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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on May 31, 2017

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Reference Modification Abend if Lenght is a Not a Positive Integer

If the calculation of the length in a reference modification is zero or negative, there could be unpredictable/unexpected results.

Due to our un-comfort with these unpredictable results, we'd like to see an abend, at runtime, when the length is zero or negative.

This was found when comparing output from v4.2 and v6.1 of the compilers. The behavior of v6.1 is different than that of v4.2, so a program got different results.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 24, 2020

    This RFE is being accepted and marked as a duplicate of 99032

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 7, 2017

    Would you want to run with SSRANGE turned on in a production environment? We have variables being used to calculate the length in reference modification. I can't turn SSRANGE on in a production environment, so how does SSRANGE help when the calculation in production results in a negative number?

    I'm willing to test this using SSRANGE, but I don't believe this to be a solution for a production environment.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 6, 2017

    Can you please test with SSRANGE to see if it resolves this RFE?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 17, 2017

    Doesn't SSRANGE catch this situation?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 26, 2017

    This RFE is still being investigated internally.

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