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    OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing.

    OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing. Would like to route to file, for basic testing of new OTEL feature, since no collectors available. I saw a video where this was done for other product (Not CTG), where for basic initial testin...
    1 day ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

    [IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+] Include in the DWARF information the CBL/PROCESS directives present in the COBOL source code

    Hi, When CBL/PROCESS compilation directives are present in the COBOL source code, they are correctly reproduced in the SYSMDECK output. However, they are absent from the source text included in the DWARF information retrieved by the -zt option of ...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

    [CDADUMP / dwarfdump] Option to extract the pure source code (without formatting)

    Hi, This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS. The -zt option of CDADUMP / dwarfdump extracts the source code of the program included in the DWARF options. This source code...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    [CDADUMP] Option to redirect outputs to files

    Hi, This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS. The CDADUMP utility, a JCL version of the command-line dwardfump utility, allows you to extract DWARF information stored in a...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    COBOL support for reqular expressions

    COBOL 6.4: The IF, INSPECT, and UNSTRING verbs, for example, could well benefit from supporting regular expressions, thus increasing the power and flexibility of the COBOL language. Consider the case of finding a phone number in an address line. S...
    14 days ago in COBOL Compilers 0 Submitted

    Provide a supported method to return a COBOL or PL/I program's compiled SERVCE string to the program at execution time.

    SCLM's often store company-specific information in the SERVICE string to identify not only the date and time last compiled but who last compiled it and under what project identifier string. Currently the only way for a running COBOL program to ret...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Group List Support in DSSGROUP

    It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the ITERATE macro to include a condition.

    If the ITERATE macro supported conditions, every assembler program that uses ITERATE within a DO construct will be smaller and more efficient.
    13 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Planned for future release

    Allow UTF-8 (PIC U) and NATIONAL (PIC N) group and elementary items to MOVE to PIC X alphanumeric group and elementary items with automatic character set translation

    Currently Enterprise COBOL allows PIC X alphanumeric EBCDIC group and elementary items to MOVE to UTF-8 (PIC U) and NATIONAL (PIC N) group and elementary items with automatic character set translation, but the reverse MOVE is not allowed. There is...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    JSON GENERATE translate dash to underscore

    Dash is not supported in JSON Names in Java and other languages. JSON GENERATE default uses the COBOL name which usually includes dashes. It would be useful to have a phrase or option to translate all dashes in names to underscore. We have many la...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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