ECN-4735 New XFD value for <file-organization> element

Defect Number: 130003

Product: ACUCOBOL-GT

Modules: Compiler, Runtime

Machines Affected: All

DESCRIPTION:

The <file-organization> element used in XML-style XFD files has been updated to enable distinguishing between line sequential and binary sequential files. Valid values are:

indexed indexed files
relative relative files
sequential old-style sequential files
binary sequential binary sequential files
line sequential line sequential files

The A4GetXFDFileType function now returns:

12 indexed file
8 relative file
4 binary sequential or unknown sequential file
5 line sequential file
Notes:
  • This information is available with XML-style XFD files only. Old-style XFD files do not contain this information.
  • The version number of the XFD file did not change as a result of this update.