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    Example of how to build COBOL V6R4 “non OO COBOL to Java interoperability” applications in JCL

    We want to establish a Proof Of Concept between COBOL V6.4 and Java. The IBM documentation says this is only possible under USS with the CJBuild Tool. But SCLM is the tool we use to compile our COBOL programs – but it doesn’t work in Unix System ...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

    Option to prevent inadvertent use of LINKAGE-SECTION data items prior to establishing addressability

    In a COBOL program, the LINKAGE SECTION is used to describe data structures that are made available to this program from another program or method. Addressability to these data structures are established in a variety of ways, such as via reference...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 10 Delivered

    Support finding lower-case copybooks from USS directories

    When compiling COBOL programs using the cob2 command in USS it is likely that the copybooks also reside in USS (because they are cloned from Git, for example). The current implementation only supports finding upper-case copybooks. It is, however, ...
    11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

    Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

    Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
    about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 Delivered

    Feature Request - JSON PARSE - [" was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected

    It is possible in the JSON standard for a top-level JSON to have an array, e.g. [{..}, {..}]. However, this cannot be read with the current JSON parse, instead you have to build an object around it with string processing so that you can parse it. ...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Delivered

    Enterprise COBOL z/OS: Implement TYPEDEF and TYPE

    I would like to see TYPEDEF and TYPE implemented in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS similar to how it is implemented in Enterprise COBOL x86 and defined in the COBOL ISO standard. TYPEDEF and TYPE provided additional tools for writing structured COBOL an...
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

    Null array gives IGZ0339W instead of IGZ0326I

    We are parsing JSON containing: "myList":["item1","item2","last"], with structure defined: 05 MYLIST OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(10). This works as expected. However, sometimes the list is empty so the service returns: "myList":null, This thro...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Delivered

    ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

    In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
    over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

    AD Authentication & Authorization

    Today the Analyze client does not authenticate to the AD Server and Microcsoft SQL Server. At our site, it is required that there is at least authentication from the clients. If possible, we even would go one step further such that user atuthentec...
    over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Delivered

    Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

    Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls
    about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Delivered

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