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    Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

    Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    To enable an option in the COBOL compiler to get the DB2 integrated coprocessor behaves as the separated DB2 precompiler does

    We have been using the COBOL 4.2 compiler for years in our shop. We have just begun to use the integrated SQL coprocessor, instead of the separated DB2 precompiler and we are experiencing problems with the continuation lines. The manual says the p...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 48 Not under consideration

    New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

    In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

    Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    COBOL 6 should use zIIP processor

    The Enterprise COBOL Compiler Version 6 (and also V5) use much more CPU Resources than Version 4.Not only 12 Percent, but Factor 12.We need 12 times more CPU for compiling than in the older versions.Some parts of this workload should be zIIP-enabl...
    about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Multi >>WHEN for >>EVALUATE directive

    The >>WHEN conditions of the >>EVALUATE directive should behave like the WHEN conditions of the EVALUATE instruction: when several conditions follow one another, without any intermediate text, they should be implicitly linked by an OR.
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

    With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

    Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
    about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Enhance Data collection parameters

    Currently, there is only a maximum skip factor of 9999 and it applies to both the Program and File collector. We would like to have separate skip factors for the Program / File collector and to increase the skip value beyond 9999. This allows the ...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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