ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide
The following list describes the enhancements made to ILE COBOL in
V4R4:
- Thread Safety Support
Support for calling ILE COBOL procedures from a threaded application, such
as Domino(TM) or Java. The THREAD parameter has been added to the
PROCESS statement, to enable ILE COBOL modules for multithreaded
environments. Access to the procedures in the module should be
serialized.
- 31-digit support
- The maximum length of packed decimal, zoned decimal, and numeric-edited
items has been extended from 18 to 31 numeric digits.
- The ARITHMETIC parameter has been added to the CRTCBLMOD and CRTBNDCBL
commands, and to the PROCESS statement to allow the arithmetic mode to be set
for numeric data. This allows you to specify the computational behavior
of numeric data.
- Euro currency support
- The ability to specify more than one currency sign in a COBOL program to
support the dual currency system that will be in effect for three years
starting in January 1999 among the participating countries.
- The ability to represent multi-character currency signs, so that the
international currency signs (e.g. USD, FRF, DEM, EUR) as well
as single-character currency signs (e.g. "$") can be specified
for COBOL numeric edited fields.
- The OPTION parameter values *MONOPIC/*NOMONOPIC have been added to the
CRTCBLMOD and CRTBNDCBL commands, and MONOPIC/NOMONOPIC have been added to the
PROCESS statement. This allows you to choose between a moncased or a
case sensitive currency symbol in a PICTURE character-string.
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