Transoft Graphical Adapter (TGA)

September 16, 2009 at 11:31 am | In HP3000 Products, Transoft Products | Comments Off

Transoft Graphical Adapter (TGA) provides an emulation of the HPe3000 VPLUS functionality on Windows and UNIX. It enables migration of applications that use VPLUS for the user interface with no code changes.

TGA also extends the VPLUS functionality so that the user interface may be browser based via an ASP.NET or JSP thin client application or windows forms based, via a VB.NET thin client application.

Previously the number of fields on a TGA screen was limited to 255; this limit has now been increased to over 32000.

FlexGen Updates

September 16, 2009 at 11:06 am | In FlexGen, Transoft Products | Comments Off

A large number of updates are available on the FlexGen FTP site:

Configure multiple construct and compile to compile programs in a date range : Scripts are available for download.

Integrate DBPronto with FlexGen. DBPronto allows the FlexGen user to replace existing COBOL data files with an RDBMS without any manual dictionary changes. The DBPronto XML Builder menu option enables automatic creation of the DBPronto XML metadata.

BIGEXTDIALOG windows – grouped items. The functionality introduced in FlexGen 7.00 to allow for windows containing very large numbers of items, has been extended  to support grouped items.

Screen performance. When moving the cursor on transaction forms that make use of dynamic fields the screen performance could be a problem in recent versions of FlexGen, this has been greatly improved.

ActiveX Controls. In programs making very heavy use of ActiveX controls, a small resource leak could eventually cause a GPF. This has been fixed.

Terminal Login Conflicts. Terminal Login Conflict problems can have different underlying causes. This fix addresses one of the possible causes.

Increase the number of fields in Alternate Keys. FlexGen now allows up to 18 fields in each alternate key.

Allow more than 100 files in a form.

TCA components. Fix ActiveX error during compilation.

FlexGen Editor. Fix problem with moving lines in character mode.

SORT on sequential files. Correct problem causing no records to be returned.

Allow program with more than 40 lookups.

Correct Display Environment menu option for RM/COBOL.

ActiveX components. Allow use of parameters passed by reference with ActiveX components.

If you would like any more information about these changes, please contact Transoft Customer Services.

ADO.NET Data Provider for U/SQL

September 15, 2009 at 6:23 pm | In Transoft Products, USQL | Comments Off

U/SQL already provides ODBC and JDBC access to legacy data.

Now we have produced an ADO.NET data provider for U/SQL data sources.

Any .NET application, including SQL Server, 32 bit or 64 bit, can now use the U/SQL ADO.NET data provider to access legacy data.

Please contact Transoft Customer Services to obtain product download details.

DBPronto – Schema Converter

September 15, 2009 at 5:53 pm | In DBPronto, Transoft Products | Comments Off

A new facility is now available which may be useful for people who already have some data in an RDBMS and would like to access the data via DBPronto from a legacy application.

The DBPronto Schema Converter converts an SQL schema into a COBOL data format which can be used by COBOL programs to access the database, and also into an XML format which can be accepted by the DBPronto Server to control access the RDBMS.

The converter accepts a list of SQL table names; for each table it uses JDBC metadata commands to read the table metadata, which is then processed to produce SELECT and FD statements for use by a COBOL program, and also an XML file for use by the DBPronto Server.

The schema converter will attempt to produce output which will be acceptable to both a COBOL compiler and also the DBPronto server. However, this is not a process that can be guaranteed to succeed; for example, an SQL field name might clash with a reserved word for a particular compiler, or a field size might not be acceptable. The schema converter provides some options that can help in this case, but it is still possible that manual editing of the output files will be needed.

Click here to download the DBPronto Schema Converter.

Release: DBPronto 2.0

September 15, 2009 at 4:35 pm | In DBPronto, Transoft Products | Comments Off

DBPronto 2.0 is now available for download from the Transoft FTP site. This release is available on the following platforms:

  • Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Windows XP, VISTA, 7
  • Linux PowerPC or Intel, 32 or 64 bit
  • HP-UX PA-RISC
  • Solaris SPARC and Intel

The major features of this release are the addition of support for U/FOS DBAM (Data General INFOS) file access as well as support for C-ISAM/D-ISAM file access.

Applications that previously accessed U/FOS or C-ISAM data can now access the data migrated to RDBMS tables with no changes to existing source code.

The new features in DBPronto 2.0 include:

Support for DB2. The databases that can be accessed by the DBPronto Server are SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and now, DB2.

Support for C-ISAM/D-ISAM file access. Applications that access C-ISAM/D-ISAM data can now access RDBMS data with no code changes, it is not even necessary to re-compile.

Support for U/FOS DBAM file access. U/FOS, originating from Data General INFOS,  is a complex hierarchical database management system. Applications that use U/FOS can now access RDBMS tables instead without making any changes to the application code. DBPronto fully implements the functionality provided by the U/FOS file access commands.

DBWHERE performance feature. DBPronto has been enhanced to enable application programs to specify a partial WHERE expression that will be included in the query executed for a subsequent READ NEXT/READ PREVIOUS operation.

Flexible filenames. The VARFN feature has been extended so that filenames can be specified using any regular expression.

CBL_CHECK_FILE_EXIST. The DBPronto EXTFH client library has been enhanced to provide support for the CBL_CHECK_FILE_EXIST runtime routine.

DBP_GET_USER_INFO. The DBPronto client API library has been extended to provide this new command that returns information related to the session ID, this can be used to identify the owners of locked rows for example.

CHANNEL_LOCKING_MODE. This is a new DBPronto Server configuration option that enables definition of the way in which locking works when a file is accessed by the same client on multiple channels.

For more information, please download the DBPronto 2.0 Release Notice

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