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    Make some BINARY data types immune to TRUNC compiler option

    Enterprise COBOL has four binary "USAGE"s. BINARY, COMP, COMP-4 and COMP-5.Compiler option TRUNC affects the code generated for these, except for COMP-5, which is always treated as COMP-5, whatever the setting of TRUNC.If I want to "divide by 10 a...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    OPEN Operation Extensions

    Allow for additional processing to be associated with OPEN operations based on whether the file is OPEN as INPUT or OUTPUT.(Feature is not available for OPEN I/O or EXTEND.) The aim is to facilitate easier introduction of Headers and Trailers proc...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Provide Language Environment support for JES symbol service

    A new facility in z/OS 2.1 is the JES Symbol Service (IAZSYMBL), which, among other things, allows an assembler program to obtain the value of JES system symbols SYS_CORR_CURRJOB, SYS_CORR_LASTJOB, and SYS_LASTJOBID after a task has submitted a jo...
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

    Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    SYSDEBUG and the compile listing do not have the same information for APA to report the consistant CPU time

    Bank of America is complaining about the difference between the 2 reports produced in APA.They also say the results using the listing are correct because more code is generated at the END-PERFORM. The compile listing shows the correct results. The...
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    HALDB ALTER for CI change only

    V13 HALDB ALTER. I would like to be able to use the HALDB ALTER to change the DB CI size without having to make a DBD change as well. This will allow for DB tuning without down time for the application.
    over 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

    Automatic detection of current RRDS by RDDS Extraction utility. (old MR092111406 )

    Customer would like to create a copy of the old IMSGEN macro based on the latest information contained in his IMS sistem and stored into DRD RDDS Data set; these will be used in case of problems to recover the subsystem.The IMS RDDS Extraction uti...
    over 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 4 Not under consideration

    HALDB partition keys should not be deleted when changing from PARTSEL to HIKEY

    When changing from PARTSEL to HIKEY any partition keys already defined in RECON should either generally be left as they are or there should at least be an option to determine whether they should be left or deleted.
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

    FDBR should not abend as a result of temporary loss of the lock structure.

    1. Prevent FDBR from abending due to loss of the lock structure.or2. Make it possible to restart FDBR.or3. Provide an ERE light for IMS which would do backout, release locks, resolve DB2 in-doubt threads and then end immediately (or controlled by ...
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

    For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
    about 13 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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