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COBOL Compilers

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Example of how to build COBOL V6R4 “non OO COBOL to Java interoperability” applications in JCL

We want to establish a Proof Of Concept between COBOL V6.4 and Java. The IBM documentation says this is only possible under USS with the CJBuild Tool. But SCLM is the tool we use to compile our COBOL programs – but it doesn’t work in Unix System ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Null array gives IGZ0339W instead of IGZ0326I

We are parsing JSON containing: "myList":["item1","item2","last"], with structure defined: 05 MYLIST OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(10). This works as expected. However, sometimes the list is empty so the service returns: "myList":null, This thro...
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Delivered

JSON GENERATE : Conditional SUPPRESS

JSON object, unlike copy cobol, are flexible : a JSON object can have non-mandatory name/value pairs missing. Currently with JSON GENERATE : - for a string, when the value is all space, a single space is kept. - for a number, when the value is 0, ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Delivered

Add the hability to process NULL values in COBOL

In order to use some REST/JSON APIs, we need to be able to process NULL value in COBOL. We had oppened the TS004435032 support case on this matter. Is it possible to add cobol support for NULL values or to add it to the JSON PARSE & GENERATE J...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

Feature Request - JSON PARSE - [" was found, but one of LEFT CURLY BRACKET was expected

It is possible in the JSON standard for a top-level JSON to have an array, e.g. [{..}, {..}]. However, this cannot be read with the current JSON parse, instead you have to build an object around it with string processing so that you can parse it. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Delivered

TRIM Intrinstic function

Implement COBOL 2014 Standard TRIM intrinsic function.
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Add new switch for cdadump/dwarfdump to specify locale

The dwarf data appears to be saved in UTF-8 format. When using the cdadump/dwarfdump program to display/print the variables and source sections, we see that various special characters are either printed incorrectly or shown as a hex escape sequenc...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Add the hability to parse a json file containing only an array with the JSON PARSE statement

In order to be able to process a REST/json API response, we need to be able to parse a json file containing only an array, beggining with '[' and ending with ']'. Wich is a valid json object. We had opened the support case TS004314426 on this matt...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

BOOLEAN-values in COBOL JSON-processing

We need a way to process booleans in conjunction with REST-Services in COBOL. As boolean-values are nothing extraordinary in web-applications, it is absolutely necessary to process them.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

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