Enhancements are available in the following areas:
The new Micro Focus COBOL extension for Visual Studio Code is available on the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. This provides edit, compile and debug support for Visual COBOL and Enterprise Developer users in Visual Studio Code.
Support has been added for creating, building and running .NET Core projects using the dotnet command.
The following enhancements have been made to the Micro Focus COBOL language:
The following enhancements have been made to the integrated code set translation support:
Arabic support for Enterprise Server applications is available.
If you are building Arabic support into Enterprise Server applications, your terminal emulator must support the Arabic EBCDIC 420 code page.
Support is added by building your applications and configuring your enterprise server regions with the MFCODESET variable set to the supported country code (0420). Your product's in-built code set translation utility performs translations between the ASCII 1256 Arabic code page on your enterprise server region, and a terminal emulator that supports the Arabic EBCDIC 420 code page (for example, IBM's Personal Communications emulator).
There are some considerations when working with a bi-directional language such as Arabic; these are discussed in Arabic support considerations.
The following Compiler directives are new in this release:
The following Compiler directive option has been deprecated:
This release includes the following enhancements in the Data File Editor:
Developing applications on remote machines with Eclipse has the following enhancements:
This release includes enhancements in the following areas:
Versions of Eclipse prior to this one are not supported.
This release includes the following enhancements:
In release 6.0, you could only configure MFDS and MFCS listeners to listen on a single IPv6 address. In release 7.0, by default, MFDS and MFCS now listen on all configured IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and can also be configured to listen on a combination of specific addresses.
When enough enterprise server regions have been switched over to the new PAC, the old PAC can be set to operate in the quiesce mode. This prevents further batch workload and EXEC CICS START from being processed.
The new PAC can now be switched to running mode so that batch workload and EXEC CICS START are enabled for processing again.
This release offers the following improvements:
See Mainframe in the Enterprise Server Common Web Administration chapter for more information.
The MFA API library has been exposed to enable you to test and use the requests that are provided. See MFA Interactive API Library for more information.
You can configure this in ESCWA with the Apply Scope field on the ES CONTROL page. Alternatively, you can use the casutl utility with the /w option. See casutl for more information.
This parameter will filter the list of resources displayed by ESCWA and ESMAC. In addition, a new environment variable ES_RDO_MAX_RESOURCES has been added that enables you to specify a limit to the number of records displayed. For JSON requests, the list being truncated is indicated by the addition of the JSON property "truncated": true.
This release includes the following enhancements:
The following library routines are new:
In this release, Micro Focus brings in the power of the in-house Micro Focus AutoPass licensing technology alongside Sentinel RMS. AutoPass has the following additional benefits compared to Sentinel RMS:
Features include:
The SafeNet Sentinel licenses are no longer supported, and you need to use AutoPass licenses starting with release 10.0. Contact OpenText Support for Micro Focus Products to replace your existing SafeNet Sentinel with AutoPass licenses.
On Windows, Micro Focus License Administration is now also available as a command-line utility.
For more about AutoPass and usage logging, and about Micro Focus License Administration, see Managing Licenses.
The following enhancements have been made to the Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework:
Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub is now available on the following platforms: