Changes in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS,
Version 3 Release 3
- 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 UTF-16 or in one of several single-byte EBCDIC
code pages.
- There are new and improved features of the Debug Tool:
- Performance is improved when you use COBOL SYSDEBUG files.
- You can more easily debug programs that use national data: When you display
national data in a formatted dump or by using the Debug Tool LIST command,
the data is automatically converted to EBCDIC representation using the code
page specified in the CODEPAGE compiler option. You can use the Debug Tool
MOVE command to assign values to national data items, and you can move national
data items to or from group data items. You can use national data as a comparand
in Debug Tool conditional commands such as IF or EVALUATE.
- You can debug mixed COBOL-Java applications, COBOL class definitions,
and COBOL programs that contain object-oriented syntax.
For further details about these enhancements to debugging support, see Debug
Tool User’s Guide.
- DB2 Version 8 SQL features are supported when you use the integrated DB2
coprocessor.
- The syntax for specifying options in the COBJVMINITOPTIONS environment
variable has changed.
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