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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise Cobol V4/V5/V6 - Conflicting options DYNAM and CICS("EXCI") is false

When using the CICS coprocessor to compile programs using the EXCI interface, option CICS("EXCI"), the compiler reports an error if the DYNAM option is used : IGYOS4020-W The "DYNAM" option was discarded due to conflict resolution option. The "CIC...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Support of >>PUSH and >>POP directive as described in ISO Cobol standard 2014

Extract from ISO Cobol standard 2014 : The state of compiler directives may be saved and restored with PUSH and POP directives. A “stack” is maintained that the state of a directive may be pushed on to. A subsequent POP directive removes the item ...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Defect - OPTIMIZE (1) can generate non traceable code

Under certain circumstances, OPTIMIZE(1) and NOTEST options can generate a code that can not be traced under debugger (third party debugers : CPW, M4).
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Copy cobol for USS, IRR, IHAACEE, etc

I would like to know if it is possible to release the copy also for the Cobol language for the following APIs:1) Unix System Services (BPX1/4*)2) IHAACEE3) RACF API (IRR *)This is because every release change is forced to review the copy as succes...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Using coprocessors as independent tools

The use of DB2 and CICS preprocessors is deprecated in favor of the coprocessors built into the Cobol compiler. We would like to be able to use the coprocessors as independent utilities, ie to transform the EXEC commands into Cobol instructions wi...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - non-dependent codepage binary code

In our RFE 127911, we propose the generation of a platform-independent binary code, which can possibly be run on non-EBCDIC platforms. This assumes that strings of characters, possibly reduced to a single character, are also independent of the pla...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - ARCH(0) for non-dependent hardware

As stated in our RFE 110886, the choice of ARCH level during compilation can be problematic. An alternative would be to produce a binary code independent of any hardware (zSeries or others). In the 1980's, I developed Cobol programs on the NCR VRX...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - No use of ED and EDMK HLASM instruction when OPTIMIZE level is not 0

We found that the Enterprise Cobol V6 did not use the ED and EDMK assembly instructions for formatting the edited numeric fields when the optimization level was not at 0 : OPTIMIZE(1|2).We deduced that these ED and EDMK instructions had an impact ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

IGYCB7300-W was safely removed by the optimizer

When the compiler detects a paragraph that never can be executed, COBOL V4 produced the message : " IGYOP3091-W Code from "procedure name OMV6-8" to "STRING (line 343.01)" can never be executed and was therefore discarded. " This message was given...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Compiling masks of numeric-edited data-item at runtime

In a system that has to manage several currencies, it might be interesting for performance reasons to be able to "compile" at runtime the masks of the numeric-edited data-items. Currently, if we want to manage several formatted numeric-edited fiel...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

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