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    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Display ISPF statistics ID information in COPY/BASIS cross-references

    Hi, The COPY/BASIS cross-references display ISPF statistics for copies from PDS: creation date, modification date, and time. We would like the ISPF statistics ID information to also be included in the COPY/BASIS cross-references.--> We use this...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Native handling of output streams equivalent to stderr and stdout

    HI, COBOL programs compiled with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS only support a single output stream associated with the DISPLAY statement. A priori, running under MVS, this output stream corresponds to STDERR (file descriptor number 2) in other l...
    6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Messages IGZ0201x to be written on syslog too

    When a COBOL file definition does not match in record length with the JCL job, then it is running with high CPU (looping). At the moment the message IGZ0201W (A file attribute mismatch was detected. File ... in program ... had a record length of x...
    6 months ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Add an example for COPY directive with replacing text in area A

    Hi, The position of the right parameter of a replacement, in area A or area B, influences the final text result (while the position of the right parameter of a replacement has no impact). This should be explained with an example, to change the nam...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    A new compilation option (rule) DISPLAYCHECK is required

    Dear Madam/Sir, In the frame of ensuring enhanced code quality, we would like to implement a new COBOL compiler option (rule) so an error or warning to be issued in case of existing DISPLAY statements in a program. The new parameter could be DISPL...
    9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Solution to set the length of a data-item at compile time

    Hi, As part of the creation of a COBOL framework to speed up developments, we are looking for a solution to fix the size of an elementary data-item at the time of compilation because it cannot be determined at the time of writing the code. Sample ...
    9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Make name of DLL generated for COBOL-Java ILC variable

    Fixed prefix LIB might not fit to naming conventions
    about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

    The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

    DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

    Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

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