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Hi, since we have not received any feedback, this RFE is being cancelled. Feel free to open a new one if you are able to answer the previous questions. Thanks.
May we know if you got a chance to review our April 14th, 2020 update?
We shall keep this RFE open till June 17th, 2020 after which we shall close it if no response by then. Thanks.
May I know if you got a chance to review our previous update?
CURRENT-SECTION / CURRENT-PARAGRAPH may not make sense when we optimize. But we could do the Program name and line number. May we know if that is sufficient for your case?
Thanks.
Thank you for your response. First, if you determine the suggested options are 'special registers' then so be it. Next, I am unclear what you mean by 'no-inlining option'? Finally, the reference to 'compiling in production' makes no sense to me - why would production be different? (many programs abend in a controlled fashion in production and development environments so accurate diagnostics are important)
Hi,
After investigation, we have determined that these are more of special registers instead of reserve words.
This would likely have to be a no-inlining option. As a result, this would not help when compiling in production. Is that ok?
Dennis, Thanks for your comment. My background is Enterprise Cobol on z/OS. The aim of the suggestion is to reduce possibly erroneous hard-coding by introducing new reserved words. If I understand your comment correctly identifying "context of the exception's origin" would still involve hard-coding in order to derive current values.
This RFE is being investigated further.
I think that for this need it would be better to implement exception handling and have an instruction to trigger an exception.The context of the exception's origin (current section, current paragraph, current statement, etc.) should be included in the data passed to the exception handler.