Summary of Changes

IBM z/OS COBOL

Last updated on November 11, 2020

6.3

• DYNAMIC LENGTH elementary item;
• Passing a file during CALL was deleted, but then restored; :)
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6.2

• SET TO FALSE is new. Previously, only TRUE is allowed;
• TRIM intrinsic function;
• BIT-OF intrinsic function;
• HEX-OF intrinsic function;
• E intrinsic function, natural logarithm;
• PI intrinsic function;
• UUID4 - returns version 4 universally unique identifier;
• BIT-TO-CHAR intrinsic function
• HEX-TO-CHAR intrinsic function
• ABS intrinsic function
• BYTE-LENGTH intrinsic function
• EXP intrinsic function
• EXP10 intrinsic function
• NUMVAL-F intrinsic function
• SIGN intrinsic function
• TEST-NUMVAL intrinsic function
• TEST-NUMVAL-C intrinsic function
• TEST-NUMVAL-F intrinsic function
• JSON PARSE converts JSON text to COBOL data formats
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6.1

• INITIALIZE can initialize FILLER;
• INITIALIZE can set literal values specified in VALUE clause;
• JSON GENERATE converts data to JSON format
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5.2

• Fixed build issue from 2.2.0 caused by PropTypes on a file;
• COPY/REPLACE added options LEADING and TRAILING;
• EXIT PERFORM for exiting from an inline PERFORM;
• EXIT PARAGRAPH;
• EXIT SECTION;
• SORT to rearrange table elements;
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5.1

• *> inline comment indicator;
• UNBOUNDED option for OCCURS DEPENDING ON;
• XML-INFORMATION new special register;
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4.2

• _ underscore character support for user-defined words like data-names;
• XML PARSE improvement;
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4.1

• XML GENERATE improvement;
• XML PARSE enhancement;
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3.4

• TBD

3.3

• TBD

3.2

• TBD

3.1

• TBD