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COBOL Compilers

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Cob5: Enhancements Compile Listing Option MAP

PP 5655-W32 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 5.2.0 With compile option MAP the total size of working-storage or WSA is not included in compile listing. Enterprise Cobol 4.2 and its predecessors are showing this when compiling with option MAP.Example:...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 - Abend S0C4 in IGZCEV4 for CEEDUMP when an UNBOUNDED memory table is present

When a CEEDUMP is fired on a COBOL V5 program containing a memory table with an OCCURS TO UNBOUNDED clause, it cause a S0C4 / CEE3204S ( IGZCEV4 routine) because it is beyond the allocated memory actually in UNBOUNDED table and the dump is incompl...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Is a defect

Cobol V5 - Mixture kind of interest in RULES(NOLAXPERF)

Option RULES(NOLAXPERF) concerns both about writing Cobol source and compilation options used. In a "industrial" building process (compilation, build process), compilation procedures can not be controlled by the developer, and inform him warnings ...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 - Error displaying ARCH option in CEEDUMP - ARCH(10) shown as ARCH(0)

CEEDUMP displays the compile options of a program compiled with Cobol V5. ARCH information seems incorrect : it is returned to 0 as we compile with ARCH (10).
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Db2 host-variable xLOB-FILE difference coprocessor and pre-processor

We noticed a difference of generation between the preprocessor Db2 and the coprocessor Db2 integrated to the compiler Cobol, on the generation of hosts-variables of type xLOB-FILE (USAGE SQL TYPE IS xLOB-FILE): - the preprocessor Db2 generates a S...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Provide Language Environment support for JES symbol service

A new facility in z/OS 2.1 is the JES Symbol Service (IAZSYMBL), which, among other things, allows an assembler program to obtain the value of JES system symbols SYS_CORR_CURRJOB, SYS_CORR_LASTJOB, and SYS_LASTJOBID after a task has submitted a jo...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Issue with REPORT SECTION

We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). I am trying to compile one of the program using IBM COBOL compiler,but getting below errors. it seems to me that AIX COBOL does not support REPORT SECTION. Could ...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol (all version) - DYNAM option, find the entry point first in the loadmodule

When a program is compiled with the DYNAM option, the search for the entry point corresponding to the CALL statement is not performed in the loadmodule, even if this entry point was added during the linkedit by a command INCLUDE: the search is don...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Best practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX.

Please providebest practices for Utilization Tracking and Reporting for IBM Cobol for AIX. Fromhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21642903andhttps://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27022104we can see that Utilization Track...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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