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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise COBOL V5+ - TEST(dwarf,source) option violates *CONTROL NOSOURCE directives

When the *CONTROL NOSOURCE / *CONTROL SOURCE directives are used in a source code, the lines present between these two directives are excluded from the compilation listing. However, if the compiler option TEST(dwarf,source) is activated, then the...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 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...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 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...
over 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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Having some system data available via standard COBOL word/ function.

Hi, in my shop several developers are using some basic system data like LPAR name, SMFID, job name step name...Despite many enhancements COBOL don't offer today some way to have this data at hand.So the developers create many module to have access...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add support for EVALUATE numeric-dataitem WHEN IS POSITIVE / WHEN IS NEGATIVE / WHEN IS ZERO / END-EVALUATE

The EVALUATE statement does not support SIGN CONDITION. EVALUATE numeric-DataItemWHEN IS POSITIVE[...]WHEN IS NEGATIVE[...]WHEN IS ZEROEND-EVALUATE raise a compilation error. This instruction must be written: EVALUATE TRUEWHEN numeric-DataItem >...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 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-...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

COMMAREA should be checked at compile time, avoiding the program to carry on with faulty COMMAREA that is greather than 32kb.

This incident concerning COBOL - CICS and use of COMMAREA. There is a limit of 32 kb when transferring data using COMMAREA. If the user is unaware, tries to pass more than 32kb, Cobol compiler will not give an error for that. Developer should be a...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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