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COBOL Compilers

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Improve COBOL OFFSET report usability

Without the OPTIMIZE option in earlier versions (or with OPT(0)), the location of the first instruction generated for each statement could then be used when debugging a failing program to accurately deduce the COBOL statement that was being proces...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Warning at lack of end-evaluate

It would be handy if the lack of end-evaluate would be reported with a warning.
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Delivered

Enterprise COBOL to support greater than 999,999 lines in source listing

Since the introduction of Enterprise COBOL version 5 in 2013/2014, IBM has been all about eliminating constraints and limits in the COBOL compiler. In Enterprise COBOL version 6, IBM introduced the 64-bit backend processing to support programs of ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122 (125715) Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Add new switch for cdadump/dwarfdump to specify locale

The dwarf data appears to be saved in UTF-8 format. When using the cdadump/dwarfdump program to display/print the variables and source sections, we see that various special characters are either printed incorrectly or shown as a hex escape sequenc...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Message IGYPG3192-E should be issued when Reference Modification with Inline Calculation is performed

When performing a MOVE operation with Reference Modification that uses Inline Calculation, if possible the compiler should detect if it will go beyond the rightmost character of the target variable and if so error message IGYPG3192-E should be iss...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Cobol JSON PARSE to EBCDIC

It should be possible to parse a JSON that is in ebcdic. When using JSONs as a dynamic way to store data or to send data between mainframe applications, we always have to convert the generated JSON to EBCDIC and convert it back to UTF-8 in order t...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 8 Delivered

64 bit support in COBOL

We need 64 bit addressing capability with our COBOL application program executables.
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Perform until exit

Now that COBOL finally has proper EXIT statements there should be a way to speciify an "infinite" loop, or rather a loop that has no explicit end condition but depends on the use of EXIT PERFORM (or EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, GOBACK) to terminate the...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 12 Delivered

SlackBytes on Sync-Structures should be flagged

Given Structure:05 MyStructure.10 FirstItem PIC X(3).10 SecondItem S9(8) BINARY SYNC.After FirstItem, the Compiler will insert a non-accessable Byte, called SlackByte, for Alignment.I need a Compiler Message (Informational), every time when a Slac...
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

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