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COBOL Compilers

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Option for identifying unreachable and easily removable code.

We would like to suggest an option like the rules suboptions NOUNREF* for marking unreachable code.We are aware that compiling with OPT(2) will give us informationals for unreachable code, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the code...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ - Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in source code of a program

Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in the source code of a Cobol program could be interesting: CBL DEFINE (COUNT = 100)>> DEFINE COUNT AS PARAMETER...01 ARRAY. 05 ITEM OCCURS COUNT.... Today, this result can be achieved by a REPLACE dire...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - EXIT PARAGRAPH | SECTION label

The EXIT PARAGRAPH or EXIT SECTION statement goes to the end of the current paragraph or section. However, in PERFORM structured call programming at different levels, it may be necessary to abort a process by connecting at the end of a paragraph o...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

COBOL should be able to generate multiple namespaces in XML

System: IBM z/OS 2.3Product: COBOL / XML COBOL 6.2 provides the option to generate simple XML structures with namespaces and attributes. However, the complexity of XML and its ability to transfer data across platforms requires the use of complex X...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Drop warning message for EXCI programs

We have programmers who feel compelled to have their compiles complete with a zero return code. This became an issue when we upgraded from COBOL 4.2 to 6.2; the warning message was not issued with the old version. With the integrated translator, t...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Question: support of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST for COBOL programs

Hi, Is the use of ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST possible with programs created by the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler? If yes, how to know the order of the ddnames at the level of the compiled program? If not, register a change request to allow it. Reas...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Create STATIC STORAGE section for Cobol

Fixed, static, final, constant... data are embeded in the load module and move to WORKING at program initialization. For large tables in an transactional application server like CICS, it is done millions of time eating a lot of CPU. a NEW storage ...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

SSRANGE option to omit Reference Modification from range checking

Add an SSRANGE sub-option that omits COBOL Reference Modification from range checking.
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Make available additional source code information, used at compilation, in load module

We'd request that the location of the source code that was used during program compilation be made discoverable or available within the load module. For our purposes this would extend to COBOL, C/C++, PL/I, Assembler, Java. Our product team is req...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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