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COBOL Compilers

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New option to detect dead code with OPT(0) wanted!

We would want to have a possibility to get IGYCB7300-W messages (or a new message) also when compiling with OPT(0). In modern IDE's like RDz can the developer during development directly see and remove dead code. An ?ISPF-developer? are required t...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Source text replacement in string

The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives allow replacements to be made in the source text, but these replacements only apply to COBOL words. Unless we are mistaken, it is not possible to carry out replacements in string type literals. We suggest ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - String operators for >>DEFINE directive

The >>DEFINE directive should allow manipulation of strings:* concatenation of strings: use of the "&" operator* substring extraction: use of reference modifications* reference to a compilation variable, possibly with automatic casting
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PUNCH directive to include text in source

We would like to have a directive allowing to introduce calculated lines of text (not predefined in a COPYBOOK) in the source code at compile time. We suggest the provision of a >> PUNCH directive. Syntax: >>PUNCH [AT column] text-expr...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Dynamic compilation variable

Compiler directives, and in particular the >>DEFINE directive, are not handled by the REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives. This therefore prohibits managing compilation variables dynamically, for example by declaring in a COPYBOOK a compil...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - empty SECTION and statement in SECTION without PARAGRAPH

We see unexpected behavior of the Cobol compiler when using SECTION in PROCEDURE DIVISION.This for the V4R2 and V6R2 versions. Case 1 When a SECTION is empty, SECTION declaration followed immediately by another SECTION declaration, the compiler is...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

XML PARSE INTO structure

Exchanging XML request/reply documents between JAVA and COBOL in CICS can leverage well defined xml schemas that can be generated from XML GENERATE sample instances. XML GENERATE works well for Response structure from COBOL to JAVA, but XML PARSE ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Secured Move Overlapping

Sometimes it may be necessary to shift data within a structure.Example:- Insert / remove an item in a sorted memory table.- Insert / replace / remove a substring in a string.For this we can define a more or less complex and CPU expensive algorithm...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

CICS and SQL host variables should be added to COBOL cross reference.

The XREF listing produced by the compiler omits unreferenced SQL or CICS variables. In this example, BARREC RECLEN and CICSRESP are not in the listing file's cross reference map.EXEC CICS REWRITE FILE(FILE-NAME) FROM(BARREC) LENGTH(RECLEN) RESP(CI...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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

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