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    Compile warning when using COMP-5 larger than 9 digits

    When using COMP-5 variables many developers are not aware of the performance impact of using COMP-5 with variables defined longer then 9(9).Therefore we would like a warning added to the rules(nolaxperf) option, that will indicate this, and recomm...
    over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V6 - Add a clause to limit Table SORT to first elements

    The SORT instruction is used to sort a memory table, but the table may not have been fully populated and only the first elements of the table must be sorted. The SORT instruction should have a clause allowing to indicate which elements are to be s...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Cross reference for compilation variable

    We have developed a COBOL framework based on program skeletons and COPYBOOKs which is particularly rich and allows adaptation to the context of the program. This framework uses many conditional compilation variables and many tests on these conditi...
    almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    Option for identifying unreachable and easily removable code.

    We would like to suggest an option like the rules suboptions NOUNREF* for marking unreachable code.We are aware that compiling with OPT(2) will give us informationals for unreachable code, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the code...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - EXIT PARAGRAPH | SECTION label

    The EXIT PARAGRAPH or EXIT SECTION statement goes to the end of the current paragraph or section. However, in PERFORM structured call programming at different levels, it may be necessary to abort a process by connecting at the end of a paragraph o...
    about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Controlling overflow behaviour in z/OS Enterprise COBOL

    Current COBOL behaviour when any kind of overflow occurs on a MOVE, COMPUTE, ADD, MULTIPLY statement, unless ON SIZE ERROR was specified, not including MOVE which doesn't accomodate ON SIZE ERROR directive - is to ignore and not handle the conditi...
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(MSG)' function improvement request

    We applied the COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(ZON,MSG)' to prevent 'invalid data' that may occur during program execution.As a result of testing, we found that there were a lot of programs with 'invalid data' code.Program developers have the follo...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Introduce equivalent of conditional compilation in management of compilation options in SYSOPTF

    Hi, Managing compilation options can be complex due to the multiplicity of contexts: batch, cics, db2, static call, dynamic call, etc. This complexity is increased when several versions of the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler must coexist with opt...
    about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Entreprise COBOL V6+ - IGYOS4081-U when MDECK(NOCOMPILE) + SQL options and no valid DBRMLIB

    When compiling with MDECK(NOCOMPILE) and SQL options to resolve COPY and EXEC SQL INCLUDE, the compiler raises an IGYOS4081-U error if the DBRMLIB ddname is not declared, or if file associated with the DBRMLIB ddname does'nt have a valid format. T...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    COBOL Z/OS support LRECL greater than 32767

    Hi, Like for ZFS files i want that COBOL can support records greater than 32767. In USS environment i can create, read a record greater than 32767, in Z/OS VBS record format i can't.The LRECL=X is supported on JCL.
    almost 13 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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