Release Notes Cobos 3.8.0

Release 3.8.0 [2017-02-06]

Improvements in this version:

Z/Navigator: easy member lists management and Devops integration

• Manually add/discard members without host PDS list refresh
• Members list can also be managed directly from Commands view and integrated with existing tooling such as source, build and/or deploy management.
• A Member can be added to Z/Navigator view and opened in COBOL Editor as a result of Checkout.

Z/Navigator: Editing sequential files

• editing can be automatically switched to read only in case of special characters detection or max number of records threshold reached.
• optimistic lock is implemented thru sha1 calculation.

COBOL Editor: auto-completion add-ons

• a new set of DB2 and CICS code templates is available for auto-completion.

JCL Editor enhancements

• Outline view is enriched with DD cards extract.
• Files can be opened directly from Outline view by selecting the DD card.

Z/Jobs view shows off new convenient columns

• Fields programmer and submit date/time are added to the Z/Jobs view (SDSF mode only).

This release solves the following bugs:

5029 – je3270: F10 key no longer activates Eclipse menubar, LeftAlt key is always recognized.
Note: the Eclipse menubar shortcuts are processed by Eclipse, not by je3270.