Enterprise COBOL v6.2 Was Announced! What's New?

Project and Program: Application Architecture Development and Integration, LE and Programming Languages

Tags: Proceedings, 2018, SHARE St. Louis 2018

IBM just announced Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.2, on the same day as the z14!  IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.2 exploits the capabilities of IBM z/Architecture and adds the following new features and enhancements: • Compiler support for the new IBM z14 hardware and IBM z/OS V2.3 operating system so applications can take advantage of the latest IBM Z architecture and operating system features and capabilities
• Ability to exploit the new Vector Packed Decimal Facility of z14
• New and changed COBOL statements, such as the new JSON PARSE statement
• Improved compiler listings with compiler messages at the end of the listing as in previous releases of the compiler
• Support of COBOL 2002/2014 standards with the addition of the COBOL Conditional Compilation language feature
• New and changed COBOL options for increased flexibility
• Improved usability of the compiler in the z/OS UNIX System Services environment
• Improved interfaces to optional products and tools such as IBM Debug for z Systems (formerly Debug Tool for z/OS) and IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (formerly EzSource)
• Compile-time and runtime performance enhancements
-Tom M. Ross-IBM Corporation

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