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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise COBOL V6+ - IGYLI0245-E error falsely triggered ("varname" was not defined as a compilation variable)

A conditional compilation variable is used under control of a >>if varname is defined directive.The compiler wrongly triggers an error IGYLI0245-E on the fact that the variable is not defined. The triggered message is an error...The return c...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol - Free from the constraint of the organization of Divisions

Hi, According to the standard, a COBOL program must be organized into 4 Divisions, and these Divisions must appear in a specific order.It is the same with the standard Sections of the Divisions, such as for example the Working-Storage Section or t...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under 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

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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

JSON numeric/string conversion

Support conversion between COBOL numeric fields and JSON strings.
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Still problems after PH35652 / PH36690 and trace program compiled with OFFSET

After applying fixes PH35652 (COBOL 6.3) and PH36690 (COBOL 6.2), we notice that there are still problems to trace the execution of programs compiled with the option OFFSET / OPTIMIZE (1|2). Despite the use of the OPTIMIZE (1) option, it happens t...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(MSG)' function improvement request

We applied the COBOL Compile option 'NUMCHECK(ZON,MSG)' to prevent 'invalid data' that may occur during program execution.As a result of testing, we found that there were a lot of programs with 'invalid data' code.Program developers have the follo...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Entreprise COBOL V6+ - IGYOS4081-U when MDECK(NOCOMPILE) + SQL options and no valid DBRMLIB

When compiling with MDECK(NOCOMPILE) and SQL options to resolve COPY and EXEC SQL INCLUDE, the compiler raises an IGYOS4081-U error if the DBRMLIB ddname is not declared, or if file associated with the DBRMLIB ddname does'nt have a valid format. T...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Future consideration

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single string

XML PARSE BUG XML-TEXT parsing in chunks rather than a single stringXML-TEXT content is 104069, but its separating the text like 64909 and 39160 chars chunks rather than a single string text. we tried Enterprise COBOL 4.2 & 6.2 no difference s...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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