Enhancements are available in the following areas:
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:
Visual COBOL 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 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:
You can now create an identity column in your database by using a new XFD directive - IDENTITY_COLUMN. This must be specified on a numeric field.
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 Visual COBOL 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 provides support for the following functionality:
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: