Changes

Release History

Version Date Description
1.5.2 2008-12-27 Improved features release
1.5 2008-11-01 alotofchanges
1.4

Release 1.5.2 - 2008-12-27

Type Changes By
add new dat2dat bat/sh command. Can convert EBCDIC to ASCII without loose of binary fields. It can also convert data types to other types if used wise. p4w3l
add New T - "transparent" type. Returns any Cobol type as it is represented in file in binary format. Requires proper size setting. p4w3l
update binary type (B) extended to parse and write all possible values of BINARY, COMP or COMP-4 Cobol types. p4w3l
add *nix shell equivalents of bat files. p4w3l
add New rich error messages instead of NumberFormatException. p4w3l

Release 1.5 - 2008-11-01

Type Changes By
add All xml processing delegated to JAXB; new xc2j parameter - cobol implementation; xc2j schema extended - Signed, ImpliedDeciomal, Picture. Some other attributes name changed; cobol2j conversion tables replaced by java charsets ( Cp037, Cp437 or Cp1047 ); FieldFormat.java and company replaced with xjc classes based on FileFormat.xsd; Hex classes, main in RecordSet and dat2hex.bat removed p4w3l
add since jaxb is required and it requires java 1.5 - cobol2j requires java 1.5 ( J2SE 5.0 ) as minimum Java version p4w3l

Release 1.4 -

Type Changes By
fix bug in Dat2xls - cellNr changed from immutable Integer to MutableInt from Apache Commons Lang; bug in reading zoned format - NumberFormatException; new xsd schema - now matches cobol2j java types - preparation to jaxb; bug in Dat2xls - cellNr changed from immutable Integer to MutableInt from Apache Commons Lang p4w3l