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    Fail gracefully if SYSMDECK undefined or wrongly defined

    With 5655-EC6 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4.0, if SYSMDECK is omitted or defined to SYSOUT=*, the compiler fails with an assertion failure: Assertion failed at ../../ibm/env/ListingAgent.cpp:6191: 0 Could not open source DD:SYSMDECK TR_MvsCall...
    3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    Enterprise COBOL - SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph endpoint handling

    Hi, The reference documentation for the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph states that the period is optional if no clause is present in that paragraph. This implies that the period is accepted in the absence of any clause in the paragraph: SPECIAL-NAMES par...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

    After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Error in example 7 of the COPY directive documentation

    Hi, Example 7 provided for the documentation of the COPY directive is wrong: the replacement of the trailing "GROSS-PAY" by "NET-PAY" is taken into account, and is also applied to example 8.See listing hardcopy in attachement. Thanks.
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    Add Client IP address message insert to DFHWB0103

    Similar to DFHWB0100 and DFHWB0101, issues resulting in DFHWB0103 can be diagnosed more quickly if the client IP address was output as a message insert.
    about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

    CETR PF5 SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) - Transactions defined in bundles should behave consistently and CETR not abend AEIP

    I think a good enhancement (thats doesn't need any recovery over cics restarts) would be to allow SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) for transactions defined from bundles Currently INVREQ resp2 300 is issued whilst using CETR to change the tracing leve...
    almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

    'Search in Files' does not work for strings that do have Swedish national characters

    Swedish character support seems not to be available when doing 'Search in Files' within Application Discovery Analyze Client.
    almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Is a defect

    Enable the WSACONTEXT BUILD function to add the wsa:to without overwriting the default endpoint

    In the context of CICS web services using SOAP when invoking a service, I want to be able to use the WSACONTEXT BUILD function, in a COBOL/CICS program, to add the wsa:to without it overwriting the default endpoint from the WEBSERVICE with a new d...
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Is a defect

    Cobol V6R2 - Improvement of the binary code generated for EVALUATE statement

    The binary code generated for an EVALUATE statement has some defects:- dead code- test and branch not optimumProblems found with all optimization levels. The binary code generated in Cobol V4R2 option OPTIMIZE (STD) is better than the binary code ...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

    Enterprise Cobol V6 - Invalid binary code for set address by reference modification on a unbounded dataitem and SSRANGE

    Hi A SET ADDRESS OF / TO ADDRESS OF statement from a unbounded dataitem, and in the presence of the SSRANCE option, generates an invalid binary code: message IGZ0072S / IGZ0308W is triggered unconditionally. The same code compiled in NOSSRANGE run...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Is a defect

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