2012-07-31 OSS Consortium <ws-opensource-cobol-contact@osscons.jp>

* opensource COBOL Version 1.2J released.

* Changes in opensource COBOL 1.2J

** Support Feature of Japanese, such as constant and definition of data and operation of data.

** New compile option '-assign_external' and variable 'assign_external=[yes|no]'. Set the
file assign to the EXTERNAL file.

** New compile option '-free_1col_aster'. In free format COBOL mode, this option causes the
compiler to regard as line comment when first column is asterisk for free format COBOL mode.

** New runtime environment variable OC_USERFH, which enable to run user-defined program in
operation OPEN, CLOSE, DELETE, READ, REWRITE, START, WRITE, COMMIT, ROLLBACK and UNLOCK.

** Support currency symbol for Japanese yen, and modify default currency symbol to
Japanese yen.

** Changed to apply the alphabetic manner as comparison method in case its operands include
group fields.

** Fixed the problem that INSPECT causes incorrect result in case given the AFTER/BEFORE
clause with negative value or SIGN SEPARATE field.

** Fixed the problem that value comparison on SIGN SEPARATE fields in IF or EVALUATE
statements fails treating such field values as if their sign character were a part of
digits.

** Fixed the problem that applying INITIALIZE on 01-level records in EXTERNAL files causes
incorrect behavior of following I/O instructions.

** Changed the default actions on unhandled SIZE ERROR according to that specified in
Programmer's Guide.

** Fixed the problem that applying INITIALIZE or MOVE ZERO on numeric field of SIGN SEPARATE
destroys sign byte.

** Fixed the problem that COPY statement ignores the last line of each copybook when it does
not end with line break.