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COBOL Compilers

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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...
3 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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.
6 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
6 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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 ...
2 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted