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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2020

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COBOL function hbound() for tables

COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value.

You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the table size is changed.

Having a compiler supported FUNCTION HBOUND(table) (name copied from PL/I) return the upper bound of the table would avoid the maintenance issue.

HBOUND would need to return either the maximum offset in case of comparison with a table index, and the OCCURS bound elsewhere.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Nicole Trudeau
    Reply
    |     Apr 5, 2024

    Thank you for your interest in this Idea submitted in 2020 for an hbound function for tables. We understand how this feature would be useful and we appreciate you taking the time to vote for it. This Idea has recently been appraised against the wider product strategy and it will not fall into IBM’s delivery plans for the next 12 months. While this Idea might be valid and we might look to deliver longer term, this Idea is being rejected at this time. The requirement will be kept in our internal Idea backlog and might be reassessed in the future.

    Nicole Trudeau, IBM COBOL Compilers Product Manager

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 14, 2024

    Any updated on planned delivery date?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 7, 2020

    This is a valid RFE and we will be accepting it. RFE will be updated further once put into plan.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 8, 2020

    What would be the returned value for un unbouded table ?
    Allocated space divide by item size ?
    How compiler internally manage size of unbounded table, if it does ?

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