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COBOL Compilers

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SSRANGE option to omit Reference Modification from range checking

Add an SSRANGE sub-option that omits COBOL Reference Modification from range checking.
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 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...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Pseudo figurative constants "max-value" and "min-value"

In some processing, we need to assign the greatest possible value, or the smallest possible value, to a data-item, without necessarily knowing the PICTURE and the USAGE of this data-item (processing carried out by COPYBOOKs of general interest) . ...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Future consideration

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.
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Keep the optimization of MOVE during the prolog program on the group data-items declared VOLATILE

Hi When the VOLATILE clause is present on a group zone that contains data-item with VALUE clauses (these data-items are constant and are never modified in procedure, these can be considered as a signature of the program), the optimization of the g...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 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 ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 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 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PERFORM VARYING for loop

We propose the implementation of a compilation directive allowing to do iterations. These iterations could involve the manipulation of compilation variables and source text which would then be replicated on each iteration of the loop.Corrollary: y...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - comment directive

We suggest implementing a "comment" compilation directive. This could be the >>* directive. This directive would allow comments to be introduced in a source code, which would not be returned to the compilation listing (so as not to overload ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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