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    Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

    ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

    Free Source Format

    The e-COBOL Compiler should follow the standard 2002 with the definition of free source format. It should be implemented how it was done in COBOL for AIX.- variable length up to 252 columns- existence of area A and area B (not standard-2002!!!)- s...
    over 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    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

    Provide ISO 2014COBOL Decimal Floating Point Support

    Submitted By: 3100012QSB #56Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables

    Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    IBM DB2 QMF object update

    * QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    update IBM Workload Scheduler applications

    * IzWS (OPC) update *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Using BATL files, create/update OPC applications The git repo contains a BATL file for each OPC applications. The module inserts them into a JOB which is using WAPL com...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

    * BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

    Use artifact based deployments instead of hardcoded parameters in the environment file

    * non artifact related modules * (ds_create, ds_delete, job_submit, shell_command, system_command, tso_command, template) These modules are using the environment file for reading configurations. The developer must edit this file for each dep...
    11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

    SSRANGE have more granular suboption such as enabling checking to target (update) fields only

    During runtime whenever COBOL code don't well handle for reference modification fields such as below it would cause serious storage overlay especially within CICS. WS-A PIC X(10)WS-B PIC X(20)WS-POS PIC S9(04) COMP MOVE WS-A TO WS-B (WS-POS:) Whil...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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