This release provides enhancements in the following areas:
Application Server JCA support for Enterprise Server
In this release, EJBGEN has been updated to generate an EAR file as a part of the COBOL deployment process, which enables
you to deploy EJBs to Java Application Server.
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CICS Web Services
In this release, CICS Web services support includes the following additional features:
- CICS JSON Web services for request/response and RESTful JSON. CICS Web Services support has been extended to allow JSON/REST
requests to be used in both requestor and provider mode.
- Use of container-based mappings
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Data File Tools
This release provides the following enhancements to Data File Tools:
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Database access - HCOSS
This release provides a new Offline Schema Extract feature – a batch solution that migrates a z/OS DB2 catalog to SQL Server
without direct access to z/OS DB2.
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Deployment on multiple platforms
This release provides support for deploying JVM COBOL applications on multiple platforms. You can compile an application
on one platform (such as Windows) and then deploy its class files to a different platform (such as Linux or UNIX).
Some features of the COBOL language, however, are platform-specific and their behavior on different platforms might vary.
See
Multi-Platform Deployment of JVM COBOL Applications
for details.
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Documentation
The following new sections have been added to the product help:
- Where do I start? - located on the launch page of the product help, this section provides the information you need in order to get started
depending on which aspects of the product you need to get to grips with first.
- Multi-Platform Deployment of JVM COBOL Applications - includes information about how to ensure the portability of your JVM COBOL applications between Windows and UNIX or Linux
platforms.
- Configuring an SSL Client Connection to a Mainframe - includes instructions about how to configure client applications to connect to MFA and z/Server mainframe via AT-TLS in
a zOS environment.
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Enterprise Server
Improvements are available in the following areas:
EXEC CICS TRANSFORM:
- Enterprise Server now supports the XMLTODATA and DATATOXML options of this API.
JCL spool
The JCL spool repository infrastructure has been redesigned to significantly improve its performance. The improvements include:
- A more disk-efficient infrastructure, reducing the space required by the spool files by up to 75% in some cases.
- Improved internal indexing, resulting in quicker generation of messages and sysout records during processing.
- Improved navigation of spool queues: job status
Complete replaces the
Output,
Out Hold, and
Printed statuses, and completed jobs with any combination of sysout files can be displayed in a single list.
- Increased range of job numbers, from five digits to seven digits.
Important: These changes are automatically in place for new enterprise servers that you create. To enable these updates to existing enterprise
servers, you must run a conversion utility before any JCL processing is permitted. Follow the
To run the spool conversion utility process, detailed in
Significant Changes in Behavior, for each existing JES-enabled enterprise server you have.
Long user IDs and passwords:
- Enterprise Server now supports user IDs and passwords of up to 100 characters. It is possible to map IDs from long to short
(or vice versa) to enable compatibility with programs that do not support long names.
SHA-256 support in DemoCA:
- By default, the Demonstration Certificate Authority (CA) now signs certificates with SHA-256. This ensures that the demonstration
or evaluation certificates will be accepted by modern browsers and other software that has enhanced security requirements.
Syslog auditing:
- Enterprise Server now supports auditing using syslog events, which can be consumed by a wide range of Security Information
and Event Management (SIEM) products. This replaces the Audit Manager auditing solution. Syslog auditing provides a much more
efficient auditing mechanism, with significantly less impact on overall speed.
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IMS support
A new MFSGEN Compiler directive, CONTMVS, has been added to enable the compiler to parse MFS continuation lines (those continued
without a terminating comma) by treating the line that follows as a comment line, just as is done on the mainframe.
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Mainframe Access (MFA)
This release provides the following improvements:
- Running MFA client in 64-bit processes - you can now call the MFA client modules from 64-bit applications and take advantage
of the wider memory addressing available to those modules.
- MFA client CTF tracing - MFDAS now supports CTF tracing. This provides better diagnostics of issues and helps increase turnaround
on issues. CTF is common to a number of Micro Focus modules so cross-component logging can be turned on from a single place.
- Endevor functions - the following functions are now available to Enterprise Sync and MFDAS: DELETE, DIRX, GENERATE, GETENQI,
LIST, MOVE, SIGNIN and TRANSFER.
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