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    Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

    One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Needs IDz user build to support EWM dataset definition using variables

    When a dataset definition in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is defined with a variable like ${myPrefix}.MYCPY then IDz user build doesn't resolve it and dataset is not added to the generated JCL. rsecomm log will show IDz client user build ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Future consideration

    Automated backup of IDz workspace

    Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under 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

    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

    Provide support to switch UID in zExplorers/iDZ

    Hello, under zOS we more and more have to deal with USS services and zFS-files. As a zOS systems-programmer not everybody knows in deep the possbilities and features of USS. Often we need to switch to UID 0 to do specific file-changes and this is ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 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

    Add the ability to explain multiple queries at once

    Since datastudio is deprecated with IDz 16 and functionality is moved into RSE the functionality to run visual explain is also new. Utilizing Query tuning server it's only possible to explain a single query at once. It would be benefical to have t...
    6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

    User defined constants

    Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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