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    Enterprise COBOL - SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph endpoint handling

    Hi, The reference documentation for the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph states that the period is optional if no clause is present in that paragraph. This implies that the period is accepted in the absence of any clause in the paragraph: SPECIAL-NAMES par...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

    Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Track TAZ Early Development user licenses - number of inactive, active licenses and frequency

    The customer is requesting IBM to provide detailed reporting on active and inactive user list by frequency. This would help them manage license compliance so they can validate entitlements, plan renewals, and manage budgets effectively. The cust...
    3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

    If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    Support for User-defined functions in programs utilizing SQL

    At the moment it is not possible to compile a COBOL module using "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" and EXEC SQL. This severely limits the usability of "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" in system which uses SQL/DB2 as the ...
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Planned for future release

    Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

    Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

    If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

    It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    start debugging in second program called by CALL

    It is not currently possible to configure the debugger to start in a program other than the first in the chain (as is possible with other debuggers) if the first program calls the second with CALL and not with EXEC CICS LINK. It would be very usef...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / Linux 1 Planned for future release

    Handle abend when using JSON GENERATE statement

    We are facing an issue when using the JSON GENERATE cobol statement with cobol variables containing incorrect value. For exemple, in the case of a numeric variable containing spaces, the order triggers an ASRA abend and the generated json buffer i...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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