Enterprise COBOL - SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph endpoint handling

Hi,

The reference documentation for the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph states that the period is optional if no clause is present in that paragraph.

This implies that the period is accepted in the absence of any clause in the paragraph:
SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph

However, specifying a period without any clause in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph triggers a compilation error IGYDS1089-S.

We would like the compiler to behave as indicated in the reference documentation.

By extension, we would like the period to be present in any paragraph without any other clause or instruction, without causing a compilation error, at least for "well-known" paragraphs that do not consist of multiple "sentences" (when the paragraph consists of "sentences," these "sentences" already carry a period).
This is already the case for other "well-known" paragraphs:

• REPOSITORY

• I-O CONTROL

Reason for this request: we have developed an assisted program construction solution (no hand-coding), and in the case of the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph, it may be necessary to add several unrelated clauses, none of which have any reason to carry the paragraph's final period. Being able to predeclare the final period in the program skeletons we use in our solution would greatly simplify our implementation.

Note in the example below that the same "error" in the presence of a paragraph of the PROCEDURE DIVISION without any instructions is reported twice:

• by a Warning IGYPS0019-W in the paragraph itself

• by an Information IGYPS2015-I in the paragraph that follows
  The message IGYPS2015-I should not be issued.

Thanks.

  000001                Identification division.                                               

  000002                Program-id. COBPOINT.                                                  

  000003                Environment division.                                                  

  000004                Configuration Section.                                                 

  000005                Source-Computer.                                                       

  000006                     IBM-Z17.                                                          

  000007                Object-Computer.                                                       

  000008                     IBM-Z17.                                                          

  000009                Special-Names.                                                         

  000010                     .                                                                 

                                                                                               

==000010==> IGYDS1089-S ". " was invalid.  Scanning was resumed at the next area "A" item,     

                        level-number, or the start of the next clause.                         

                                                                                               

  000011                Repository.                                                            

  000012                    .                                                                  

  000013                Input-Output section.                                                  

  000014                File-Control.                                                          

  000015                I-O-Control.                                                           

  000016                    .                                                                  

  000017                Data division.                                                         

  000018                File section.                                                          
  000019                Working-storage section.                                                              

  000020                Local-storage section.                                                                

  000021                Linkage section.                                                                      

  000022                Procedure division.                                                                   

  000023                MAIN.                                                                                 

  000024                    display 'point management in paragraphs'                                          

  000025                    .                                                                                 

  000026                EMPTY.                                                                                

  000027                    . *> just a warning                                                               

                                                                                                              

==000027==> IGYPS0019-W No COBOL statement was found between periods.                                         

                                                                                                              

  000028                BYE.                                                                                  

                                                                                                              

==000028==> IGYPS2015-I The paragraph or section prior to paragraph or section "BYE" did not                  

                        contain any statements.                                                               

                                                                                                              

  000029                    Goback.                                                                           

  000030                End program COBPOINT.                                                     2