Record Editor

Changes in this release include a field show/hide function, an enhanced layout wizard, an enhanced copy utility, and enhanced hex display options. A new Prefered Layout displays a record's contents based on the record type. Various problems were fixed.

This release fixes a problem with HSQL version when running against the Database in embedded mode (accessing the database directly rather than through the server). There are UTF-8/16 enhancements as well.

Changes in this release include a new file copy utility that copies fixed width files to and from delimited files, and copies XML to fixed or delimited files, and also copies from one Cobol dialect to another. There is also improved Cobol support and support for Open Cobol and Micro Focus Cobol (via Open Cobol - Microfocus mode). Several new menu options were added.

This release has a new diff (file compare) utility that does a field-by-field comparison. Advantages of this include comparing different types of files (e.g. fixed width files and CSV files) and the ability to ignore fields (useful in regression testing). This release can save the definition of Filters, Sort Trees and Record Trees, and execute the latter. It can export/import RecordLayouts as XML. These record layouts can be used in JRecord to read and write files in Java. It can save files as XML. It has an enhanced COBOL editor and an enhanced Sort Tree (a field summary option has been added).

This release contains a new Column view, Tree views, improved CSV support, and limited XML support.