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    To enable an option in the COBOL compiler to get the DB2 integrated coprocessor behaves as the separated DB2 precompiler does

    We have been using the COBOL 4.2 compiler for years in our shop. We have just begun to use the integrated SQL coprocessor, instead of the separated DB2 precompiler and we are experiencing problems with the continuation lines. The manual says the p...
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 48 Not under consideration

    Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-Defined and Site-Defined Sensitivity Types

    Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-defined and Site-defined Sensitivity Types that lists all sensitivity types, and selected attributes, regardless of the current access entitlements in the ACF2/RACF database.
    about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 5 Not under consideration

    JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

    Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    COBOL 6 should use zIIP processor

    The Enterprise COBOL Compiler Version 6 (and also V5) use much more CPU Resources than Version 4.Not only 12 Percent, but Factor 12.We need 12 times more CPU for compiling than in the older versions.Some parts of this workload should be zIIP-enabl...
    about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Multi >>WHEN for >>EVALUATE directive

    The >>WHEN conditions of the >>EVALUATE directive should behave like the WHEN conditions of the EVALUATE instruction: when several conditions follow one another, without any intermediate text, they should be implicitly linked by an OR.
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 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 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    List of STC names in STIG rule RACF0660 should be customizable

    RACF0660 reports the following STC's as incompliant on our systems: SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(GTZ) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(IEESYSAS) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(INIT) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NET) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NFSCLNT) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NFSSERV) SY9001 SYS1.PRO...
    over 11 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    Performance improvements for running evaluation for non-compliant STIG report; AU;R;E

    Current CPU consumption to run a non-compliant STIG evaluation is too great, making this feature of zSecure Audit unusable.
    about 4 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

    Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
    about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    JSON PARSE – Conversion / Differentiation of NULL values

    NULL values in PATCH method (how does Java actually differentiate?) When using the http request method PATCH it is necessary to distinguish whether a field was omitted or whether a null value was sent. A construct similar to the JSON PARSE conv...
    about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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