since CoolTools now gives you total control over the definition and availability of these options, allowing you to customize them as you wish:

·        You can use the WRKSTDOPT command to modify the system-supplied option descriptions and command strings, or to define new options;

·        This can be done either at system-level, or for each individual user;

·        You can use the WRKREGFNC command to define who has access to which options

If you decide to use the options as supplied with V2 of CoolTools, you should warn your users that the options have changed. Alternatively, review the options as supplied and amend as appropriate to your environment.

WRKSPLFPDM user-defined options

V2 does not support the use of user-defined options specified in a PDM options file. This has proved necessary in order to allow enhancement of this area of the system, e.g. the use of registered functions to control access to user-defined functions.

A utility (CVTPDMOPT) is supplied to facilitate the conversion of options defined in a PDM options file to CoolTools user-defined options so they can be used with V2.

WRKSYSCTL (Work with System Controls)

V2 does not support the use of the WRKSYSCTL (Work with System Controls) command. Its functions are provided, in a much enhanced way,  by the WRKSTDOPT and WRKREGFNC commands:

·        The “Capabilities by User Class” feature is replaced by the use of registered functions (defined with WRKREGFNC) which allow control over the use of WRKSPLFPDM standard and user-defined options, and CoolSpools parameters, at the level of individual users and groups.

·        CoolSpools parameter defaults are definable separately for each individual WRKSPLFPDM standard option through the use of the WRKSTDOPT command. The command string underlying each standard option can be defined at a system level or by individual user.

A conversion utility (CVTAUT)  is provided to allow you to set up Version 2 authorities based on the way your capabilities by user class were defined in Version 1.

Users with Limited Capabilities

Version 1 of CoolTools prevented users with LMTCPB(*YES) specified for their user profile from running commands on the WRKSPLFPDM command line.

In Version 2, you can manage authority to the AR_ST_ALW_LMTCPB_CMD registered function to determine whether a user with LMTCPB(*YES) can run any commands from the WRKSPLFPDM command line.

If a user is not authorized to this function, and the user has LMTCPB(*YES) specified on their user profile, the user will not be able to run any commands from the  WRKSPLFPDM command line (as per Version 1).

However, if a user is authorized to this function, and the user has LMTCPB(*YES) specified on their user profile, the user will be able to run commands from the  WRKSPLFPDM command line, but only those commands with ALWLMTUSR(*YES) specified.