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COBOL Compilers

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Entreprise Cobol - Internal format for INDEX with offset and occurrence number

The internal storage format of an INDEX uses four bytes to store the offset relative to the beginning of the memory table (as long as the compiler generates 31-bit addressing code).We propose to use a storage format consisting of these four bytes ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

COBOL error messages diversification about INITCHECK use

Customer would like to differenziate message IGYCB7311-W based on tipology of field definition. That is a different message number for Disp-Num, Packed-Dec, Display, Binary, Disp-Num-Edit. The reason of this request is that customer would like to ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Cobol data type that corresponds to Db2 for z/OS DECFLOAT data type

In Db2 for z/OS you can store data as DECFLOAT. There is no corresponding Cobol data type, so when using DECFLOAT in Cobol programs we have to cast between DECFLOAT and a Cobol data type that does not intirely.We need a Cobol data type that corres...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

COBOL 6.2 behaviour: during NUMCHECK, "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION

Customer uses compilation parameter NUMCHECK(ZON(NOALPHNUM), ABD) as suggested by IBM, but he would like that DISPLAY statement would be escluded by ABEND. Customer would like the "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION not on other instruction. DISP...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Support for regular expressions in source manipulation functions

The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING commands processed during the source code analysis phase during compilation should support regular expressions for both looking for text patterns, but also for replacements by exploiting the captured elements in the ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Support of DECIMAL-POINT IS VIRTUAL

The DECIMAL-POINT clause allows you to choose the character of the decimal mark in the expression of the numerical constants and in the masks of the edited numeric zones.In a multi-currency context, we would like the dot and comma characters to be...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - TUNE(level) compilation option

The IBM compiler C/C++ for z/OS has a TUNE() compilation option to improve the binary code generated with the ARCH() compilation option:- ARCH(level1) sets the maximum supported hardware level- TUNE(level2) optimizes the binary code generated comp...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Index shared by multiple tables

It can be useful to be able to access the same position in a synchronized way in several tables.In this case it is necessary to use an indice (numeric data item) that is independent of each table.However, for performance reasons, it is best to use...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Accept "out of range" values in the SET index statement

The "SET SET TO integer" statement does not accept out-of-range values relative to the index reference table.For example, the statement "SET index TO 0" triggers a warning and is automatically converted to "SET index TO 1" by the compiler. We thin...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Contextual compilation variables

It might be interesting to have compiler variables indicating the current context corresponding to the position in the source code:- name / type of the current Division: Identification, Environment, Data, Procedure- name / type of the current Sect...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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