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    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...
    about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 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...
    20 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    REPLACE intrinsic function

    Have a REPLACE intrinsic function that replaces all (automatically trimmed) substrings X in a character field Z with another given (automatically trimmed) string Y, where the trimmed byte lengths of X and Y could differ.
    22 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

    UNSTRING into Array

    UNSTRING should be able to take an internal table (“an array”) as receiving target, with TALLYING IN [tally] giving you the number of strings put into the array, so that you could do a PERFORM VARYING [ix] FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL [ix] > [tally] somet...
    22 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improving the performance of the TRIM intrinsic function

    Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS version V6R2 introduced the TRIM intrinsic function for removing leading and trailing spaces from a string. Before that, for our purposes, we developed a routine to find the useful length of a string based on the ...
    19 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Under review

    Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

    Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    SECTION name special register

    A common challenge in CBL development is the need to add program references in error handling including of course the Procedure Section where the issue has originated from. Developers often manage to incorrectly set this, the classic invalid metho...
    6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 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...
    11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    REGEX Function like in PL/I

    Hi IBM, you've delivered the REGEX function in PL/I for the use of regular expressions in string searches. This would be nice in Cobol as intrinsic function too. Regards, Michael
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 12 Planned for future release

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