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    message IGYRC5122-U is confusing

    IGYRC5122-U A RECURSIVE ENTRY TO THE COBOL ABORT MODULE OCCURRED is issued when a compilation abends due to Exscessive CPU time but does not give a clear explanation.?
    almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    New option to detect dead code with OPT(0) wanted!

    We would want to have a possibility to get IGYCB7300-W messages (or a new message) also when compiling with OPT(0). In modern IDE's like RDz can the developer during development directly see and remove dead code. An ?ISPF-developer? are required t...
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Indication of the COPYBOOK level in the Listing

    In the compilation Listing, the source lines from a COPYBOOK are identified with a "C" character after the line number in the Listing. It is possible to call COPYBOOK from other COPYBOOK. However, the origin of a row is not necessarily easily iden...
    almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    XML PARSE INTO structure

    Exchanging XML request/reply documents between JAVA and COBOL in CICS can leverage well defined xml schemas that can be generated from XML GENERATE sample instances. XML GENERATE works well for Response structure from COBOL to JAVA, but XML PARSE ...
    almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Way to not display the IGZ0201W message at runtime

    For a file in Variable format with read acces, the COBOL runtime performs a check on the LRECL. By default, if the LRECL does not match the program statement this triggers an abend and an IGZ0035S message. If we declare a FILE-STATUS on the file, ...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Align the behavior of the EXIT instruction with the ISO standard

    In the ISO COBOL standard, the EXIT statement should only be used as a single statement in the single sentence of a paragraph or section.It allows a paragraph or section to be declared without a meaningful statement, usually for the purpose of bei...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    ISRLEMX should expand Copybooks even if COPY is not the first word of the line

    I try expanding copybooks into our sources using ISRLEMX. But this doesn't work for most of our Cobol-programs as ISRLEMX only seems to work if COPY is the first word of the line. ISRLEMX should support all possible COPY codings supported by the C...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Secured Move Overlapping

    Sometimes it may be necessary to shift data within a structure.Example:- Insert / remove an item in a sorted memory table.- Insert / replace / remove a substring in a string.For this we can define a more or less complex and CPU expensive algorithm...
    about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    CICS and SQL host variables should be added to COBOL cross reference.

    The XREF listing produced by the compiler omits unreferenced SQL or CICS variables. In this example, BARREC RECLEN and CICSRESP are not in the listing file's cross reference map.EXEC CICS REWRITE FILE(FILE-NAME) FROM(BARREC) LENGTH(RECLEN) RESP(CI...
    about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Source text replacement in string

    The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives allow replacements to be made in the source text, but these replacements only apply to COBOL words. Unless we are mistaken, it is not possible to carry out replacements in string type literals. We suggest ...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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