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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2015

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Cobol V5 - RULE(unique_option) instead of RULES(multi_options)

In Cobol V5, use of RULES option require to list all suboptions.
We think it would be more flexible to give RULE one by one, and it would be more evolutive (support new suboptions and perhaps client/site rules).

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 13, 2017

    This feature is now available in Enterprise COBOL V6.1.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 25, 2015

    We do agree that the docs can be improved. As a result, we will be accepting this RFE to improve the documentation only. The RFE will be moved to 'Uncommitted Candidate'.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 4, 2015

    Thanks for your reply.

    The documentation does not mention that the RULES can be specified more than once, and it causes confusion in stating "It is not necessary to specify all of the suboptions for RULES. If a suboption is not specified, the default takes effect."... It might be assumed that each occurrence of RULES reset options to their defaults.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 4, 2015

    This RFE is being rejected on the grounds that this functionality already exists.

    Users can specify RULES with no suboptions like this:
    CBL RULES

    and get all defaults:
    RULES(ENDPERIOD,EVENPACK,LAXPERF,SLACKBYTES)

    Or users can specify single suboptions at a time like this:
    CBL RULES(NOENDP)
    CBL RULES(NOSLCKB)

    and get this in effect, which is the 2 specified options merged with the defaults:
    RULES(NOENDPERIOD,EVENPACK,LAXPERF,NOSLACKBYTES)

    Please let us know if this still does not achieve what you are looking for. Thanks.

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