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Status Future consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 25, 2022

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Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Cross reference for compilation variable

We have developed a COBOL framework based on program skeletons and COPYBOOKs which is particularly rich and allows adaptation to the context of the program.

This framework uses many conditional compilation variables and many tests on these conditional compilation variables.

We would like the compiler to produce a cross-reference on the declaration and use of conditional compilation variables.

The declaration of a conditional compilation variable would correspond to a >>define directive without override option, (it is possible that several declarations exist in the source code without using an override clause, to see how to manage these multiple declarations).

The uses of a conditional compilation variable would correspond to the directives >>if, >>when, >>define with option override referencing the compilation variable.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Reply
    |     Apr 20, 2022

    This RFE is being accepted and will be updated further once put into plan.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 1, 2022

    This RFE is being investigated further.

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