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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2018

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Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - ARCH(0) for non-dependent hardware

As stated in our RFE 110886, the choice of ARCH level during compilation can be problematic.

An alternative would be to produce a binary code independent of any hardware (zSeries or others).

In the 1980's, I developed Cobol programs on the NCR VRX platform and Criterion series computers. The compiler produces a specific binary code interpreted by a dedicated firmware. In the end, this binary code had at least as good performance as the native assembly binary code.

This idea could be taken up in the Enterprise Cobol compiler to produce binary code that is not directly executable, but interpreted by a virtual machine, or compiled late at runtime with technology similar to ABO, Automatic Binay Optimizer (and a cache system to avoid recompiling programs already executed).

The generation of this binary code could be associated with the ARCH (0) compilation option.

This technology could even be applied to platforms other than zSeries and not EBCDIC: AIX, Linux x86-AMD64, Windows x86-AMD64 ... (for codepage management associated with the runtime platform, we will open another RFE).

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 2, 2019

    Hi, this RFE is being rejected as it is outside the scope of our development roadmap.

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