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Contacted submitter directly, but did not get a response. As a result, we will be rejecting for now. If the submitter is still interested, feel free to open a new RFE.
OK, thnak you, when is it going to be available????
We would consider a development-only compiler option to help find sources of bad data. It would tell the compiler to generate ON SIZE ERROR and ABEND for size error conditions. Accepting the RFE based on these grounds only.
PRODUBAN Santander Bank is really interested in such an option, to be used only in a developement environment.
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
Hi,
We could consider a development-only compiler option to help find sources of bad data. It would tell the compiler to generate ON SIZE ERROR and ABEND for size error conditions.
Using this in production would significantly reduce the runtime performance.
Would this be something you're interested in?
Thanks for the reply. We are further evaluating this request.
Hello,
In answer to the question "will we use the option only in dev / test environments", I'd say initially yes, but in time we'd incorporate it into production. We currently use SSRANGE also in production. I assume we'd slowly introduce such an option to expose existing overflows without disturbing systems' stability too much. As the bugs would be weeded out we could consider using it in production as well.
Hi, is this request only for your testing/development environment? or would you need this in your production environment as well?