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    COMMAREA should be checked at compile time, avoiding the program to carry on with faulty COMMAREA that is greather than 32kb.

    This incident concerning COBOL - CICS and use of COMMAREA. There is a limit of 32 kb when transferring data using COMMAREA. If the user is unaware, tries to pass more than 32kb, Cobol compiler will not give an error for that. Developer should be a...
    almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Optional clause for default value on >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER

    Add an optional clause to assign a default value on a conditional variable used as a parameter. This would be a simplified writing of : >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER>>IF conditional-var IS NOT DEFINED>>DEFINE conditional-...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Generate "no-op" binary for EXIT statement when TEST option is active

    When the EXIT statement is used in a PARAGRAPH, and that PARAGRAPH is not the end of scope of a PERFORM (THRU), the compiler does not generate any binary code. This complicates the debug by not allowing to set a breakpoint on the EXIT statement co...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Add support for file processing exits and/or user defined file systems to IBM COBOL for AIX

    Please enhance IBM COBOL for AIX to support file processing exits and/or user defined file systems/formats (e.g. implemented by Callable File Handlers like the ones for Micro Focus' ExtFH interface).
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Mainframe style command-line argument linkage in an ASCII environment on AIX

    Please provide a compiler option (or compiler patch) which enables COBOL main programs to receive command-line arguments as an ASCII character string that has a halfword prefix that contains the string length (z/OS mainframe COBOL like command-lin...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6 - NUMCHECK(ABD): Generate the control code in the same instructions block

    Whatever the chosen optimization level, the NUMCHECK(ABD) compilation option generates a part of the control code at the end of the program code, (the numeric class test is performed at the location of the Cobol instruction, but the call to the ab...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V5+ - New compilation option CALLINTERFACE(mode,list-of-entry-points)

    Since Enterprise Cobol V5, the >>CALLINTERFACE directive allows to modify the type of call declared by default by the DYNAM / NODYNAM compilation option.However, it is not always possible to insert >>CALLINTERFACE directives into the s...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    ADDRESS OF data items in FILE SECTION

    Support the special register ADDRESS OF for data items defined in the FILE SECTION. Special Registers - ADDRESS OFhttp://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6SG3_6.1.0/com.ibm.cobol61.ent.doc/PGandLR/ref/rllanadd.html
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Not under consideration

    COBOL 6 compiler options error messages (IGYOS4003-E)

    COBOL Compiler options generate message IGYOS4004-E which is listed at the top of the listing. Message "IGYDS0139-W Diagnostic messages were issued during processing of compiler options. These messages are located at the beginning of the listing."...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Question: support of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST for COBOL programs

    Hi, Is the use of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST possible with programs created by the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler? If yes, how to know the order of the ddnames at the level of the compiled program? If not, register a change request to allow it. Reas...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 7 Not under consideration

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