The following list describes the enhancements made to ILE COBOL in V5R3:
When the *NOSTDTRUNC compiler option is in effect, data items described with usage BINARY, or COMP-4 that do not have a picture symbol P in their PICTURE clause can have a value up to the capacity of the native binary representation.
A CONSTANT data type is defined by specifying a level-01 entry containing the CONSTANT clause for a literal. The CONSTANT data item can then be used in place of the literal.
XML PARSE statement provides the interface to a high-speed XML parser that is part of the COBOL run time. The XML PARSE statement parses an XML document into its individual pieces and passes each piece, one at a time, to a user-written processing procedure.
These XML special registers are used to communicate information between the XML parser and the user-written processing procedure:
The ALTERNATE RECORD KEY clause lets you define alternate record keys associated with indexed files. These alternate keys allow you to access the file using a different logical ordering of the file records.
The program status structure is a predefined structure that contains error information when the COBOL program receives an error. The PROGRAM STATUS clause is use to specify the error information that is received.
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