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    SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

    Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
    almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    31Char long COBOL words (current 30)

    COBOL words (variable names...) can only be 30 characters.In ISO Standard it is limited to 31 bytes.Please enlarge the allowed length of such names.
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

    DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    PARSE support for CSV files

    Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

    It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Separate NUMCHECK's MSG/ABD suboptions by type

    We're trying to ease our developers into NUMCHECK, and have mostly got PAC through, using the parameter NUMCHECK(NOZON,PAC,NOBIN,ABD) unless specifically requested to downgrade to NUMCHECK(NOZON,PAC,NOBIN,MSG) for a temporary duration (until the c...
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance INITCHECK(STRICT) for different types of used-before-set warnings

    Given:INITCHECK(LAX) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is completely uninitialized on all logic paths leading to that statement. INITCHECK(STRICT) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is uninitialized on any logic paths leading to that st...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

    Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Message added with the sysout

    Our request is at the NUMCHECK compilation option ... MSG versus ABD sub-option. When we put NUMCHECK (ZON (ALPHNUM), PAC, NOBIN, MSG), In runtime when the INVALID DATA is encountered, a nice message is added in the SYSOUT like for example: IGZ027...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    A new rule to RULES(NOLAXPERF)

    When indexing into strings, there should be a warning when not using optimal variables for the index variables.
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

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