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Changes from DOS Version
New/Changed
- On Floating Coupon Rates: the Resets per Year was changed to Frequency of Change (months).
- Delay Days went from one input field to four. Checkboxes added for skipping weekends, holidays, or both.
- When the portfolio is matrix priced, the printing of the default report is now optional.
- Folders for storing securities, portfolios and compares are now flat instead of being hierarchical.
- Previously a portfolio could find securities in multiple folders. Now the default is securities are in the same folder as the portfolio, or in one specified folder.
- Spread matrices now have folders. The default is the same folder as the portfolio, or in one specified folder.
- Previously one could move one file at a time between folders, or the entire folder. Now there is a transfer utility for bulk copying and moving between folders.
- There is no longer any manual input in Compares. All is now managed from buttons and selecting.
- The record locking system was greatly enhanced.
- Price sweep Database:
- All screens.
- When viewing contents of database can now sort on any column.
- Can delete all prices for a security, or selected rows.
- Graph/report for difference between securities was removed. Data is in Access for whatever custom analysis is desired.
- Report at end of Portfolio menu for changed CUSIPs was not converted over. Will be upon request. Also needs facilty to expand filename lengths from 20 to 36.
- In DOS BondCalc could tell if you had made any changes to the input. Now pressing Escape will always save.
- Form locations, form heights, sort selection, and many other settings are now stored in the user's Registry.
Removed:
- Removed imports:
- Removed import that used list of CUSIPs to convert to a portfolio with a list of BondCalc names. It can return, if someone has a use for it.
- Import First Data's descriptive data (also removing a CUSIP database)
- Retrieve data from IDC
- 16+ Field Comma Delimited Lotus PRN format
- BondScholar
- Boatmen's Download Format
- PAM To Bear Stearns
- On PIKS: First Interest Payment was removed (was for a specific RJR 2009 debenture).
- Church Bonds removed.
- Facility that wrote default underwriting spreads to the issuer yield curve.
- Removed from single security reports:
- Printing of screens
- Clone Cash Flows
- Any input noted as future use or under development was removed. Examples:
- Securitization for a single pass-through security
- ARM Payment Cap (in percent) [has Access spot ARMPayCap]
- Call Code (Escrow to maturity, Prefunded to next call, Has been called) [has Access spot CallCode]
- Rounding Convention [for coupon]
- Portfolio Aging Summary report
- Trade and book processing system. Open ticket database. Daily Cost of Funding
- Portfolio return and performance attribution
- Removed from portfolio input the facility to write a number to all the input rows. Can now just copy. [Confirm]
- Removed from portfolio reports (deemed to no longer be relevant):
- Export Prices: Valuation File for EJV/UniVu
- Export Prices: BondCalc Prices in Transfer Format
- Export Securities: BondCalc Format
- Export Securities: EJV/UniVu Export
- Export Securities: Derivative Solutions IRD Files
- Other Export: Clone Cash Flows and Create New Input Schema N
- Other Export: ASCII Text File of CUSIPs for Hub Data
- Other Export: GAT IBS Sinking Fund Correction Records
- Removed from calculations menu (seemed superfluous):
- Black-Scholes
- Convertible Payback
- Pub 1212 OID Tax Calcs & Report
- FX Cross Rates Matrix
- Combined Short-Term Issue & Bond
- Currency Equivalencies
- Delayed Delivery Bonds [document how to replicate]
- Warrant Pricing Models