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 the 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.