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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 23, 2020

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Nested Occurs Depending On (ODO) for JSON Generate

When several "Occurs Depending On" (ODO) are nested into each other, modifying the number of occurence for an ODO during run time change the way the storage is reorganized.

We want nested ODO to behave in a way that would generate JSON tables with the right number of occurences.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2023

    Imbricated tables are mandatory for json data

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2021

    The issue is not in JSON PARSE/GENERATE statement but rather, it’s in COBOL Occurs Depending On data items (aka table).
    COBOL tables are fixed in each dimension.

    In addition, very subtle memory layout changes can occur if users are not keenly aware of the underlying memory representation.
    This will result in bugs that are difficult to find and diagnose.

    This would not be backwards compatible. Also, this is non-compliance to the COBOL Standard.
    Hence, we do not think this is implementable and will be rejecting.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 22, 2020

    This RFE is still being discussed further.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 8, 2020

    Attachment (Use case): Simple BATCH program use to illustrate the RFE Compile option : DBCS, no DB2 and Batch

    progRFE-146937-...
    progRFE-146937-compilOptions-Batch-NoDB2-DBCS.txt
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    progRFE-146937-compilOptions-Batch-NoDB2-DBCS.txt

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