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    PERFORM with WHILE phrase

    A Perform While should be exactly as Perform Until except "the procedures referred to are performed while thecondition specified by the WHILE phrase is true"
    over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Linux compiler for WTX

    Currently, WTX only allows compiling of Maps and systems on windows. A Linux compiler would assist our company in building and distributing of WTX objects by allowing it to better integrate with our build systems.
    over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Unit Testing Framework for WebSphere Transformation Extender

    With our DevOps movement, we are looking at adding as much automated testing into our processes as possible. We would like to have a Unit Testing framework developed for WTX which would allow us to test individual components without being installe...
    over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

    We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
    over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Make some BINARY data types immune to TRUNC compiler option

    Enterprise COBOL has four binary "USAGE"s. BINARY, COMP, COMP-4 and COMP-5.Compiler option TRUNC affects the code generated for these, except for COMP-5, which is always treated as COMP-5, whatever the setting of TRUNC.If I want to "divide by 10 a...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    One switch to control whether print common area when transaction is forcepurged

    During the development/testing procedure, many “Forcepurge” were recorded in the console file. But Huawei don't know which transaction was Forcepurged, and what is the root cause of it. They required that we provide a switch which can control whet...
    about 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

    OPEN Operation Extensions

    Allow for additional processing to be associated with OPEN operations based on whether the file is OPEN as INPUT or OUTPUT.(Feature is not available for OPEN I/O or EXTEND.) The aim is to facilitate easier introduction of Headers and Trailers proc...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Provide Language Environment support for JES symbol service

    A new facility in z/OS 2.1 is the JES Symbol Service (IAZSYMBL), which, among other things, allows an assembler program to obtain the value of JES system symbols SYS_CORR_CURRJOB, SYS_CORR_LASTJOB, and SYS_LASTJOBID after a task has submitted a jo...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    External File Handler with IBM COBOL on Windows

    Can we have the EXTFH (SFS, DB2, ORACLE etc) support feature added to IBM COBOL on windows platform.  <br />The EXTFH with earlier releases of CICS/OS2 and CICS/Windows used BTRIEVE file system.    IBM COBOL shipped with ...
    about 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

    WTX 8.4.1 on Datapower needed by customer Credit Agricole

    Credit Agricole is using WTX Studio and WTX Server on Datapower for the NICE Project.They need to import about 500 Cobol Copybooks to transform them in XML data , where they will be finally exposed in a SOAP Webservice. WTX on datapower is doing t...
    over 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

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