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COBOL Compilers

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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 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 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 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 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 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 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 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Document the different stages of compilation

In addition to our request 150104, we suggest that the different processing stages of the COBOL compiler be documented, and that the different actions performed in these stages be described:- processing of REPLACE directives- processing of COPY di...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

COBOL should be able to generate multiple namespaces in XML

System: IBM z/OS 2.3Product: COBOL / XML COBOL 6.2 provides the option to generate simple XML structures with namespaces and attributes. However, the complexity of XML and its ability to transfer data across platforms requires the use of complex X...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 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...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Create STATIC STORAGE section for Cobol

Fixed, static, final, constant... data are embeded in the load module and move to WORKING at program initialization. For large tables in an transactional application server like CICS, it is done millions of time eating a lot of CPU. a NEW storage ...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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