This release provides enhancements in the following areas:
Application Server JCA support for Enterprise Server
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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
- CICS resource adapters
- All CICS API based programs
- The IBM implementation of CICS resource adapter for WebSphere 8.5 and JBoss 7.1.1.
Data File Tools
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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.
For more information see
Related Information at the end of this topic.
Database Access - HCO for SQL Server
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This release provides the following new features:
- End-to-end demonstrations that show several methods for submitting a JCL batch job that calls COBOL stored procedures. To
view these demos, see the
SQL demonstrations in the Mainframe Samples browser.
- The SPCALLLOCAL SQL compiler directive option, used to convert an EXEC SQL CALL into a call to a local COBOL subroutine instead
of a call to a SQL Server SQLCLR stored procedure.
- Extended support for conversion of the DB2 CONCAT function.
Database Access - Mainframe Batch Database Tools (MBDT)
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Note: This is a technology preview feature only. It is being made available to allow you to test and provide feedback on this new
capability; however, this feature is not intended for production use and it is not supported as such.
This release provides MBDT support for DB2 LUW partitioned tables.
For more information see
Related Information at the end of this topic.
Database Access - OpenESQL
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This release provides the following new features:
- Support for the Oracle fully managed ODP.NET driver.
Database Access - SQL Option for DB2
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This release provides the following new features:
- Import/export of XML with SQLWizard/DSNUTILB(XUTLB)
- New XDBSetup utility for TS/Citrix environments
- Using Migrate to move XML tables from z/OS DB2 to XDB
- Support for Temporal Tables
Enterprise Server
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This release provides support for the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO timeout options of EZASOKET support that help reduce the
risk of applications becoming unresponsive due to EZASOKET APIs not completing.
File Handling
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The following enhancements have been made to file handling processes:
For more information see
Related Information at the end of this topic.
Mainframe support and emulation
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This release provides the following enhancements:
- Support for using multiple catalog files (up to 32).
- Support for storing the spool files in a location that differs from the location of the catalog file.
- Enhanced support for searching the catalog using wildcards.
For more information see
Related Information at the end of this topic.