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Status Delivered
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 29, 2020

Value-based item-supression for JSON GENERATE

We need an additional functionality for JSON GENERATE to suppress some items in the output document at runtime based on values of their source fields. This feature exists for XML GENERATE but not for JSON GENERATE.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    May 18, 2021

    This RFE has been delivered in the following

    COBOL V6.3 November 2020 PTF: APAR PH30975 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH30975
    COBOL V6.2 December 2020 PTF: APAR PH32356 31172 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH32356
    COBOL November 2020 Runtime PTF: APAR 31172 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH31172

  • Guest
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    May 27, 2020

    This is being marked as duplicate of RFE 140911