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    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

    Enterprise Cobol - INEXIT / PRTEXIT examples and facilities

    The INEXIT and PRTEXIT exits make it possible to intervene on the source code read before processing by the compiler, and on the Listing produced by the compiler before restitution. The Cobol Report Writer component uses these exits: it transforms...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    SSRANGE with Suboptions

    SSRANGE can test tables with one dimension. It's not able to test each row and column of a multi-dim-table. It would be nice to have an option with can test multi-dimensional tables.For example:SSRANGE(STD) is the same like SSRANGE in presenceSSRA...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Pseudo figurative constants "max-value" and "min-value"

    In some processing, we need to assign the greatest possible value, or the smallest possible value, to a data-item, without necessarily knowing the PICTURE and the USAGE of this data-item (processing carried out by COPYBOOKs of general interest) . ...
    almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Future consideration

    Cobol - New Reserved Words to reduce hard coding

    My suggestion is Cobol should have two new reserved words containing the currently executing Section / Paragraph name i.e. CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH (both would have an implicit picture clause X(30). Typically this would be useful in err...
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    COBOL-JAVA interoperability via JNI: use DirectByteBuffers and avoid copiyng data between COBOL workarea and Java byte array

    The biggest hit we expect from DBB is that memory does not need to be copied between COBOL workarea and Java byte array Detail are described in the attached file
    over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    Reference Modification Abend if Lenght is a Not a Positive Integer

    If the calculation of the length in a reference modification is zero or negative, there could be unpredictable/unexpected results. Due to our un-comfort with these unpredictable results, we'd like to see an abend, at runtime, when the length is ze...
    over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Ability to track older version of compiled cobol code

    My customer is interested in tracking other versions of Cobol below 5.2. They have a utility to run against there cobol loadlibs that produces the different levels and counts but they have no way of determining when and how often they are used. Th...
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Not under consideration

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