Changes in Qedit for Windows 4.6.07

COBOL Tags

For many years, the Qedit/MPE server has provided special features to update the tag columns (columns 73-80) of COBOL files. Previous versions of Qedit for Windows provided automatic tagging, but there was limited support for showing the tags in the client when they were being automatically updated by the server.

If you wanted to change the tag columns yourself, previous versions of Qedit for Windows would let you. But because of the way that lines were joined together, most users found editing their own tags to be frustrating.

The following COBOL tag changes have been made in Qedit 4.6.07:

Automatic tag changes.
User editing of tags.

Automatic tag changes

In order to have automatic tag changes, your MPE qeditmgr file must have the line:

     Set X "sometag"

or a setting such as:

     Set X DDMMMYY

The following example shows what it looks like if you have done Set X DDMMMYY and started making changes to your file:

Automatic tag changes

User editing of tags

In order to edit COBOL tags, your MPE qeditmgr file must have the line:

     Set X "" List On

The following example shows what it looks like if you have done Set X "" List On. You can type anything in columns 73-80. If you press return in columns 7-72, your text will be split and the tag column will be left exactly the way it was.
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