AMT 162
Released: 17 Oct 2025.
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| Product | Cat | Subcat | Description | Type | Version | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Code Logic | #84121
In AMT COBOL, EXEC DB2 functions 'ENCRYPT', 'DECRYPT_CHAR' and 'DECRYPT_BIN' were not supported. 'ENCRYPT', 'DECRYPT_CHAR' and 'DECRYPT_BIN are now supported for DB2 and PostgreSQL databases. |
NEW | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Code Logic | #85798
Support for the CICS ASSIGN TCTUALENG() syntax has been added to AMT COBOL, to allow programs to determine the length of Terminal User Areas. |
CHANGE | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | #92503
INC: 1268110 To check the existence of the Generator service, the AMT Developer Studio iterated over every service on the system, making it unnecessarily slow. The service detection performance has been improved by replacing iteration over all services with directly targeting the specified service. |
CHANGE | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT LION | Services | File Controller | #93808
INC: 1339885 When multiple AMT Lion reports tried to write to the same file at the same time using the LION FileControl WRITEFILE command, only one report was able to write to the file. Now multiple reports can write to the same file at the same time. |
FIX | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Code Logic | #93824
In AMT COBOL, EXEC ORACLE 'DROP INDEX' syntax was not supported. 'DROP INDEX' for EXEC ORACLE is now supported. |
FIX | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | #94846
INC: 1348794 INC: 1365832 When a database was encrypted and other column options were changed simultaneously, the AMT Reorganize tool would try to add the same column to the AMTSYSREODATA table more than once. Now the column is added to the AMTSYSREODATA table only once when multiple options in a column are changed. |
FIX | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Code Logic | #95227
In AMT COBOL TimeStamp logic, YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, SECONDS and MICROSECONDS syntax was missing in executed queries with EXEC DB2, if the target was DB2. This syntax is now supported. |
NEW | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Code Logic | #95783
Previously introduced change 95528 for AMT COBOL regarding the REPLACING BY statements in copies, caused backward compatibility issues in older migrated code. The change has been reverted. |
CHANGE | AMT 162 | MEDIUM |