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    Make name of DLL generated for COBOL-Java ILC variable

    Fixed prefix LIB might not fit to naming conventions
    about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Disable RULES controls locally

    Hi, The RULES compilation option allows to perform compile-time checks on the proper use of data formats. We have activated the RULES compilation option to educate our developers on the proper use of data formats, and we are satisfied with it. How...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

    In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

    Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

    COBOL source input stored as compressed encrypted part of load module

    Hi, to avoid loss of COBOL (or any other) source code in the future can the IBM compilers please generate a load module that stores inside it the full COBOL source input in a compressed and encrypted form which is then wrapped and protected before...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Add support for the equivalent of the -M option from the USS version of the compiler to the MVS version of the compiler

    Hi, The USS version of the IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 compiler, cob2, has a -M option that allows to produce a makefile of dependencies between the program and the copybooks it uses: mkdepend.o: mkdepend.cbl mkdepend.o: /home/usera/test/f171592/WSC...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Debug EGL code invoked from any language

    It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
    over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Not under consideration

    Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

    DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    PARSE support for CSV files

    Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

    Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

    We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

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