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    Let Enterprise Cobol Compiler exploit zIIP CPU

    Starting from version 5, enterprise cobol compilers have increased the cpu used to compile programs, especially using optimization options of the executables.Offload the CPU used by compilers to zIIP processors at least during the most cpu busy ph...
    about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

    Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Native handling of output streams equivalent to stderr and stdout

    HI, COBOL programs compiled with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS only support a single output stream associated with the DISPLAY statement. A priori, running under MVS, this output stream corresponds to STDERR (file descriptor number 2) in other l...
    5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, in the adminconsole, when viewing sessions for a group the sessions are not in alphabetic order.

    In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, in the adminconsole, when viewing sessions for a group the sessions are not in alphabetic order. Need away to sort those sessions and/or filter them like you can in HOD. Unfortunately do to limitations in the pro...
    6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 0 Planned for future release

    Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

    The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow users to be able to detach from a list of his/her console/session definitions to create a seperate window. Instead of having to click on the session from the tabs on the left.

    I want to be able to have more then one window open window at a time instead of having to click on the tabs. We have the ability to do it from the ADMIN Console but I think this ability should also be available for users. In our environment we wan...
    6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Future consideration

    In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow userids that have ADMIN authority be able to add that id to groups setup via the ADMIN console.

    Currently, if I setup a group, being the an admin the product doesn't allow me to add my ID to that group. In smaller configurations this ability is needed.
    6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

    In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow ADMIN ids to be defined through the ADMIN Console instead of coding them in a config file.

    Coding IDs in a config type file is outdated. We should be able to create new admin ID's using the ADMIN console of HACP EE.
    6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Future consideration

    COBOL function hbound() for tables

    COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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