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General Enhancements and Updates

  • Menu items - the following Micro Focus utilities were previously available under the Tools > Micro Focus menu and have been moved as follows:
    • ADO.NET Connection Editor - now accessed from View > Micro Focus SQL Tools.
    • OpenESQL Assistant - now accessed from View > Micro Focus SQL Tools.
    • OpenESQL Configuration Utility - now accessed from View > Micro Focus SQL Tools.
    • Web Service Client - now accessed by creating a new project of type "Web Service Client Application from JSON/REST" - click File > New > Project > COBOL > Native > Web Service Client Application from JSON/REST.
  • Managed COBOL project properties - a new setting, Expose group linkage items to managed code, is now available on the COBOL tab in the properties of managed COBOL projects. Checking this sets the ILSMARTLINKAGE directive that specifies that group linkage items in your code are to be exposed as properties of a class. A related button, Options, enables you to also specify whether to remove specific prefixes from the names of COBOL data items, whether to make the new classes serializable, expose Linkage Section items as nested classes of the program class or to limit the property generation to non-redefining elementary items.
  • Resetting the file properties - a new button, Use Project Defaults, on the file property pages of COBOL files in native projects now enables you to reset the file properties of COBOL files in native COBOL projects.
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