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Summary of Changes
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
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inline comment indicator;- UNBOUNDED option for OCCURS DEPENDING ON;
- XML-INFORMATION new special register;
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4.2
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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