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Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

SECTION name special register

A common challenge in CBL development is the need to add program references in error handling including of course the Procedure Section where the issue has originated from. Developers often manage to incorrectly set this, the classic invalid metho...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Needs more information

zSecure - CO.2 -> enhance generated JCL with customer CKRCARLA

While working with interactive carla scripts via zSecure option CO.2 menu one can either run the script interactive or in batch mode. As it is possible to work with referenced input members in carla like:I DD=CKRCARLA M=ACCRDBALHowever, the genera...
11 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 1 Planned for future release

update STIG Check RACF-US-000060 from assertion to a programable validation

Today spending the time to research all of the various settings called out in this STIG check is time consuming and all appear to be programmatically verifiable which would save time. Additionally we do not find the 'assertion' function all that g...
12 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

Have a menu zsecure for a specif poluation with a specific menu and specifc view of the database RACF

We want to delegate some actions with Zsecure Admin. For example give to a team the possibility to create users from specific group (SPECGRP) and modify a specific ressoure. We have limited the menu of z/secure with the ressource Xfacilit/CKG.** ....
5 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 1 Needs more information

zSecure - Access Report with more details/columns

When running zSecure Access Monitor Data it would be great if besides the amount of occurrences and the Resource Name + Profile key used the Installation Data from the used Profile is displayed as well. For example when running reports for CSFSERV...
11 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

Fail gracefully if SYSMDECK undefined or wrongly defined

With 5655-EC6 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4.0, if SYSMDECK is omitted or defined to SYSOUT=*, the compiler fails with an assertion failure: Assertion failed at ../../ibm/env/ListingAgent.cpp:6191: 0 Could not open source DD:SYSMDECK TR_MvsCall...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

Messages IGZ0201x to be written on syslog too

When a COBOL file definition does not match in record length with the JCL job, then it is running with high CPU (looping). At the moment the message IGZ0201W (A file attribute mismatch was detected. File ... in program ... had a record length of x...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

A new compilation option (rule) DISPLAYCHECK is required

Dear Madam/Sir, In the frame of ensuring enhanced code quality, we would like to implement a new COBOL compiler option (rule) so an error or warning to be issued in case of existing DISPLAY statements in a program. The new parameter could be DISPL...
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Suspected error in the usage example in the documentation of the CURRENT-DATE function

Hi, The Language Reference documentation for the CURRENT-DATE function describes a receiving structure with a WS-DIFF-FROM-GMT field declared in S9(4) DISPLAY. By default, signed fields in DISPLAY format are zone-signed, and therefore the field wi...
about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Under review