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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 7, 2015

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Cobol 5 Sort Table in-place

Sort in Enterprise COBOL 5.2 does not sort in-place when sorting an array in storage, but instead allocates a work copy of the array to perform the sorting and allocates additional storage as well.
This is inefficient and unsuitable when used with large arrays. Cobol5 should use state-of-the-art algorithms like quicksort (citation from wikipedia: Quicksort can operate in-place on an array, requiring small additional amounts of memory to perform the sorting.)

We already opened a pmr and were advised to open a RFE:
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It's true that the runtime has to allocate additional memory in order to do the sort. This is by design. There are various sort algorithms which differ in how much memory is required and how well they perform (usually a trade-off between the two). If there is a customer requirement to provide a table sort that uses less memory (likely at the cost of performance) we can consider that for a future release.
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Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 8, 2016

    This is available in V6.1

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 25, 2015

    This RFE has been put into plan.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - COBOL Compilers

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - COBOL Compilers

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 4, 2015

    Thanks for opening this RFE. This RFE will be accepted as a requirement to improve the memory footprint of the existing table sort algorithm. Please let us know if you have any concerns/question. RFE will be updated once it has been put into plan.

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