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    Store Copy Book Comments with IMS Catalog import

    When importing PL/I structures, we need to be able to preserve the Comments. Ideally with the import process. The comments should be stored with the metadata in the IMS Catalog and recreated with a future DCLGEN utility for the IMS Catalog.
    over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Native handling of output streams equivalent to stderr and stdout

    HI, COBOL programs compiled with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS only support a single output stream associated with the DISPLAY statement. A priori, running under MVS, this output stream corresponds to STDERR (file descriptor number 2) in other l...
    5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

    The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    COBOL function hbound() for tables

    COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    User defined constants

    Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements

    JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Add the hability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

    As of now, when the API we call return a dynamical JSON array, we need to declare a COBOL array with a large number of occurences in order to be sure to retrieve all the data with the JSON PARSE statements. But, in most cases, the json array will ...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    COBOL: free "ID" for datadefinitions (REST-Services)

    In REST-service-context „id“ is a common used keyword for indentification purposes. In COBOL it isn't possible to define such a variable, because it is an reserved word. ID is an abbreviation for IDENTIFICATION in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION and for t...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

    Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
    about 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

    Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

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