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    the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

    Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Introducing Local Working Storage (Valid only inside a Section)

    Hi, it would be great, if COBOL would allow local variables which would be defined into a COBOL section and are valid only in this COBOL Section. This would bring a huge benefit making COBOL programs much more structured and reducing the working s...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

    It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
    almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Allow JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL to be set on or off at runtime

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL ON/OFF It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. The WITH DETAIL phrase displays too many messages in job output. Many of the messages are expected conditions for many...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

    We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

    It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE – Conversion / Differentiation of NULL values

    NULL values in PATCH method (how does Java actually differentiate?) When using the http request method PATCH it is necessary to distinguish whether a field was omitted or whether a null value was sent. A construct similar to the JSON PARSE conv...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Cobol JSON PARSE - Keep unparsed JSON Structures/Fields

    It should be possible to store everything that is attached under a JSON object that you specify in an Xer field. For example, if I get a list of orders that I then have to pass on to subprograms, I would like to be able to parse {"topic": "xy", "o...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    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

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