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Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 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 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Having some system data available via standard COBOL word/ function.

Hi, in my shop several developers are using some basic system data like LPAR name, SMFID, job name step name...Despite many enhancements COBOL don't offer today some way to have this data at hand.So the developers create many module to have access...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Optional clause for default value on >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER

Add an optional clause to assign a default value on a conditional variable used as a parameter. This would be a simplified writing of : >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER>>IF conditional-var IS NOT DEFINED>>DEFINE conditional-...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Add support for EVALUATE numeric-dataitem WHEN IS POSITIVE / WHEN IS NEGATIVE / WHEN IS ZERO / END-EVALUATE

The EVALUATE statement does not support SIGN CONDITION. EVALUATE numeric-DataItemWHEN IS POSITIVE[...]WHEN IS NEGATIVE[...]WHEN IS ZEROEND-EVALUATE raise a compilation error. This instruction must be written: EVALUATE TRUEWHEN numeric-DataItem >...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Generate "no-op" binary for EXIT statement when TEST option is active

When the EXIT statement is used in a PARAGRAPH, and that PARAGRAPH is not the end of scope of a PERFORM (THRU), the compiler does not generate any binary code. This complicates the debug by not allowing to set a breakpoint on the EXIT statement co...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

COMMAREA should be checked at compile time, avoiding the program to carry on with faulty COMMAREA that is greather than 32kb.

This incident concerning COBOL - CICS and use of COMMAREA. There is a limit of 32 kb when transferring data using COMMAREA. If the user is unaware, tries to pass more than 32kb, Cobol compiler will not give an error for that. Developer should be a...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - NUMCHECK(ABD): Generate the control code in the same instructions block

Whatever the chosen optimization level, the NUMCHECK(ABD) compilation option generates a part of the control code at the end of the program code, (the numeric class test is performed at the location of the Cobol instruction, but the call to the ab...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - New compilation option CALLINTERFACE(mode,list-of-entry-points)

Since Enterprise Cobol V5, the >>CALLINTERFACE directive allows to modify the type of call declared by default by the DYNAM / NODYNAM compilation option.However, it is not always possible to insert >>CALLINTERFACE directives into the s...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

XML Parse with COBOL and XML System Service - better design to avoid truncated XML element content

Current situation:------------------Extra COBOL program logic for every XML element content is necessary to check for split content and to concatenate pieces of content for this case. Enterprise COBOL V5 is running with z/OS XML System Service to ...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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