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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Disable RULES controls locally

Hi, The RULES compilation option allows to perform compile-time checks on the proper use of data formats. We have activated the RULES compilation option to educate our developers on the proper use of data formats, and we are satisfied with it. How...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Request for enhancement for COBOL

Hi, We would like a warning when an “indexed by” index is used on arrays other than the one it is defined on, when that other array has a different picture clause. Regards Rune Christensen Senior Software Developer Bankdata
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Conditional compilation variable to reflect status of ADV/NOADV compilation option

Hi, Depending on the ADV / NOADV compilation option chosen, the way of describing the record area of a report file is different: ADV option: the printer control character must not be described NOADV option: the printer control character must be ...
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Improved storage usage when using moves to change encodings

We are using the functions display-of and national-of to dynamically change between encodings. Like this: MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF ( INPUT-DATA (1:INPUT-LENGTH), CHARSET-CCSID), 277) TO OUTPUT-DATA (1:EXPECTED-OUTPUT-LENGTH)...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future 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 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Support for concatenation operator &

We want the "&" concatenation operator, as described in the ISO COBOL standard, to be supported by the IBM Enterprise Cobol compiler.This operator must be able to be used everywhere where a literal is authorized:- declaration of a VALUE in a d...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration