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COBOL Compilers

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Dynamically called programs as smf data

The cobol 6.4 runtime can deliver a report about the dynamically called programs. It would be nice if this information could also be exported as smf data, so that is would be more easy to run analysis about the usage of programs. Currently in smf ...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future 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...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6R4 - IGZPROUT - Add "SERVICE" information in report

Hi, IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 allows you to produce a report of all subroutines called by dynamic call. We would like the information introduced by the SERVICE compilation option to be included in the IGZPROUT report. This would meet one of our...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Bring back Compiler Message placement at the end of the Compiler Listing

In current versions of COBOL, compiler messages are placed in the middle of the listing, between the "Data Division Map" and the "Assembler Listing". This makes them hard to find and makes life harder and frustrating for the programmer when he/she...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enhance INITCHECK(STRICT) for different types of used-before-set warnings

Given:INITCHECK(LAX) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is completely uninitialized on all logic paths leading to that statement. INITCHECK(STRICT) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is uninitialized on any logic paths leading to that st...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

New COBOL Compile Option: Global ON SIZE ERROR

When you want to handle overflow conditions and want to avoid truncated fields you have to code the ON SIZE ERROR statement for all computational statements.This is tedious work.In addition any decimal overflows conditions were suppressed by Langu...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Message added with the sysout

Our request is at the NUMCHECK compilation option ... MSG versus ABD sub-option. When we put NUMCHECK (ZON (ALPHNUM), PAC, NOBIN, MSG), In runtime when the INVALID DATA is encountered, a nice message is added in the SYSOUT like for example: IGZ027...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Lifting File Structure Limitations

For I/O usability enhancement i suggest to allow lazy file definitions.In COBOL it is always a problem to read files which differs in file description between program code and file system.Example: FD INFILE RECORDING F.01 INRECORD PIC X(80).When t...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - INEXIT / PRTEXIT examples and facilities

The INEXIT and PRTEXIT exits make it possible to intervene on the source code read before processing by the compiler, and on the Listing produced by the compiler before restitution. The Cobol Report Writer component uses these exits: it transforms...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

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