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    Allow JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL to be set on or off at runtime

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL ON/OFF It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. The WITH DETAIL phrase displays too many messages in job output. Many of the messages are expected conditions for many...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

    The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
    almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    cob2 should know where its compiler binary is located

    Currently, cob2 doesn't know where the COBOL compiler binary is located. Even though it is part of the product, you have to specify SIGYCOMP in the STEPLIB variable. This is confusing and creates a larger entry into using cob2 if this isn't done o...
    8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

    Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Solution to set the length of a data-item at compile time

    Hi, As part of the creation of a COBOL framework to speed up developments, we are looking for a solution to fix the size of an elementary data-item at the time of compilation because it cannot be determined at the time of writing the code. Sample ...
    9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

    Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Bring SQL-Compiler-Suboptions into LoadModule, especially ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)

    We try to find out whit compiler options are used for some programs on load library. When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the us...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Planned for future release

    license cobolscript interpreter on your platform. http://www.cobolscripting.com

    small cobol interpreter tool for cobol programmers.
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

    It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

    Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
    about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

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