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COBOL Compilers

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To enable an option in the COBOL compiler to get the DB2 integrated coprocessor behaves as the separated DB2 precompiler does

We have been using the COBOL 4.2 compiler for years in our shop. We have just begun to use the integrated SQL coprocessor, instead of the separated DB2 precompiler and we are experiencing problems with the continuation lines. The manual says the p...
almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 48 Not under consideration

SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Individual setting of the content of //SYSJAVA

When you compile a COBOL class definition, a Java source program that contains a class definition that corresponds to the COBOL class definition is generated in addition to the object file. We need an option to interact with the output in SYSJAVA ...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

COBOL 6 needs to utilize the memory in the 64 bit address space for business needs and quicker access to data

Humana proposes the following changes to the COBOL 6 compiler OR, creation of a new COBOL64 compiler with these capabilities.1. Make the Compiler capable of utilizing the 64-bit address space to take advantage of the 32 terabytes of memory on each...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Introduce equivalent of conditional compilation in management of compilation options in SYSOPTF

Hi, Managing compilation options can be complex due to the multiplicity of contexts: batch, cics, db2, static call, dynamic call, etc. This complexity is increased when several versions of the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler must coexist with opt...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

COBOL structures and examples for Common Debug Architecture

We would like the documentation and include libraries to the Common Debug Architecture, to be expanded with examples in COBOL, and data structures in COBOL.
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

NOUNREFALL option: improved warning messages

When using RULES(NOUNREFALL) the message---IGYSC2262-W **RULES(NOUNREFALL)** No references to "XXXXXXX", nor any of its subordinates if "XXXXXXX" is a group item, were found in the program.---does not refer to a source line but to the name of the ...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

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