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This Idea has been discussed further and it would not be an easy task to for the compiler to detect and implement this.
The other suggested workaround would be to consider removing the VOLATILE keyword so that the optimization is not disabled.
Another factor is that this IDEA does not have many votes.
Due to the above reasons, this Idea is being rejected.
Hi,
As indicated in my request, setting the value globally in a single PICTURE is unfortunately not possible in our context: the values are set up by an automatism which currently cannot work globally. Moreover the values are in fact set up by means of a COPYBOOK with REPLACING.
The need to extract the values is to maintain compatibility with an older, now deprecated product.
This deprecated product is called IBM VisualAge Pacbase.
The information extraction tool is (was) delivered with the IBM VisualAge Pacbase product, via a loadmodule named BVPACCST.
We are no longer going to develop a COBOL program with IBM VisualAge Pacbase, but in our new developments, we must maintain this management of traceability information by extracting timestamp information from COBOL sources because it has become a standard.
The information extracted is used to prove the correspondence between the source code and the loadmodule used.
We also use the SERVICE compilation option integrated directly into our source codes, but our existing one is based on the data present in the Working-Storage Section and we have to deal with it.
Hi, thank you for submitting this Idea. We had a look at your attachment file.
At the momment, we don't have plans on changing how the MOVE works when VOLATILE is working.
However, as a workaround, we recommend for CONSTANTES-PAC to use a single PIC value that is big enough to hold all the constants; and then aftwards to do a re-define to obtain the individual contstants for your program.
We also wanted to know why you need to extract these constant values ie you mentioned that you use a utility for extracting information from the loadmodule. What is that information used for after you extract it?