DN 9602 000.0001

Walter F. BloodJune, 2008

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FOCUS 7.7 Product Update

‘Highway Blues’ from the “Speaking Out” albumMark Seales, composer; Ernie Watts, saxophone

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateBusiness view of a database

Business View limits read access to database based on business requirements

Defined in Master File

Standard FOCUS extract functionality applies.

Multiple views to file offers additional security

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateCollation Support for Sorting and Filtering

SET COLLATION to handle case-insensitive data!

SET COLLATION to deal with special sort sequences!

SET COLLATION to move between ASCII and EBCDIC!

FOCUS 7.7 Product Update FOCUS/XFOCUS now supports 1024 partitions

FOCUS/XFOCUS databases now support up to 1024 partitions!

Maximum XFOCUS database reaches 16 Terabytes!

Maximum FOCUS database tops at 2 Terabytes.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateFile Concatenation Supported on SU

Longstanding limitation on the concatenation of datafiles on the sink being removed!

MAINTAIN to get new functionality

USE …ON … AS…OK!

FOCUS 7.7 Product Update HOLIDAY File Now Supports FILEDEF

HOLIDAY file no longer stuck in ERRORS

FILEDEF or ALLOC where you want!

Multiple versions easy to maintain!

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateFOCUS/XFOCUS Interface with Unicode Support

New FOCUS/XFOCUS Interface provides full support for Unicode!

Ultimate solution for localization issues.

Unicode support includes collation, filtering, user functions.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateSorting with Variable sized Ranges

User defined RANGES available in IN-RANGES-OF grouping.

Range name also set-able.

IN-RANGES-OF <value1, label1> … <valuen, labeln>

FOCUS 7.7 Product Update HOLDATTR to include DESCRIPTIONS in HOLD file

SET HOLDATTR will now include DESCRIPTIONS from Master Files in HOLD files.

New value to include Descriptions with TITLE and ACCEPT.

Available in WebFOCUS to tools using trees and POPUPDESC

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateFOCUS TX fields support MISSING

IS MISSING and IS-NOT MISSING now supported with TX fields.

Interface Varchars can be translated to TX or to AnV in HOLD.

Added to support of Alpha to TX and TX to Alpha conversion in DEFINE.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateSupport for Mainframe zIIP Processors

FOCUS and WebFOCUS on Mainframe now make use of the zIIP engine.

Offload cpu cycles to cheaper processor

Help you control your software maintenance bills!

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateNew JPTRANS Function to convert SBCS to DBCS

JPTRANS to convert between single-byte (SBCS) and double-byte (DBCS)

DEDIT to provide standard EDIT function for DBCS data.

DSUBSTR to give subtring capability to users with double-byte data.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateMAINTAIN supports FOCUS TX fields

MAINTAIN adding support for FOCUS TX fields.

Available for use locally and on SU.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateConditional Styling for BY Fields

Conditional styling specifically for sort fields

Based on sort value, control display in graphs, pie charts, tables…

Complete styling capabilities

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateNew Display for Accordian Reports

New display option for single verb requests.

Requests using WITHIN to get new option to display sort columns as stacked rows.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateNew Multi-Verb presentation

New SET for Multi-Verb requests to control layout.

Sort fields common to all verbs displayed as stacked rows rather than columns.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateStored Procedure Support for DB2

New FOCUS DB2 interface using CLI

Provides access to DB2 Stored Procedures

Master files generated dynamically on access through the interface.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateNew Subroutines Available

PATTERN – translates field value to pattern of “A”,’a’,’9’ and others.

REVERSE -> ESREVER

Implementation of ISO standard week numbering in H subroutines

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateDialogue Manager IN FILE

Compare &Variable to list of literals stored in file.

Referenced with “IN FILE” syntax.

Use with –SET.

FOCUS 7.7 Product UpdateThe Future of FOCUS