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    Bring back Compiler Message placement at the end of the Compiler Listing

    In current versions of COBOL, compiler messages are placed in the middle of the listing, between the "Data Division Map" and the "Assembler Listing". This makes them hard to find and makes life harder and frustrating for the programmer when he/she...
    over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - MDECK(NOCOMPILE) must produce a cross-reference COPY/BASIS report

    A COBOL program compiled with the MDECK(NOCOMPILE) option for the purpose of expanding COPYBOOKs, handling text replacements, and incidentally handling conditional compilation directives, produces a listing that is limited to the list of options f...
    almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - ON EXCEPTION clause for SET procedure-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point

    To avoid an abend at runtime, the instruction "SET procedure-or-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point" should have an "ON EXCEPTION" clause, as is the case for the instruction "CALL".The instruction "SET TO ENTRY" causes a loading of the program w...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    COBOL structures and examples for Common Debug Architecture

    We would like the documentation and include libraries to the Common Debug Architecture, to be expanded with examples in COBOL, and data structures in COBOL.
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    NOUNREFALL option: improved warning messages

    When using RULES(NOUNREFALL) the message---IGYSC2262-W **RULES(NOUNREFALL)** No references to "XXXXXXX", nor any of its subordinates if "XXXXXXX" is a group item, were found in the program.---does not refer to a source line but to the name of the ...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    COBOL source input stored as compressed encrypted part of load module

    Hi, to avoid loss of COBOL (or any other) source code in the future can the IBM compilers please generate a load module that stores inside it the full COBOL source input in a compressed and encrypted form which is then wrapped and protected before...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    New COBOL Compile Option: Global ON SIZE ERROR

    When you want to handle overflow conditions and want to avoid truncated fields you have to code the ON SIZE ERROR statement for all computational statements.This is tedious work.In addition any decimal overflows conditions were suppressed by Langu...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Add support for the equivalent of the -M option from the USS version of the compiler to the MVS version of the compiler

    Hi, The USS version of the IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 compiler, cob2, has a -M option that allows to produce a makefile of dependencies between the program and the copybooks it uses: mkdepend.o: mkdepend.cbl mkdepend.o: /home/usera/test/f171592/WSC...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    COBOL-Program with no goback or Exit Programs

    Writing a COBOL program without any GOBACK, EXIT PROGRAM or STOP RUN will produce a runtime error. It's necessary to get a warning by the compiler if none of these "BR14" are written
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    SSRANGE suboption to check for a modified length resulting in a negative length

    A new SSRANGE suboption is needed that should be useable also in production.This suboption should create extra checking code only if a "modified reference" (that modifies the default length of a variable) involves a variable value. In this case th...
    almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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