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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 12, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Option to tolerate move with reference modification with length 0 when using SSRANGE compile option

IBM stronly advises to use the SSRANGE compiler option in test to detect writes outside variable boundaries, to help migrating to Enterprise COBOL V5. However, this also generates an abend when the program does a move with reference modification, and the effective length is zero

We would like a compiler option that is less stict. All writes beyond the boundaries of arrays or strings would still have to be flagged, but moves with length zero would be allowed.

A move with length zero is illegal according to the COBOL documentation, but when run without SSRANGE, this statement is handled gracefully by the compiler. Nothing is overwritten.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 23, 2016

    This RFE has been delivered in Enterprise COBOL 6.1.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 4, 2015

    This RFE is currently in plan; and will be updated once it has been publicly delivered.

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