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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Continuation line for conditional compilation directives

A line of COBOL source code, limited to columns 8 to 72, to express a complex compilation condition, (>>if, >>when), with variables names that can be relatively long, is not sufficient.It is necessary to use artifices by using intermed...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - IGYLI0245-E error falsely triggered ("varname" was not defined as a compilation variable)

A conditional compilation variable is used under control of a >>if varname is defined directive.The compiler wrongly triggers an error IGYLI0245-E on the fact that the variable is not defined. The triggered message is an error...The return c...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

Cobol V5+ - Special Registers for access to information SERVICE and COPYRIGHT

It would be useful to have access at run time to the SERVICE and COPYRIGHT informations (valued by the compiler options). This could be done through Special Registers :- COPYRIGHT-OPTION or equivalent- SERVICE-OPTION or equivalent The length of Sp...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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 ...
almost 6 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.
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Offer CBL option for Binder control statment

In some situation, it may be necessary to manage specific options when running the Binder. These options can be the consequence of choice at the level of the Cobol program: by example using the EXCI interface that require to include a specific mod...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Automatic internal conversion of indices to index

When a data-item declared in Working-Storage or Local-Storage is used to access the elements of a table (OCCURS), and is not used to access other tables (data-item dedicated to a table), this data-item could be automatically converted to INDEX for...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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