The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Validation Tool release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. A somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page. If viewing this document in PDF form, the release change details are not available.
This is a maintenance release of the Validation Tool integrated with release 3.1.0 of the Product Tools Library.
The liens for this release associated with version 3.1.0 of the Product Tools Library are as follows:
This release of the Validation Tool addresses issues found during beta test for release 2.1.0-beta. These include:
The liens for this release associated with version 3.0.2 of the Product Tools Library are as follows:
This beta release of the Validation Tool software is integrated with release 3.0.1 of the Product Tools Library. In general, the Validation Tool should exhibit the same behavior as the previous release with the exception that the reports will be different. The messaging infrastructure in the Product Tools Library was overhauled resulting in improved messages. Although an effort was made to make the Validation Tool reports consistent with the previous release, there will be some differences. Other changes for this release include:
The liens for this release associated with version 3.0.1 of the Product Tools Library are as follows:
The operational release of the Validation Tool software incorporating the Phase II capability supporting validation of catalog files. This release includes some minor modifications regarding how catalog pointers are handled based on beta testing results.
This release of the Validation Tool software incorporates the Phase II capability supporting validation of catalog files and was released to the Technical Staff for beta testing.
The major change for this release is the addition of support for validating catalog files, either standalone or as a set within a CATALOG directory. Modifications to support this capability included a general change with regard to how pointers are handled as well as relaxing some of the PDS Label constraints where catalog files do not conform to those constraints. The result is that catalog files are now validated correctly and the spurious messages that were previously produced have been eliminated.
Other changes in this release include: