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    XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

    XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    COBOL should be able to generate multiple namespaces in XML

    System: IBM z/OS 2.3Product: COBOL / XML COBOL 6.2 provides the option to generate simple XML structures with namespaces and attributes. However, the complexity of XML and its ability to transfer data across platforms requires the use of complex X...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Drop warning message for EXCI programs

    We have programmers who feel compelled to have their compiles complete with a zero return code. This became an issue when we upgraded from COBOL 4.2 to 6.2; the warning message was not issued with the old version. With the integrated translator, t...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Document the different stages of compilation

    In addition to our request 150104, we suggest that the different processing stages of the COBOL compiler be documented, and that the different actions performed in these stages be described:- processing of REPLACE directives- processing of COPY di...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Literal Enhancements

    Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG13001; Voting Priority=2.8 +5=2 +4=5 +3=4 +2=11 +1=2 abstain=3 Priority=2.8 NOTE 1: This is a follow-up (possible replacement for): SSLNGC08006 2002 ISO COBOL - Enhanced literal continuation support ...
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    DB2 SQL TYPE ROWSET FOR n ROWS

    To facilitate the declaration of host-variables necessary for multirow access in DB2, I suggest the creation of a new SQL type dedicated to the creation (generation) of structures with OCCURS on elementary variables. SQL TYPE IS ROWSET FOR n ROWS ...
    about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Cobol V6R2 - Improvement of the binary code generated for EVALUATE statement

    The binary code generated for an EVALUATE statement has some defects:- dead code- test and branch not optimumProblems found with all optimization levels. The binary code generated in Cobol V4R2 option OPTIMIZE (STD) is better than the binary code ...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

    Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

    Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
    about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Make available additional source code information, used at compilation, in load module

    We'd request that the location of the source code that was used during program compilation be made discoverable or available within the load module. For our purposes this would extend to COBOL, C/C++, PL/I, Assembler, Java. Our product team is req...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - comment directive

    We suggest implementing a "comment" compilation directive. This could be the >>* directive. This directive would allow comments to be introduced in a source code, which would not be returned to the compilation listing (so as not to overload ...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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