Features Added in Enterprise Test Server 2.2 Update 1

This release provides enhancements in the following areas:

Micro Focus Heartbleed Update

This product includes OpenSSL version 1.0.2j.

Btrieve Support

Support for the Btrieve file handling system from Pervasive Software Inc. has been added into Enterprise Developer.

Support is restricted to native COBOL, in a Windows environment.

Compare and Synchronization Monitor

With the release of Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 1, the Compare and Synchronization Monitor has been updated to version 2.

Version 2 is greatly improved in terms of performance, especially during initial checkout of partitioned data sets or when synchronizing a large number of members. Also, the user interface has been improved, and some of the functions available in the old version have now changed or become obsolete.

Compiler Directives

The following Compiler directives have been added in this release:
ILPARAMS
Determines the way in which you call a method that contains an array as its last receiving parameter.
INIT-BY-TYPE
Initializes Working-Storage Section data items to a default value, according to their type.
  • Alphabetic, alphanumeric, alphanumeric edited, and numeric edited items are initialized to spaces.
  • Numeric items are initialized to zero.
  • Pointer items are initialized to null.
  • Index items are initialized to the value 1.

Enterprise Server Integration in the IDE

You can now use the context menu for the servers in Server Explorer to enable the display of the Enterprise Server log information in .

Environment Variables

The following environment variable has been added in this release:
strictvsam
strictvsam enables strict mainframe emulation when processing VSAM files.
When set to ON and running under mainframe emulation, file status 37 is returned for an existing VSAM file when opened for OUTPUT if the file has data or previously had data written to it, or if the file is of a different format to the file on disk. When set to OFF, file status 0 is returned and a new file is created when an existing VSAM file is opened for OUTPUT. This variable is set to OFF by default.

Fileshare Recovery

Recovery of Fileshare data files has been enhanced.

Rollback recovery is a faster process that aims to fix the files from their failed state.

This process cannot be used in all scenarios, but a new user exit has also been introduced that allows you to programmatically control which files you wish to recover with this process.

Hot backups are also a new introduction, which allow you to perform a backup without having to shut down Fileshare.

HCO for DB2 LUW

  • Support added for DB2 LUW version 10.5
  • Enhanced RETURN-CODE processing
  • The HCO DDL processor now accepts column names with a length greater than 18 characters.
  • The HCO Import Data tool now processes CLOB data less than 32K in size.
  • The HCO Import Data tool can now convert DSNTIAUL import files to delimited format, enabling the actual import to be done by DB2 LUW IMPORT and LOAD utilities. This is done using the new SAVEDEL and CHARDEL parameters.

HCO for SQL Server (HCOSS)

  • Support for the mainframe SET CURRENT SQLID statement.
  • Support for the mainframe LEFT and RIGHT scalar functions.
  • Data Migration tools now support the mainframe ALIAS and SYNONYM objects.

Mainframe Emulation

Previously, MGMTCLAS was supported by simply saving it on the catalog record when a dataset was allocated in JCL using the MGMTCLAS parameter on the DD statement. Starting with this release, you can use batch jobs to define MGMT classes and to specify the EXPIRE AFTER time (in days).

Mainframe Subsystem

Casspool performance enhancement
As part of an enhancement to improve performance when browsing the spool queue of an Enterprise Server, you must update the casspool file for any Enterprise Server created before Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 1 before you can submit jobs to it.
To update the casspool for each Enterprise Server, from a command prompt, run fixcasspool.bat , located in %COBDIR%\bin and %COBDIR%\bin64, using the following syntax: 
fixcasspool.bat casspool.dat backup.dat
where:
casspool.dat
is the spool file, located in the same directory as the Enterprise Server's system catalog, that will be updated.
backup.dat
is a file that will be created with a backup of the old casspool.dat file. If backup.dat already exists, the update is not run.

If you do not update casspool and attempt to start Enterprise Server, the following messages are displayed in the console:

JES000011E Batch Spool File Error; Status [39]

JES000130E Note JES000011 Error - New casspool indexes may need generating. See error description in product docs

Managed COBOL Syntax

This release includes the following enhancements to the managed COBOL syntax:

Specifying parameters in the method signature
You can now specify passing parameters and returning items in the method signature, instead of using a Procedure Division header. This applies to methods, indexers, iterators, constructors and delegates.
CONSTANT keyword
Use the CONSTANT keyword on a field to protect it from being altered.
Operations on string fields
You can now use the STRING, UNSTRING and INSPECT statements on fields of type string.

Run-time Launch Configuration Files

Use a run-time launch configuration file to ensure an application can be launched when it is deployed in a separate location to the run-time system (in the case of dynamically bound applications), or when the licensing daemon is not already running.

XA Switch Modules

This release provides the following new functionality:

  • New two-phase commit module for SQL Server based on Microsoft's XA switch. This provides support for xa_recover.
  • Support for DB2 LUW version 10.5.
  • Support for Oracle version 12.1.
Parent topic: New Features