MANASYS Jazz
Release Notices
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DL/1 and General Development. From #310 to ???
General Development. From #296 to #309
Mostly further issues related to Easytrieve conversion. From #279 to #295
Various issues related to Easytrieve Conversion. Combines #269 => #278
EV Code Sharing Certificate (suppresses “Windows has protected your PC”). 2 very minor corrections.
Code Sharing Certificate. Omit key of related record.
A minor enhancement and a minor error fix to Easytrieve conversion functions
Minor improvements to Easytrieve conversion functions
A major improvement in support for Easytrieve conversion, Import From Easytrieve now handles more file and field types, and the new Easytrieve Conversion Notepad feature does most of the work for you.
A minor clean-up, mainly to repair an error with Classical CICS programs handling VSAM records and Generic Indexes.
MANASYS Jazz will now generate client interfaces and web services that will handle simple parent/child record hierarchies
Build 243 introduces some enhancements to facilitate conversion of Easytrieve to MANASYS Jazz, making it the easiest and best way to convert Easytrieve to COBOL.
Build #240 continues the focus on development of CICS Web Services and related Client Interfaces. Improvements include support for messages that return several records, improving the New/Logic/Web Service dialog to handle related tables easily, support for VSAM web services, and optionally handling Add and Delete functions.
Build 16.1 introduces integrated Client App development. This video shows the process. The statistics of program JSPG2 are remarkable: From a 17 line SQL definition, MANASYS generated 2500 lines of COBOL, 320 lines of JSON, and 854 lines of C#, all of which compiled and worked correctly first time.
No other software offers comparable productivity ratios, nor offers integrated development of mainframe web services and client apps.
REST (.json) services follow Swagger (Open UI) standards and conventions
Web service discovery has been rewritten to handle REST as well as SOAP.
Support DB2 for ZOS.
Get SQL table definitions from DCLGEN output
JCL to compile COBOL without SQL connection until later BIND step
General SQL Changes
Use Qualified name, so PREFIX now unnecessary
Generate definitions in line, so CPYLIBNAME now unnecessary for long table names
Errors with DATE fields (Update and WHERE) now fixed
Configuration retained when Jazz updated
Vastly improved handling of Web Service input messages,
Input NULL, ZERO values handled as special names,
PIC used in SQL definitions for editing and display format,
CAPS/LOWER properties: facilities case-insensitive processing
EXISTS for Referential integrity for SQL as well as VSAM
DB2 Phase 2 – CICS and Web Services. SQL-style conditions (LIKE, IN, BETWEEN) in general logic. FREEKEY
Introductory DB2 Support. DB2 supported for batch programs
Some items to complete Micro Focus support.
Substring references, PRINT … FIELDTABLE can now include constants, Comment Out/In
Integration with Micro Focus, DATE Data Type, TRIM and LTRIM (in addition to RTRIM), COBOL statement
Please contact us if you want more details about the changes, if you have any questions about Jazz that are not quickly answered from our web site, or if you want to arrange access to an evaluation copy of MANASYS Jazz.
Robert Barnes
CEO, Jazz Software Ltd
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