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Enabling unit testing of deployable load module

We would like to be able to do section and paragraph testing on the load module that we will be using for production.A unit testing framework like COBOL Check, builds a new COBOL program, that tests the code. But we are actually not certain that t...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Automatic internal conversion of indices to index

When a data-item declared in Working-Storage or Local-Storage is used to access the elements of a table (OCCURS), and is not used to access other tables (data-item dedicated to a table), this data-item could be automatically converted to INDEX for...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

NEXT SENTENCE warnings

Add optional warnings when NEXT SENTENCE is used and might behave in an unexpected manner
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Get the actual address of the entry point of a dynamically loaded program

When using the "SET function/procedure-pointer TO ENTRY program" instruction, we get the address of a routine that is not the actual entry point of the program, but a routine that allows calling the program. The routine seems to be different depen...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - New compilation directive ">>RULES(ON|OFF)"

In addition to RFE 120105 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120105), I suggest implementing a ">>RULES(ON|OFF)" compilation directive to enable / disable controls related to the "RULES ()" compilation ...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Value of Cobol variables may be incorrectly reported

Enhance the DWARF data produced by the COBOL compiler such that CEEDUMP can correctly identify that a variables value is being held in a register rather than in storage at the time of an abend.
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

z/TPF Program Analysis Tool

Headline: Program Analysis Tool 2. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Citibank, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire an implementation desire a Progra...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration