New Features in AVR 4.0:

AVR Release 4.0 contains many new features. The following is a quick listing of the main new features available in this release. Refer to the "What's New?" page within the Getting Started book for a listing of the new features, or refer to the Whats New? book in the AVR help file for a categorized listing of all the new features and enhancements included in AVR Release 4.0.

New Features:

§ CALL/PARM to iSeries/400 now supports Arrays, multiple occurrence data structures and *TIME, *DATE & *TIMESTAMP in the parameter list. If you use CALL/PARM in any way to the iSeries/400 from an AVR 4.0 application, you must install and use DataGate for iSeries/400 Version 5.0.

§ IDE Enhancements

} Colorized code in Free Format editor

} Default Project Settings

} Tip of the Day

} Binary compatibility option removed

§ Network Blocking for Output Files

§ Null Fields

§ Setting File cursor to Start or End of file

§ SQL Server Support

§ Transaction Processing

§ Unicode Data Type

§ Variable Length Support

New Op Codes:

§ DELETERANGE

§ ENDTPM

§ READRANGE

§ SETRANGE

§ STARTTPM

New Properties:

§ CellValue

§ ProcessID

§ Stretch - supports retain aspect ratio setting

New Built-In Functions:

§ %NULLIND

§ %LEN

New Figurative Constants:

§ *START (SETLL and SETGT)

§ *END (SETLL and SETGT)

New Help Format:

§ .CHM Files

Changes to Op Codes:

§ CHAIN (Use ReadRange)

§ DCLDISKFILE (Random Keyword)

§ DCLFLD (Varying Keyword)

§ DCLPARM (DBDirection Keyword)

§ READRAND (Use ReadRange)

§ SETGT (*Start and *End)

§ SETLL (*Start and *End)

Changes to Properties:

§ Stretch

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