RecordEditor 0.98.5

RecordEditor is an editor for editing Fixed-Width, Csv files using a file schema (or layout).

Version 0.98.5 adds support for JRecord 0.90, Minor changes to JRecord-CodeGen, Xml compare and Xml directory compare.

Downloads

• RecordEditor_Upgrade_98.5.zip - Replacement jar; Replace the contents of the RecordEditor/lib directory with the lib directory in this zip file
• RecordEditor_USB_0.98.5.zip - Standalone version of the RecordEditor (no install needed)

Instalation

• Follow the instructions in the downloads, basically:
  • For the Upgrade version
    • Backup your RecordEditor lib directory.
    • Copy the jars in the lib directory of the zip file to your RecordEditor lib directory.
  • For installers run the supplied installer
  • For USB unzip in any user directory (Do not unzip in C:\Program Files)

Changes 0.98.5

• New Xml compare and Xml directory compare.
• Updates for Code-Generation.
• Updates for JRecord 0.90.
• Fixes for Big files in Java 8

Changes 0.98.4

• Add options on how to Convert Cobol Field Names into java field names in Generated code
• Two new CodeGen Templates added.
• Fix for Linux HSQLDB installer
• Fix for Generate from file option
• Add options on how to Convert Cobol Field Names into java field names in Generated code

Changes 0.98.3

• Fix for VD-Dump format.
• Added support for defining Csv Quote chars in hex format
• The Quote char is processed when Csv Delimiter is in Hex format.
• Fix for Byte-Based-Fixed width files used with multibyte character-sets (Version 0.98.2a)

Changes 0.98.2a

• Fix for Byte-Based-Fixed width files with multibyte character-sets

Changes 0.98.2

• Minor fixes, Including (hopefully) fixing field-list-scroll issue.
• Move the Numeric = next to the Text = in the find and filter screen.
• New CommitCount and FetchCount parameter options to improve performance with big Layouts
• Enhanced python Code generation
• New Script (macro) functions to edit files.
• New Script functions to process multiple files

Changes 0.98.1 TestA

• Fix issue on Open Window
• Add option to specify the Character-set when exporting as Text.

Changes 0.98.1 Test

• Fix for duplicate field names in an array.
• Add checks for duplicate field names when generating a template.
• Several minor CodeGen fix's

Changes 0.98

• Several Cobol Fixes (Right Justified , GNU Cobol Zoned Decimal).

• Adding JRecord Code Generate function - this will generate either:

  • Java~JRecord code from a Cobol Copybook / File.
  • Utility scripts (CobolToCsv or CobolToXml or CobolToJson) scripts from a Cobol Copybook/file.

• Generate simple skelton Java~JRecord, Python or Ruby programs to read/write the file being editted. There a still a lot of limititations.

Changes 0.97m

• Cleanup/enhancement of cobol-import screen.
• Added JRecord Code-Generation to the Cobol-Import.
• upgrade to latest cb2xml 0.96.6 (Cobol Copybook analysis software).

Changes 0.97k

• Fix problems introduced in 0.97j (xml / PO / Tip file)
• Fix issue with importing Xml Schema's (for formats).
• Added support for using combo's in "prefered" layout in Sort Tree's
• Fix problem on Cobol-Copybook import where Record-Details are not copied to the DB.
• Added Create Combo to Record Layout drop down menu
• Added Generate Record Names right click menu in Layout Wizard

Changes 0.97j

• Update to find (when not found)
• Update to ReplaceAll message
• New Improved Cobol Import
• support for combo's on "prefered layout" (not supported for Sort Tree

Changes 0.97i

• new cb2xml.jar to support usage supported at group level, improved processing of value statement
• Fix for use with multiple screens
• Option to select the screen (if multiple displays).
• Record Selection fix
• Fix for Exporting layouts as Xml
• Updated Cobol parser (cb2xml 95.5)

Changes 0.97g

• Adding Combo option to "preferred" record view (see Discussion)
• Added Character-set component to ReCsvEditor to make font selection easier. This component has both a drop down menu of common character-sets + a Character-set selection screen.
• Fix for problems when filtering / saving big files.
• Extra debugging info added.

Changes 0.97c

• Support for updating colors used in the Highlighted Text Editor.
• Can use Background colors in the Highlighted Text Editor. Note: When a background color is used, a a white underline can appear, I do not think this can be fixed.
• When creating a new record (line) in a Text file (no binary fields), the record is initialised to spaces. Binary records are still initialized to Hex-Zero's though.
• Changes to prevent problem in filtering
• Adding an Output Tab in the script run Screen. You can now use print/println function in macros (scripts) and they are displayed on a seperate tab. This is useful for debugging.
• When running a script, any print/println will be written to the Log Window.
• Automatic schema backup has been enhanced.

Changes 0.96j/97

• Adding a -db startup option
• Several Cobol parsing fixes (e.g. Sign trailing).
• Updated Csv parser (Extended Basic is now the default Csv parser). The new standard Parser follows Csv standard more closely.
• Updated File-Chooser screen with Recent directory options
• Fix for sort issues in Java 8
• New GenerateData.js example script which generates numeric data for a file. It can serve as an example for your own generate data scripts.
• several other minor fixes

Changes 0.96g/h

• Updated Csv parser
• More Cell operations for Csv files (Right click and Edit menus)
• New JavaScript macros (Delete-Duplicates and Show Duplicates)
• New Jython / Groovy macros to save files as JSon. These require Jython / Groovy interpreter's to be downloaded separately from there Project sites
• New Delete-Duplicate / Sort Macro-Build functions
• Removed Java-7 dependencies that had crept in, Should run in Java 6 again.
• Improved major error reporting
• Recently used files are retained between sessions on a lot more screens
• Fixed several Java 8 issues (Sort and JavaScript)
• Fixed several OpeJdk issues.
• Fixed issue with spaces in filename (when used as a Startup parameter for ReordEditor)
• Fixed issue File-Location calcation (Fixed-Width files > 2gb).

Changes 0.96f

• For unsigned comp-3 fields, the unsigned nyble will be used instead of the positive sign nyble (User Request)
• New Layout to Csv Compare option on the Csv compare screen. (Note: Saving this compare will no work yet.
• Resolved a few differences between JRecord's processing of Schema-Xml and RecordEditor's processing of Schema-Xml.
• New Fixed-Width-Char option. This is specifically for Multi-Byte Character-set (UTF-8, UTF-16 etc) fixed width files.
• Minor improvements/fix to the Macro-Ediors Save-All button.
• New Example Java-Script Macros (Script directory in the zip file) to delete duplicate Records and to show duplicate records in a seperate view
• New Example Jython and Groovy Macros (Script directory in the zip file) to write a RecordEditor-view as JSON.

Changes 0.96e

• Zoned-Decimal in Ebcdic-German + several other European language versions of Ebcdic
• Several fix's for Fixed Width 16 bit charsets (e.g. UTF-16 etc)
• Fix's / enhancements for Unicode Csv files

Changes 0.96d

• New Text view where fields are highlighted
• Allow block cell selections and added block cell coping/pasteing
• Major changes to Installers - Better Windows UAC handling, can install in Windows"User" account, Better handling of multiple user's on PC.
• Can specify Charset on Csv and Fixed width export
• New Csv compare function
• Added file charset detection for Ebcdic files
• Added Edit-Layout button to tool bar
• Key assignment changes, Record-Copy Record-Cut, Record-Paste, Record-Insert and Record-Delete are now assigned to keys Alt-C, Alt-X, Alt-V, Alt-Insert and Alt-Delete. Control-C and Control-V are now for cell copying and pasting.
• Automatic backup of File Layouts (Schema's) as Xml files (to directory <RecordEditorUserDirectory>Copybook/SchemaBu).
• Fixed problem in copying to Ebcdic Files (that use a new-line character) on Windows machines.
• Fix problem new Xml export function
• Fix System and record-seperator problems in Xml export

Changes 0.96c

• New Script build function. This function will build sample Scripts (Macro's) for the current file. It will make it easier to start writing scripts.
• Improvements in loading lage gzip files
• Problem Fix (see HTML Compare Problem)
• several improvements (see Compare Change) added file checking + cleared MSG field.
• Added option to view HTML to HTML compare function.
• Added zip4j_1.3.2.jar for zip work

Changes 0.96b

• Improvements in handling big files (Filtering, copying, pasteing).

Changes 0.96a

• File name Fields are now combo box's (with most recent files with a file search button straight after the Field.
• Updated XML-Layout import / export functions
• New Load XML-Layout option (to load a single XML-Layout
• Several Big-File related changes including filter improvements.