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Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2021

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IBM Debug should honor the Special-Names Decimal-Point setting in COBOL

At the moment the Eclipse Debug views "Variables" and "Monitors" only display fractional values (like s9v99) with a decimal-point (e.g. "3.14")

In most countries of Europe including Germany the common decimal-sign is a comma (e.g. "3,14") so the programmers use the COBOL special-names switch "DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA." in their source code.

The IBM Debugger and all of its views should honor this switch and display fractional values with the decimal-setting of the source program as CA Xpediter does.

Alternativley or additionally you may add a setting in the Debugger preferences to change the representation by the end users themselves.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 14, 2021

    This request is for COBOL only (no idea about PL/I having similar syntax). We use mainly 6.1, but also 6.2 and 6.3.
    Otherwise it might be sufficient to let the user change the representation in his Debug client (or to use the operating system defaults or both).

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