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COBOL Compilers

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Need a vendor interface to access working storage length from an Assembler program

We have some (non-LE conforming) assembler code that is called by COBOL programs. The assembler code would save the TGT address, subsequently used to extract the COBOL Working Storage address and length. COBOL 5.1 has eliminated the TGT, replaced ...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Delivered

Wrong length record return codes with COBOL V5.1

In COBOL V5.1 changed the handling of variable length file reads where reads longer/shorter than record length now return a return code 4 for the read. This is causing us considerable pain. While programming practices are a given we are in dire ne...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

RFE for IBM COBOL FOR AIX 5.1: Support for environment variable that can enable/disable the TAB compression/expansion in the

The customer is requesting a RFE for adding a function in IBM cobol to automatically pad as many blanks as needed in READ operations on files, on COBOL programs, and to remove those blanks from WRITE operations. The function should also manage aut...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

_iwzcBCD_NEQ_Pckd(x,y,n,m in COBOL for AIX should show same behaviour as on zOS

COBOL provides a knob "COBOL_BCD_NOVALIDATE=33" to skip validationand show same behaviour as on z/OS.
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

RFE for IBM COBOL FOR AIX 5.1 SCU: AUTO ADD COMMENTS TO MODIFIED SOURCE CODE

Customer requires that each modified file by SCU, includes a comment line with the modified line, indicating previous line modified.
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

RFE for IBM COBOL FOR AIX 5.1 SCU: AUTO ADD CLOSING END-IF STATEMENT

Customer is requesting that IBM COBOL SCU automatically adds the closing END-IF statement when needed in the source code, based on the fact that IBM Compiler already detects were it is needed.
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Segmented parsing of national strings in Cobol XMLSS

Currently Unicode or NCR based parsing has limitations regarding segmented XML parsing in COBOL XML PARSE. There is a need to enhance current COBOL XML PARSE functionality in Cobol to manage segmented XML parsing, which supports EBCDIC (e.g. CCSID...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Cobol V6 - add "WITH ENCODING" option on JSON GENERATE statment

In new Enterprise Cobol V6, statment "JSON GENERATE" produce only UTF-8 or UTF-16 document, depending on PICTURE clause of receiving data. Using UTF-8 / UTF-16 values on z/OS EBCDIC system is not very easy nor usual (and not human readable on EBCD...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Enable debugging of optimized COBOL code on AIX

With current version 4.1.1 of IBM COBOL for AIX it's not possible to debug optimized code. If you specify both OPTIMIZE and TEST options, TEST takes effect and OPTIMIZE is ignored.Please consider to implement a sliding scale of choices for optimiz...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

UTF-8 Support of local PLI and Cobol Compiler Frond Ends

For RDZ Cobol and PLI Tooling the local compiler frontends are used. In conjunction with RTC SCM repository + local projects - all files are encoded in UTF-8. UTF-8 is not a supported encoding for the local compiler frontends. When running the rdz...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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