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COBOL Compilers

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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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Compile OCCURS 0 TO 1 as OCCURS 0 TO UNBOUNDED

Before Cobol V5, we used "OCCURS 0 TO 1" in LINKAGE SECTION to manage tables whose size was not known at compile time.We propose that under the control of an option or compilation directive, the declarations "OCCURS 0 TO 1 DEPENDING ON" in LINKAGE...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Problems of association between source lines and instruction addresses for the inlined paragraphs

We found several issues regarding the assignment of an address to a source line or paragraph name at the level of inlined PERFORM (options INLINE and OPTIMIZE(1|2) ). This creates problems for debugging: trace, dump analysis, performance analysis,...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Add support for file processing exits and/or user defined file systems to IBM COBOL for AIX

Please enhance IBM COBOL for AIX to support file processing exits and/or user defined file systems/formats (e.g. implemented by Callable File Handlers like the ones for Micro Focus' ExtFH interface).
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Mainframe style command-line argument linkage in an ASCII environment on AIX

Please provide a compiler option (or compiler patch) which enables COBOL main programs to receive command-line arguments as an ASCII character string that has a halfword prefix that contains the string length (z/OS mainframe COBOL like command-lin...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

ADDRESS OF data items in FILE SECTION

Support the special register ADDRESS OF for data items defined in the FILE SECTION. Special Registers - ADDRESS OFhttp://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6SG3_6.1.0/com.ibm.cobol61.ent.doc/PGandLR/ref/rllanadd.html
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Support LARGE or EXTENDED format for SYSUTn

When the compiler work files are declared as LARGE or EXTENDED format, explicitly by JCL (DSNTYPE=LARGE), or implicitly by an SMS dataclass, the compiler triggers an S213-14 abend. The compiler should support LARGE and EXTENDED type format on the ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 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 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 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...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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