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    Enterprise Cobol - empty SECTION and statement in SECTION without PARAGRAPH

    We see unexpected behavior of the Cobol compiler when using SECTION in PROCEDURE DIVISION.This for the V4R2 and V6R2 versions. Case 1 When a SECTION is empty, SECTION declaration followed immediately by another SECTION declaration, the compiler is...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack additional JSON feature.

    Additional zconnect/IMS Mobile Feature pack JSON functionality: 1. Allow generated JSON field names to be lowercase_lowercase or smallCamelCase. 2. Add flat JSON input/output support to reflect TMRA generated object
    over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

    Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile Feature pack misc functionality requests

    Request for the following functionality in Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile feature pack: 1. Support service stub creation that will use a sample test data to be returned. 2. Set user defined service URI or remove ?action=invoke in service URI. 3. Service ...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 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...
    almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Filenet F8 / ICC / CSS / ICN - to be made RMS-aware

    FileNet suite of products (CPE, ICC, ICN, and CSS) needs to be Azure RMS-aware. The company is moving to content encrypt all data within the company. Therefore, the FileNet suite of products needs to be able to be RMS-aware to handle this encrypti...
    over 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 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.
    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

    propagate end user identity in an SOA environment build on DataPower when calling IMS Connect to invoke IMS transactions

    Need to propagate original network ID of end user through SOA ESB to IMS for logging / audit purpose. Original Network ID may be Active Directory, SAML, OAUTH, X.509, etc.. Passing through SOA ESB implemented with DataPower XI50b that ID may be tr...
    almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

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