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COBOL Compilers

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OPEN Operation Extensions

Allow for additional processing to be associated with OPEN operations based on whether the file is OPEN as INPUT or OUTPUT.(Feature is not available for OPEN I/O or EXTEND.) The aim is to facilitate easier introduction of Headers and Trailers proc...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 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...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG and the compile listing do not have the same information for APA to report the consistant CPU time

Bank of America is complaining about the difference between the 2 reports produced in APA.They also say the results using the listing are correct because more code is generated at the END-PERFORM. The compile listing shows the correct results. The...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

[Copy] Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide ISO 2014 COBOL Enhanced ROUNDING options

Submitted By: 3100012QSB #57Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Non-default Compiler Option to use DFP for intermediate results

Submitted By: 3100012QSB #58Submitted Date: 2016-06-15, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PGAD0712-1523 COBOL instrinsic function to support collation sequences

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: xgadweiSubmitters Company: GAD eG PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAD0712-1523 COBOL instrinsic function to support collation sequencesHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: In...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

PHSBC0514-1695 UTF-8 encoded UNICODE support for COBOL

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: wernersadieSubmitters Company: HSBC PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PHSBC0514-1695 UTF-8 encoded UNICODE support for COBOLHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: InvestigateClose...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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