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    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

    Option to include content of allowlists in printed Compliance reports.

    Currently, for printed Compliance reports, used for auditing purposes, the allow lists, nor their contents are included in the reports. In previous versions of STIG compliance reports, the details were visibile, and we are pursueing having those a...
    almost 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    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

    Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

    When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
    about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

    It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

    It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
    almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    For NEWLIST HEADER=CSVT allow for the setting of file type and file name

    Using HEADER=CSVT on an emailed report the attached file has a TXT extension and a file name of CSDATAU. CSVT means a comma delimited file with titles, why not create the attachment as a CSV extension, or allow the customer to set the extension. W...
    almost 4 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 1 Future consideration

    IGY-Compiler-Messages are not summarized at the end of the SYSPRINT

    In cobol-versions pre 5.1. all IGY-compliler-messages (info, warning, error, severe) are summarized at the end of the SYSPRINT-output . In Cobol 5.1.1 and above these messages are displayed anywhere and not always in one block.
    over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Option to have spaces treated as zeros at Runtime

    Our COBOL V6 migration has been painful and slow. Much of this due to 'invalid data'. The biggest pain for our applications folks are when copy books and linkage areas initialized to spaces at the 01 level. To code around this in V6 is a lot of ex...
    almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

    Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

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