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    license cobolscript interpreter on your platform. http://www.cobolscripting.com

    small cobol interpreter tool for cobol programmers.
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Provide ISO 2014COBOL Decimal Floating Point Support

    Submitted By: 3100012QSB #56Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Developer for Z control-flow to number or order the called sub-routines within the calling routine

    When viewing a program control flow diagram it would be great to see the sequence that the subroutines are called within a calling routine. This would help provide a much deeper understanding of the actual program logic. Also some indicator or cou...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    IDz does not recognize variables used in "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause that were defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION instead of the LINKAGE SECTION

    Variables used in the "PROCEDURE DIVISION USING" clause have to be defined in the LINKAGE SECTION. If not, even if they are defined in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION, it ends with a compilation error on the mainframe "IGYPA3067-S Operand "REC-NSCERCH...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

    RDz - Enable Software Analyzer features

    RDz Software Analyzer currently supports the Analysis Summary report. The report shows Code Quality, Code Complexity, and Code Structure however the values are always set to zero. This request is to enable those fields so as to produce meaningful ...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    SSRANGE have more granular suboption such as enabling checking to target (update) fields only

    During runtime whenever COBOL code don't well handle for reference modification fields such as below it would cause serious storage overlay especially within CICS. WS-A PIC X(10)WS-B PIC X(20)WS-POS PIC S9(04) COMP MOVE WS-A TO WS-B (WS-POS:) Whil...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

    When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
    about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

    It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

    It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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