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pcMAINFRAME - Release Notes
pcMAINFRAME Version 5.10
New Features - Mainframe
Improved Date Processing for the Year 2000
All dates in logs and reports will be displayed in century format. (mm/dd/ccyy). All calculations of elapsed time will function properly across the century boundary. Product or feature trial dates will be correctly calculated and enforced.
Field type definitions (Output Formats)
Mainframe date fields that carry century can be specified during upload and download. Defined formats are:
- CCYYDDD (Julian)
- MMDDCCYY (Gregorian)
- DDMMYYCC (International)
- CCYYMMDD
- CYYDDD (Modified Julian, where C=Century Code)
The following new figurative constants have been defined:
- =DATEL (MMDDCCYY)
- =IDATEL (DDMMCCYY)
- =JDATEL (CCYYDDD)
Date Range Checking
The date range checking during record selection processing has been updated to correctly handle dates specified as:
- Gregorian, long (MMDDCCYY or MM/DD/CCYY formats)
- International long (DDMMCCYY or DD/MM/CCYY formats)
Default Century Assignment
When transferring data from a mainframe DATE field that does not contain a century to a PC file that does, pcMAINFRAME will assign a default century. The OPTIONS customization screen is used to specify the default century to use as follows:
- Always use the current century (This is the default if no specific date is
set)
- Define a 'cutoff year' to determine the century, where dates with YY greater than the cutoff year will be assigned century = 19, and all other dates will be assigned century = 20.
Enhanced RRDS support
Uploads to VSAM RRDS is now supported. A new field type, 'relative record number' can be defined. During download, the relative record number will be placed in the PC file. During upload, the field will be used to add or update the VSAM file record.
Support for Btrieve file format on the PC
New PC data types and logical field types have been defined support download to Btrieve files on the PC
New Features - PC
All dates in the transfer log will be recorded with century. All date routines have been enhanced to deal with absolute dates beyond the twenty-first century.
Btrieve file support (pcMAINFRAME for Windows only)
Support for download to Btrieve files has been added. Users must own a valid btrieve product license in order to use this feature.
User Profile Customization (pcMAINFRAME for Windows only)
An authorized user may now create and maintain user profiles during a normal
pcMAINFRAME transfer session. The user may request a profile for customization, modify the record filter criteria and PC file formats, and select fields for download from a master field list.
The new profile can be saved for future processing or can be used as a 'one time' download request.
Enhanced DIALOG commands for Scripts and Process Control (Windows only)
A significant number of new commands and enhanced process control has been added to the latest release of DIALOG. These include:
- New File I/O commands (Open/Close/Read/Write)
- External Call Services (DLL_LOAD, DLL_UNLOAD, CALL)
- Directory and File Management
- Many new System Variables
- Extensive new support for String Handling and Numeric Functions
- Significant general enhancements
New Device Support for pcMAINFRAME for Windows
- NS/Elite for Win32
- WRQ Reflection for IBM Win32
- NetManage Swift for Win32
- Personal Communications for Win95
- PCOM/NS WinCPIC
Direct TCP/IP support (Requires 5.10 on the mainframe and mainframe TCP support)
- Direct TCP LAN Workplace
- Direct TCP PC/NFS
- Direct TCP Chameleon/Newt
- Direct TCP Windows Sockets
- Direct TCP FTP PC/TCP
Corrections:
- In CFXLIBU, member add, the DEVICE input was not correctly defaulting to DISK. This has been corrected.
- Defaults for the definition of logical field types for PC file formats such as EXCEL / WKS have been improved.
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