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COBOL Compilers

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Display the names of libraries that store declarations of tables and variables in generated DB2 precompiler and coprocessor listing.

DCLGEN is used to produce declarations for tables, views, and variables for C, COBOL, or PL/I program, these declarations can be included later in the program via: EXEC SQL INCLUDE member-name END-EXEC. where member-name is the name of the data se...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Under review

Handle abend when using JSON GENERATE statement

We are facing an issue when using the JSON GENERATE cobol statement with cobol variables containing incorrect value. For exemple, in the case of a numeric variable containing spaces, the order triggers an ASRA abend and the generated json buffer i...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Introducing Local Working Storage (Valid only inside a Section)

Hi, it would be great, if COBOL would allow local variables which would be defined into a COBOL section and are valid only in this COBOL Section. This would bring a huge benefit making COBOL programs much more structured and reducing the working s...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 Not under consideration

COBOL: Catch use of wrong index

Case: TS006008227Summary: The COBOL compiler should warn when the wrong index is used Details: In COBOL the data division INDEXED BY phrase is used to associate an index with a table. “A table without an INDEXED BY phrase can be referred to throug...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Add Cobol language command for support Base64 Code/Decode

Permit Receive/Send special characters from/to MF without have conversion problems
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

new function for current timestamp

I would a cobol function to retrieve the current system timestamp with the higher possible precision like STCKE or Db2 SET CURRENT TIMESTAMP. Optionally a parameter could drive the required precision of the timestamp (same way as the current times...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 15 Future consideration

Adopt Dataname Picture and Usage in Mainframe COBOL

It would be extremely useful, and would help to prevent logic errors, if the COBOL compiler would allow a dataname to adopt the PICTURE and USAGE from another dataname at compile time. At execution time, logic errors (and even abends) can occur in...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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