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Extension of SYSTEM facilities to other users.

Two new user classes will be implemented – Administrator and System Administrator. User Groups will also be implemented and an Administrator will be able to perform user administration functions for all users within their own group.  System Administrators will have all the same permissions as the SYSTEM user except the ability to create new System Administrator users.

Providing Audit Reports

The following actions will be logged in a new indexed audit file:

• Creation of new users
• Changes to user details
• Deletion of users
• Unsuccessful login
• Account locked
• Account unlocked

A new report will be produced to report on the logged information, allowing selection by start date, end date, user, activity type.

Inactive User Listing

A new field will be added in the user record which will record the date of the last successful login. A new report will be provided to give a list of users who have not logged in since a specified date.

User lockout

Provide facilities for a user to be locked out after a configurable number of failed login attempts.

Password Strength

Provide facilities for the specification of a password policy that requires minimum number of characters, change frequency, mix of lower- and upper-case and digits.

We anticipate this work will be complete by the end of 2010.

The release notice contains full details. This is a summary of the highlights:

• FlexGen is fully integrated with DBPronto. DBPronto allows you to replace your COBOL data files with an RDBMS without making any changes to your FlexGen dictionary.
• When creating DBPronto metadata, it is now possible to create and maintain a list of records which should be included
• FlexGen users can access DBPronto using the DBPronto API or, for most types of COBOL, using the DBPronto intercept client.
  For users of the DBPronto API, C$LOCKPID functionality is now supported in the FlexGen DBPronto functions. In addition the DBPronto flag, which is part of the file definition, is included in FlexGen reports and in the Import and Export functions.
• FlexGen files now allow up to 18 fields in alternate keys.
• The location of the FG4.INI file can be specified using the FG4INI environment variable.
• In order to allow for a larger number of users work file names can now use process id instead of terminal id.
• The support for ActiveX controls has been enhanced to allow for parameters passed by reference.
• For FlexGen users who use TCA components, we have extended the length of debug file names to 256 characters.
• Screen performance has been improved for Transaction forms.
• The BigExtDialog windows type has been extended to allow up to 399 items.
• The maximum number of FlexGen system users has been increased to a total of 4624 for UNIX and 2076 for Windows.

Since the FlexGen 7.0.3 release was finalised we have continued to work on performance with DBPronto. FlexGen queries can now make use of DBPronto views which can dramatically improve performance. This enhancement is currently being beta tested.

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.

• CIO Integration, including the FlexGen XML Metadata Builder and CIO API functions
• RM/COBOL, ACUCOBOL and Micro Focus COBOL support
• Windows Installer compatible with VISTA and 64 bit Windows

The latest documentation and release notice can be downloaded from

ftp://ftp2.transoft.com/pub/CDextras/FlexGen/FG7v0/

ENTCOMP.IS is a FlexGen interim source file and ECOMP.EXP is a FlexGen export file.

ENTCOMP is an external FlexGen program that is designed to read a previously built FlexGen entity file and submit FlexGen form and query entity types to be compiled.

The process is driven by two FlexGen SCL Scripts, FG4-ECOMP and FG4-ECOMP1.

FG4-ECOMP simply clears and set variables, then jumps to FG4-ECOMP1.

FG4-ECOMP1 calls the ENTCOMP program, which opens the FlexGen entity file and reads through it to extract a single FlexGen form or query program record, then returns to the FG4-ECOMP1 SCL script that compiles it.  The FG4-ECOMP1 SCL script loops continually until signaled by the ENTCOMP program to quit.

To implement, follow these steps:

1.  Import the ECOMP.EXP file.  This imports the FG4-ECOMP and FG4-ECOMP1 scripts into the dictionary.   You should get no duplicates when you import this file.

2.  Compile the ENTCOMP1.IS program.

Select “External Sources” from the “Develop” pulldown menu. 

Fill out the External Source dialog as follows:

• Make sure “Use default Path” and “Non FlexGen Source” is unchecked
• Make sure the Source Name is ENTCOMP.IS
• Set the Source Path to the folder/directory where you’ve copied the attached file.  Make sure you terminate the Path entry with a “\”

Select “Build” from the menu to compile the program.

The system should be ready to use at this point.

To create a list of entities modified on or after a selected date, follow this process:

1. From the “Interchange” menu, select “Create Entity List”.

2. Select “Entity” as the Entity File type.  No other file type is acceptable for the entity compile scripts.

3.  From the Dictionary Menu Bar, select “Modified Items”.

4.  Select “All Modified Items” from the “Export Modified Items” pop-up menu

5. Type the selection date in the Modified Items dialog.

6.  Push the UPDATE button

This creates an entity list file of all items in the dictionary that were modified from the specified date. Even though the entity file contains all data types modified, the Compile by Entity list program will only pick out and choose Forms and Queries from the entity list.

7. Push the Exit button.

To compile using the entity list just created, follow these steps:

1. From the Master Menu, push the F5 “Options” button.

2.  Select “SCL (Direct)” from the Menu Options.  A Lookup appears.  Type “FG4-ECOMP” and hit the enter key.

3. The FG4-ECOMP SCL Script appears in the dialog.  Push the SELECT button to start compiling.

4. All Forms and Queries are compiled from the entity list previously built.

Notes:

This solution was developed by Kirk Roser in response to an enquiry from a FlexGen user. The source to the program ENTCOMP.IS is provided without warranty and is not a supported FlexGen utility.  The user is free to change or modify it to suit their individual needs and assumes all support for it.

The scripts use the following SCL slots:

A,B,C,D,E
a,b,c,d,e,x,y,z

If the FlexGen development environment is currently using these slots, it is the responsibility of the user to save these slots to other items prior to running the FG4-ECOMP script, and the restore them back again.