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COBOL Compilers

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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...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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...
4 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...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Let Enterprise Cobol Compiler exploit zIIP CPU

Starting from version 5, enterprise cobol compilers have increased the cpu used to compile programs, especially using optimization options of the executables.Offload the CPU used by compilers to zIIP processors at least during the most cpu busy ph...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error handling improvements

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add recommended data types to command documentation

When reviewing code, we try to teach the developers to use the right data type for the right purpose - use a binary index, don't do calculations with display numerics, etc. It would be very helpful if they didn't have to figure for themselves whic...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Nested Occurs Depending On (ODO) for JSON Generate

When several "Occurs Depending On" (ODO) are nested into each other, modifying the number of occurence for an ODO during run time change the way the storage is reorganized. We want nested ODO to behave in a way that would generate JSON tables with...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

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