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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 3, 2019

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Enterprise Cobol V5+ - Compile OCCURS 0 TO 1 as OCCURS 0 TO UNBOUNDED

Before Cobol V5, we used "OCCURS 0 TO 1" in LINKAGE SECTION to manage tables whose size was not known at compile time.
We propose that under the control of an option or compilation directive, the declarations "OCCURS 0 TO 1 DEPENDING ON" in LINKAGE SECTION be compiled in Cobol V5 / V6 as declarations "OCCURS 0 TO UNBOUNDED DEPENDING ON".

This solution could also be implemented with "OCCURS 0 TO n" or "OCCURS 1 TO n" declarations by passing "n" as parameter of the option or compilation directive.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 21, 2019

    Fixing source code for every program can be cost expansive and "hazardous".
    A "migrate option" solve problem for all programs without need of developpement team action.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 10, 2019

    This RFE is being rejected because the correct way is to fix the user source code.

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