Administration and Programming Guide for OS/400

What's New in this Release?

Net.Data for OS/400 provides the following new features in this release:

• Improved performance with the ability to cache macros and include files
• Language environment enhancements include:
  • Two new language environments:
    • Java Application
    • Direct Call
  • Support for large objects (LOBs) in the SQL language environment
• Macro language enhancements include:
  • Ability to generate and send e-mail messages from the macro using the DTW_SENDMAIL built-in function
  • Ability to get and set HTTP cookies with the DTW_SETCOOKIE and DTW_GETCOOKIE built-in functions
  • Ability to replace strings with the DTW_REPLACE function
  • Support for milliseconds in the DTW_TIME function
  • Support for dynamically building variable references
  • Ability to set the VALUE attribute in the OPTION element of DTW_SELECT()
  • Support for the RETURNS keyword in the MACRO_FUNCTION language construct
  • Support for the hash (#) character in variable names.
• Configuration enhancements include:
  • ENVIRONMENT statements are no longer required in the Net.Data initialization file for Net.Data-supplied language environments
  • Ability to disable the SHOWSQL variable with the DTW_SHOWSQL configuration variable (default is disabled)