IBM Z Software
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently in line with our product strategy and we added it as a candidate for future releases of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.
Please review this documentation page https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/15.0.0?topic=configuration-built-in-code-review-rules-cobol
Typically all new COBOL compiler versions only add new syntax, they do not remove prior syntax. Therefore the COBOL code review rules in IDz always supports the latest version. The COBOL compiler and IDz have followed this rule for many years, with one exception. There was a major change in the COBOL compiler between version 4.2 and version 5.1. As part of that change some syntax (see documentation) that was previously valid in COBOL 4 and prior versions was no longer valid in COBOL 5 and higher versions. In order to give COBOL 4 users time to migrate to COBOL 5, it was decided to implement two rules to flag obsolete and unsupported language elements. These same language elements are obsolete and unsupported in version 6 as well and thus the rules also pertain to version 6.