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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 25, 2020

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Enterprise Cobol - Align the behavior of the EXIT instruction with the ISO standard

In the ISO COBOL standard, the EXIT statement should only be used as a single statement in the single sentence of a paragraph or section.
It allows a paragraph or section to be declared without a meaningful statement, usually for the purpose of being used as an exit point in a PERFORM input-label THRU output-label statement.

In the IBM COBOL compiler, the EXIT statement can be used in any construction, and it behaves like a CONTINUE statement: it does not abort current processing at the active structure.

We ask that the IBM COBOL compiler respects the ISO COBOL standard.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2021

    Our current implementation of EXIT allows code matching the COBOL standard; AND allows other possibilities. As a result, we do not intend to further modify it as it will cause older code to fail.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 22, 2020

    This RFE is being discussed further.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 25, 2020

    Attachment (Description): Sample program and run

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