Note: This is a technology preview feature only. It is being made available to allow you to test and provide feedback on this new capability; however, this feature is not intended for production use and it is not supported as such. Furthermore, Micro Focus does not guarantee that this feature will be delivered at a GA level and if it is, then the functionality provided might differ considerably from this technology preview.
This version of
Data File Tools (Technology Preview) has the following restrictions:
- You cannot create new structure files from a 64-bit command prompt (Windows), or
if your effective working mode (cobmode) is 64-bit (UNIX).
- The only supported UNIX platforms are SUSE and Red Hat.
- There is no support for Unicode files.
- There is no file conversion functionality; use the DFCONV command line utility if you require this functionality.
- There is no support for old structure (.str) files and profile files (.pro files), produced in Classic Data File Tools. This version uses a
.dfs structure file to contain the information previously held in the other two file formats.
- All files are opened in
Data File Tools (Technology Preview) using a lock mode of EXCLUSIVE.
- The following table shows the current state of support for the different file organizations:
|
|
Extend
|
Insert
|
Rewrite
|
Rewrite - alter length
|
Delete
|
| Fixed block sequential
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
N/A
|
Y
|
| Variable block sequential
|
N
|
N
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
| Line sequential
|
N
|
N
|
Y
|
N
|
N
|
| Relative
|
N
|
N
|
Y
|
N/A
|
N
|
| Indexed
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
- There is no support for the following types of data file:
- ACUCOBOL-GT (Vision)
- IMS
- PL/I
- RM/COBOL
- When creating a structure file, you cannot use an
.idy file from a project compiled with the ODOSLIDE Compiler directive.
