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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2016

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Add ISO 2014 Dynamic Capacity Tables

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Add support for dynamic capacity tables as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard. These are similar to the UNBOUNDED tables introduced in V5 of Enterprise COBOL but they have fewer restrictions and are more programmer friendly. They do not require the application programmer to do memory allocation - but have the COBOL run-time support do all allocations and freeing of storage - as well as calculations of specific data items' location in storage. They are not limited to the Linkage Section. They also include a number of intrinsic functions for determining current allocations and exception conditions. There are also other restrictions that are removed, including support for some complex ODO's; for details, see the ISO 2014 Standard. In addition, they are part of an industry standard for COBOL and may, therefore, provide portability among COBOL implementations that is not available with the UNBOUNDED phrase.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 25, 2016

    Marking this as a duplicate of RFE 92391.

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