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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Dependency Based Build
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 10, 2025

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Introduce new extension, .spcbl, and potentially a new boolean variable. ${IS_SP}, to be used in DBB and other DevOps products for Cobol Stored Procedures.

Currently there is no easy way to determine if a Cobol program is a Cobol Batch program or a Cobol Stored Procedure.  Since they have different compiler options, it is important to be able to indicate to DBB and other DevOps tools which one - Cobol Batch or Cobol Stored Procedure - is going to be built/compiled.  One option is to use a new extension, spcbl, to indicate that we have a Cobol Stored Procedure.  Since IBM Developer for z/OS uses the spsql extension for native Stored Procedures, the spcbl extension follows this pattern.  Would have liked to be able to use a boolean variable, for example ${IS_SP}, but so far have not found a way to do so.  If this extension is approved, it should be made a standard across all DevOps products as applicable.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Shabbir Moledina
    Nov 17, 2025

    Thank you for opening the idea and sharing your feedback.

    Some guidance was provided through email exchanges on how you can address this ask. At this point, we are not planning on including anything out-of-the-box as part of DBB.

    If you have any follow-on questions on the proposed guidance/path, please reach out to me.

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