Features Added in

This release provides support for automatic connection recovery to an active Java application server when an enterprise server region is restarted. This applies to COBOL resource adapters.

This release provides improved security and increased support for more file types. Features include:

• Certain aspects of Enterprise Server security are honored when you attempt to access data sets. If the Enterprise Server region has security enabled, logon details must be authenticated before you can access the data set. If the details are unable to be authenticated, access is denied.
• When using a record layout, certain data is now validated at field level (to ensure the contents is compatible with its picture string ) and record level (to ensure the record length matches the layout size).
• Full editing support has been added for variable block sequential files and relative files. Full editing is also available for line sequential files, as long as they do not contain any binary data.

• A new indexed file format, IDXFORMAT12, has been introduced to improve file maintenance and recovery procedures when using the rebuild utility. This file format is similar in structure and use to IDXFORMAT8. Where the two formats differ is that an IDXFORMAT12 file has an accompanying side file (.idx file) containing the indexed key information.

  You can use this type of file with the new rebuild /q option. This rebuild process is considerably quicker than other rebuild processes such as a data scrape or rebuild /p.

• Faster SORT operations for fixed block records - when using the DFSORT emulation, the performance when sorting fixed block records has greatly improved.

There are a few restrictions when running in this environment:

• The cob flag -p, which enables profiling, is not supported on Red Hat platforms.
• The cobmode utility is not supported.
• SQL functionality is restricted to OpenESQL support (ODBC and JDBC) only.
• The RM File Manager (RMFM) is not supported.