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Greetings R+V Versicherung!
Thank you for submitting an IDEA to COBOL for “COBOL JSON PARSE - Keep unparsed JSON Structures/Fields”. We understand your requirement, but because we have many other requirements for work on JSON PARSE, we suggest that you might be better off if you change the code on your side so that you do not have to wait (possibly) years for a change from IBM COBOL compiler/run time development. We have 2 possible solutions that you could use right away:
1) Use JSON PARSE to get all of the data out of the JSON tests and into COBOL data items, and then use the data in the COBOL data items to make decisions, to pass to sub programs, etc. This solution means only 1 JSON PARSE, and using COBOL data in COBOL programs is much more natural than trying to pass JSON around and use JSON texts as a sort of ‘data store’.
2) Use JSON PARSE to get some of the data out of the JSON tests and into COBOL data items, and then use the data in the COBOL data items to make decisions, then pass the entire JSON text to sub programs, etc. where they can use JSON PARSE again to get the details that they need. This solution means more than 1 JSON PARSE (as your suggested solution proposes), but does allow you to use JSON as the ‘data store’ if that is desirable.
Please consider using one of the above approaches. Since there are alternative methods, we will be rejecting this Idea for now, but may consider it in the future.