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    COBOL: free "ID" for datadefinitions (REST-Services)

    In REST-service-context „id“ is a common used keyword for indentification purposes. In COBOL it isn't possible to define such a variable, because it is an reserved word. ID is an abbreviation for IDENTIFICATION in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION and for t...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

    Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

    If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

    We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

    Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

    We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

    When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Program Type in results should be accurate

    If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

    We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

    Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Detail information with intuitive interface in EIT's command flow

    Current output has too simple and not much value for developer. Currently, only the first-level subroutine of the program is shown, but it would be nice to show the detailed modules for each subroutine in more detail, and the call structure and pa...
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Needs more information

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