AMT Release Notes

AMT 174

Released: 26 Jun 2026.
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Product Cat Subcat Description Type Version Priority
AMT LION | AMT COBOL Control Center Various #96870

INC: 1354500

Job messages containing multiple consecutive spaces were rendered as a single space in the Control Center grid, causing formatting and readability issues.

We updated the grid styling to preserve consecutive spaces in cell text, ensuring that job messages are displayed exactly as originally generated.
FIX AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION Runtime Blazor Web Client #98018

INC: 1388016

Groupboxes were displayed incorrectly in Firefox, while rendering as expected in Chrome and Edge.

We updated the CSS to ensure consistent rendering of groupboxes across Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
FIX AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT COBOL Developer Code Logic #106493

In AMT COBOL, the legacy COBOL ON statement did not support the use of variables.

Support for variables with the ON statement has been added.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT COBOL Developer Code Logic #107745

The REPORT and JCL options of the SPOOLOPEN, SPOOLWRITE and SPOOLCLOSE CICS statements were parsed incorrectly in AMT COBOL.

The parser has been updated to recognize these options.
FIX AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION Runtime Various #108397

Bar charts were rendered misaligned, with bars shifted relative to X-axis grid lines. Mixed bar and line charts were also affected, with line series data points incorrectly positioned.

Updated chart rendering logic to correctly align bars with axis grid lines and fixed positioning of line series in mixed charts. Also removed unnecessary spacing and improved edge label handling to ensure accurate and consistent chart display.
FIX AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION | AMT COBOL Developer Various #108418

The AMT Generator and Developer Studio failed when connected to Azure SQL databases due to incorrect handling of system-related database calls.

Updated the implementation to ensure database calls correctly target the appropriate system structures in Azure SQL environments.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION | AMT COBOL AmtTools Various #109020

The AMT Comscript file object interface has been extended with the function GetIndexKeyInfo.
This function returns the index key geometry (index name, offset, and length) of an existing file by reading its metadata. The key information can then be used to filter the dataset of a JCL REPRO statement.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION | AMT COBOL AmtTools Various #109064

The AMT Comscript sort interface has been extended with supporting functions for IFTHEN clauses of JCL OUTREC statements.

The following functions are now available:
- BeginOutrecIfthenBlock - Starts a new OUTREC IFTHEN block.
- AddIfthenFindRepItem - Adds a FINDREP item to the IFTHEN block.
- EndOutrecIfthenBlock - Finalizes the OUTREC IFTHEN block.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT COBOL Runtime Various #109227

In AMT COBOL, passing UPSI parameters from a JCL script to COBOL programs could result in an 'Index out of bounds of array' error due to incorrect handling of the UPSI parameter.

The AMT COBOL runtime library UPSI parameter handling was corrected.
FIX AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT LION | AMT COBOL AmtTools Various #109247

The AMT Comscript sort interface has been extended with supporting functions for JOINKEYS applications.

The following functions are now available:
- AddJoinKey - Adds a JOINKEYS key field.
- AddReformatField - Adds a REFORMAT field.
- SetJoinType - Specifies the join type for a JOINKEYS application.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM
AMT COBOL AmtTools Various #109269

Support for the DB2 utility programs DSNITILB and DNSUPROC has been added to AMT COBOL.
These batch programs can be used by migrated JCL scripts in new migration projects.
NEW AMT 174 MEDIUM