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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise Cobol - Add suboption DUMP where suboption ABD/MSG exists

Some compilation options give the choice between abandoning the program (ABD), or simply sending a message (MSG) in the event of a problem. We would like an suboption to be added to produce a dump (of the enclave), without stopping the execution o...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Provide Language Environment support for JES symbol service

A new facility in z/OS 2.1 is the JES Symbol Service (IAZSYMBL), which, among other things, allows an assembler program to obtain the value of JES system symbols SYS_CORR_CURRJOB, SYS_CORR_LASTJOB, and SYS_LASTJOBID after a task has submitted a jo...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Db2 host-variable xLOB-FILE difference coprocessor and pre-processor

We noticed a difference of generation between the preprocessor Db2 and the coprocessor Db2 integrated to the compiler Cobol, on the generation of hosts-variables of type xLOB-FILE (USAGE SQL TYPE IS xLOB-FILE): - the preprocessor Db2 generates a S...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Issue with REPORT SECTION

We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). I am trying to compile one of the program using IBM COBOL compiler,but getting below errors. it seems to me that AIX COBOL does not support REPORT SECTION. Could ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol (all version) - DYNAM option, find the entry point first in the loadmodule

When a program is compiled with the DYNAM option, the search for the entry point corresponding to the CALL statement is not performed in the loadmodule, even if this entry point was added during the linkedit by a command INCLUDE: the search is don...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Best practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX.

Please providebest practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX. Fromhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21642903andhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27022104we can see that Utilization Track...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Date Functions

Developers use different date functions in most of the COBOL programs. These functions get executed hundreds of millions of times a day in various programs. We have inhouse written product, which may not be efficient and this probably a requiremen...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4/V5/V6 - Conflicting options DYNAM and CICS("EXCI") is false

When using the CICS coprocessor to compile programs using the EXCI interface, option CICS("EXCI"), the compiler reports an error if the DYNAM option is used : IGYOS4020-W The "DYNAM" option was discarded due to conflict resolution option. The "CIC...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Support of >>PUSH and >>POP directive as described in ISO Cobol standard 2014

Extract from ISO Cobol standard 2014 : The state of compiler directives may be saved and restored with PUSH and POP directives. A “stack” is maintained that the state of a directive may be pushed on to. A subsequent POP directive removes the item ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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