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Hi All,
I released today the revision 0.007 of the alpha version. It brings up a new major feature : the possibility to export copybook definitions as XML documents.

Please check it out and tell me what you think of it.

Enjoy !

I just released a new version. Check the change log to see the major improvements.

I'm experiencing problems when trying the new weekly release directly by double-clicking on the jar file.

Right now, I don't have time to investigate the reason. So if you experience the same problem, you can still run it directly in console mode by typing the following command :

java -cp openfileaid_alpha_20100315-08h45.jar org.nla.openfileaid.OpenFileAid

I'll try to get it fixed for the next weekly release. Sorry for the inconvenience :/ .

The lastest release (alpha_20100315-08h45) provides the following main improvements :

- The parser supports a wider subset of the cobol grammar. For instance, the former version expected the clauses in that order : PIC clause followed by potential USAGE clause followed by potential VALUE clause. The new version now accepts these clauses in any order.
- More COBOL keywords are now supported (such as 'DISPLAY', 'COMP-4', 'COMP-5', 'USAGE', 'IS', 'EJECT'... and many more)
- The GUI has been improved, so as to facilitate the navigation between several copybook dialogs.... read more

Hi all,
First of all, many thanks to the few who downloaded the first binaries this week. I hope you tried it and found some interests in the product. I'd greatly appreciate some feedback, coz' for now i'm pretty much on my own. So don't hesitate to tell me about your first experience of the product, good or bad.

Anyway, now moving on to the subject. I just uploaded the weekly release of my alpha version. ... read more

The first working version of OpenFileAid has just been released. This first version allows you to :
- Load a copybook and display it
- Map the content of a flat file to a loaded copybook, and navigate graphically through the file content (line by line)
- Execute a first set of actions copybook elements :
- Initialize an element
- Copy the content of an element
- Paste the content of the clipboard to an element... read more

Initial code revision has been uploaded. You can get the code ans check it for yourself. I'll soon update this code, and upload binaries.

Hope to see you soon :)