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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 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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...
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Not under consideration

[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 ...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Not under consideration

[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...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 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...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Not under consideration

COBOL uninitialized variables: Changing the way storage is obtained

Dear Madam/Sir We upgraded from Enterprise COBOL v4.2 to v6.3 in 2022. Since then we have enabled various checks provided by the new compiler like PARMCHECK, INITCHECK and NUMCHECK. During these three years we are trying to correct our programs th...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS Not under consideration

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