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    The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

    If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
    almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ - Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in source code of a program

    Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in the source code of a Cobol program could be interesting: CBL DEFINE (COUNT = 100)>> DEFINE COUNT AS PARAMETER...01 ARRAY. 05 ITEM OCCURS COUNT.... Today, this result can be achieved by a REPLACE dire...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Compile warning when using COMP-5 larger than 9 digits

    When using COMP-5 variables many developers are not aware of the performance impact of using COMP-5 with variables defined longer then 9(9).Therefore we would like a warning added to the rules(nolaxperf) option, that will indicate this, and recomm...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale on Linux

    TXSeries supports DB2 pureScale for AIX platform, but not for Linux.TXSeries for Linux also should support DB2 pureScale for customres who requires high reliability and high performance for mission critical system.
    over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6 - Add a clause to limit Table SORT to first elements

    The SORT instruction is used to sort a memory table, but the table may not have been fully populated and only the first elements of the table must be sorted. The SORT instruction should have a clause allowing to indicate which elements are to be s...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Cross reference for compilation variable

    We have developed a COBOL framework based on program skeletons and COPYBOOKs which is particularly rich and allows adaptation to the context of the program. This framework uses many conditional compilation variables and many tests on these conditi...
    almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    Option for identifying unreachable and easily removable code.

    We would like to suggest an option like the rules suboptions NOUNREF* for marking unreachable code.We are aware that compiling with OPT(2) will give us informationals for unreachable code, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the code...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - EXIT PARAGRAPH | SECTION label

    The EXIT PARAGRAPH or EXIT SECTION statement goes to the end of the current paragraph or section. However, in PERFORM structured call programming at different levels, it may be necessary to abort a process by connecting at the end of a paragraph o...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Controlling overflow behaviour in z/OS Enterprise COBOL

    Current COBOL behaviour when any kind of overflow occurs on a MOVE, COMPUTE, ADD, MULTIPLY statement, unless ON SIZE ERROR was specified, not including MOVE which doesn't accomodate ON SIZE ERROR directive - is to ignore and not handle the conditi...
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(MSG)' function improvement request

    We applied the COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(ZON,MSG)' to prevent 'invalid data' that may occur during program execution.As a result of testing, we found that there were a lot of programs with 'invalid data' code.Program developers have the follo...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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