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COBOL Compilers

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SSRANGE suboption to check for a modified length resulting in a negative length

A new SSRANGE suboption is needed that should be useable also in production.This suboption should create extra checking code only if a "modified reference" (that modifies the default length of a variable) involves a variable value. In this case th...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Separate NUMCHECK's MSG/ABD suboptions by type

We're trying to ease our developers into NUMCHECK, and have mostly got PAC through, using the parameter NUMCHECK(NOZON,PAC,NOBIN,ABD) unless specifically requested to downgrade to NUMCHECK(NOZON,PAC,NOBIN,MSG) for a temporary duration (until the c...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

A new rule to RULES(NOLAXPERF)

When indexing into strings, there should be a warning when not using optimal variables for the index variables.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

COBOL-Program with no goback or Exit Programs

Writing a COBOL program without any GOBACK, EXIT PROGRAM or STOP RUN will produce a runtime error. It's necessary to get a warning by the compiler if none of these "BR14" are written
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

31Char long COBOL words (current 30)

COBOL words (variable names...) can only be 30 characters.In ISO Standard it is limited to 31 bytes.Please enlarge the allowed length of such names.
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - MDECK(NOCOMPILE) must produce a cross-reference COPY/BASIS report

A COBOL program compiled with the MDECK(NOCOMPILE) option for the purpose of expanding COPYBOOKs, handling text replacements, and incidentally handling conditional compilation directives, produces a listing that is limited to the list of options f...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - ON EXCEPTION clause for SET procedure-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point

To avoid an abend at runtime, the instruction "SET procedure-or-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point" should have an "ON EXCEPTION" clause, as is the case for the instruction "CALL".The instruction "SET TO ENTRY" causes a loading of the program w...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

z/OS 2.1 JCL-Variables GET/SET via COBOL Program

It would be nice, if a COBOL Program could set or get an JCL-Variable, because of exploiting the new z/OS V2.1 Variable Handling.This could bring some benefit for larger Batch-Applications with many Steps and Jobs.
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Cross reference for compilation variable

We have developed a COBOL framework based on program skeletons and COPYBOOKs which is particularly rich and allows adaptation to the context of the program. This framework uses many conditional compilation variables and many tests on these conditi...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>NOP for >>EVALUATE directive

In addition to our RFE 145885, we suggest the provision of a directive that does no action to be associated with a >>WHEN condition in a >>EVALUATE directive. It could be a >>NOP or >>CONTINUE directive. It is sometimes eas...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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