=============================================================================== PCM600 2.5 ReadMe =============================================================================== Doc ID 1MRS227399 Rev. A =============================================================================== PCM600 2.

5 Installation =============================================================================== The installation procedure is described in the installation guide, which also is available on PCM600 CDs. =============================================================================== Known limitation and supporting information about this release =============================================================================== -------------------------Application Configuration: ========================== Group signals can not be monitored through ACT Online Monitoring. Such connected signals will appear with value [0] always shown next to them when Online Monitoring is in progress. Application Configuration: Online operation (Read/Write, Online monitoring etc) of some older IED configuration may cause save button enabled and a dialog may come asking to save the configuration because of new PCM600 capabilities. In order to do online operation user should save the configuration and rewrite the configuration to IED. Application Configuration: Currently change in orientation of the page is not supported by ACT. The only page orientation supported by ACT is "A3 Landscape". Application Configuration: Creating glue logic connection between application function blocks in ACT (Application Configuration Tool) is not supported. Application Configuration: Glue logics are not saved to MainApplication templates. If glue logics are needed, user must use the IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) templates. Application Configuration: If signals are inverted in ACT (Application Configuration Tool), they will be invisible in SMT (Signal Matrix Tool) Application Configuration: MainApplication template files should not be renamed. Manually renamed templated files will not work when inserted again -----------------Common Read Write: ================== Common Read Write: Currently there is no possibility to read the IEC61850 communication configuration (horizontal and vertical) with PCM600. So complete read from the IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) will not update the IEC61850 communication configuration to PCM600. Common Read Write: If read or write operation fails, canceling the operation might take minutes. Common Read Write: Validator Tool does not currently validate Application Configuration Layout. The Application shall be validated in ACT before downloading.

-------------Communication: ============== Communication: Some LON cards are not Vista compatible. On Vista environment when using LON, user might get an error screen about LON. Error screen can be ignored because LON communication still works just fine. Communication: User needs to have always original SCL file available if he/she reads the configuration from the IED to the empty PCM project. Write to the IED is not possible if user doesn t import original SCL file before write. Communication: If the user works with big projects where there are lot of generi c 61850 IEDs, user might get incorrect IED offline messages. In this case user should set IEDs that are not communicated from PCM Not in Use . This is done by setting the attribute from object properties window. Communication: After modifying the IEC61850 horizontal communication in a system level tool, user needs also to verify the configuration in Signal Matrix. ------------Installation: ============= If PCM600 2.4 SP1 or an older version is uninstalled after PCM600 2.5 has been installed, PCM600 2.5 must be repaired. Lifecycle Service Tool will only work with one version of PCM600. If you want to operate the Lifecycle Service Tool with the previous version of PCM600 (e.g. PCM600 2.4 SP1), please uncheck the Lifecycle Service Tool in the PCM600 2.5 installation dialog. Installation: If one PC has both PCM600 1.5 and PCM600 2.4, user gets errors after uninstallation of 2.4. Running repair installation of PCM600 1.5 fixes the situation. Repair installation can be executed from Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs in Windows. Installation: PCM600 includes some 3rd party components like for example SQL Server, .NET Framework and Adobe Reader. User needs to keep the 3rd party components up to date. -----------------Common Read Write: ================== Common Read Write: Validator Tool does not currently validate Application Configuration Layout. The Application shall be validated in ACT before downloading. ------PCM600: ======= PCM600: When a new version of a Connpack is installed, the user has to manually select the new version in Update Manager, if an older version of the Connpack was already in use.

PCM600: When adding more IEDs to your PCM600 project by importing PCMI template files you must to reopen the PCM600 project to activate the communication to the new IEDs. PCM600: All modification done in PCM600 Communication Structure don't affect the SCL. For example adding new Report Control Blocks in Communication section will not reflect to SCL. Instead of editing 61850 Communication in PCM600, user should use IET600 in PCM600 Engineering Pro. PCM600: Before operating with PCM600 projects, all the Connectivity Packages used in the project needs to be enabled with the Update Manager. PCM600: If SCL (Substation Configuration Language) files are imported when using IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Device) with SPA communication, SPA address must be checked after import PCM600: On some occasions, user might get an error like this: "DataTable internal index is corrupted". The problem is described in Microsoft's Knowledge Base (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB932491). Workaround is to restart PCM600 after the error appears. PCM600: want to of tool the IED When working with different types of IEDs in the same project, if you open in the same time two different types of IEDs with the same type (like ACT) from the right-click menu, you should access the menu from level, not from the function type or function level.

PCM600: If you get an error of detaching database while exporting the project, restart PCM600 and export the project again. PCM600: If you convert and open a project made with an older PCM600 version in PCM600 2.5, you can't use that project in older PCM versions anymore. If the project is the most recently used project in some older PCM600 and you start the older PCM600, an error message is shown indicating that the project can't be opened. PCM600: When PCM600 is started, it tries to open the most recently used project, and if this fails, an error dialog may be displayed behind the active window. Ctrl + Tab key combination is needed to bring the error dialog to front. ---------Scheduler: ========== Scheduler: Task Manager requires administrator privileges in Windows Vista and later operating systems. If an error message is displayed, start PCM600 with administrator privileges or adjust Windows UAC to a setting that allows a user to start services in Windows. Scheduler: Scheduling DR (Disturbance Recorder) read can't be used if authentication is enabled in the IED (Intelligent Electronic Device). ---------------------------------------SCL (Substation Configuration Language): ======================================== SCL: Before importing PCM600 1.5 projects to PCM600 2.5, it must be made sure that object captions in Plant Structure are valid IEC61850 names. SCL: Maximum number of report control blocks shouldn't be defined to be more

than IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) can handle. Please refer to IED documentation. SCL: Reading configuration from an IED with GOOSE, will not update PCM600 GOOSE configuration if all the related IEDs are not instantiated in the PCM600 project. -----Other: ====== Parameter Setting: Some IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) parameters are unitless, so PCM600 Option dialog for changing length and temperature settings does not affect them. Disturbance Recorder Tool: If user wants to have a complete view of the disturba nce report it is recommended to use the WaveWin from the PCM600 installation disc.