Enterprise Developer 5.0 provided enhancements in the following areas:
Micro Focus has worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an AWS Quick Start for Enterprise Server. The Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates and a deployment guide with step-by-step instructions that enable you to deploy Enterprise Server into a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on the AWS Cloud in about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
For full information see Micro Focus Enterprise Server on AWS.
You can now reformat your COBOL code in the editor according to your preference and standards. Formatting sets the indentation based on the configuration options which you can set in Windows > Preferences > Micro Focus > COBOL > Editor > Formatter (for Eclipse).
You can find the COBOL formatting features on the editor context menu (for Eclipse) menu.
You can now create the following views for your code:
This release offers an enhanced and improved availability, and serviceability of Enterprise Server through the ability to administer and maintain a cross-system group of regions as a single system image with the new Performance and Availability Cluster (PAC).
In order for different Enterprise Server instances to be able to work together, they need to be able to share data. This is achieved through the use of a Scale Out Repository (SOR). All ES instances in a PAC will have a common SOR (PSOR) which is used to store CICS resources (limited to PCTs, PPTs, FCTs, DCTs and TSTs in this release) as well as internal system data to facilitate synchronisation between instances. Temporary Storage Queues and Transient Data Queues can also be shared between Enterprise Server instances by directing them to a SOR. Benefits of using PACs and SORs in this way include:
Enterprise Developer now includes a new Enterprise Server Common Web Administration interface (ESCWA). ESCWA is a web user interface and server for modern administration, monitoring and control of Enterprise Server. It offers improved usability that consolidates the different Enterprise Server user interfaces so that native and managed regions, and security stores can be managed in one place. Features include:
Improvements have been made in the following areas:
The new JSON File Descriptor has been provided to support REST payloads. This function package enables you to integrate RESTful API with your AWM workflow. See REST Function Package.
You can use these tools to securely store login credentials to a remote system and reuse the information for subsequent access.
The AppMaster Builder Data View Explorer tab has been redesigned in this release make it easier to create and maintain data views. Features include:
This release includes the following enhancements:
The following enhancements have been made to the COBOL syntax:
The following compiler directing statements are supported:
>>DEFINE
>>IF/>>ELSE/>>END-IF
>>EVALUATE/>>WHEN/>>WHEN OTHER/>>END-EVALUATE
The following Compiler directives are new in this release:
This release provides the following enhancements:
Dynamic CTF - it is now possible to configure the CTF dynamically from outside the process being traced. This feature is only currently available on Windows platforms.
Using a new command line utility - cblctd - you can alter the tracing events of running applications that already have CTF tracing enabled. You can alter trace levels, add or remove components to or from the trace, and also configure the emitters in effect.
Additionally, there is also a new component that you can trace - mf.mfdbfh enables you to trace activity of the Micro Focus Native Database File Handler.
This release provides the following enhancements:
Enhancements are available in the following areas:
This release includes the following enhancements:
This release includes enhancements in the following areas:
Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) is no longer supported.
Previously, all settings were stored in a single, proprietary IDE project file. Existing projects which currently specify directives and other similar settings in the .cobolproj file will be upgraded to use the new .mfdirset files when imported or loaded in Enterprise Developer 5.0. If you are storing your source code in a source control system, ensure that you add the .mfdirset files to source control as well.
This release includes the following enhancements:
This is the stable Long Term Support version of OpenSSL.
In previous releases, a secure connection to a Fileshare server was made using a certificate that represented the network location upon which the Fileshare service was located. This method is still supported, but does not distinguish between the exact Fileshare server that is being connected to when more than one service can exist on a single host system. With this change, individual Fileshare services can identify themselves by using a unique certificate. While running on the same host and registered with the same network endpoint.
This release includes the following new feature:
This release includes the following enhancements:
This release provides enhancements in the following areas:
The Micro Focus Database File Handler (MFDBFH) is a file handler that enables your native CICS and batch enterprise server applications to interact with data files and certain infrastructure files stored within a database.
VSAM files may experience logical and/or physical corruption in the event of a hardware failure. This is due to a single COBOL I-O operation consisting of multiple physical I-O operations. If all the physical I-O operations that make up the COBOL I-O operation are not performed, the file can be left without integrity. In previous releases you could guard against such occurrences with Fileshare and logging, but they required some manual intervention and came with performance cost.
In this release, configuration options have been added that allow the I-O operations to be routed to an RDBMS to take advantage of the availability and performance characteristics of the database. This can be achieved with no changes required to the application. The file will be routed to the SQL database simply by changing the filename prefix to sql://.
Features include:
This release comes with Micro Focus Rumba+ Desktop version 10.1 SP1 which you can choose to install with Enterprise Developer. This will enable embedded Rumba+ Desktop support within the IDE.
This release provides support for the following functionality:
Enhancements are available in the following features:
The options –fdmaxp 15,15 and –fdmaxp 31,31 are allowed, and correspond to –fdmaxp 15 and –fdmaxp 31, respectively.
Support is now available for the following additional or updated operating systems:
For a full list of supported platforms, check HTTPS://SUPPORTLINE.MICROFOCUS.COM/PRODAVAIL.ASPX.
The following is new in this release: