• Validman Improvements
• An alternative to using LISTPGM
• Validation Kick Back
  • Validations Where Used
  •  File Where Used
• Carried Forward Accounting Updates
• Secondary Update - Field Moves
• DIALOGUE Boxes
• Point & Click (P&C)
• More Program Logic Override features
• Multi-Lingual Software
• F1 = HELP
• Use of the DUP key
• Access Map from spec
• Source Debugger
• Improved Spec. Export / Import
• Group Total Reports
• Drawing Flowcharts
• File Where Used Improvements
• Parameter Data Structure
• Field Where Used In Program
• GROUPS - A reminder
• Auto-Specifying Windows
• Screen Heading / Trailer Displayed in Formatters

Improved Spec. Export / Import

GVEXPPGM and GVEXPFIL have been a useful way of freezing versions of specs or files and using this consolidated version of a spec as part of your change control / archiving. The spec export mechanism has been changed to to create two objects rather than one. If you export the spec to MYPROG the result is now a file called MYPROG and a file called MYPROG_R. The _R (for Run-time) contains any messages and Validman Tables used in that specification as the storing of these objects may be required in different libraries. Or you may wish to import only the run-time objects into your live system. As part of this change we have introduced 4 new commands - GVEXPMSG / GVIMPMSG and GVEXPVMT / GVIMPVMT which will export and import individual message file messages and Validman Tables respectively.