This release provides enhancements in the following areas:
Character Set Enhancements
The following character sets, available using the MFCODESET environment variable, have been enhanced or added in this release:
- Thai Extended (0066) - new
- Korean (0082)
- Simplified Chinese (0086)
- Traditional Chinese (0886)
There are also a number of double-byte character sets that are now capable of mixed single-byte and double-byte character
conversion; see the definition of MFCODESET in
Environment Variables in Alphabetical Order for more information.
Database Access
The following new features are available in database access support:
- COBSQL
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- HCO for DB2 LUW
- This release introduces GEN-HV-FROM-GROUP - a new DB2 ECM compiler directive option, that generates host variables for all
elementary data items when a multiple-level group variable is used in a FETCH or singleton SELECT DB2 statement.
- OpenESQL
- This version provides the following new OpenESQL features:
- Support for SQL Server 2014.
- New SQL Compiler directive options:
- DETECTDATE=SERVER - resolves host variables alignment with column data types in an SQL table.
- GEN-HV-FROM-GROUP - generates host variables for all elementary data items when a multiple-level group variable is used in
a FETCH or singleton SELECT SQL statement.
- Sample applications - the following native COBOL SQL sample applications are new with this version:
- Get Diagnostics - demonstrates how to use GET DIAGNOSTICS EXEC SQL calls to get diagnostic information from various DBMSs.
- LOB Data Types - Demonstrates how to INSERT and SELECT LOB data in a native application using various DBMSs.
- XA switch modules
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Restriction: This feature applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
The following XA switch module updates are available in this version:
- Oracle switch module:
- Supports User Impersonation when statically registered.
- Enables you to specify which XA resource definitions use User Impersonation.
- Now compiled with one source file, rather than two.
External Security Facility (ESF)
The Enterprise Server External Security Facility (ESF) now supports caching the results of some security queries. This can
improve the performance of enterprise server instances and of the MFDS when they are configured to use external security.
To enable caching, you need to set non-zero values for the
Cache limit (maximum size of the cache) and
Cache TTL (Time To Live, or how long before a cached result expires) settings on the
MFDS Security tab, the
Default ES Security tab, or on the
Security tab for an individual enterprise server. (Currently, the cache settings for Security Managers have no effect; you need to
set cache parameters on one of the three Security pages mentioned earlier.)
For more information, see
http://supportline.microfocus.com/examplesandutilities/doxygen/caching.html.
Tunables
This release includes the following new tunable:
- reduce_java_signals - specifies the options that are passed to a JVM when mixing Java and COBOL.