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M I C R O F O C U S
V4.0.5
Running Under The DG/UX
Operating System Version 5.4R3.10
On The AViiON
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NEW FEATURES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
MICRO FOCUS COBOL
MICRO FOCUS TOOLBOX
INTRODUCTION
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This document summarizes features in V4.0 of the COBOL system that are
new since the base release of V3.2, and all early release features in
V4.0. Early Release features are normally documented in on-disk
documents; other features are normally documented in the books.
The entry for each Early Release feature is listed under either Micro
Focus COBOL or Micro Focus Toolbox, whichever the feature is supplied
with. This does not constitute a commitment that the feature will be in
that product in the future.
Sections in this document will be added to at each maintenance release.
Subsection headings show the releases when the entries were first
included.
MICRO FOCUS COBOL
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This section shows new and Early Release features in Micro Focus COBOL.
V4.0.5
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Animator
-V4.0.5--
o Animator remains active after a Trap violation in your application.
This enables you to investigate the cause of the trap, using Animator
to examine the values of data items.
o There is a new Animator directive (NO)IDYSEARCHPATH. Specifying
NOIDYSEARCHPATH tells Animator not to look for the source file in the
path stored in the IDY file. The default is IDYSEARCHPATH, which
gives the old behavior.
Compiler (Syntax Check Phase)
--------------------V4.0.5--
o The COPYEXT compiler directive has been enhanced to allow up to
to eight file-name extensions to be specified.
File Handler
---V4.0.5--
o Heap files are now supported in EXTFH. Set directive FILETYPE(14) to
use this new filetype. This filetype is compatible with all file
organizations. Files are temporary, and once a file is closed all
data will be lost, so use them for temporary storage only.
Integration - Enhancements
-----------------V3.2.31--
o The ANIM directive now enables the GANIM directive, thus enabling
native code animation.
Panels
-V4.0.5--
o (This will affect you only on platforms where you can change the
screen size.)
Panels now checks whether the screen size has changed each time you
call function 2 (Screen Refresh), and changes its internal screen
size accordingly.
Adis calls function 2 whenever the user has changed screen size, so
that Adis on Panels and COBOL windowing syntax work with this. When
working directly with Panels, you must call function 2 yourself after
the screen size changes.
Run-time System
------V4.0.5--
o A new RTS switch, L2, has been added, to select the record
terminator. See the section "Supplementary Information" in the main
Release Notes.
o A new tunable, signal_regime, has been added to select the action the
RTS will take for a given signal. See the section "Supplementary
Information" in the main Release Notes.
SQL Support - Early Release component
--V4.0.5--
o COBSQL provides an integrated interface from Micro Focus COBOL to a
precompiler. It causes the Animator, when animating a program
containing EXEC SQL statements, to display your original source code
instead of the code produced by the precompiler.
Windowing Syntax - Enhancements
----------------------V3.2.43--
o The Windowing preprocessor is now fully stackable, and so can work
with other preprocessors. (This enhancement does not include support
for the CP preprocessor features.)
MICRO FOCUS TOOLBOX
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This section shows new and Early Release features in Micro Focus Toolbox.
V4.0.5
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Common Communications Interface
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o The CCIView Trace Facility is used to view trace information that is
written to disk using the CCI-Trace function. It enables you to view
the parameters and the data buffer used by CCI both before and after
the call to CCI. See the on-disk document cciview.1.
o CCI-TRACE has been enhanced with a new parameter "n" or "N" to
give added security for users' data when being transmitted.
Core Dump Analyser (RTS Core)
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o RTSCore is a new low-level analysis tool that enables you to inspect
o/s-created core images to determine the COBOL application state.
It is currently available only on SCO UNIX and AIX, and does not
support the generation or use of .gdy files on AIX.
Fileshare Version 2
----------V4.0.5--
o When recovering files and creating a continuation log file, you can
now specify the name of the next recovery log file.
o If a recovery is attempted and the log file cannot be opened, a
message is now displayed giving the name of the log file. If the
the database reference file cannot be opened a message is displayed
giving the name of the database reference file.
o You can now use the 16-bit CCI module names when configuring
communications for Fileshare. Thus you can use the same configuration
files UNIX as on DOS, Windows and OS/2. For example, you can use the
CCI name CCITCP on both.
o You can now activate CCI trace from Fileshare V2. See the
Documentation Update Notes.
o The environment variable XFHKEYCHECK can now be set at the Fileshare
client. When set, it prevents the Fileshare System checking key
definition structures when files are opened.
o Trace messages displayed by the Fileshare Server are now
time-stamped. This is to aid diagnostics and correlation with other
software that displays trace/time information.
o If the Fileshare server is started to use CCINETB and the requester
service is not started, error FS082 is now displayed and Fileshare
does not start.
o When using the CCITCP or CCINAMPU protocol, you can now restart the
Fileshare server with the same name even if it has previously
terminated abnormally.
Fileshare will use the same server name, but will display a warning
message to indicate that any Fileshare server already using that name
that is still active will not allow any new connections. The more
recently started Fileshare server will have control of the server
name.
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