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    Cobol V5+ - Special Registers for access to information SERVICE and COPYRIGHT

    It would be useful to have access at run time to the SERVICE and COPYRIGHT informations (valued by the compiler options). This could be done through Special Registers :- COPYRIGHT-OPTION or equivalent- SERVICE-OPTION or equivalent The length of Sp...
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Compile OCCURS 0 TO 1 as OCCURS 0 TO UNBOUNDED

    Before Cobol V5, we used "OCCURS 0 TO 1" in LINKAGE SECTION to manage tables whose size was not known at compile time.We propose that under the control of an option or compilation directive, the declarations "OCCURS 0 TO 1 DEPENDING ON" in LINKAGE...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Offer CBL option for Binder control statment

    In some situation, it may be necessary to manage specific options when running the Binder. These options can be the consequence of choice at the level of the Cobol program: by example using the EXCI interface that require to include a specific mod...
    almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6 - Problems of association between source lines and instruction addresses for the inlined paragraphs

    We found several issues regarding the assignment of an address to a source line or paragraph name at the level of inlined PERFORM (options INLINE and OPTIMIZE(1|2) ). This creates problems for debugging: trace, dump analysis, performance analysis,...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V5+ - Possibility to encrypt the source code present in the dwarf section

    The TEST(dwarf,source) option stores the source code (not the compilation listing) in the dwarf section. Moreover, it is the source code expanded after resolution of the calls of copybooks which is stored. This is useful for debugging (tracing) o...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V5+ - TEST(dwarf,source) option violates *CONTROL NOSOURCE directives

    When the *CONTROL NOSOURCE / *CONTROL SOURCE directives are used in a source code, the lines present between these two directives are excluded from the compilation listing. However, if the compiler option TEST(dwarf,source) is activated, then the...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Declaring multiple conditional compilation variables on the same >>DEFINE directive

    Hi, We have developed COPYBOOKs which adapt to the context according to the conditional compilation variables. Before referring to the COPYBOOK, we declare a number of variables that give this context. Today, you have to create as many lines con...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Compatibility mode option for Cobol compiler

    We would like to have a compile option to prevent usage of new compiler functions provided via PTFs. Starting with COBOL V5+ IBM delivers fixes besides with new functions every 2 months. Right now there is no way to prevent users from using thes...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Support LARGE or EXTENDED format for SYSUTn

    When the compiler work files are declared as LARGE or EXTENDED format, explicitly by JCL (DSNTYPE=LARGE), or implicitly by an SMS dataclass, the compiler triggers an S213-14 abend. The compiler should support LARGE and EXTENDED type format on the ...
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    COBOL V5+ Recursion Protection for File Declaratives

    If an abnormal file condition is "protected" by a COBOL declarative routine and this routine closes the file the file status becomes 00 and another write attempt by the application will fail again driving the declarative again, thus creating a loop.
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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