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    COBOL uninitialized variables: Changing the way storage is obtained

    Dear Madam/Sir We upgraded from Enterprise COBOL v4.2 to v6.3 in 2022. Since then we have enabled various checks provided by the new compiler like PARMCHECK, INITCHECK and NUMCHECK. During these three years we are trying to correct our programs th...
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 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

    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

    Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

    If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

    Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

    We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Add an example for COPY directive with replacing text in area A

    Hi, The position of the right parameter of a replacement, in area A or area B, influences the final text result (while the position of the right parameter of a replacement has no impact). This should be explained with an example, to change the nam...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Error in example 7 of the COPY directive documentation

    Hi, Example 7 provided for the documentation of the COPY directive is wrong: the replacement of the trailing "GROSS-PAY" by "NET-PAY" is taken into account, and is also applied to example 8.See listing hardcopy in attachement. Thanks.
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Be able to associate an UDF prototype with a COBOL program declaring a RETURNING clause

    Hi, A User Defined Function prototype is generally intended to be associated with a COBOL User Defined Function. However, it is also possible to associate it with a routine described in an other programming language, particularly a C routine. ...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Add support for a RETURNING phrase for ENTRY statement

    Hi, The ENTRY statement should provide a RETURNING clause that behaves similarly to the same clause used in the PROCEDURE DIVISION RETURNING declaration. This assumes that the currently existing restrictions on the combination of PROCEDURE DIVSION...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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