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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2009

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5 missing EGL types for numeric

We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types.
Because of these missing types, we suffer performance loss in the generated COBOL.

COBOL Types EGL types
PIC 9(3) National ?
PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARATE ?
PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE ?
PIC S9(3)V9(2) SIGN LEADING SEPARATE ?
PIC S9(3)V9(2) SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE ?

Paul Hoffman and Jeff Douglas are familiar with this problem.

We have a more detailed description available in a powerpoint. If that would help you to understand the problem, just tell us how we can it give it to you.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    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 - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 24, 2013

    This RFE is being rejected as the RFE originator felt the business need no longer existed for the requested functionality. Given no other customers with a similar requirement, the RFE is being rejected.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 11, 2012

    This enhancement was a candidate for version 8, but it ended up being deferred. It is still on our list for future consideration, but it is not in our near-term plans.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 17, 2009

    Thank you for your input. We agree with this requirement, and it is currently planned to be implemented in the next release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 21, 2009

    We agree that adding these data types would improve COBOL runtime performance. We will target this for implementation in our next release.

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Unicode numbers

Merged
Unicode numbers to support conversion of structures to Unicode.Essential when migrating legacy systems to EGL and offering to enable the application for Unicode. Example:record Foo type BasicRecord 1 data; 3 yymmdd; 5 yy num(2); 5 mm num(2); 5 dd...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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