What's New this Release?
The following list describes the enhancements made to ILE COBOL in 7.3:
- New intrinsic function PARMS returns the number of parameters that were passed to
the program or procedure in which the PARMS intrinsic function is used.
Note: Some calling programs may not provide the information for the PARMS intrinsic function to operate correctly for a bound call.
- The maximum number of CALL PROCEDURE parameters is increased from 400 to 16,382.
- NATIONAL is now a supported class in the class condition test. You can test whether an item with usage NATIONAL is NATIONAL, ALPHABETIC, ALPHABETIC-LOWER, ALPHABETIC-UPPER, or NUMERIC.
- National-edited data type is now supported.
National-edited data items are similar to alphanumeric-edited data items but encoded in Unicode.
The allowed picture string characters are N, B, 0, /, and the picture string must include at least one N and have USAGE NATIONAL.
For example
01 B pic NN/NN/NN usage national. - National numeric-edited data type is now supported.
National numeric-edited data items contain numeric-edited data but are encoded in Unicode.
The allowed picture string characters are B, P, V, Z, 9, 0, slash (/), comma (,), period (.), CR, DB,
asterisk (*), cs, and have USAGE NATIONAL.
For example
01 C pic Z(9)9V99 usage national.
Note: There may be screen captures in this guide that contain obsolete
references to iSeries.
