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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 6, 2016

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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 available in batch. In CICS where we run millions of COBOL transactions per day, performance of COBOL 5/6 is essentially the same as COBOL 4.2.

This requirement is to request that IBM improve the runtime performance for COBOL 5/6 in CICS, so that the same performance improvements offered in batch are also offered in high volume CICS transaction environments.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 9, 2020

    Have been working with the RFE submitter. Several improvements have been made since; and future work will continue on this topic. Marking this RFE as delivered in V6.2

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 16, 2016

    Moving this RFE to uncommitted candidate with the intention of working with the user to collect more info and a testcase.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 26, 2016

    This is being discussed further.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 20, 2016

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - COBOL Compilers
    Component - Miscellaneous
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

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