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COBOL Compilers

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COBOL working storage variable for use in the occurs value

One of the issues we see is having to compile programs when we have an abend due to a internal COBOL table overflow. It would be nice to be able to have a working storage variable used in the occurs value so that we could set up a table with those...
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 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

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...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Having poor table declarations flagged.

Hi during our test phase for COBOL 6 we encounter an memory overwrite after recompiling a program. The abend is linked with the new STGOPT option wich had discarded some unused items after the chart Here's the failing syntax this chart is defined ...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Upgrade the IBM supplied CICS Reserved Word Table

It appears that IBM hasn't reviewed and upgraded the supplied CICS reserved word table for many releases (and versions) of COBOL. For example, OO syntax has been restricted under CICS for many versions of COBOL but the relevant words, such as INVO...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Having the choice of memory position when using ALLOCATE

When using the ALLOCATE statement it's impossible to specify where the storage must be allocated (like in the STORAGE OBTAIN macro).
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Prepackaged explicit DLL call support

The ability to make explicit DLL calls from non-DLL compile units is quite important for integrating Java code into larger existing applications that make extensive use of DYNAM calls. A standard explicit DLL call API should be provided by the Cob...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Each "RULES" reset preceding RULES to default ?

When giving options: RULES(ENDPERIOD) RULES(NOEVENPACK) RULES(NOLAXPERF) RULES(NOOMITODOMIN) RULES(NOSLACKBYTES) RULES(NOUNREFSOURCE) the result obtained is: RULES(ENDPERIOD,EVENPACK,LAXPERF,OMITODOMIN,SLACKBYTES,NOUNREFSOURCE) Each expression of ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

COBOL V5 compiler should provide "NOTEST DWARF SOURCE" option

COBOL V5 compiler should provide "NOTEST DWARF SOURCE" option which includes SOURCE information in the load module needed by problem analysis tools such as IBM PD Tools. Such option would allow debugging information to be kept together in load mod...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Cobol V5 - RULE(unique_option) instead of RULES(multi_options)

In Cobol V5, use of RULES option require to list all suboptions.We think it would be more flexible to give RULE one by one, and it would be more evolutive (support new suboptions and perhaps client/site rules).
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

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