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Interactive COBOL Revision 3.65
(February 18, 2008)

Revision 3.65 includes an updated documentation set and also incorporates a number of bug fixes and improvements.

See the Release Notes and readic.txt for a complete list of the changes and additional helpful details.

Get it Now!

Revision 3.65 can be downloaded now from our Download page.

 

Revision 3.64 incorporated a number of bug fixes and improvements to ICRUNRC.

Revision 3.63 incorporated a number of bug fixes and added more control over the window mode used by the runtime when it starts.

Revision 3.62.xx incorporated a number of bug fixes.

Revision 3.61 introduced a number of updated SP@ components thin client product as well as a number of bug fixes.

Revision 3.60 introduced a number of enhancements to the thin client product as well as a number of bug fixes. Of particular note is a fix to a problem where the network server code was failing under Windows Vista. In addition, Revision 3.60 included an updated Sentinel driver and updated SP2 components.

 

Important Note: Change in Supported Platforms

Please visit the Current Releases page for important changes to the supported operating system platforms that went into effect with Revision 3.60.

 

Previous Releases

The previous revision 3.5x releases added several significant features to the ICOBOL product. A few of the highlights are:

  • We added support for selecting, copying and pasting text in the Windows runtime
  • We added improved configuration options for thin clients.
  • We added a build for Intel-based systems using the Linux 2.6 kernel.
  • We added a new builtin called IC_SEND_MAIL that allows you to send an e-mail message directly from your program.
  • We added a new command-line utility called icwebmsg that allows you to send a URL request to a server and get the response back. It can be used for something as simple as downloading a web page to something as complex as performing an XML-based transaction.
  • We increased the number of arguments that can be handled by various ISQL statements.

The previous 3.4x releases also added several significant features to the ICOBOL product. A few of the highlights are:

  • We added two new installers to streamline the installation WIndows thin-client products on a client PC. The first installer (win348g.exe) is for the sp2-based GUI thin client (icthinc). The second installer (win348c.exe) is for the character thin client (icrunrc).
  • Integrated SQL (ISQL) support was added to the runtime and compiler.  ISQL provides a simple way of using popular relational databases directly from within COBOL programs in a nearly seamless fashion. 
  • New literal types include: DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL.
  • New data types include: CHARACTER, CHARACTER VARYING, DATE,  INDICATOR, INTEGER, INTERVAL, NUMERIC, SMALLINT, TIME, and TIMESTAMP.
  • New statements include: COMMIT, CONNECT, DEALLOCATE, DISCONNECT, EXECUTE, EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, FETCH, GET DIAGNOSTICS, PREPARE,  ROLLBACK, and SET CONNECTION. At runtime, ISQL makes use of standard ODBC calls to access any data manager available to ODBC.
    NOTE: Use of these new statements requires an additional runtime license called an ICSQL Runtime License.
  • The ICSORT utility now has a scripting capability. This feature provides logic statements to control record selection, formatting statements to select fields and compose output records, and conversion statements to convert data and perform character set and string translations.
  • More of the system's code has been placed in .DLLs on Windows and Shared Objects on the various UNIX platforms. This reduces the size of the releases and improves memory sharing among multiple components.
  • The Flexus qpr and sp2 components and documentation have been updated.

Important Note: ICSQL License

Use of the new ISQL database access statements requires an additional runtime license called an ICSQL Runtime License (see the note above). Demo licenses are available on request.

Important Note: ICNET and ICODBC Licenses

The revision level for the icnetd and icodbc subsystems has been changed to match the revision level of the other product components instead of having their own revision levels. Thus, the revisions have changed to version 3.40 from 2.90 and 1.90 respectively.

What this means in the the License for each of these components must be at the rev 30 level. If you have a license that is at an earler level, please email support with a request to upgrade the license to the 30 level. There is no charge for this component upgrade.

YOU MUST INCLUDE THE SERIAL NUMBER FOR THE LICENSE YOU WANT TO UPDATE!

Example:

      * ICOBOL Network Server License
      LIC 02-DEMO-99999999-ICNET-21-A-WIN-00009

    Above "21"                   ^^ should be "30" as below

      * ICOBOL Network Server License
      LIC 02-DEMO-99999999-ICNET-30-A-WIN-00009

Interactive COBOL Revision 3.57
(March 19, 2007)

This release can still be downloaded from the ICOBOL 3 Archive page.

 

Interactive COBOL Revision 3.48.05
(March 1, 2005)

This release can still be downloaded from the ICOBOL 3 Archive page.

 

Interactive COBOL Revision 3.36.04
(March 11, 2004)

Support for ICOBOL 3.36 was discontinued as of October 1, 2004 and it is no longer available for download.

Interactive COBOL Revision 3.23

Support for ICOBOL 3.23 was discontinued as of September 1, 2003 and it is no longer available for download.

Interactive COBOL Revision 2.68

Support for ICOBOL 2.68 was discontinued as of September 1, 2001 and it is no longer available for download.

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