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    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.
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    False INITCHECK messages for MOVEs of overlapping storage

    The compiler should not produce INITCHECK warnings when the piece of a source field of an overlapping MOVE is initialized. In the example use case, the overlapping move results in WORK-REST being set to LOW-VALUES from the filler at the beginning ...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Add suboption DUMP where suboption ABD/MSG exists

    Some compilation options give the choice between abandoning the program (ABD), or simply sending a message (MSG) in the event of a problem. We would like an suboption to be added to produce a dump (of the enclave), without stopping the execution o...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Cobol Date Functions

    Developers use different date functions in most of the COBOL programs. These functions get executed hundreds of millions of times a day in various programs. We have inhouse written product, which may not be efficient and this probably a requiremen...
    over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

    The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas.

    Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas. By “empty “ we intend to mean - areas that have no data populated in them since allocation , OR an area that had some data but it was deleted and is now empty. And this should target proc...
    almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    DEDB DBFUMIN0 DB utility and ACBLIB

    DBFUMIN0 requires the ACBLIB library. During IMS version migration in an IMSPLEX environnement, the utility fails because it ran in IMS V12 and ACBLIB was still in V11. DBFUMIN0 should be able to run with the DBDLIB to be not release dependant.
    about 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Db2 host-variable xLOB-FILE difference coprocessor and pre-processor

    We noticed a difference of generation between the preprocessor Db2 and the coprocessor Db2 integrated to the compiler Cobol, on the generation of hosts-variables of type xLOB-FILE (USAGE SQL TYPE IS xLOB-FILE): - the preprocessor Db2 generates a S...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Issue with REPORT SECTION

    We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). I am trying to compile one of the program using IBM COBOL compiler,but getting below errors. it seems to me that AIX COBOL does not support REPORT SECTION. Could ...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol (all version) - DYNAM option, find the entry point first in the loadmodule

    When a program is compiled with the DYNAM option, the search for the entry point corresponding to the CALL statement is not performed in the loadmodule, even if this entry point was added during the linkedit by a command INCLUDE: the search is don...
    over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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