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COBOL Compilers

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Enhance INITCHECK suboption to display severe error

INITCHECK only display warning messages with LAX and STRICT suboption IGYCB7311-W The data item &1 may be used at this statement before it is set. INITCHECK should include other suboption that compilation give a severe error to cause failure a...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Direct support for UNBOUNDED table in ALLOCATE and FREE statements

The ALLOCATE and FREE Enterprise Cobol V6 statements are not directly usable for structures containing an UNBOUNDED table. We suggest extension syntax to ALLOCATE and FREE statements. ALLOCATE arithmetic-expression-1 CHARACTERS [INITIALIZED] RETUR...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

UTF-8 Literal Support for COBOL

In COBOL it is possible to have EBCDIC string literals with z'Literal', UTF-16 literals with n'Literal'.With the new Enhancements for UTF-8 Support in COBOL we need UTF-8 Literals, e.g. u'Literal'.Coding UTF-8 Literals with hex codes is error prun...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Cobol V5 - Reintroduce "Intrinsic Function Implementation Considerations" chapter in "Performance Tuning" manual

In the previous version of "Performance Tuning" manual, an appendix provided some informations on the implementation of "intrinsic functions", namely if it were implemented as "inline" code, call to a Language Environment service, or part of an ex...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

COBOL 5 - TEST(NODWARF) for non-IBM debug tool users

This requirement is similar to existing requirement 75048 "Cobol V5 - Evolution for TEST option-TEST(EJPD,NODWARF) for non IBM debuging tools" IBM provides in Enterprise COBOL version 5 a sub-option for the TEST compiler option - NOTEST(NODWARF). ...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Remove the requirement for the IGZIUXB (IGZIUXC/IGZIUXD) exit with the COBOL v6.2 TEST(SEPARATE) option implementation

Without implementing the the IGZIUXB exit (or it's CICS version IGZIUXC/IGZIUXD), CEEDUMP processing is unable to access SEPARATE DWARF debugging data in the COBOL v6.2 implementation. This results in the local variables and line numbers not being...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6R2 - Defect - the "inline off" directive does not work

The ">>inline off" directive does not work as expected. A performed paragraph is inlined despite the ">> INLINE OFF" directive.
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Delivered

Cobol 5 Sort Table in-place

Sort in Enterprise COBOL 5.2 does not sort in-place when sorting an array in storage, but instead allocates a work copy of the array to perform the sorting and allocates additional storage as well.This is inefficient and unsuitable when used with ...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

COBOL for AIX:limit the amount of memory used by CPM loaded modules

Controls the amount of memory used by CPM: 1. limit the number of modules loaded by CPM, By specifying the upper limit of the number of program modules Or 2. limit the amount of memory used by CPM loaded program module, by specifying the upper lim...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

IGYCB7310

I noticed that the warning message, IGYCB7310-W, appears after all other messages in the COBOL V5.1 compiler sysout, and is not included in the first Messages Total line and is located after the program statistics instead of with all of the other ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

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