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COBOL Compilers

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Increase COBOL Technical Resources for Publication Development

IBM should allocate significantly more/better COBOL technical resources for the preparation and review of their publications. IBM dedicated many person hours (years) to the development of the software for Enterprise COBOL V5.1. However, it appears...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

JSON Parsing and Generate in COBOL

We have the ablity to parse and generate XML documents in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS. The increasing use of JSON in the mobile arena presents opportunities (or challenges !) for equivalent processing in COBOL.
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Alternative to CEEGTST, CEEFRST and CEECZST for UNBOUNDED ODO tables

Enterprise Cobol V6 compiler brings the ALLOCATE and FREE statements for managing the memory associated with a structure defined in the LINKAGE SECTION. These statements are not directly applicable to an UNBOUNDED table but can allocate and free m...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V4/V5/V6 - Scope of ZONECHECK / NUMCHECK limited to incoming data

Hi, The ZONECHECK and NUMCHECK options tells the compiler to generate extra code to validate numeric data items when they are used as sending data items. We believe that these controls should only apply to data items that are "incoming" for the pr...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Ignoring SUPPRESS in COPY stmt if TEST Option is in effect

Compiling an SourceCode with TEST Option for Debug Tool. Source contains Procedure Division CopyBooks (containing cobol statements), brought into whithCOPY booknamen SUPPRESS.If Debugging such a Program, you see the variables used in the current s...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

SSRANGE with Suboptions MSG/ABD

Introduce SSRANGE with suboptions MSG/ABD for cobol V5.2.This option was introduced in COBOL version 6.1 with the APAR PI74933
almost 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

ZONECHECK option in COBOL V5 retrofit into COBOL V4

At a SHARE session I found out that invalid coding for zoned decimal items was a problem for migrating to COBOL V5. Per the session, it appears that a new compiler option is being considered for COBOL V5 to insert code to identify these invalid de...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Clarification of the VLR compilation option

The behavior of the VLR compilation option that appeared with Enterprise Cobol V5 could be clarified by indicating that:- VLR(COMPAT) checks the size of the read record against the "VARYING IN SIZE FROM min TO max" declaration of the FD clause,- V...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress message IGYOS4097-I for "TEST(NODWARF)"

When using the "TEST(NODWARF)" compilation option without any other parameter (or with EJPD/NOEJPD), this triggers an IGYOS4097-I message: IGYOS4097-I The TEST suboption values of SOURCE or SEPARATE are not allowed when NODWARF is in effect. The s...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Improve Enterprise COBOL 5/6 performance in high volume CICS transaction environments

Enterprise COBOL 5/6 includes a completely rewritten "back end" that generates high performance object code. It's "claim to fame" is the significant performance improvements it offers customers. However, those performance improvements are only ava...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

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