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COBOL Compilers

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

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, ...
25 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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

Support for User-defined functions in programs utilizing SQL

At the moment it is not possible to compile a COBOL module using "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" and EXEC SQL. This severely limits the usability of "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" in system which uses SQL/DB2 as the ...
11 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

license cobolscript interpreter on your platform. http://www.cobolscripting.com

small cobol interpreter tool for cobol programmers.
15 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted