The following list describes the enhancements made to
ILE COBOL in V5R4:
- XML support has been enhanced. A new statement, XML GENERATE, converts
the content of COBOL data records to XML format. XML GENERATE creates XML
documents encoded in Unicode UCS-2 or in one of several single-byte EBCDIC
or ASCII CCSIDs.
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- Null-terminated nonnumeric literal
Nonnumeric literals can be null-terminated.
They can be used anywhere a nonnumeric literal can be specified except that
null-terminated literals are not supported in "ALL literal" figurative constants.
- New CRTBNDCBL / CRTCBLMOD option
*NOCOMPRESSDBG/*COMPRESSDBG specifies
whether listing view compression should be performed by the compiler when
DBGVIEW option *LIST or *ALL is specified.
- New intrinsic functions:
- DISPLAY-OF
- NATIONAL-OF
- TRIM
- TRIML
- TRIMR