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COBOL Compilers

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Breaking Points For the Last Session Gets Loaded in Debugger

The last session's breaking points are not getting loaded in the current session. However, for every new session, we have to make sure that on closing the last debugging session, all the breaking points in that last session should be deleted with ...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add ISO 2014 Dynamic Capacity Tables

Add support for dynamic capacity tables as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard. These are similar to the UNBOUNDED tables introduced in V5 of Enterprise COBOL but they have fewer restrictions and are more programmer friendly. They do not requir...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

COBOL ability to read ESDS datasets by RBA

Add the ability for Cobol to read ESDS datasets by RBA (Relative Byte Address). If the above is added, you should also add the ability to return (or know) the RBA when data is written to an ESDS dataset.
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Cobol V6 - add "WITH ENCODING" option on JSON GENERATE statment

In new Enterprise Cobol V6, statment "JSON GENERATE" produce only UTF-8 or UTF-16 document, depending on PICTURE clause of receiving data. Using UTF-8 / UTF-16 values on z/OS EBCDIC system is not very easy nor usual (and not human readable on EBCD...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Performance impact when compiling with DB2 coprocessor

When preparing a Cobol-DB2 program with integrated DB2 coprocessor, the Cobol compiler generate an unique SQLDA and feeds it before each SQL access, (DB2 pr?-processor generate an independant SQLDA for each SQL access, and resolve host-variable ad...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Eliminate recording mode warning

RECORDING MODE is an IBM extension that is required only to "specif[y] the format of the physical records in a QSAM file", and unless one needs format 'U' it can be assumed based on the other characteristics of the file definition. I would like to...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 sequence detection

Detect the following sequence at compilation with a warning : 'move num-4b (binary format) to num-4p (packed format)' that can give truncation at execution
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Only for testing purposes - do _not_reply! Thanks.

This RFE is only for testing purposes (notification doesn't work correctly). Do not replay on this RFE. Thanks.
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Seamless 64-bit Linux support for COBOL Importer

On Red Hat Linux 6.0 64-bit or newer, the COBOL importer code in IBM Integration Bus Toolkit does not work. Additional configuration is required to install RedHat libraries. Discussion with the Enterprise COBOL team reveals that this is a limitati...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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