Interactive COBOL 4 History
This page gives a brief history of the ICOBOL 4 product.
4.0x (November, 2008 - June, 2009)
- Ability to run ICOBOL 2 .cx files without changes
- Enhanced logging and a new Remote logging capability
- Updated ThinClient support with automatic reconnect and both character and gui mode support in the same client under Windows
- Encoded client/server network communication paths
- Two new builtins: IC_DECODE_CSV and IC_ENCODE_CSV
4.1x (August, 2009 - November, 2009)
- Ability to write PDF files
- Bidirectional pipes under UNIX
- Pipe opens under Windows
4.2x (December, 2009 - March, 2010)
- New builtins has been added that allows a COBOL ThinClient session to interact with its remote client
- Enhanced IC_CHECK_DATA builtin that performs 32-bit calculations
4.3x (April, 2010 - May, 2010)
- Apple Mac OS X (x86) support added
- U/FOS support in Linux 2.6
- Installer improvements
4.4x (June, 2010 - January, 2011)
- New Intrinsic Functions
- Heartbeat facility for client-server file i/o
- Enhancements to the IC_SEND_MAIL builtin
- Hardened network daemons against denial-of-service attacks
- Enhanced audit log tracing for specific sub-systems of the runtime
4.5x (April, 2011 - March, 2012)
- Remote support of ISQL datasets
- GET COLUMNS and GET TABLES statements added for ISQL support
- New Intrinsics SQL-ADD-ESCAPES and SQL-REMOVE-ESCAPES
- New option for GET DIAGNOSTICS statement of COLUMN COUNT
4.60 (June, 2012)
- Improvements in terminal and printer description file handling
4.7x (September, 2012 - January, 2013)
- Greatly improved the encryption of client-server data over the network
- Introduced ICCONFDIR to be able to isolate configuration data from the installation to make upgrading easier
- Improved thinClient network buffering
- File buffering enhancement for large Linux systems
- Support for PAM authorization in Linux
- Windows 8 support
4.8x (April, 2013 - December, 2014)
- Enhanced hash algorithm for disk lookups
- Support for a much larger global buffer pool