| Release 5.0 | Improves directory screen with more information and functionality including date, time and user-id of the last change made to each map. Adds new functions from the directory: Edit, Browse, Test, Copy and Delete. |
| Adds edits to ensure only one user at a time can update a map preventing one user’s changes from being overlaid by another user’s updates to the same map. Multiple users can browse the map while another user is updating it. Adds an unlock capability to the Administration screen to unlock a map being updated by a user that is unavailable, in case that map must be changed by someone else. | |
| Adds support for the DFHWBOUT (WeB OUTput) macro, which generates customized HTML from TEMPLATE map assemblies. Aids in web-enabling legacy BMS maps for use with the 3270 Bridge. | |
| New B-Browse function on the main menu and the directory screen. Browse allows a user to look at a map without updating its last-changed statistics. It also allows browse access while another user is updating the map. | |
| Expands PICIN and PICOUT maximum field lengths from 20 to 40 bytes to allow for the larger numeric fields possible with today’s compilers. | |
| Adds new warning messages when a variable field is not named, when a constant field is named, or when a field exceeds the BMS maximum of 256 bytes. | |
| Various other fixes and enhancements | |
| Release 4.9 | Corrected how the Delete, Insert, and End keys work. On the 4.8 paint screen these keys affect the rest of the map. On the 4.9 paint screen these keys just affect the rest of the line, as expected. |
| Enabled a map to be changed properly from a model 5 terminal. This does not work correctly in release 4.8. | |
| Eliminated a potential problem with copybooks generated for two-dimensional arrays by eliminating "HV" as a valid option for the DIR. field. | |
| Release 4.8 | Added support for horizontal and two-dimensional arrays. |
| Added support for fields starting in column 1. | |
| Added support for (long) fields that wrap around from one line to the next line or lines. | |
| Added a new program (MAPPM08) for converting BMS source macros that were created by the CICS/MAPGEN product. | |
| Added warnings in this manual and on map image paint help screen 4 concerning the use of the Delete, Insert, and Erase EOF/End keys while on the map image paint screen. See section 3.3. | |
| Release 4.7 | Added programs MAPP930 and MAPP940 for CICS 3.3 and up. Upper case translation on/off. |
| Added a provision for "GRPNAME=" on field definitions. | |
| Expanded date fields on reports and screens to include 4 digit year (mm/dd/ccyy). | |
| Added program MAPPG08 to handle BMS source input created by BMS/GT. | |
| Changed MAPP010 to correctly convert BMS source created by CICS/MAPGEN. | |
| Added program MAPPF08 to handle BMS source input created by Micro Focus. | |
| Release 4.6 | Added provision for SO/SI creation to indicate that fields can contain a mixture of single and double byte character set (DBCS) data. |
| Changed MAPP100 to not automatically lose updates in progress if master file is closed to CICS | |
| Removed program MAPP920. | |
| Release 4.5 | Added new program MAPP103. |
| Added new transaction MAPP. | |
| Added new mapset MAPMPNT. | |
| Added the capability for copying or moving individual fields or groups of fields on the painted screen. | |
| Dropped support for CICS 1.6.x. | |
| Supports CICS 1.7.x, 2.x.x, 3.x.x, 4.x.x. | |
| Release 4.4 | Revised MAPP008 to handle BMS macros generated by conversion utilities from IBM's SDF or SDF/II. All BMS macros from SDF or SDF/II must now be input to MAPP008. |
| Added a new CICS/MAPR II system parameter 'PRINT NOGEN'. A value of 'Y' will cause 'PRINT NOGEN' to be generated in the BMS source macros (program MAPP030). A value of 'N' will cause the 'PRINT NOGEN' to not be generated. | |
| Added a new CICS/MAPR II system parameter 'Stopper Length'. This parameter determines the field length (0 or 1) of the field delimiters (stopper bytes). | |
| Release 4.3 | Added a new batch program, MAPP008, which reformats BMS macros produced by the IBM SDF/II conversion utility into a format which MAPP010 can handle. |
| Added a REPLACE option for loading maps to the master file using program MAPP020. It can be used to replace maps with the same name which already exist on the master file. | |
| Changed BMS conversion program MAPP010 to handle 'wrap-around' fields (fields which start on one line and continue to the next line). | |
| Release 4.2 | Enhanced the copy and move functions on the painted screen to maintain field definitions when lines are copied or moved. |
| Added options to the Administration Menu to turn uppercase translation on or off. | |
| Changed the painted screen to show all fields defined within arrays. | |
| Release 4.1 | Object code only. |
| Added an
administration menu as entry point for: updating the system default parameter record adding or updating system passwords |
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| Added a PURGE option to the batch map utility program. | |
| Changed the LOAD option of the batch map utility program to allow individual maps to be loaded to the master file. | |
| Release 4.0 | Added a new function to test send a map defined on the master file. The map does not have to be assembled before tested. |
| Added a map demo facility allowing users to prototype screens in sequence to simulate production use. | |
| Added a new field definition screen to allow field attributes, extended attributes, PICIN and PICOUT specifications for each field, including literals and variables. | |
| Added a new array definition screen to allow multiple arrays within each map. | |
| Added a new parameter definition screen to allow more flexibility in defining DFHMSD, DFHMDI, and system parameters. | |
| Added the capability to enter both lower-case and upper-case characters on the painted screen. | |
| Expanded CICS/MAPR II online help facilities. | |
| Added PF keys for easier online screen-to-screen movement. | |
| Expanded CICS/MAPR II BMS source macro conversion capabilities, including conversion from SDF. | |
| Added new detail reports generated by CICS/MAPR II batch programs. | |
| Easier installation (object code included on installation tape). | |
| Documentation and messages updated. | |
| Supports CICS 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.1.x, 3.1.x, and 3.2.x. | |