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COBOL Compilers

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Enterprise Cobol - Support for concatenation operator &

We want the "&" concatenation operator, as described in the ISO COBOL standard, to be supported by the IBM Enterprise Cobol compiler.This operator must be able to be used everywhere where a literal is authorized:- declaration of a VALUE in a d...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

JSON PARSE – Conversion / Differentiation of NULL values

NULL values in PATCH method (how does Java actually differentiate?) When using the http request method PATCH it is necessary to distinguish whether a field was omitted or whether a null value was sent. A construct similar to the JSON PARSE conv...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Cobol JSON PARSE - Keep unparsed JSON Structures/Fields

It should be possible to store everything that is attached under a JSON object that you specify in an Xer field. For example, if I get a list of orders that I then have to pass on to subprograms, I would like to be able to parse {"topic": "xy", "o...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

CALLEXIT for checking Call Parameter Usage

It would be good to have a kind of "Call-Exit", which is called every time the compiler see a CALL Subroutine, but also "Procedure Division" or ENTRY-Statement.So we could build a dictionary for all Calls, knowing which program calls which subprog...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Improved storage usage when using moves to change encodings

We are using the functions display-of and national-of to dynamically change between encodings. Like this: MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF ( INPUT-DATA (1:INPUT-LENGTH), CHARSET-CCSID), 277) TO OUTPUT-DATA (1:EXPECTED-OUTPUT-LENGTH)...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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