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COBOL Compilers

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Option to have spaces treated as zeros at Runtime

Our COBOL V6 migration has been painful and slow. Much of this due to 'invalid data'. The biggest pain for our applications folks are when copy books and linkage areas initialized to spaces at the 01 level. To code around this in V6 is a lot of ex...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014COBOL Decimal Floating Point Support

Submitted By: 3100012QSB #56Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Free Source Format

The e-COBOL Compiler should follow the standard 2002 with the definition of free source format. It should be implemented how it was done in COBOL for AIX.- variable length up to 252 columns- existence of area A and area B (not standard-2002!!!)- s...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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

SSRANGE have more granular suboption such as enabling checking to target (update) fields only

During runtime whenever COBOL code don't well handle for reference modification fields such as below it would cause serious storage overlay especially within CICS. WS-A PIC X(10)WS-B PIC X(20)WS-POS PIC S9(04) COMP MOVE WS-A TO WS-B (WS-POS:) Whil...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 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 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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