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COBOL Compilers

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COBOL Z/OS support LRECL greater than 32767

Hi, Like for ZFS files i want that COBOL can support records greater than 32767. In USS environment i can create, read a record greater than 32767, in Z/OS VBS record format i can't.The LRECL=X is supported on JCL.
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL TYPE ROWSET FOR n ROWS

To facilitate the declaration of host-variables necessary for multirow access in DB2, I suggest the creation of a new SQL type dedicated to the creation (generation) of structures with OCCURS on elementary variables. SQL TYPE IS ROWSET FOR n ROWS ...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Declaring multiple conditional compilation variables on the same >>DEFINE directive

Hi, We have developed COPYBOOKs which adapt to the context according to the conditional compilation variables. Before referring to the COPYBOOK, we declare a number of variables that give this context. Today, you have to create as many lines con...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Compatibility mode option for Cobol compiler

We would like to have a compile option to prevent usage of new compiler functions provided via PTFs. Starting with COBOL V5+ IBM delivers fixes besides with new functions every 2 months. Right now there is no way to prevent users from using thes...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Cobol V6R2 - Improvement of the binary code generated for EVALUATE statement

The binary code generated for an EVALUATE statement has some defects:- dead code- test and branch not optimumProblems found with all optimization levels. The binary code generated in Cobol V4R2 option OPTIMIZE (STD) is better than the binary code ...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Literal Enhancements

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG13001; Voting Priority=2.8 +5=2 +4=5 +3=4 +2=11 +1=2 abstain=3 Priority=2.8 NOTE 1: This is a follow-up (possible replacement for): SSLNGC08006 2002 ISO COBOL - Enhanced literal continuation support ...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enabling unit testing of deployable load module

We would like to be able to do section and paragraph testing on the load module that we will be using for production.A unit testing framework like COBOL Check, builds a new COBOL program, that tests the code. But we are actually not certain that t...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Optional clause for default value on >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER

Add an optional clause to assign a default value on a conditional variable used as a parameter. This would be a simplified writing of : >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER>>IF conditional-var IS NOT DEFINED>>DEFINE conditional-...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Generate "no-op" binary for EXIT statement when TEST option is active

When the EXIT statement is used in a PARAGRAPH, and that PARAGRAPH is not the end of scope of a PERFORM (THRU), the compiler does not generate any binary code. This complicates the debug by not allowing to set a breakpoint on the EXIT statement co...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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