What's new in Rational Business Developer V9.1.1.1

This release is a fix pack that contains mostly APAR fixes. In addition, the following new capabilities are introduced in Rational® Business Developer V9.1.1.1:

open considerations for file I/O

In the context of file I/O that does not involve databases, the EGL open statement opens the file that is associated with a given record variable. As files are opened automatically by the EGL get or add statements, you can use the EGL open statement to clear the file without any actual I/O being done.

For more information, see open considerations for file I/O.

setCharacterEncoding()

setCharacterEncoding() is a system function that specifies an alternative encoding for a CHAR, MBCHAR, or DBCHAR variable.

For more information, see setCharacterEncoding().

Support for CICS Channels on VSE

EGL programs generated for VSE CICS can now use CICS Channels to pass parameters. This means that you can pass up to 30 parameters of unlimited size (bounded by the storage available in the CICS region). Both the caller and the callee must be running under CICS. This feature requires CICS Transaction Server for z/VSE 2.1, which is available for z/VSE 6.1.