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COBOL Compilers

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    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Add support for a RETURNING phrase for ENTRY statement

    Hi, The ENTRY statement should provide a RETURNING clause that behaves similarly to the same clause used in the PROCEDURE DIVISION RETURNING declaration. This assumes that the currently existing restrictions on the combination of PROCEDURE DIVSION...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    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 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    NOEVENP/NOLXPRF rules suboption. Distinguish between user source program and copy member item definition

    To decide to issue a return code 12 or 04 when the IGYDS1348-W/IGYPA3084-W warning occurs, it is necessary to distinguish whether the definition of the data item appears directly in the user source program or was included in the program from a cop...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

    Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

    The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
    almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enterprise Cobol - Compiler option to enable / disable DEBUGGING-MODE

    To date, the activation of debugging lines, marked with a "D" in column 7, can only be activated / deactivated by intervening at the source code level, by specifying or removing the "WITH DEBUGGING MODE" clause in the Environment Division. We woul...
    about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 13 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...
    almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    PROGRAM-ID special register

    A "PROGRAM-ID" special register should be usefull for writing diagnostic routines in Cobol programs. Alternative : an intrinsic function returning "PROGRAM-ID" and others informations about runtime context. Thanks. Denis
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    JSON numeric/string conversion

    Support conversion between COBOL numeric fields and JSON strings.
    about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Future consideration

    cob2 should know where its compiler binary is located

    Currently, cob2 doesn't know where the COBOL compiler binary is located. Even though it is part of the product, you have to specify SIGYCOMP in the STEPLIB variable. This is confusing and creates a larger entry into using cob2 if this isn't done o...
    8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    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...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

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