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    Improvement to NUMCHECK to report Ahead of Invaild data being passed

    We are currently moving all the modules from V3and v4 to v6. During that process we came accross one issue reported by teh application support people that when we move alphanumeric number to number variable , it converts last alphabet to signed nu...
    almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    ECOBOL v5.1 - CEE0813S Insufficient storage.

    I created Service Request 89561,7TD,000 to resolve a CEE0813S Insufficient storage issue a user was having. As per the SR, a 'quick fix' should make the August release but may not resolve the issue. I was advised to submit an RFE quoting RTC 11416...
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Enabling unit testing of deployable load module

    We would like to be able to do section and paragraph testing on the load module that we will be using for production.A unit testing framework like COBOL Check, builds a new COBOL program, that tests the code. But we are actually not certain that t...
    over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Automatic internal conversion of indices to index

    When a data-item declared in Working-Storage or Local-Storage is used to access the elements of a table (OCCURS), and is not used to access other tables (data-item dedicated to a table), this data-item could be automatically converted to INDEX for...
    about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

    Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

    The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    NEXT SENTENCE warnings

    Add optional warnings when NEXT SENTENCE is used and might behave in an unexpected manner
    about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Get the actual address of the entry point of a dynamically loaded program

    When using the "SET function/procedure-pointer TO ENTRY program" instruction, we get the address of a routine that is not the actual entry point of the program, but a routine that allows calling the program. The routine seems to be different depen...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

    Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - New compilation directive ">>RULES(ON|OFF)"

    In addition to RFE 120105 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120105), I suggest implementing a ">>RULES(ON|OFF)" compilation directive to enable / disable controls related to the "RULES ()" compilation ...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Value of Cobol variables may be incorrectly reported

    Enhance the DWARF data produced by the COBOL compiler such that CEEDUMP can correctly identify that a variables value is being held in a register rather than in storage at the time of an abend.
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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