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COBOL Compilers

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ISO Dynamic Length elementary Items as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard

Add support for dynamic (variable) length elementary items as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard. These are similar to (and compatible with) DB2 VARCHAR or PL/I prefixed variable length data items. They also include support for null terminated...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

AMODE(24) support in COBOL V5 Compiler

Our Shop requires that COBOL V5 compiler can support Statically linked calls to AMODE(24) programs. This is essential as we have several thousand programs that are link edited as AMODE(24) and are statically linked into COBOL Modules. Please refer...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

New compile option INFOFS/NOINFOFS for Enterprise Cobol V5

Enterprise Cobol V5 changed the handling with the information-level file status.Version 5 restores the COBOL 85 conforming behavior: A successful read of a file might return file status 04 instead of 00, if the minimum and maximum record sizes do...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Cob5: Compiler directive to control inlining

Part of cobol's optimization strategies is inlining of performed sections/paragraphs. This strategy fails to provide any benefit at execution time for certain programming styles, where the mainline code contains many performs to error checking rou...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Make COBOL Compiler and Runtime maintenance level independent

We compile our programs in one LPAR, we test them, and finally we distribute the objects to the Banks in other countries (Production LPAR). The software level of COBOL 5.1 complier and following versions have a strong dependency on the runtime lev...
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Option to tolerate move with reference modification with length 0 when using SSRANGE compile option

IBM stronly advises to use the SSRANGE compiler option in test to detect writes outside variable boundaries, to help migrating to Enterprise COBOL V5. However, this also generates an abend when the program does a move with reference modification, ...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Cobol V5/6: Additional RULES suboption (NO)UNREF to flag unreferenced variables

One available solution for storage optimization is compile option STGOPT. With this option the compiler discards unreferenced data items. Instead of using compiler option STGOPT, we would prefer to eliminate unused data items from source for bette...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Formatted Dump generated by IBM COBOL for AIX in case of application abends

Please enhance IBM COBOL for AIX to provide the capability to generate a formatted Dump report in case of COBOL application abends.The IBM COBOL for AIX runtime should produce a formatted Dump in case of application abends which reports the values...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

Better handling of 0 ODO structures

Complex structure with Occurs Depending On cannot be monitored in DebugTool if ODO-Variable has Value of zero. All variables (beginning with the one with zero length) in this structure gets "Incorrect value for ODO variable xx program-name:>var...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

V6.1 compiler warning if literal ILBOABN0 found

According to the v6.1 migration guide: The ILBOABN0 interface for requesting an ABEND in a COBOL environment is not supported for programs compiled with Enterprise COBOL V5 or V6... To prevent application continuing to use ILBOABN0, compiler to is...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

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