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COBOL Compilers

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Allow JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL to be set on or off at runtime

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL ON/OFF It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. The WITH DETAIL phrase displays too many messages in job output. Many of the messages are expected conditions for many...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

COBOL: free "ID" for datadefinitions (REST-Services)

In REST-service-context „id“ is a common used keyword for indentification purposes. In COBOL it isn't possible to define such a variable, because it is an reserved word. ID is an abbreviation for IDENTIFICATION in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION and for t...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Add the hability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

As of now, when the API we call return a dynamical JSON array, we need to declare a COBOL array with a large number of occurences in order to be sure to retrieve all the data with the JSON PARSE statements. But, in most cases, the json array will ...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

User defined constants

Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL 6.4+ - Add sub-options to CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) option to be more agressive in removing of lines concerned by conditional compilation

Hi, The CONDCOMP(SKIPSRC) compilation option allows to remove lines in compilation listing of code excluded by conditional compilation. Despite this, there may still be many lines related to conditional compilation present in the compilation listi...
11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Compiler support for +80 character lines

With the release of the IBM Z Open Editor for Visual Studio Code, more IBM COBOL is edited in an editor not limited by 80 characters.We request an option to the z/OS COBOL compiler, to be able to read COBOL code without a limit of 80 characters.An...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Enhance INITCHECK so it catches the use of uninitialized indexes in SEARCH statements

The frequent programming error of forgetting to set an index before a SEARCH is not being detected by INITCHECK. In the following example program, the index U150-ACT-IND-IDX is erroneously not set before the SEARCH U150-TRANX-ACT-IND-DATA line. Wi...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

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