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COBOL Compilers

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COBOL V5+ Recursion Protection for File Declaratives

If an abnormal file condition is "protected" by a COBOL declarative routine and this routine closes the file the file status becomes 00 and another write attempt by the application will fail again driving the declarative again, thus creating a loop.
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Free from the constraint of the organization of Divisions

Hi, According to the standard, a COBOL program must be organized into 4 Divisions, and these Divisions must appear in a specific order.It is the same with the standard Sections of the Divisions, such as for example the Working-Storage Section or t...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Offer CBL option for Binder control statment

In some situation, it may be necessary to manage specific options when running the Binder. These options can be the consequence of choice at the level of the Cobol program: by example using the EXCI interface that require to include a specific mod...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Improvement to NUMCHECK to report Ahead of Invaild data being passed

We are currently moving all the modules from V3and v4 to v6. During that process we came accross one issue reported by teh application support people that when we move alphanumeric number to number variable , it converts last alphabet to signed nu...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Automatic internal conversion of indices to index

When a data-item declared in Working-Storage or Local-Storage is used to access the elements of a table (OCCURS), and is not used to access other tables (data-item dedicated to a table), this data-item could be automatically converted to INDEX for...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

ECOBOL v5.1 - CEE0813S Insufficient storage.

I created Service Request 89561,7TD,000 to resolve a CEE0813S Insufficient storage issue a user was having. As per the SR, a 'quick fix' should make the August release but may not resolve the issue. I was advised to submit an RFE quoting RTC 11416...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Still problems after PH35652 / PH36690 and trace program compiled with OFFSET

After applying fixes PH35652 (COBOL 6.3) and PH36690 (COBOL 6.2), we notice that there are still problems to trace the execution of programs compiled with the option OFFSET / OPTIMIZE (1|2). Despite the use of the OPTIMIZE (1) option, it happens t...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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