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What's New Version 1.4 (Feb 2000) to Version 3.30 (March 2008) New in Version 3.30 (March 2008) When you ask to view the main TABLO file or the TABLO STI file (see the View menu), RunDynam always extracts these from the AXT or GST file for the model. These files are also always extracted when making a ZIP archive (to make sure that they are up-to-date in the ZIP archive). New in Version 3.29 (March 2008) The statements TFinal_Level, AChange, TChange, APercent_Change and TPercent_Change [new for Release 10 of GEMPACK] are now allowed in BSH and PSH files. New in Versions 3.24 (November 2007) to Version 3.28 (March 2008) Various minor bug fixes. New in Version 3.23 (October 2007) Some bugs relating to batch jobs were fixed. The DOS ErrorLevel is now set to 1 if RunDynam encounters a fatal error when running in batch mode: you can use this in the BAT files used to run RunDynam in batch mode. ashock and tshock statements are now allowed in Base Case Shocks files. This was suggested by Philip Adams, who sometimes needs to convert a Policy scenario to be a Base case. New in Version 3.19 (July 2007) A serious bug relating to Rational Expectations was fixed. If the version of RunDynam you are using offers Rational Expectations, please see Whats New in the Rational Expectations Help file (select the Help menu item under the Rational Expectations menu) for details. New in Version 3.18 (April 2007) A new way of storing Simulation Details was introduced in order to reduce (unfortunately, not eliminate) problems which may occur when old versions of this program (Version 3.14 or earlier) read Simulation Details saved by Version 3.18 or later. New in Version 3.17 (February 2007) The short name of a data file (in the Data part of the Model/Data page) must be different from the name of any file on the Closure/Shocks page or of any file referred to in a file on the Closure/Shocks page. New in Version 3.15 (November 2006) The major change relates to the Common row and the CMFSTART row near the top of the Closure/Shocks page. File names on this page can now have up to 9 characters (plus 3-character suffix). CMFSTART file names are no longer restricted to CMFSTART, CMFSTARTB, CMFSTARTR and CMFSTARTP. Please note that Simulation details saved with this or later versions of RunDynam cannot be read by Version 3.14 or earlier. This includes Simulation details saved in ZIP archives. So, for example, you should not attempt to send ZIP archives saved with Version 3.15 or later to a user with Version 3.14 or earlier. A subsequent change made with Version 3.18 slightly reduced this problem. You can no longer type in names of files on the Closure/Shocks page -- rather you need to select files using the menu obtained when you right click on a cell. If you right-click on one of the Closure cells on the Closure/Shocks page, you can ask to check the closure and save an Environment file. The number of periods can now have 3 digits (so up to 999 periods are allowed). The names of Output data files (those produced using Write statements in the TAB file) have been changed to include the beginning and ending year of the simulation which produces them. There is a new option telling the software to ignore patterns for files on the Closure/Shocks page when Sim Names are changed. New in Version 3.14 (July 2006) RunDynam now allows individual simulations to cover one or more years. The lengths of the simulation periods are indicated via a drop-down list on the Sim Overview page. This makes important changes in the top part of the Sim Overview page. We use the word period to indicate the number of years covered by individual simulations. If one period covers more than one year, the years for which updated data will be produced will not be consecutive. Examples will make this clearer. [Prior to Version 3.14, only the version of this software used with the Dynamic GTAP model allowed periods of more than one year. Now all versions of this software allow periods of more than one year.] New in Version 3.13 (April 2006) On machines with 3 or more processors, the software can solve three simulations at once. This can result in a reduction of 50% or more in the total time taken for a whole run (Base, Rerun and Policy, or Base and Policy). New in Version 3.12 (December 2004) There is a Run All button. You can put shocks for several years on a single header in a Header Array file, and instruct RunDynam to read the shocks for the relevant year. This only works with models processed with Release 9 or later of GEMPACK. You can run RunDynam in batch mode. This allows you to set up several jobs which will run in sequence. These can be for different applications or different sets of Policy shocks etc. For example, this lets you run several parts of several applications overnight, after you leave your office for the day. You can load Closure/Shocks files from all selected cells into your text editor. The key word save is allowed in Closure files so that you can save an Environment file from any year. New in Version 3.11 (July 2004) You can now tell RunDynam to ignore any arithmetic errors which occur when doing spreadsheet jobs. New in Version 3.1 (December 2003) This completes the major rewrite carried out for Version 3.0 (November 2003). The main change is that simulations now produce files with long file names. This makes managing several different applications in the same directory much easier. · This restricts the Models that can be used to those created using Release 7.0 or later of GEMPACK. Model EXEs made with the Fortran compiler F77L3 cannot be used with this version of RunDynam. · However (and this is important), Simulation Details files and ZIP archives produced with earlier versions of RunDynam can still be used with the current version. So it is still possible to load applications archived with earlier versions. · Unfortunately, this change to long file names means that current versions of RunDynam may not give reliable information (when job completed, time, date and size of files produced etc) about jobs run with Version 3.0 (November 2003) and cannot give information about jobs run with earlier versions of RunDynam. I encourage all experienced users to read the topic Sim Names and to follow the links from there. Understanding the related ideas is vital if you wish to make effective use of RunDynam to manage several different applications. The importance of the Sim Names and of switching between applications using Load Sim Details was not made clear with earlier versions of this software. I hope that it is now considerably easier to understand these ideas. The software developers will be grateful for suggestions as to how to communicate these ideas better. You can now restore an application from a Zip Archive and restore its results from a Results Zip file and get a satisfactory answer to Are Results Still Ok? without running any of the jobs again. Similarly you can pass applications and results to a colleague who can restore them and receive a satisfactory answer to Are Results Still Ok? without running any of the jobs. There is a new AnalyseGE button in the Results for All/Several Years part of the Results page. You can use this to load the cumulative differences results into AnalyseGE. You can also load cumulative results from several consecutive years of any run into AnalyseGE. Various items on the File menu were moved to a new Zip menu. Various items on the Options menu were moved to a new Run Preferences menu. I am grateful to Jill Harrison for suggesting this. The end of the File menu contains the names of the Simulation Details files you have accessed most recently. If you click on any one of these, those Simulation Details will be loaded. When you add extra files to a Zip archive, you can select several files each time you click on the Add button. You can specify an alternative solution method which is to be used for some years. You can specify which AnalyseGE to use. We have begun a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers). Suggestions for other topics to address here are welcome. If you are an experienced user, you can ask RunDynam to give fewer messages and questions. You can ask RunDynam never to check that the prerequisites are ok before running a job. You can hide the Rational Expectations menu and part of the Sim Overview page if the version of RunDynam you are running offers Rational Expectations. There was a major rewrite of the software in Version 3.0 (November 2003). Click here to see what was new in Version 1.4 (February 2000) to Version 3.0 (November 2003) URL of this topic: www.copsmodels.com/webhelp/rundynam/hc_whatsnewa.htm Link to full GEMPACK Manual Link to GEMPACK homepage |