The isCOBOL framework has yet again been improved to aid developers gain productivity while debugging and increase performance of running applications.

Multiple parameters are now supported in C$WRITELOG, to output several items at once, as shown below.

The W$FLUSH library routine has two new op-codes:

The new opcodes can improve performance in scenarios where a long computation contains several unnecessary DISPLAY or MODIFY statements. Disabling the UI drawing will speed up performance and, at the end of the computation, UI drawing can be re-enabled to update the user interface. It can be used as show below.

External logging can now be configured using the new configuration property:

This allows the use of external logging libraries, such as Log4J, and take advantage of their advanced features, like rolling and zipping.

isUPDATER can now automatically check for software updates by adding the -update option in the command line used to run an isCOBOL application, such as

isUPDATER loads from CLASSPATH the isupdater.properties configuration file, containing information on the update server, such as

using this configuration, isUPDATER is leveraging the -hs option of iscserver, which starts an HTTP server on the default 10996 port, where updates might have been stored.