v1.1.0

New! opensource COBOL 4J supports Windows!

Added

• Add a command line option -Wimplicit-define option

Fix

• Fix READ PREVIOUS statement after START statement with <= operator
• Fix Java code generated by cobj-api
  • "-" in Java variables are converted to "_"

Miscellaneous

• Refactor libcobj/
• Support Ubuntu 24.04

v1.0.22

Added

• Add cobj-api command (#370)
  • With cobj-api, you can easily generate an Spring boot Java file that calls the program generated by cobj.
  • See https://github.com/opensourcecobol/opensourcecobol4j?tab=readme-ov-file#cobj-api
• Implement a -Wstrict-typing (#369)

Miscellaneous

• Simplify generated Java code based on SonarQube analysis (#366)
• Improve the error message for record keys with duplicates (#368)

v1.0.21

Added

• Implement a new option -info-json-dir
  • With this option, cobj generates JSON files containing information of COBOL programs
• Fix DISPLAY/ACCEPT for environment variables
• Implement a new option -ext
• Implement a new option -Wcall-params

Miscellaneous

• Improve the maintainability of generate Java files
  • This modification resolves issues reported by SonarQube's security review

v1.0.20

Added

• Add command line options
  • -conf: Specify the configuration file
  • -std: Specify the dialect
  • -Wconstant: Warn inconsistent constant
  • -Warchaic: Warn if archaic features are used
  • -Wobsolete: Warn if obsolete features are used
• Add intrinsic functions
  • LOCALE-DATE
  • LOCALE-TIME
  • LOCALE-TIME-FROM-SECONDS

Fixed

• Fix runtime checkings
• Detect invalid indexed record keys
• Accept field names which contain Japanese characters

v1.0.19

cobj-idx

cobj-idx, a new CLI tool for indexed files is available!

Added

• Implement COB_FILE_SEQ_WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE
  • File write speed can be specified by user.
• Implement options -ffold-copy-upper and -ffold-copy-lower

Changed

• Change label names in Java source files based on COBOL labels

Fixed

• Fix CobolUtil.isNationalPadding

Miscellaneous

• Refactor source code and resolve all gcc warnings
• Remove unused directory

v1.0.18

Added

• Support Amazon Linux 2023
• Implement runtime numeric checkings
• Implement sorting a table based on ebcdic
• Implement KEY IS option of SORT statements
• Add documents that describes installations and requirements
• Implement the environemt variable COB_NIBBLE_C_UNSIGNED
• Add built-in subroutines
  • C$CALLEDBY
  • C$LIST-DIRECTORY
• Implement NUMBER-OF-CALL-PARAMETERS

Fixed

• Fix the message of COB_VERBOSE file sort
• Fix the process that checks MOVE statements
• Fix INSPECT statement
• Fix error handlings of 0 divisions
• Fix an error of comparing large numbers
• Fix checkings for subscripts
• Fix FUNCTION VARIANCE

Optimized

• Optimize the file reading process

v1.0.17

Added

• Implement sorting a table
• Implement functions SUBSTITUTE and SUBSTITUTE-CASE

Changed

• Support JDK 11
  • Older versions are tested with JDK 17 and 1.0.17 is tested with JDK 11.
  • Plan to support JDK 8 in the future.

v1.0.16

Added

• Publish libcobj.jar in GitHub Packages
• Implement intrinsic functions
  • ORD-MAX
  • ORD-MIN
  • SECONDS-FROM-FORMATTED-TIME
  • SIGN
  • STORED-CHAR-LENGTH
  • TRIM

Fixed

• Fix DECIMAL POINT IS COMMA in SPECIAL NAMES clause.

v1.0.15

Added

• Add new intrinsic functions
  • EXCEPTION-FILE
  • EXCEPTION-LOCATION
  • EXCEPTION-STATEMENT
  • EXCEPTION-STATUS
  • FRACTION-PART
• Add -Wredefinition option
• Implement FD with EXTERNAL clause
• Add a guideline for contributing

Fixed

• Fix a build error on some platforms

v1.0.14

New Features

• Add -jar and -single-jar option
• Add FUNCTION COMBINED-DATETIM
• Add FUNCTION CONCATENATE

Bug fixes

• Fix INDEXED files
• Fix comparison of PIC N

Miscellaneous

• Improve the readability of CALL statements