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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise Cobol - Way to not display the IGZ0201W message at runtime

For a file in Variable format with read acces, the COBOL runtime performs a check on the LRECL. By default, if the LRECL does not match the program statement this triggers an abend and an IGZ0035S message. If we declare a FILE-STATUS on the file, ...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Align the behavior of the EXIT instruction with the ISO standard

In the ISO COBOL standard, the EXIT statement should only be used as a single statement in the single sentence of a paragraph or section.It allows a paragraph or section to be declared without a meaningful statement, usually for the purpose of bei...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

ISRLEMX should expand Copybooks even if COPY is not the first word of the line

I try expanding copybooks into our sources using ISRLEMX. But this doesn't work for most of our Cobol-programs as ISRLEMX only seems to work if COPY is the first word of the line. ISRLEMX should support all possible COPY codings supported by the C...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Source text replacement in string

The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives allow replacements to be made in the source text, but these replacements only apply to COBOL words. Unless we are mistaken, it is not possible to carry out replacements in string type literals. We suggest ...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - String operators for >>DEFINE directive

The >>DEFINE directive should allow manipulation of strings:* concatenation of strings: use of the "&" operator* substring extraction: use of reference modifications* reference to a compilation variable, possibly with automatic casting
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PUNCH directive to include text in source

We would like to have a directive allowing to introduce calculated lines of text (not predefined in a COPYBOOK) in the source code at compile time. We suggest the provision of a >> PUNCH directive. Syntax: >>PUNCH [AT column] text-expr...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PERFORM VARYING for loop

We propose the implementation of a compilation directive allowing to do iterations. These iterations could involve the manipulation of compilation variables and source text which would then be replicated on each iteration of the loop.Corrollary: y...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Dynamic compilation variable

Compiler directives, and in particular the >>DEFINE directive, are not handled by the REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives. This therefore prohibits managing compilation variables dynamically, for example by declaring in a COPYBOOK a compil...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Reduce and then Remove support for the BASIS source Control Facility

The BASIS source control facility (including the BASIS, INSERT, and DELETE cards) is an old feature that was useful in the days of punched source code cards without full screen editors or source change management systems. It is rarely if ever used...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - empty SECTION and statement in SECTION without PARAGRAPH

We see unexpected behavior of the Cobol compiler when using SECTION in PROCEDURE DIVISION.This for the V4R2 and V6R2 versions. Case 1 When a SECTION is empty, SECTION declaration followed immediately by another SECTION declaration, the compiler is...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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